Notes & News
NOTES & NEWS National Geographic Draws New Map of "Palestine" Until recently, National Geographic'* map of the Holy Land would have left even casual followers of events in the Middle East...
...The new map's descriptions of the West Bank and Gaza are balanced...
...At the recent conference commemorating the centenary of modern Hebrew, a group of 75 scholars from the U.S., Canada and Israel discussed the development of Hebrew in the NOTES & NEWS American Diaspora...
...In developing the language for daily use, Ben-Yehuda used a number of techniques, such as combining two words or adding to root words, reviving ancient Hebrew words culled from the Bible and the Talmud, sometimes with new or slightly different meanings and borrowing from other languages, often Arabic or Aramaic...
...In describingjerusalem, the old map simply notes that during the 1967 war the Israelis took over the city, seemingly out of nowhere...
...the English term "telephone" is preferred...
...He understood and respected the wisdom in the words from the Midrash: 'The beauty in compromise is that it permits both sides to walk in dignity.'" Hillel Academy Offers Bouquets of Yellow Tulips for Shoah Observance The Hillel Academy of Broome County, New York, took to heart Rabbi Noah Golinkin's suggestion that we commemorate the Shoah by planting yellow tulips (see "How Should We Commemorate the Shoah in Our Homes...
...Last December, National Geographic released a new map that corrects the boundaries and shows a greater sensitivity to Jewish history...
...16, 1990: "At the very impressive service for Arthur in Washington last month, I saw Msgr...
...In 1881 he established the first Hebrew-speaking household in Palestine, where he soon began work on his Complete Dictionary of Ancient and Modem Hebrew...
...Many Jewish homes in Broome County will proudly but sadly display the flowers in their windows," said Arieh A. Ullmann, a board member at the Hillel Academy and professor of management at SUNY Binghamton, who suggested the tulip sale...
...The description refers to heavy Jewish setdement in the area and to the intifada...
...19, 1990...
...It was inter-group and human relations at its best...
...Another former Post staffer, military editor Hirsh Goodman, is developing the Jerusalem Report, a weekly news magazine he described as a cross between Time and The Economist, it is scheduled to begin publication early this summer...
...During 1967, Jordan bombed West Jerusalem and Israel took over East Jerusalem...
...Secretary of Labor, Supreme Court Justice and U.S...
...That's where I met Father Higgins and several other important church people...
...avraich (an educated young man) came from a biblical word describing Joseph...
...The announcement was made during a cornerstone-laying ceremony for a new $2 million addition to the paper's Jerusalem headquarters...
...The estimated $6 million needed for the Jerusalem Report will come from Robert Pratt, an Australian Jewish businessman...
...The Jerusalem Report masthead will include Natan Sharansky, who will head the world desk, and internationally known author-journalist and former director of the Israeli Government Press Office, Ze'ev Chafets...
...Celebrating 100 Years of Modern Hebrew In 1890 a group of Zionists met in Palestine to revive the Hebrew vernacular—for two millennia a language used mainly for holy endeavors (lashon hakodesh...
...Seders at the Goldbergs' were serious, religious experiences...
...Hoffman said that the Israel Times will need at least $5 million to get it through the first three years...
...Scholars examined past achievements and explored the current and future roles of Hebrew in the synagogue, community and university...
...Today, following in the footsteps of Ben-Yehuda's Va'ad, the Academy for the Hebrew Language, at Hebrew University, Jerusalem , wrestles with the ongoing development of Hebrew...
...Publisher of the Tel Aviv weekly La'Inyan, To the Point," for 18 months, Bar-Ilan's political stance is solidly in the Likud camp—"to the right of Moshe Arens," according to one insider...
...although Palestinians have asserted claims to it, Israel agreed to negotiate the area's autonomy during the Camp David accords...
...The Post announced the launching of weekly editions in Arabic and French, planned for sometime in the next six months...
...The Jerusalem Post Is Still in Flux The Jerusalem Post continues playing musical chairs with its editorial posts (see "The Jerusalem Post Transformation or Disintegration...
...Representative to the United Nations, died Jan...
...But he was always willing to acknowledge merit in an adversary's case;—and willing to seek a fair compromise...
...The differences between the two maps can be seen in the descriptions of "Palestine...
...But his word for telephone, sachrachok, a combination of sach (to discuss) and rachok (distance), never caught on...
...He was an ardent advocate of what he deemed worthy of such support...
...I had just come to work in Washington—about 40 years ago...
...Said another staffer, "Expect a 180-degree turn in the Post's editorials...
