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• n  the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19)
• n  a native or inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Israel
• n  a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties

• Hebrews
• Israelites
• Israelite
• Jew
• Hebrew

News & Articles

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• Neighbors helping neighbors
  Leroy Rucker was a "wild child," until his first-born son overdosed and died at a methadone clinic a year ago. His son's death sent him in a new direction, like the Israelites after God struck down their enemies' first-born in Exodus.
  June 18, 2013 - Altoona Mirror
• Megan Quinn: Faith-based groups fight human trafficking
  Thousands of years after the Israelites sought an end to their slavery, faith-based groups continue to fight human trafficking.
  June 15, 2013 - Boulder Daily Camera
• Decalogue & Democracy
  At the magazine Mosaic , Peter Berkowitz examines the relationship between the Decalogue and liberal democracy, taking his cue from a recent essay by Leon Kass. Both men, Kass and Berkowitz, are among the most thoughtful conservative voices around but I think they are wrong when they suggest that the Israelites were given a choice.
  June 13, 2013 - National Catholic Reporter

Quotes

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• Desmond Dekker in CBC.ca
  It's about how hard things were for a lot of people in Jamaica - downtrodden, like the Israelites,Dekker wrote in the liner notes for a 2005 career retrospective. "I was really saying, 'Don't give up, things will get better if you just...
• Pat Robertson in One Thousand Reasons
  Robertson, God's most vocal confidant, says Palestinians are an abomination -- a contagion for which there is no cure and whose only function is to "cause trouble for the Israelites, and pull the Israelites away from God, and prevent the truth of...
• James Hal Cone in Forward
  It was, Cone said, "especially the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt [that] became a central theme in my theology because it's been a central theme in black religion. Here you have salvation of an enslaved people being liberated. Actually,...