Word: jews
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...your work as seriously as you should when you allow such an editorial to appear in your columns--an editorial that purports to point out the spiritual significance of the taking of Jerusalem by the British without pointing out its spiritual significance to the Jewish people; without mentioning the Jews in any historical, religious or political sense whatever, as if the two words--Jew and Jerusalem--did not connote one another; and without even recalling the recent promise of the British Empire, given when the ultimate taking of Jerusalem was assured, that Jerusalem would be given to the Jews...
...capture of Jerusalem calls for such a Philippic. Had we been presenting a detailed study of the taking of Jerusalem and its effect upon the world, we should have been guilty of a grave omission in making no mention of the Jewish people. In our opinion the two words, Jew and Jerusalem, are closely associated. We are well aware of the promise of the British Empire. But ahead of both these comes the fact that Jerusalem has been wrested from Turkish rule and German domination. This was the fact that was uppermost in our minds when the news came that...
Jehudah Halevi was born in Spain in 1085 during the period of high Moorish civilization when that country was the only one in which the persecuted race was tolerated. There the Jews held the balance of power. Owing to this toleration he received an excellent education and became a cultured man. He was a physician and philosopher with a charming personality, thoroughly balanced poetic temperament, and a keen imagination. The suffering of his race during the crusades gave form and thought to his poetical power, and he was so impressed with the fact that the function of the Jew...
...gives him, he instills it into them, and reconciles them. Another teaching is prominent: that true faith is something so deep and so compelling that it can be confined to no one sect or race. He who goes to this play with an unreasoning and instinctive aversion to a Jew, will find much material for sober reflection. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," be he Jew or Gentile; and to think rightly is impossible without faith in God. This may sound like sermonizing, but if ever a sermon brought conviction to the heart of its hearer...
...system of publicity for the University, and N. Foerster '10 in a pleasant article talks of the summer birds in the Yard. Professor Francke describes the coming Germanic Museum, and C. Kikkawa tells of Harvard's harvest in Japan. L. M. Friedman '93 writes of Judah Morris, a converted Jew, the first instructor in Hebrew; incidentally we get some amusing pictures of life in the College in the eighteenth century; the instructor eked out a living by keeping shop as well as dispensing knowledge; one of his bills was for nearly three pounds of tobacco, pipes and the like...