Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Passover call by John Paul at the synagogue; it was the first time that a Pope is known to have visited a Jewish house of worship. Initiated by a personal request from the Pontiff, the carefully planned event included mutual declarations of respect by the Pope (who twice used Hebrew phrases) and the Chief Rabbi, Bible readings, hymns and the rendition by a cantor and choir of Ani Ma'amin, a traditional profession of faith sung by Jews as they were led to the gas chambers. Because of the congregation's Orthodox Jewish sensibilities, there was no joint worship...
...Jewish" repeatedly--both to me and to my suitcase. After making a neat stack on the table of the books and tapes, he opened my duffle-bag and repeated the same procedure. The process continued as he attacked my two carry-on pieces. He found a prayer-book in Hebrew, my address book and some letters my mother had written me. The same litany, "Jewish, Jewish, Jewish," began again as he flipped through the prayer-book, and as he opened and skimmed the cards...
Over dinner the conversation wandered from discussion of John Irving, Faust, and palm-reading, to recent arrests of Hebrew teachers in I eningrad, strategies to increase emigration, other minorities' problems in the USSR, and the Borlovs' personal frustration over their situation. He said, "we are like birds in a cage--we can go anywhere within the 17 Soviet Republics, but nowhere else." The Borlovs have not received mail in two months; they know that friends abroad as well as from inside the Soviet Union have been writing. Despite this isolation, and continued restrictions on their ability to work and study...
...Harvard group also visited the families of prisoners of conscience, who are imprisoned in the Soviet Union "because of their desire for freedom of religion," said Shoshana M. Robinson '86. Fastenberg said the group smuggled in kosher food, Hebrew books, and religious articles for the prisoners of conscience...
...OTHER NIGHT, sulking through my dining hall, bouncing from the Spanish Table to the Hebrew Table, avoiding the tripping feet of the pre-Med Table, and finally finding a seat between the Women's Issues Table and the East Asian Table, I realized that there are an awful lot of special interest tables around here...