Sentence examples for of shimon from inspiring English sources

One of the stories from the Talmud tells of Shimon ben Lakish, a highwayman and former gladiator from the third-century A.D. who became a learned rabbi.

The letters of Shimon Bar Kochba, who led the Jewish revolt against the Romans from A.D. 132 until 135, were found in a valley nearby.

They, of course, were not volunteers — and they were unlikely to have subscribed to the philosophy of Shimon Sabag, producer of the Haifa contest: "Always look at life with a smile".

"Two generations of Shimon," he laughs, nodding at a framed photo of Shimon Peres, Israel's president and a close friend, cradling Milchan's baby.

One way Israel is accomplishing this is through former President of Israel Shimon Peres' new Israeli Innovation Center at the Peres Peace House in Jaffa.

HENRY MEER, who opened the Cub Room in SoHo in 1994, has sold it to SHIMON PARIENTE, the owner of 75 Greenwich Cafe in Greenwich Village.

A trip to Mount Meron, birthplace of the cabalist Shimon Bar Yochai, is infused with a sense of continuity, with an evocation of the wondrous connection of modern Israelis to ancestors who were, after all, not warriors but people of learning, people of the land.

Benjamin Netanyahu's popularity has plummeted, while that of Shimon Peres has risen.

He made no secret of his dislike of Shimon Peres, the former prime minister who is now president of Israel.

Lev Berinsky was a Russian poet who switched to Yiddish in the tradition of Shimon Frug, a 19th-century Russian Yiddish poet.

ReprintsThe position of Shimon Peres, as the senior Labour Party figure in the national unity government and the major force for restraint, has now been seriously compromised.