Word: kiddush
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...scored against them). At each of five inquisition points, teams had to answer a question. The questions: 1) When was the state of Israel founded? 2) Who is the President of Israel? 3 ) How many candles are there in Hanukah lights? 4) What is the difference between Kiddush and Kaddish? 5) How many keys are there on a piano...
...answers: 1) May 14, 1948; 2) Ben-Zvi; 3) nine: 4) Kiddush is a consecration of the Sabbath over wine, and Kaddish is a prayer in memory of the dead; 5) 88. Commonest error: David Ben-Gurion for Isaac...
Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner, who conceived the idea of the institute, spoke of the importance of Jewish ceremonies in the life of Jesus: "The wine [Jesus] gave [his disciples] was from the Kiddush cup -the chalice. The bread he gave them to eat were these matzos, flour and water. Also on the Seder table is a shankbone, roasted .... In Jesus' time they ate the lamb together. That feast of the Passover was the Last Supper . . . 'Shema Israel adonoi elohenu adonoi echod-Hear O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One.' Those were words that Jesus...
...Union in the most notable of the resolutions it passed last week voiced its faith in Jewishness. In an unmistakable trend back toward Orthodoxy, the delegates urged that all Reform synagogs employ cantors and all-Jewish choirs, singing Jewish music only, and resume use of the ancient Kiddush, a blessing before the evening meal to proclaim the holiness of the Sabbath. The Union, too, voted its faith in the Jewish homeland, praising the Jewish Agency-to which Zionists and non-Zionists subscribe-for its activities: "We see the hand of Providence in the opening of the gates of Palestine...
Sholom Asch, No. 1 Yiddish novelist, was born (1880) in Kutno, near Poland's Warsaw. In 1910 he came to the U. S., lived for five years on Manhattan's Staten Island. Few of his novels (Uncle Moses, Kiddush Ha-Shem) have been translated; one of his plays (God of Vengeance), though several have been produced by the Yiddish Art Theatre, Manhattan. In 1919 Sholom Asch returned to Europe, lives in Paris. Son Nathan (The Office, Love in Chartres), now in Paris, lives in Manhattan, writes in English...