Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actually did little to nudge the mired peace process, it helped the Soviets gain a larger role in the region. Even the Israelis seemed to accept their presence, despite long-standing fears that a higher Soviet profile could bring unwanted pressures to bear. Said Galia Golan, a professor at Hebrew University: "Israel is treating the Soviet Union as virtually a factor equal to the United States...
...comes at a point weighty with literary allusions to Crime and Punishment, so the reader suspects hidden meanings and looks up sutky. No allusions here; all it means is "a day and a night." Marvelous; now we know another Russian word. Perhaps the scraps in Welsh, Turkish, Greek and Hebrew offer magical insights, perhaps not. The suspicion is that they are simply authentic sound effects. You skip them, the way in another kind of writing you skip descriptions of furniture and scenery...
...member read from the Bible, a representative of Harvard/Radcliffe Hillel read a passage in Hebrew and Professor of Comparative Religion Diana L. Eck offered prayers along with a secular exhortation to keep working for greater justice...
...From 1983 to 1984 Arens served as Defense Minister, a post that did nothing to lessen his commitment to Israeli control over the occupied territories. In 1986 Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir put Arens in charge of Israeli-Arab affairs. According to Shlomo Avineri, a political scientist at Jerusalem's Hebrew University and Labor supporter, Arens' primary goal "will be to try to dislodge the United States from a dialogue with the P.L.O. If there is someone who can present the case to the United States intelligently...
...then teaching sixth grade in a Brooklyn public school, and the following year, despite his modest salary, he bought 72 pairs of woolen gloves, took them to the Bowery, and handed them out (very timidly, he admits) to the destitute and the derelict. Why 72? Because 18 is the Hebrew symbol for life, and "four times life...