Posted By simmons on November 23, 2014
SJCI - Sneak Peek "The Diary of Anne Frank" Sneak Peek from St. Joseph #39;s Collegiate Institute production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" on November 13th, 2014. Performance rights through DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICES, INC.
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Posted By simmons on November 23, 2014
Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian man in Gaza Strip The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, the first such fatality since the 50-day Gaza war ended in August. The Israeli..
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Man shot Palestinians in Gaza near the border with Israel There is anger in Gaza after the first deadly Israeli shooting there since a 50-day war ended in August. A Palestinian man has been shot dead near the border with Israel. The army says it...
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Posted By richards on November 23, 2014
TORCH 2014 Talmud Torah Award - Barry Finberg
Barry Finberg was honored by TORCH with the Talmud Torah Award on November 19, 2014 This video was first played on November 19, 2014 at the TORCH Gala at the...
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Posted By richards on November 23, 2014
The Louisa band is still not so well known in Tel Aviv, but in the north of the country the rock band that Idan Talmud and Itay Sacharof formed has drawn a devoted audience for more than a year, despite their cautious abstention from too much publicity and exaggerated digital hype on the social media.
The 12 songs in their first album, "Ktsat Sheket" ("A little quiet" ) are characterized by a psychedelic blues-rock sound and vary dramatically in mood. In some of the songs, the Louisa members sound like a progressive Mediterranean band ("Musalsal" ), at other times like stadium rock ("Eit Hafira" ) and sometimes like a Black American punk band that has come here to play a dance party ("Dance When You're Alone" ).
The seeds for Louisa were sown by the soloist and guitarist Sacharof and Talmud (lead guitars and vocals ) eight years ago. Those were the awful days after completing their basic training in the army when the two found themselves once again at the induction base where their first days of compulsory service were spent doing menial tasks.
"Really days without significance," Sacharof recalls disparagingly, adding: "Our music then started from shouting. Simply shouting with frustration about the framework."
And Talmud adds: "Itay was a drummer then and one day he invited me to join him playing." The two found musical consolation in one another in those days, which entailed collecting cigarette butts and kicking automatic dispensing machines for drinks. For years Sacharof and Talmud continued to create together, to write songs and appear in various and strange ensembles. During one incarnation, they played in an ensemble of two acoustic guitars and a cajon (a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru ). It was only in the past two years that they were joined by three additional musicians, all of them in their 30s - Dror Shem-Tov whom Sacharof met when they worked together in a restaurant and who plays the electronic keyboard and is responsible for everything technological that frightens both the original founders of the band; Gilad Lautsker who plays bass; and Moshe (Mosh ) Shai, the drummer who also holds the position of responsible adult.
"The moment Mosh entered the picture, everything started moving," Sacharof says. "He studied sound at the Jordan Valley College and at SAE in Australia, and the moment he understood that we really wanted to move forward, he began helping and pushing. Through a friend of his from Kfar Giladi in the north, he arranged performances for us here and there in the area."
Sacharof and Talmud are pleased that they had the opportunity to begin appearing outside Tel Aviv in the beginning. "As a Tel Avivian, I was really scared to start appearing inside that bubble," Sacharof admits.
He says he prefers Louisa to grow slowly and thinks that growth should come "naturally," adding: "I don't believe in talent but in time and hard work. In people or a band that go a long way together. Look, I don't believe in love in the same way that I believe in long-term friendship and shared experiences out of which love grows. That's why I had fears about the gaps that would form between the two of us, who have been working together for almost eight years, and the other members of the band who have been with us only for the past year and a half."
The album was brought out independently, and not by a well-known company. You won't find pictures of the band members on its cover but rather a colorful work of art created by dance theorist Noa Eshkol. "The design is a photograph of a wall carpet. It's the work of Noa Eshkol, the daughter of former prime minister Levi Eshkol. My grandmother worked with her for years. She is a figure who was always there for me as a kind of mentor," he says.
Eshkol, who died in 2007, was a famous choreographer who invented a new dance language. "She was against anything yellow and fanatical about her privacy. She was involved only in art," says Sacharof.
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Posted By richards on November 23, 2014
Synagogue Attack Survivor: #39;They #39;re Not Gonna Stop Me #39;
Dr. Norm Heching describes his escape from two attackers inside Kehilat Bnai Torah synagogue.
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Posted By richards on November 23, 2014
Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer Talks about Recent Attacks in Jerusalem Synagogue
Attack Raises Fears Israelis Not Safe in Their Own Nation Israel has been dealing with a string of lone-wolf terror attacks this year. However, this week #39;s cold-blooded attack at a Jerusalem...
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Posted By richards on November 23, 2014
The Portuguese Synagogue, also known as the Esnoga (Ladino: ), or Snoge, is a late 17th-century Sephardic synagogue in Amsterdam, completed in 1675. Esnoga is the Ladino word for synagogue. The Amsterdam Sephardic community was one of the largest and richest Jewish communities in Europe during the Dutch Golden Age, and their very large synagogue reflected this. In January 2012 Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described this as "one of the most beautiful synagogues I have ever seen." The synagogue is a popular tourist attraction.
