Word: hebrews
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...successful prostate operation. It was the former Prime Minister's first public appearance since he resigned 13 months ago. When he emerged into the hospital's parking lot, leaning on the arm of his daughter Hassia, Begin softly praised his doctors and nurses and said in Hebrew, "Happy New Year to the people of Israel." He then was driven off to his 3½-room apartment and the renewed sanctuary of silence...
Soloveitchik, 81, is known to his devotees as "the Rav," a Hebrew term of honor that means he is "the Rabbi." (Less reverential Jews on the right wing of Orthodoxy use just his initials "J.B.") As professor of Talmud since 1941 at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in New York City, Soloveitchik has prepared nearly 1,500 men for ordination. By some estimates, this is the largest number of rabbis trained by any sage of the past millennium. The group makes up the majority of the North American Orthodox rabbis now serving in synagogues. Neither the Conservative...
...rethinking his ideas, has always hesitated to commit his formulations to print. But now two new publications have made this master of Halakha (traditional law) accessible to a broad U.S. audience. The first: Halakhic Man (Jewish Publication Society; 164 pages; $12.95), a translation of a major manifesto published in Hebrew in 1944. The second, just issued for the High Holy Days, is Soloveitchik on Repentance (Paulist Press; 320 pages; $11.95). Compiled by an Israeli disciple of Soloveitchik's, Pinchas Peli, Repentance is based on transcriptions of Yom Kippur discourses that the Rav delivered in New York City over twelve...
Rachael Sarfatti was pronounced dead at about 8:30 p.m. at Mt. Auburn Hospital, police officials said. She was the wife of Gad Sarfatti, a professor of Hebrew at Bar Ilan University in Israel spending the year in Cambridge...
Under the terms of the deal, the U.S. Government will pay IAI $68 million to support, maintain and slightly modify the Kfir (Hebrew for "young lion"). In January, four U.S. pilots will go to Israel for what the Navy describes as routine training. But in view of the superb record of Israeli pilots against Syria's Soviet MiGs in Lebanon, says one source who is involved in the deal, "it is hard to believe that top U.S. Navy pilots sitting around with top Israeli pilots are not going to be doing a little talking about how to counter MiGs...