Hillel
HILLEL (c. 50 BCE–early first century CE), Jewish sage and teacher. Although several modern scholars claim that Hillel, known as "the Elder," had Alexandrian roots, there i...
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Hillel (ca. 60 BC-ca. 10 AD) was a Jewish scholar and founder of a dynasty of patriarchs who were the spiritual heads of Jewry until the 5th century.Sources of information about Hillel are meager and ...
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What am I talking about? What is Breaking the Silence?
I met Yehuda Shaul last summer in Hebron. Raised Orthodox in Jerusalem, Shaul was a sergeant in the IDF serving in the Occupied Territories w...
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Israeli Harry Potter fans elbowed their way in for autographs and photos _ not with the author of the best-selling books, but with the Hebrew translator.More than 100 devotees of British writer J.K...
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Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found naked, bound and drunk, according to Israeli media reports confirmed Monday by a government spokeswoman.The longtime diplomat, T...
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Heather Zucker ate mostly salad and spaghetti during the years she lived in the University of Wisconsin-Madison dorms. Sometimes, her dinner was just a bowl of ice cream.Zucker wasn't being picky. ...
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Good news for fans of Scott Turow's "Presumed Innocent": Rusty Sabich is back on the jobTurow, speaking to The Associated Press on Saturday at BookExpo America, said he has written about one-quarte...
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Former President Clinton's planned book on citizen activism, "Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World," will come out Sept. 4 with a first printing of 750,000, publisher Alfred A. Knopf announc...
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Former President Carter, who already has a book coming out this fall about his post-White House years, is working on a memoir about his mother, Lillian, to be published next spring by Simon & S...
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The world still has a taste for tales about Middle-earth.Two weeks after the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Children of Hurin," an unfinished novel edited by the late author's son, Christophe...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
YOUR U.N. AT WORK (The Wall Street Journal, New York)
When it comes to actual human rights, the United Nations Human
Rights Council refle...
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Hillel Chapters Break New Ground by Hosting 'Breaking the Silence'
