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Hebrew

[hee-broo] / ˈhi bru /
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Jewish
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Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, a Syrian-born British citizen, drove into the gates of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester on 2 October last year.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

“We open the door to teshuva,” said David Wolpe, a rabbi in Los Angeles, using the Hebrew word for repentance.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

By using a more advanced model that includes two distinct superconducting orders, the Hebrew University researchers were able to explain the experimental measurements much more accurately.

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

When he was a seventh-grader in 1997, President Clinton visited the campus of Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy, a Modern Orthodox K-8 school he attended in his hometown of Livingston, N.J.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

Liyana thought how both Hebrew and Arabic came from such a deep, related place in the throat.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

I thought of Hebrews 13:2: “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 27, 2025

Yet the Hebrew Bible shows that Hebrews were as terrified of existential uprootedness as Blaise Pascal or any Christian king.

From Salon Mar. 31, 2024

Months have dragged on without a decision from the Israeli authorities, leaving the undocumented Black Hebrews suspended between their homes in the Holy Land and what they see as exile.

From Seattle Times Jul. 20, 2023

On June 1, the community celebrated New World Passover, a holiday marking the exodus from the United States of the Black Hebrews who came to Israel in the 1960s.

From Seattle Times Jul. 20, 2023

When he woke up, he repeated what little he could remember, a verse from Hebrews about Enoch: “Taken up so he should not see death; and he was not found.”

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley




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