Moses, MLK and Miep

Forward

In Exodus, we read of the first acts of civil disobedience from the Hebrew midwives, Shifra and Puah, who disobeyed Pharaoh's orders to kill the Hebrew ...

The Making of History /An ivory tower view of Israel

Ha'aretz

This belief has, in turn, sustained the need for hasbara, that peculiar Hebrew term that means something between "information" and "propaganda," a magic ...



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To Bubbe or not to Bubbe that is the question

Jweekly.com

It wouldn't make sense for my parents to be called Abuelo and Abuela, so why should they have Hebrew and, more precisely, Israeli names if they're not ...

High-schoolers spend session in Israel

New Jersey Jewish Standard

... that Kibbutz Kfar Etzion is a lot smaller and quieter than Washington Heights, or that the kids speak Hebrew and address teachers by their first names . ...

How not to do air travel security

International Analyst Network

Because I am an Israeli citizen, speak near-native Hebrew and obviously belong, the 'selector' can basically conclude within a few seconds from my reactions ...



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A center set on a hill

San Juan Record

It sits just below the prestigious Hebrew University and the Augustus Victoria Hospital. In 1984, ground was broken on this land for the BYU Jerusalem ...



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Disney names new president of Disney Channels

Chip and Co

Walt Disney Co on Tuesday named Carolina Lightcap president of Disney Channels Worldwide, replacing Rich Ross, who left to head up the company's movie ...



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1/26 Names and faces

Bradenton Herald

A native of Israel, she is fluent in Hebrew , has a nursing degree and has lived in the Manatee/Sarasota area for more than 25 years. ...

Women's Whispers: Exodus and the making of a feminist

Jerusalem Post

... the first verse in the Book of Exodus in heavy Ashkenazi Hebrew : "V'ayleh shmois bnai yisroel," "And these are the names of the Children of Israel. ...

Bumps in the Road Forward



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Book It: Hebrew Classes OKd In Dist. 225

Journal & Topics Newspapers Online

225 school board meeting asking that Hebrew be added to the curriculum at both the North and South campuses. In response, the district conducted an ...

The golden age of lisa ullmann

Ha'aretz

It took 10 years for her to complete the monumental effort of rendering into Hebrew the book's seven sections, originally written on papyrus. ...

Children's Books

Publishers Weekly

Store signs are in Hebrew , but the objects in Yael's world will be recognizable to young readers. Just when nothing is happening at all There's no car. ...

Detective Hired by Deripaska's Employee to Wiretap Cherney Sentenced in Tel-Aviv

SYS-CON Media (press release)

The same document in Hebrew says that "in May 2007 Eskin asked the defendant (Mor) to get him in touch with a foreign subject Alexei Drobashenko (further ...

Israel Finds a New Way to Play the Victim

Antiwar.com

... name is catching on. Britain's attorney general, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, just gave a lecture at the law school of Jerusalem's Hebrew University. ...



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James Patterson & the business of writing

ScienceBlogs (blog)

The Bible is a kind of greatest hits collection of Hebrew lit over centuries. 2. Homer's epics may be incorporate some earlier poets' work, but again he's ...

Fiction Book Reviews: 1/25/2010

Publishers Weekly

From the Four Winds Haim Sabato, trans. from the Hebrew by Yaacob Dweck. Toby, $24.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-59264-240-3 Sabato (Adjusting Sights) draws upon his ...

A Map Issued By the Jerusalem Municipality to Demolish Hundreds of Buildings ...

Alternative Information Center (AIC)

With respect to the place names that are used in the map, only Hebrew names were used, while the well-known and commonly used names that are used by the ...

Event brings touch of Israel to Montgomery

Montgomery Advertiser

Katz led the crowd in song -- Hebrew standards such as "Le'olam be'Ikvit Hashemesh" and "Salam," but also tunes composed by familiar names such as Bob Dylan ...



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'The Defector' a secret agent tale that runs too long

New Bern Sun Journal

A team is formed with the code word Barak, which we are told means lightning in Hebrew . Not knowing Hebrew , I will take the author's word for it. ...

David Beckham adds a new Jesus tattoo to his ever-growing collection of ink

New York Daily News

... which already includes a Hebrew inscription, an old Chinese proverb, Roman numerals and the names of his wife, Victoria, and their three sons.



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