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From 970 B. C., when Solomon built the first Temple at Jerusalem, until 606 B. C. when the Babylonian captivity of the Jews began, was a period of war, decay idolatry in Palestine. King Solomon had created an Israelitish state, but he turned apostate. God's judgment on his sins was that the kingdom should be rent into Israel on the north and Judah on the south. Some good kings followed Solomon, and the great Prophets Elijah Elisha, Isaiah and Jeremiah thundered God's words at the children of Israel. But the age was full of such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION: Palestine Potsherds | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...Baker was born in Troy, N. Y. in 1840. His line of shrewd, blue-eyed, hard-bitten Yankees went back seven generations to Boston and 1635. When George Fisher Baker was seven years old a German clerk made this entry in the Frankfort-On-Main birth register: "Schiff, Moses, Israelitish citizen, whose wife Clara, nee Niederhofheim, gave birth on Sunday morning, Jan. 10, at 5 o'clock, to a legitimate son-Jacob Henry." The Schiffs were merchants in a city of great Jewish banking houses. Under the same roof but a few doors down from the Schiffs on what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: All Paths Unite! | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...League of Nations written into the Treaty of Versailles. Wherever Jews were harassed Mr. Straus used his public power to defend them. He was pious in his religious observances; and always kept nailed to the door-posts of his homes a mezuzah, a small case containing the Israelitish creed "Hear, oh Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is One," together with appropriate verses from Deuteronomy. Such a career, decided the Jewish Tribune readers, was statuesque. It deserved a memorial, and for that the magazine has started a campaign*. When the statue goes up it will be only the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Statuesque Jews | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...race. To say this is of course rank heresy, and now that we have made this statement we are quite prepared for the attacks which may come upon us from those who continue to maintain that a Jew is a Jew only by virtue of his membership in the "Israelitish Church." -ED. "National Asset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 7, 1925 | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...series of College Conferences was resumed last night with the first of Professor Toy's two lectures on "The Development of the Hebrew Religion." Professor Toy did not attempt to give a complete characterization of the Israelitish creed, but only to speak of the features which distinguished it from the other religions of its time, and stamped it with its peculiar individuality. The Hebrew system of the ology is preeminent in its intense religiousness. All ancient nations were religious, as Paul remarked in the case of the Athenians. But the Israelites pursued the theologic idea with a vigor, a persistency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Toy's Lecture. | 2/18/1891 | See Source »

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