Word: judah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Then, seated on a throne beneath a purple canopy in a makeshift church on Port-of-Spain's outskirts, the visitor watched impassively as incense-swinging priests murmured prayers and the high priest read a long eulogy. Thus last week did Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Lion of Judah, King of Kings and Elect of God, begin a week's visit to the three tiny Negro countries of Trinidad-Tobago, Jamaica and Haiti...
...depleted treasury for $100,000, used it to plant flagpoles along the two-mile length of road from the airport to the capital of Port-au-Prince, place festive flags all over the city and pour fresh concrete along part of the route so that the Lion of Judah would not be overcome by dust. The high point of Selassie's crowded, one-day visit was the naming of the just-completed airport road "Boulevard Haile Selassie." Such are conditions in Haiti, however, that road dedications can be dubious honors. As he drives toward Port-au-Prince, Selassie...
...oldest part is the Mish nah, or Teaching, a selection of the Oral Law as taught by synagogue sages and compiled by Rabbi Judah Hanasi at the end of the 2nd century. The rabbi divided this oral teaching into six main divisions called "orders," covering agriculture, festivals, marriage, civil and criminal laws, sacrifices, and ritual purification. In the 4th century, another great editor, Rav Ashi, began to compile the Gemara (study), or commentaries on the Mishnah by later rabbis. His work was completed by Jewish scholars in Persia during the 5th century and is known as the Babylonian Talmud...
...Agronomist Judah Singer, the ring hoped to persuade the British to attack Palestine's undermanned garrisons early in the war, thereby saving the Jewish population from Turkish persecution and paving the way for an eventual Jewish state. Its chances of success, figured one member, were about the same as those of "a chicken scratching at the feet of a camel," while failure might cost the lives of all Palestinian Jews. In any event, as the group well knew, "our people will despise us for what we are doing. Jews have a long hatred against spying. We will be without...
...order of being perhaps more than of believing. Being Jewish is feeling the past in one's bones and living all out in the present; it is Job's chutzpah as well as his submission to God; it is the lingering melancholy which the 12th century writer Judah Halevi called the "aching heart of nations," and it is sharp humor, often directed at oneself. For all his changes, the American Jew has not lost these qualities; in fact he is making them, more than ever, a gift to the world...