(n.) An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew.
(n.) The language of the Hebrews; -- one of the Semitic family of languages.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Hebrews; as, the Hebrew language or rites.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
(2) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
(3) Instead, much of Darwish's early reading of the poetry of the world outside Palestine was through the medium of Hebrew.
(4) As Prof Eyal Naveh of Tel Aviv University, one of the Israeli project leaders, says: “This might be possible in a post-conflict situation, but it was not possible in an ‘in conflict’ situation.” So, the authors decided to try the next best thing: to write their own separate narratives and place them side by side, in Hebrew and in Arabic, on the opposite pages of a single book.
(5) This article is a presentation of the background and description of one such clinical program organized by the New England College of Optometry with the cooperation of the Department of Ophthalmology Hadassah Hebrew Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
(6) A systematic search was made in the Hebrew Bible for expressions of emotional distress.
(7) As in a mosque, worshippers remove their shoes before entering the historic building, where biblical quotations are emblazoned on the walls in English, Hebrew and Persian scripts.
(8) As anticipated, children in the non Hebrew reader groups performed comparably on this task, but the performance of these subjects was inferior to that of children in the Hebrew groups.
(9) And in response to a freedom of information request from Education Guardian, the DfE has disclosed that although it has met representatives of registered Jewish schools many times, it has no records of any such meetings with the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations – the organisation that represents the wider Orthodox community in London .
(10) Adopting the format of an earlier investigation, a visual recall task was employed as the dependent variable, and it was predicted that poor readers would perform as well as normals with stimuli taken from Hebrew, an unfamiliar orthography.
(11) Rats of the Hebrew University strain, used as donors, received single i.p.
(12) Experiment 2 revealed that semantic priming effects in naming were larger in Hebrew than in English and completely absent in Serbo-Croatian.
(13) Twenty-four Hebrew-speaking dyads (the children about 1;6) were videotaped for 30 min in an unstructured session.
(14) They are simply places to which kids are sent to be indoctrinated from dawn till dusk, and it is a scandal that the government has failed to deal with them for so long.” The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations did not return Education Guardian’s calls.
(15) In two substrains, selected from the Hebrew University strain, for their respective sensitivity (H) or immunity (N) to hypertension induced by DOCA--salt treatment, there were no significant increases in NA or DA in any part of the brain following DOCA--salt treatment.
(16) Rami Younis, 30, a Palestinian activist and writer with the independent Hebrew online magazine Local Call, said he usually boycotts the elections.
(17) The Adelsons are friends of Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and Adelson purchased a Hebrew-language newspaper to support him.
(18) Hebrew has two forms of spelling, pointed and unpointed.
(19) Biblical Hebrew thus incorporated a powerful and sophisticated language of emotional expression.
(20) Following the discovery of the missing Israeli's bodies on Monday, new details about the teenagers' abduction and murder 19 days ago while hitching home from West Bank religious schools have emerged in the Hebrew press, including the fact that investigators believe that the teenagers were killed within a few minutes of getting into a stolen car near Gush Etzion junction.
Judaism
Definition:
(n.) The religious doctrines and rites of the Jews as enjoined in the laws of Moses.
(n.) Conformity to the Jewish rites and ceremonies.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Palestinians see this as Jewish encroachment on the site, the holiest in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam, while Jewish activists like Glick say they are being discriminated against by limiting their chances to pray atop the mount.
(2) She’s an African-American woman who recently converted to Judaism.
(3) From a barbaric bronze age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved – Judaism, Christianity, Islam.
(4) Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism and Islam all get both barrels.
(5) Although the UK's main churches oppose the reform, other faiths, including the Quakers, Unitarians and liberal Judaism, support marriage rights for gay couples and have said they would like to conduct the ceremonies.
(6) In 1959, Taylor, who had converted to Judaism when she married Todd, married Fisher at a synagogue in Las Vegas.
(7) Even in Israel itself, where the grip of Judaism on the apparatus of state control is increasingly resented by many secular Jews, there is a growing one-state movement.
(8) Rabbi Danny Rich Chief executive , Lucian J Hudson Chair , Rabbi Charley Baginsky Chair, Rabbinic conference, Liberal Judaism • While Antony Beevor is right to remind us of both the Soviet Union’s role in liberating the Nazi extermination camps and of Russia’s long history of antisemitism ( Why Putin should be at Auschwitz , 21 January), he fails to highlight why, at this particular moment, it is worse than “a great shame” that Putin will not be attending the events at Auschwitz next week to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation by the Red Army.
(9) The attitudes of Catholicism and Judaism to scrupulosity are presented and the similarity between their management programmes and present-day behavioural psychotherapy is noted.
(10) This article critically reviews modern Jewish teaching on Judaism and homosexuality.
(11) Of course there is a dilemma about whether we are giving oxygen to the fascists and increasing their capacity to act by our reaction,” said Laura Janner-Klausner, the senior rabbi of Reform Judaism .
(12) Around the time of her conversion to Catholicism, Spark's son, who became a painter, embraced Judaism, claiming that his maternal grandmother was Jewish thus making him a Jew; Spark always maintained that although her father was Jewish, her mother was not.
(13) Ivanka converted to Orthodox Judaism to marry businessman Jared Kushner, with whom she has three children.
(14) Indeed, much of that US violence is grounded in if not expressly justified by religion , including the aggressive attack on Iraq and steadfast support for Israeli aggression (to say nothing of the role Judaism plays in the decades-long oppression by the Israelis of Palestinians and all sorts of attacks on neighboring Arab and Muslim countries).
(15) Netanyahu, it appears, has a plan B in his overtures to Israel’s ultra-orthodox parties, including Shas and United Torah Judaism, who some have suggested could form the core of a new coalition with the foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, if current alliances collapse.
(16) David Arnold, a representative of Manchester’s Jewish community, said Christianity, Judaism and Islam had shared values which Henning demonstrated: “We all understand, as Alan understood, that all human life is not just precious but sacred.” Asim Hussain, the imam at Manchester Central mosque, said: “Alan was an individual who embodies more Islamic values than the entire Isis put together.
(17) I once did a series called painting from the nine religions: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and everything else ism.
(18) Brexit explained: risk of war The signatories include Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, the principal rabbi at the Movement for Reform Judaism; Bharti Tailor, executive director of the Hindu Forum of Europe; and Miqdaad Versi, assistant general secretary of the Muslim Council of Great Britain.
(19) The story of Noah is written by two sources – the "J" writer, older and more folkloric, and the "Priestly writer" most interested in getting Judaism into a regular religious shape – both of which have been plaited together as best they could by later editors.
(20) His parents were not religious but he attended a Catholic primary school and at the same time received private tuition in Judaism.