Gershom
[gur-shuh m]
- the elder son of Moses and Zipporah. Ex. 18:3.
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Examples from the Web for gershom
Contemporary Examples
Just last week, Gershom Gorenberg argued in these pages for the abolishment of the chief rabbinate.
The latest salvo comes from Gershom Gorenberg, responding to Jonathan Safran Foer, with whom he largely agrees.
Gershom Gorenberg on Israel's Orthodox challenge, from August's issue of Prospect magazine.
As Gershom Gorenberg points out, both Israelis and Palestinians like to erase or blur those boundaries.
So the Israelis emerged, as Gershom Gorenberg called it, with an "accidental empire."
Historical Examples
"I am all ready, Gershom," she told her husband as she came down the path.
The New LandElma Ehrlich Levinger
I only know that she gets a good many letters from Gershom about this time.
David Fleming's ForgivenessMargaret Murray Robertson
He went south in May, and was away from Gershom several weeks.
David Fleming's ForgivenessMargaret Murray Robertson
There had been demonstrations of this kind before in Gershom and the vicinity.
David Fleming's ForgivenessMargaret Murray Robertson
He did not speak often about this to any one—not a man in Gershom but had more to say about it than he.
David Fleming's ForgivenessMargaret Murray Robertson