Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that reason, the government has established there a necklace of nahals. fortified camps manned by young Israelis who are equally able to farm or to fight. But where the Dead Sea provides natural protection, Israel is developing tourist attractions. In the vicinity of Masada, the legendary fortress of ancient Hebrew history, there are now three hotels with 228 rooms as well as two guest houses and three youth hostels. Another hotel, the Pan American Dead Sea (no kin to the airline), will be finished in 30 months at a cost of $5 million. The Pan American will have 181 rooms...
...angels." That made 399,920,004, all fluttering and hymning in orbit around the throne of God. Of these, one-third were flung down with Lucifer, leaving 266,613,336. Angels are sexless and cannot breed, so this population achieved Z.P.G. at the instant of creation. (Hebrew tradition disagrees; according to the Talmud, new angels are born with every word God speaks...
...Reform Jews, the most liberal in observance of the three main Jewish groups, appear to be breaking some millennia-old barriers. In 1955, Mrs. Betty Robbins became the first known Jewish woman cantor. Now 24-year-old Sally Priesand, in her fourth year of study at Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College, is determined to become a rabbi-an innovation that even many Reform leaders oppose...
Gordon, professor of Mediterranean Studies at Brandeis, claimed that Hebrew refugees fleeing Roman oppression crossed the Atlantic, perhaps with the aid of Phoenecian navigators. They eventually settled in Tennessee and Kentucky, he said...
Gordon based his theory on a stone uncovered in a Tennessee Indian burial mound. He claims that inscriptions on the stone are ancient Hebrew characters that say "for the land of Canaan...