Word: torah
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...first real experience of the patriarch Abraham's crossover appeal came on the splendid sun-spangled day in June when I took a crosstown cab to arrange my son's circumcision. Jews have circumcised for thousands of years--ever since God (as the Torah tells it), having made a history-altering pact with Abraham, directed him to "cut my Covenant in your flesh." Some biblical commentators suggest that the circumcision was meant as much as a reminder to the Lord as to the Israelites, a kind of divine Post-it not to extirpate these people. My thought as we rolled...
...Though historians and genealogists will doubtless be among the chief benefactors of his work, Haidler is in it for these eulogies. "Compiling just the dates and names," he says, "would mean leaving out the greatest beauty of all: the poetry, the community's love of the Bible and the Torah, that shines through the eulogy." Although Haidler has so far worked in obscurity, supported by a small circle of friends and enthusiasts, he takes his archive public on Sept. 29 with the launch of www.chewra.com. The website, an online database free to anyone with Internet access, contains personal data...
...final game of the doubleheader yesterday afternoon, the Crimson wasted little time in dispatching the Hillel Torah-nados (1-3, 1-0 Maneshevitz). The Crimson sent Jonathan Ungar to the mound and the junior executive did not disappoint, allowing only two runs in a complete game effort...
Last month, a crowd of 1,300 watched the 27th president of Harvard University hold up a Torah scroll during a service ushering in Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement...
...point during the special worship-study service commemorating the start of Yom Kippur, Summers and Galper held up Torah scrolls as Rabbi Norman Janis chanted a Hebrew prayer...