Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walked from his car, a black cane in his right hand, into the second-floor lecture hall on the campus of Jerusalem's Hebrew University. Taking his seat opposite the table where the panel would sit, he smiled, then rose respectfully when the three members of the commission entered the room. "My name is Begin, Menachem. My position, Prime Minister," he began. It was the first time an Israeli Prime Minister had ever appeared in public session before an official commission of inquiry, and the outcome could well have grave consequences for Begin and his government. At issue: What...
...Eliezer Perelman to hear such a voice and think such thoughts? A nobody, a young scholar in Vilna, on the Baltic coast of what was then the Russian empire, the land of the pogrom. Perelman knew Russian, French and German, but what bewitched him was Hebrew, the scriptural language that he had first learned from a tutor at the age of three. Ever since the Jews were driven from Roman Palestine in A.D. 135, Hebrew had survived only as a literary language, primarily of prayer; nobody had actually spoken it in everyday affairs for centuries. It did not even have...
...voice or losing his temper. Ariel Sharon, Israel's embattled Defense Minister, was on the witness stand, testifying before the commission of inquiry that is investigating the circumstances surrounding the Beirut massacre of Sept. 16 to 18. Since the hearings were being held in a lecture hall of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the setting seemed as relaxed as a college seminar. In fact, it was a tension-charged inquiry that could lead, in a few months' time, to the resignation of the tough and ambitious Sharon and perhaps even to the fall of the government of Prime Minister...
Israeli audiences loved it, but the revue was banned by the government's censorship board as offensive to "the basic values of the nation, the state and Judaism." In the past, Israeli censors have occasionally outlawed Arabic-language plays, but they have never taken such action against a Hebrew-language production...
Thomas Meyer's editorial of October 27 on the subject of Israel's calendar raises some serious considerations for the United States as well as for Israel. For while beginning next fall all Israeli publications will have the Hebrew word for "destroy" printed on them, less than three scant months later. American calendars will bear the imprimatur "1984." Is it sheer coincidence that by rearranging these digits we get "1948," the year of Israeli Independence? Allowing that year to be named 1984 could be seen as American support for Israeli militarism, and should be avoided at all costs...