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...Center for Near Eastern Studies opened quietly in 1968, operating in various rented quarters and offering semester-long courses to students from the main Utah campus. In 1980 the university was offered a long-term lease for its own campus on a plum site: a 6.6-acre plot near Hebrew University with a panoramic view of the ancient walled city. B.Y.U.'s plan, calling for a $15 million seven-story building, including a 500-seat concert hall, was approved by Israeli authorities in 1984. Now half finished, the structure is due to be completed by the spring...
...Muslim scholars as "first and foremost" one of their own. Maimonides embodied the Jews' mission to be "a light unto the nations." His multicultural genius enabled him to show the intellectual world the supremacy of the word of God over the philosophy of man. Rabbi Gershon Schusterman, Director The Hebrew Academy Lubavitch Westminster, Calif. Barely Mentioned...
Your reference to Sarah, Abraham and Hagar is not parallel to surrogate parenting. That was a simple case of polygamy, which was allowed during the early period of Hebrew society. It would seem that the Judeo-Christian standard would recognize any lending of one's sexual features (womb, semen or egg) to another person who was not one's lawful spouse--whether for pleasure or money--as adultery. It matters not whether this act takes place in bed or in a laboratory. As to the legality of surrogate parenting, the law will keep floundering as long as it operates without...
...thesis studied the arguments that were made in favor of teaching Arabic to Jewish immigrants who came to Palestine before the formation of Israel in 1947. The rationales included the need to communicate with the majority Arab population and the benefits of studying a language similar to Hebrew, said Halperin, who is entering a history Ph.D. program at UCLA...
...with. He and a team of Sharon advisers, including p.r. man Eyal Arad and U.S.-based political strategist Arthur Finkelstein, focused the campaign not on the hawkish-sounding theme of security but on peace. They produced a bumper sticker--ONLY SHARON CAN BRING PEACE (it kind of rhymes in Hebrew)--and TV ads with soft music showed Sharon strolling the fields on his farm and hugging his granddaughter. There were only a few references to the security background that, Adler believed, established Sharon as the best man to face off against the Palestinian leader at the time, Yasser Arafat. Suddenly...