Word: yisrael
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parts that Begin knows best are the countless verses of the Old Testament that refer to the existence of Erets Yisrael (the land of Israel) and to God's promise of a homeland for his chosen people. But Scripture is less precise about what the boundaries of that homeland ought to be. One of the earliest references is Genesis 15: 18: "In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt [probably not the Nile, but the Wadi el Arish in the Sinai] unto...
...could help to revitalize the thinking of less radical communities too. The best new Jewish journal on the market today -and arguably the liveliest Jewish periodical in the U.S.-is a slim, stapled biweekly called Sh'ma, from the Hebrew confession of faith, which begins "Sh'ma Yisrael" (Hear, O Israel). The eight-page offset sheet was started in 1970 by Reform Rabbi Eugene Borowitz, professor of Jewish thought at the Manhattan campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Scholar Borowitz, 48, who edits Sh'ma in his home, is himself a staunch but critical...