Moloch

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Synonyms for Moloch

a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice

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god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children

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In his search for his uncle Melech, the unnamed narrator strives to solidify his religious identity but instead finds a national one.
(37.) Melech Ravitch was the nom-de-plume used by Zecharye-Chone Bergner.
In the Echo of Monday, October 8, we said that Alec Melech Lermon is Chair of the Cardiff Reform Synagogue.
With: Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg, Chaim Sharir, Razia Israely, Hila Feldman, Renana Raz, Yael Tal, Michael David Weigl, Ido Samuel, Neta Moran, Melech Thal.
'Biblically, what it meant for the first thousand years of Judaism was the king," says Richard Elliott Friedman, professor of Jewish Smdiesatdie University of Georgia--mashiach was a synonym for melech, or king.
BLANKET Ella Melech in Belfast LAID DOWN Mack shows off the blanket in Belfast yesterday
The first of these, Canadian Yiddish Writings, offered samples of poetry and prose by seven Yiddish writers in English translation: Jacob Zipper, Chava Rosenfarb, Rochl Korn, J.I Segal, Melech Ravitch, and Sholem Shtern (Boyarsky and Sarna, eds.).
Para medir los valores personales de los participantes en el estudio se utilizo el Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ), desarrollado por Schwartz, Melech, Lehmann, Burgess, Harris y Owens (2001) y basado en el modelo teorico de Schwartz (2001).
The sixteen items of the instrument are based on the Portraits Values Questionnaire (Schwartz, Melech, Lehman, Burgess, Harris, & Owens, 2001).
He attended Yeshivat Mikdash Melech Rabbinical College in Jerusalem, Israel.