Word: yisrael
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...sense of betrayal is building among Jewish groups over two votes at the Presbyterians' recent General Assembly. The first tally sustained funding for "Messianic Jewish" congregations like Avodat Yisrael, a Philadelphia-area Presbyterian gathering that meets Saturdays and gives every appearance of being a synagogue but features New Testament readings. Most Jews consider such entities, often funded by conservative Christian groups, to be a devious way of luring new converts to Christianity. The second vote initiated the church's "phased selective divestment" from some corporations operating in Israel...
...still forgive this self-conscious direction because of the simple, undeniable power of what the characters say and what they’re driven to do. Their self-hatred and denial as Jews, interwoven with their singular affirmation of faith— “shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad,”- Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One— is a stark and brutal statement that stuns...
...bombing, an incident that shook his commitment to stay in Kfar Darom, a settlement of 51 families. But after living near Tel Aviv for 21 months during the children's rehabilitation, Cohen and his wife Noga brought their family back. "It wasn't easy," says Cohen, watching Yisrael, 8, roll by awkwardly on skates. The boy has a prosthetic leg to replace the one he lost just below the knee. "But if you believe this is your land, you know you belong here." Ideological settlers like Cohen believe they're living on land God gave to the Jews, as recorded...
...great Viennese psychotherapist Viktor Frankl wrote, “Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.” This quotation, found in Frankl’s seminal work, Man’s Search for Meaning, is a reminder that even in the darkness of great evil the light of human dignity shines...
...show tunes...both of which she did on a very regular basis. It got to the point where my friends and I all started imitating her...we call it "song and dance." There is a song we often sing at Hillel after lunch on Shabbat called "Yom Zeh L'Yisrael" and there is a line at the end: "B'Shabbat yoshevet b'zmir ooh shvacha." ("On Shabbat we sit in song and praise")...and without fail, every time we would get up to this line my friends and I would catch Shira's eye across the room and started doing...