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...this final part, the Writings, consisting of a revision of the previously issued Psalms and a dozen other biblical books, the new Jewish Bible is finally complete. This last section was translated by three U.S.-trained experts: Moshe Greenberg and Jonas Greenfield of He brew University in Israel and Nahum Sarna of Brandeis University. They were assisted by Novelist-Rabbi Chaim Potok (The Chosen), who served as coordinator and literary consultant. The Holy Scriptures will certainly stand as a landmark of Jewish religious scholarship...
...Nahum Goldmann Paris...
Despite the hostility between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Israelis, TIME has learned that the P.L.O.'s representatives have been meeting regularly with Nahum Goldmann, 83, who gave up the presidency of the World Jewish Congress in 1977. Goldmann says that his Palestinian contacts are now trying to arrange a meeting with P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat...
...kibbutzim to release Israelis for military service. So far, some 350 people between the ages of 18 and 30 have flown from New York to Israel on charters organized by Sherut La'am, a department of the World Zionist Organization. "We have literally thousands of calls," says Nahum Remen, who is handling volunteers in Boston. "Some of the older people who call give me hell when I tell them they can't go." Volunteers are carefully screened by psychologists and social workers to weed out drug users and cranks. "We want to make sure they are committed...
...years later in Frankfurt. Since then it has become one of the dominant works of Jewish thought in the 20th century, ranking with those of Martin Buber (I and Thou), a friend of Rosenzweig's. Thanks to the labors of such interpreters as Brandeis University's Nahum N. Glatzer, Rosenzweig has been well known in the U.S. for almost two decades. But not until this year, a full half-century after its original publication, has the entire text of The Star of Redemption been available in English. Now, in a courageous translation by William W. Hallo (Holt, Rinehart...