Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ruth is persuaded to abandon Chemosh-worship by Mahlon, a gentle young Jew from Bethlehem. He is thrown into prison and then mortally wounded while escaping. Ruth marries him as he dies. Damned as an apostate and pursued by Moabite soldiers, she flees with his mother, Naomi (Peggy Wood), to Bethlehem, and there finds herself in danger of being stoned for idolatry. At last tolerance prevails, and eventually she marries a good and godly man named Boaz (Stuart Whitman...
...wife Edith gave a $500,000 present to the children of New York City. The money was accepted by the city for construction of a children's zoo that Lehman envisions in Central Park, just across the street from the Leh-mans' longtime place of worship, Temple Emanu...
...imagination, a "flypaper memory" and a wit that ranges from the merry to the mordant. Wilder, not Benchley, was the man who first said: "Wait till I slip out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini." He is also the author of this scathing epigram: "I would worship the ground you walk on if you lived in a better neighborhood...
Ebenezer was right. The descendants of the king's "Jew cook"-the first Jew to be mentioned in Hawaiian history-have never been traced. But some of them perhaps took part last week in the dedication of Hawaii's first permanent Jewish place of worship, the $365,000 Temple Emanu-el in Honolulu...
...that they cannot agree on repairs or on anything else. They hold their services in spaces as carefully marked as those in a parking lot, and about as large (the areas were frozen by Turkish Sultan Abdul Majid shortly before the Crimean War). The Syrian Orthodox, for example, may worship only in an area extending from the middle of the seventh pillar of the rotunda to a spot marked by a black cross on the right of the ninth column...