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… has instituted a campaign of education for the abolition of capital punishment. Michigan is one of the states that has abolished the death penalty. The legislation banning the death penalty went into…
… unprecedentedly large audi- ences to the Wayne State University campus. There was in evidence a great interest in the subject dis- cussed and in the scholars who attended the conference. Several of the most noted…
… have many scholars who can bring important messages to us, and the standards of entertainment need not be dragged down to a low level. The Conference on Old Testament Studies at Wayne State University…
… continue as an annual project of our university. Mapai Leads, but Shows Drop in Histadrut Vote TEL AVIV, (JTA) — With only about 75 percent of the 635,000 eligible voters casting their ballots, national…
… voted the award for a poem "Massah Gog"—the Burden of Gog. The awards were announced last week at a ceremony at the Hebrew University by Zal- man Mane, Minister of Educa- tion. The ceremony was pre- ceded…
… descriptions of the Holy Land's attractions with this legend: "EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST, and never the twain shall meet . • ." Rudyard Kipling But R.udyard had it wrong! In Israel, East is West, and both…
… are South. And the "twain" meet so often they have become one. Israel blends the cultures of the ancient East and the modern West, and both flourish • in the benign, warmth of the southland sun. — you…
… may stand. in the Bedouin camel market in Beersheba and drink from the well dug by Father Abraham; —you may bathe — as Jesus did — in the Sea of Galilee; . — or ride along the path that the Mongol…
… raiders of Genghiz Kahn took to Tel-el-Kadi; but you go by modern bus or car. This is a land of Jew, Christian and Moslem; of Persians, Dru,ze, Englishmen, Indians, Yemenites, Ameri- cans, Bedouins, Kurds…
… . . . An are at home here, as you will be when you come. This is the meeting of EAST and WEST. This excellent bit of advertising copy attests to the ingenuity of the Israelis who are so anxious to attract…