Word: miriam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members are Miss Miriam Ginsburg, of Worcester and Moors Hall; Mrs. Margaret Kivelson, of New York and Cambridge; Miss Virginia Ogden, of Larchment, New York, and Briggs Hall; Miss Helon Osterman, of New York and 55 Garden Street; and Miss Joan Stolper, of New York and Saville House...
...Miriam Van Waters, superintendent of the Women's Reformatory at Framingham, said last week that rehabilitation work had been "disrupted seriously" by the 70-year-old law governing work of women outside the institution...
...Unearthly Light. One morning, before her marriage to Joseph, an invisible presence impels Miriam to her room. There falls upon her "a clear unearthly light, not of the sun," and the angel appears speaking the words of the Annunciation. She is to bear a son conceived by the Holy Spirit...
...child, called Yeshua, is proud to be known as "Mother's boy." Miriam calls him "tinoki" (baby) and dresses him in spotless white linen. She cannot help, as he grows older, setting him apart from his brothers, the sons she bears to Joseph.* When Yeshua begins to sense his Messiahship (in a miraculous answer to prayer at 13), Miriam's life becomes a struggle between motherly joy and motherly foreboding. After the miracle of the wine at the wedding in Cana, she loses sight of him until just before the end. Asch brings her into the Garden...
...Tinoki, tinoki, tinoki!" Miriam wails...