Word: jerusalem
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...Mass., named David Horowitz, who believes that "it was the word of God that brought Mr. Carter and myself together." The two met after Horowitz' return from the Holy Land, where he became a disciple of Moses Guibbory, who settled down as a hermit in a cave near Jerusalem and claimed discovery of a "secret code" to the Bible's original meaning. Carter contributed to the hermit's expenses, took up Hebrew...
Tisha b'Av, the ninth of the Hebrew month of Av (July 23 in 1942), is the saddest day in the Jewish year. Dating from the destruction of the First Temple at Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, it also commemorates the destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman Emperor Titus, the expulsion of Jews from Spain...
Tisha b'Av is also the day when the Jews of Jerusalem gather at the Wailing Wall, all that remains of the Second Temple, to weep and pray for Zion. This year Tisha b'Av in Jerusalem was more solemn than ever, for there was scarcely a Jew who could not hear in imagination, above the ritual wails, the clank of Rommel's tanks...
...Graebner has been to Russia, but Russia is almost the only place in Europe where he has not been since he started work for TIME in 1931. He has followed the news into Warsaw, Berlin. Prague, Paris, Budapest, Bucharest. He has interviewed newsmakers in Rome, Barcelona, Lisbon, Istanbul, Ankara, Jerusalem, Cairo...
Died. George Antonius, 50, Cambridge-educated Christian Arab politician, power in the Arab Nationalist movement, author (The Arab Awakening); in Jerusalem...