Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trip also tested Muskie's style and stamina. He arrived in Tel Aviv at dawn, bleary-eyed after flying all night. Yet he gracefully handled an airport press conference that he had not expected. At Hebrew University in Jerusalem, facing aggressive questioning by students, he coolly avoided saying anything that could possibly affect the delicate negotiations toward peace in the Middle East. Accused of being a latecomer in opposing the war in Viet Nam, Muskie candidly conceded that he was "guilty of misunderstanding" the situation in the early 1950s, but argued that "if your specification for public office...
...conquerors with covert gestures of opposition and open acts of rebellion. The Roman response was usually swift and cruel. Perhaps because he participated in one of these uprisings or committed some other grievous offense in the eyes of Jerusalem's stern rulers, a young Judean named Yehohanan (a Hebrew form of John) was sentenced to death. Like thousands of other Jews-including Jesus of Nazareth -who were also condemned by the Roman procurators during those turbulent years, Yehohanan died slowly and painfully on the cross...
...karate class has a special problem: the students' yarmulkes keep falling off. But the pupils persist. Thirty of them have come from all parts of the city to the gym of the Williamsburg Young Men's Hebrew Association, once a breeding ground for that special brand of New York basketball played by short, quick young men. Now the basketball players are at one end of the gym; at the other is the white-robed karate class arranged in five rows of six abreast. Black Belt Teacher Alex Sternberg stalks the rows, suddenly lashing out in instructive attempts...
...given Orthodox Jews a courage they never had before." Israel, in a carefully nonofficial way, has supplied more than example. The first karate classes in Brooklyn were taught by bearded, fifth-generation Israeli Zvi Kasspi, an Israeli army veteran. Another Israeli. Hillel Oman, is listed as a teacher of Hebrew studies at the Yeshiva of East Flatbush in Brooklyn; another course, not listed, is self-defense...
...drug-manufacturing firm who lives in a cooperative apartment on Fifth Avenue and worships at the prestigious Fifth Avenue Synagogue. He has been helped in adding karate to the curriculum of many Jewish day schools by Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky, director of Torah Umesorah, an organization of 422 Hebrew schools, 175 of them in the New York area...