Word: olam
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...most anticipated Inaugural Address since John F. Kennedy. They'll hear the Queen of Soul sing and Yo-Yo Ma play. They'll listen to hear if Rick Warren gets preachy when he prays. But there's one thing they won't hear: Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha'olam...
...time, and it was better to use a good American commercial name to reach the wider public." Even as Robert Kahn had become Bob Kane and Jacob Kurtzberg worked as Jack Kirby, their superheroes reflected some of the identity they were masking, evoking Jewish concepts such as tikkun olam (repairing the world through social action) and legends such as the Golem of Prague, the medieval superhero of Jewish folklore who was conjured from clay by a rabbi to defend his community when it was under threat...
...does and should color people’s perception of politics,” says Eric P. Lesser ‘07, president of the Harvard College Democrats. Lesser says that his Judaism is especially important to him, and that Jewish values, such as tzedekah (justice or charity), tikkun olam (healing the world), and mitzvah (God’s moral commandments), make him a Democrat.The Dems boast many Jewish members like Lesser, but Harvard Dems member Kyle A. Krahel ’08 claims that like the HRC, it “is not a monolithic religious group...