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Samaria

(Encyclopedia)Samaria səmârˈēə [key], city, ancient Palestine, on a hill NW of modern-day Nablus (Shechem). The site is now occupied by a village, Sabastiyah (West Bank). Samaria (named for Shemer, who owned t...

Sephardim

(Encyclopedia)Sephardim səfärˈdəm [key], one of the two major geographic divisions of the Jewish people, consisting of those Jews whose forebears in the Middle Ages resided in the Iberian Peninsula, as distingu...

Hiddekel

(Encyclopedia)Hiddekel, Hebrew name for the Tigris. ...

YMHA

(Encyclopedia)YMHA: see Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Associations. ...

YWHA

(Encyclopedia)YWHA: see Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Associations. ...

Shiphrah

(Encyclopedia)Shiphrah shĭfˈrə [key], in the Bible, midwife ordered to kill Hebrew boys. ...

Jewish Community Centers of North America

(Encyclopedia)Jewish Community Centers of North America: see Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Associations. ...

Glueck, Nelson

(Encyclopedia)Glueck, Nelson glo͝ok, glĭk [key], 1900–1971, American archaeologist and educator, b. Cincinnati, grad. Univ. of Cincinnati, 1920, Ph.D. Univ. of Jena, Germany, 1926. Among the more than 1,000 sit...

Wise, Isaac Mayer

(Encyclopedia)Wise, Isaac Mayer, 1819–1900, American rabbi, founder of organized Reform Judaism in the United States, b. Bohemia, studied at the Univ. of Vienna. He settled in the United States in 1846. Wise was ...

Chenaanah

(Encyclopedia)Chenaanah kēnāˈānə, –nā-āˈ– [key]. In the Hebrew Bible, father of Zedekiah, Ahab's false prophet. ...