Word: judah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Cover of Oratory. From the top down, the Israelis took special trouble to achieve maximum surprise. That morning David Ben-Gurion, the aging (68) lion of Judah who led the nation to victory in the 1948 war, went before the Knesset in Jerusalem as Israel's Premier-designate. Returning to office with a makeshift majority including both left-wing freethinkers and hardshell Sabbatarians, Ben-Gurion looked rumpled and tired. He made his speech sitting down, paused frequently, and once asked the indulgence of the house while he rested. "I am prepared," he said, "to meet with the Prime...
...Hanukkah (literally, "dedication") commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after Judah Maccabee and his brothers overthrew the Syrians, who were led by Antiochus (circa 165 B.C.). The legend goes that the sacred light (Menorah) burned for eight days with only a single day's supply of consecrated...
...JUDAH DICK...
...emperor. Last week, for the first time in years, a real emperor dropped in on Vienna, and the city was plunged into a swivet of what local newspapers called Kaiser-fieber (emperor fever). The real emperor: His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah...
...tempted with rituals and restrictions. One device dating back at least to the 5th century B.C. is the Kethubah (literally, "what is written"), a contract by which a Jewish husband must make provision for any wife he divorces. In about A.D. 1000, Germany's Rabbi Gershom ben Judah banned polygamy for Jews of the Western world and decreed that if there were no overt offense (such as adultery) by one of the marriage partners, no divorce could be granted unless the wife agreed...