Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their leaders fiercely suspect that British Governments over a period of years have been in a sort of white-man's-plot with the 172,000 Palestine Jews against the 750,000 Palestine Arabs, religious brothers of India's Moslems. Only recently, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was in London, did his fiery best to put the fear of Allah into Great Britain's Christian Cabinet...
...smaller denominations as follows: Baptist, 188: Protestant, 163: Christian Science, 87; Lutheran, 82, Christian Church, 54, Reformed church, 42: Universalist, 27: Quaker, 27: Latter Day Saints, 22: Greek Orthodox, 20, Union Church, 10: Evangelical Church, eight, United Church of Canada, six, Swedenborgian, five: Buddhist, four: Church of New Jerusalem, three: Ethical Culture, three: United Brethren, Mohammedan, and Hindu, two each: Russian Orthodox, Humanism, New Church, Plymouth Brethren Bahai. Armenian Church, Church of God, Laurentian, Seventh Day Adventist, and Church of Christ, one each...
...religious leaders (Moses to David Livingstone. African missionary, explorer). High on the porch's tympanum surrounded by Mark's lion, Matthew's angel, John's eagle, Luke's ox is Christ. Adjoining those Gospel writers is the idea of Matthew XXIII, 57: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem . . . how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would...
...went down on Jerusalem after the second day of August, and Tisha b'Ab, the Ninth of Ab (Great Fast Day), began,* Jews pious and Jews pugnacious walked warily toward the Wailing Wall. The Wall is a remnant of The Temple. Jews have wept, have recited the Lamentations of Jeremiah there for most of 1,800 years...
This year stalwart Jerusalem Jews collected bludgeons, rocks and in a few cases firearms, to carry under their talithim (praying shawls) as they went at sundown to begin the Fast of Ab. Edward Keith-Roach, British district commissioner of Jerusalem, knew this was going on. He ordered admonishing posters prepared and had them fixed to walls. The work was done on Thursday so as not to offend Moslems by having Moslem employes work on Friday, their Sabbath, or by having Jews work on Saturday, their sabbath. His own sabbath, Sunday, was nerve-wracking...