...The Hebrew word for electricity, a modern phenomenon, is chashmal, which Ben Yehuda derived from the description of gleaming lightning bolts emitted by the biblical prophet Ezekiel's chariot...
...The venture is being funded by Edward Seroussi, a European-based businessman, who after learning of the exodus of staffers from The Jerusalem Post contacted the former Post writers...
...The note on Palestine concludes by stating that in 1949 Palestine "ceased to exist as an official entity...
...Arthur and his lovely wife Dorothy invited me to their Passover seder...
...So afnayim (bicycle) came from the words shnayim (two) and ofan (wheel...
...Ullmann hopes that the project, which he calls "a modest beginning" towards commemorating the Shoah in a contemporary way, will continue year after year...
...no international edition is planned at this time...
...A hundred years after the formation of the Va'ad, Hebrew has become a language spoken in the streets and the universities...
...Former Post staffer Charles Hoffman has said that Israel Times will have a "left of center" stance...
...The academy maintains a committee which is the final arbiter on new words...
...The Va'ad's leader, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, born Eliezer Yizhak Perelman in Lithuania, first realized that Hebrew was not just a language for prayer and religious study after he read a Hebrew translation of Robinson Crusoe...
...Mission to the United Nations in New York, Feb...
...The old map makes no reference to the Shoah, it explains that in 1948 Israel was proclaimed an independent republic and fought with its Arab neighbors, which resulted in a 1949 Israeli-Arab armistice partitioning the region...
...President and publisher Yehuda Levy noted at the ceremony that when Hollinger bought the paper it was running at a large loss, but that in January the Post made a small profit...
...Former concert pianist David Bar-Ilan has been appointed editorials editor...
...And I immediately recalled the first time I had met George...
...N. David Gross, who became managing editor of the Post after the takeover by Hollinger, Inc., has now been named editor...
...worker slowdown" is itzumim, a talmudic term, rather than the hebraized sanktziot, for example...
...Boundaries between Israel and the neighboring Arab states were drawn according to the 1949 armistice so that the West Bank and Golan Heights were part of Jordan and Syria respectively...
...They formed the Va'ad Halashon Ha'ivrit (Hebrew Language Council...
...The Post's former managing editor, David Landau, will edit the new publication and Hoffman will be deputy editor...
...For example, developing words for computer, cursor and on-line, or the terms that specific medical specialties use...
...Hy-man Bookbinder, Washington Representative Emeritus to the American Jewish Congress, eulogized Goldberg at a memorial service at the U.S...
...The CIA was prompted to make its new map by Martin Miller, a photographer and writer who successfully convinced the State Department to revise its map of Israel in 1983...
...They asked whether American Judaism has become a "religion in translation" and whether the American Jewish community can flourish without greater knowledge of Hebrew...
...The Hillel Academy offered for sale bouquets of six yellow tulips to the Jewish community of Broome County as a fundraiser...
...NOTES & NEWS National Geographic Draws New Map of "Palestine" Until recently, National Geographic'* map of the Holy Land would have left even casual followers of events in the Middle East confused...
...The first issue could be out as early as May...
...This rebirth has been celebrated by the Academy for the Hebrew Language in Jerusalem and by an international conference in March at the University of Maryland, "Hebrew in America: Perspectives and Prospects...
...But Arthur and Dorothy saw these also as opportunities to bring people together, to help them understand the glory and the agony of Jewish history...
...Meanwhile, 28 of the former editors and writers at the Post, who resigned in January because of disagreements with publisher Levy, are at work on a new paper, Israel Times...
...The West Bank, it is noted, belonged to Jordan until it was taken over by Israel...
...The Beauty in Compromise Arthur Goldberg, attorney, former U.S...
...As the father of modern Hebrew, Ben-Yehuda discovered in speaking the language that he lacked many of the words necessary for mundane activities, like pouring a cup of coffee...
...National Geographic'* decision to change its map was no doubt influenced by the Central Intelligence Agency's recent changing of its map of Israel to account for the outcome of the 1967 War...
...April 1990...
...But the new map explains that in 1948 Jerusalem was partitioned into an eastern section controlled by Jordan and a western section controlled by Israel...
...June 1989...
...The new map begins Palestine's modern history in 1947, noting that 'Jewish migration from Europe was heavy" and that the United Nations drew up proposed Arab and Jewish states west of the Jordan...
...George Higgins—one of God's greatest creations—walk into the chapel with the family...
...This plan, the map notes, was "thwarted" by the Arabs...
Vol. 15 • June 1990 • No. 3
