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...Scriptures underwent many changes at the hands of the early scribes, so much so that in the 4th century, Pope Damasus commissioned the Bible scholar Jerome to do a definitive version. In his version, the Vulgate, Jerome translated Keren, the Hebrew word for "ray, horn" as "cornuta," Latin for "horns." Thus, "when Moses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony: and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord" (Exodus 34:29}. While scholars have since determined that Moses was not literally horned but rather surrounded...
Sponsor of the drive against the Christian schools, which began with the Jewish (New Year last month, is the Keren Yeldenu (Our Child's Fund), a citizens' organization. It has removed some 1,400 children from mission auspices during the past two years and placed them in 37 youth clubs and day nurseries. Charges of coercion frequently fly back and forth be tween mission schools and their opponents...
Brookwood, England hailed the battle-scarred winners of a father & son golf tournament, Field Marshal Earl Wavell, who lost his left eye in World War I and his son, Major Viscount Keren, who lost his left arm in Africa...
...what pleased the Prix de Rome jury did not entirely please Mrs. Hailman. Sculptor Keren's classic nudes, she thought, could not gracefully wear those Indian names. So last week before he departed for Rome young Sculptor Koren gave his figures something else to wear. In plaster he added breech clouts to each, crowned each with a feather headdress. Said...
...Eretz Israel ("Land of Israel'') now has a great £1,000,000 Palestine Electric Corp., founded by Engineer Pinhas Rutenberg, whose stations in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Tiberias and in the Jordan valley supply all Palestine (except Jerusalem) with power. The Agricultural Experimental Station of the Keren Hayesod (colonization & immigration) teaches scientific farming and has experimental fields. The clean, white, all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv ("Hill of Spring") more than doubled its population (46,000). For building trades exists the General Mortgage Bank of Palestine, first to be modeled after European institutions. In Palestine are now new hotels...