The Jews were expelled en masse from Spain in 1492 by the Alhambra decree. Many who fled to Portugal were forced to convert to Catholicism in 1496, while Jews who did not convert were expelled from Portugal in 1497. For hundreds of years, the Inquisition continued to investigate the converts and their descendants in Spain and Portugal on suspicions that in secret they still practiced Judaism (see Crypto-Judaism, Marrano).
Some of those who wished to enjoy a freedom of religion found refuge in Amsterdam. During a substantial migration that took place in the 17th century, these Jewish refugees from the Iberian peninsula called themselves Portuguese Jews. They wanted to avoid being identified with Spain, which was at war with the Dutch Republic at the time (see Eighty Years' War).
On December 12, 1670, the Sephardic Jewish community of Amsterdam acquired the site to build a synagogue and construction work began on April 17, 1671, under the architect Elias Bouwman. On August 2, 1675, the Esnoga was finished.
The inscription above the entrance is from Psalm 5:8: "In the abundance of Thy lovingkindness will I come into Thy house". The sign also contains "1672", the year the building was intended to be completed, and "Aboab", the name of the chief rabbi who initiated the construction project.
The building is free-standing and rests on wooden poles; the foundation vaults can be viewed by boat from the canal water underneath the synagogue. The entrance to the main synagogue is off a small courtyard enclosed by low buildings housing the winter synagogue, offices and archives, homes of various officials, the rabbinate, a mortuary, and noted Etz Hayim library. The interior of the synagogue is a single, very high rectangular space retaining its original wooden benches. The floor is covered with fine sand, in the old Dutch tradition, to absorb dust, moisture and dirt from shoes and to muffle the noise. Only five synagogues in the world have a sand floor, and this is the only one with such a floor surviving outside the Caribbean region.
During the 19551959 renovation, the former Etz Hayim seminary auditorium was redesigned as a winter synagogue; central heating and electric lighting were added. The benches were taken from a synagogue originally built in 1639 and the Hechal dates from 1744.
Baruch Spinoza was expelled for his writings from this synagogue community.
The spacious interior is filled with benches
Interior view from tebh (bima) towards hekhl (ark)
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Posted By richards on November 23, 2014
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An Israeli police officer has died of his wounds from an attack at a Jerusalem synagogue by two knife-wielding Palestinian men earlier today, bringing the death toll in the assault to five.
The attackers also killed four rabbis, three of them American.
The officer was critically wounded when two Palestinian men armed with knives, axes and a pistol burst into the synagogue during morning prayers. He later died of his wounds.
The two alleged attackers were identified as cousins, Ghassan and Oday Abu Jamal, from East Jerusalem, according to a police spokeswoman. Police said they shot and killed them at the scene.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would reply harshly after police said Palestinian assailants wielding knives and axes killed five people after attacking a Jerusalem synagogue.
After the attack, Netanyahu ordered the demolition of the alleged attackers homes and arrested multiple members of each mans family. He told reporters he would also demolish the homes of other Palestinians accused of recent attacks against Israeli citizens.
We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were met by reprehensible murderers, said Netanyahu.
This the first attack of this kind on an Israeli synagogue.
Netanyahu earlier had denounced the attack as a "cruel murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by despicable murderers."
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Israeli emergency personnel walk past blood on the floor in a synagogue that was the scene of an attack by two Palestinians on Israeli worshippers in the ultra-Orthodox Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem on November 18, 2014. AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images
Last Updated Nov 18, 2014 11:05 AM EST
JERUSALEM -- Two Palestinians stormed a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday, attacking worshippers praying inside with meat cleavers and a gun, and killing four people before they were killed in a shootout with police, officials said.
Three of the victims -- Aryeh Kopinsky, Calman Levine, Moshe Twersky -- were dual American-Israeli citizens, a police official confirmed to CBS News. The fourth, Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, was a dual British-Israeli citizen. All four were also rabbis. A fifth victim, a policeman, died of his wounds later, CBS News reported. He was identified in the Jerusalem Post as 30-year-old Zidan Saif.
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Four rabbis killed in deadliest attack in Jerusalem in years as tensions soar.
In a statement, President Obama condemned the attack, but urged for calm on all sides.
"At this sensitive moment in Jerusalem, it is all the more important for Israeli and Palestinian leaders and ordinary citizens to work cooperatively together to lower tensions, reject violence, and seek a path forward towards peace," Mr. Obama said.
It was the deadliest attack in Jerusalem in years and was bound to ratchet up fears of sustained violence in the city, already on edge amid soaring tensions over a contested holy site.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel will "respond harshly" to the attack, describing it as a "cruel murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by despicable murderers." U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he spoke to Netanyahu after the assault and denounced it as an "act of pure terror and senseless brutality and violence."
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