Word: judaic
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...record against "a growing fascist spirit within the Southern States, evidenced in floggings, teachers' oaths . . . concentration camps, vigilante service of deputized landowners and hoodlums in certain sections. . . ." The Fellowship is for: "The right of freedom of the pulpit which is historically identified with the prophetic character of the Judaic and Christian religions...
...real name: Emile Herzog) stands first in the eyes of a majority of his countrymen, is now generally regarded as France's foremost living writer. Readers who eschew the unsteady brilliance of Jean Cocteau, the cold amorality of Andre Gide, turn with relief to the sympathetic charm, the Judaic kindliness, of Author Maurois. His ironic fire, at its fiercest only kindled laughter, never burnt anyone. An unembarrassing writer, his manners are beautiful-although, like most good manners, a little banal...
...Jewish religious life of Palestine," the new Reformed hymnal aims to reshape oldtime melodies in modern forms without losing their essential Hebraic spirit. From the two previous hymnals, published in 1897 and 1914. the committee has removed 177 hymns written by non-Jewish composers, and substituted some 200 authentic Judaic compositions. Still to be part of the service, but not employed by any other sect, Jewish or Christian, are hymns with verses by Louisa May Alcott (Little Women}, Poets William Cowper, Thomas Moore and John Addington Symonds, Thomas Tallis (1515-85, "the father of English cathedral music") and John...
...technical Judaic term, not necessarily meaning anything more than that the sacred parchments were subjected to the touch of irreligious persons...