“Ever wonder how people really talked in the 1800s, or 1500s, or earlier? “You can stop building the time machine. Such questions are now easier to answer than ever before, with the publication—after 44 years of work—of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. At almost 4,000 pages and about 800,000 meanings, this mind-boggling reference work [...]
Archive for November 7th, 2009
Forty-Four Years in the Making: The World’s First Historical Thesaurus
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A Jew By Any Other Name? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question
Posted in Education, Europe, Jewish Life on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain’s Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself. “Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide? “On the surface, the court was considering a straightforward challenge to the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London. But the case, in [...]
