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Palestinian Improvised Rifles and Submachine Guns Between 1999 and 2014, Many Palestinian Resistance groups have designed dozens homemade Rifles and Submachine Guns to help in their battles against the Israeli occupation forces of the West... By: jmantime
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First Shul in City of Cottbus Since 1938 By JTA
Published November 04, 2014.
A former church in the German city of Cottbus is to become Germanys newest synagogue, and the first since 1938 in the state of Brandenburg.
In ceremonies on Nov. 2, Ulrike Menzel, who has led the Evangelical parish in Cottbus since 2009, handed a key for the Schlolsskirche, or castle church, to the Jewish Association of the State of Brandenburg.
The actual dedication of the synagogue is planned for Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Jan. 27, 2015.
Last weekends event comes almost exactly 76 years after the Night of Broken Glass, a Germany-wide pogrom in which Jewish property and synagogues including the one in Cottbus were destroyed.
Cottbus traces the first mention of Jewish residents to 1448. Its first Jewish house of prayer was established in 1811 in the inner courtyard of a cloth maker. At the time, there were 17 Jews in Cottbus. In 1902, a larger synagogue was dedicated. Nazi hooligans stormed it and set it afire on the night of Nov. 9-10, 1938. A department store stands on the site today.
The Jewish community was not formally reestablished in Cottbus until 1998.Today, it has some 350 members, all of them Jews from the former Soviet Union. The current president is Gennadi Kuschnir.
Its wonderful to see this house of worship returned to its intended use, Menzel said at Sundays ceremony, according to the Nordkurier online newspaper. For decades, the building has been used for social and communal events.
According to a statement on the communitys website, the State of Brandenburg contributed the full purchase cost for the decommissioned church, $730,700, and will contribute about $62,400 per year for maintenance. The city of Cottbus oversaw the removal of the cross and church bell from the steeple. All other costs of renovation were to be borne by the state Jewish association.
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(Angus Reid Global Monitor) The popularity of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decreased this year, according to a poll by Dialog published in Haaretz. 46 per cent of respondents are dissatisfied with Netanyahus leadership, while 42 per cent are satisfied.
In February 2009, Israeli voters renewed the Knesset. The Likud party, led by Netanyahu, secured 27 seats in the legislature. The far-right Israel Our Home, the Labour party, the International Organization of Torah-observant Sephardic Jews (Shas), United Torah Judaism, and the Jewish Home joined Likud in a coalition. In March, Netanyahu was sworn in as prime minister.
Netanyahu served as prime minister from June 1996 to July 1999, and resigned from Ariel Sharons cabinetwhere he held the finance portfolioafter opposing the "Disengagement Plan."
On Feb. 9, the Iranian government announced it has begun enriching uranium to a higher level than previously disclosed. While Iran maintains that its uranium-enriching operations are only for civilian purposesin this case to produce medical isotopesIsrael accuses the country of wanting to assemble nuclear weapons.
Netanyahu reacted to Irans announcement, saying, "I believe that what is required right now is tough action from the international community. This means not moderate sanctions, or watered-down sanctions. This means crippling sanctions, and these sanctions must be applied right now."
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The founding and flourishing of a Hasidism.
Reprinted with permission from The Jewish Religion: A Companion, published by Oxford University Press.
The Hebrew for Hasidism, hasidut, denotes piety or saintliness, an extraordinary devotion to the spiritual aspects of Jewish life. The term itself did not originate with the eighteenth-century movement.
Groups of Hasidim were found in talmudic times and even earlier. The Saints of Germany in the Middle Ages were called the Hasidim of Ashkenaz. In the early eighteenth century, the group surrounding the Baal Shem Tov ["Master of the Good Name", known as the Besht] was, at first, only one of a number of such groups of pneumatics. But eventually the Beshtian group became the dominant one; the others either vanished from the scene or became absorbed in the Beshtian group.
From the beginning, Hasidism centered on a charismatic personality, the tzaddik. (Zaddik in the usual English transliteration) This term has an interesting history of its own. In the Bible and the talmudic literature, the tzaddik ("righteous man") is the ordinary good man to whom the Hasid is superior. But since the members of the group were themselves termed Hasidim, a different term had to be found for the spiritual leader and for this the old term tzaddik was adopted. In this way the older roles were reversed. The Hasid is the follower of the Zaddik, with the latter being the superior pietist.
Hasidism was, at first, an elitist movement, consisting of a small company of pietists seeking proximity to the Baal Shem Tov in order to be guided by him in the spiritual path. But since the idea of loving every Jew was stressed by the Baal Shem Tov and his disciples as a highly significant religious ideal, it is not surprising that, as the movement spread, it attracted to itself Jews with no pretension to excessive piety who believed in the power of the Zaddik's prayers to help them in their distress.
The Zaddik then came to function both as a spiritual guide to the few thirsting for a closer relationship with God and as a man of prayer and a miracle-worker for the masses. Not to be overlooked, however, is that the masses, too, had mystical yearnings, which they believed the Zaddik could satisfy. The description of Hasidism as "mysticism for the masses" ignores the elitist aspects of the movement, but is nonetheless a fair representation of the appeal of Hasidism as it came to be.
Dov Baer of Mezirech, the foremost disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, sent out his own chosen disciples to spread his understanding of the Baal Shem Tov's teachings abroad, and those men became Zaddikim in their own right in different Eastern European centers. Personalities such as Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev, Shneur Zalman of Liady, the "Seer" of Lublin and other disciples of Dov Baer are the spiritual heroes of Hasidism.
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4 November 2014 | Books & Poetry | By: Lindsey
A selection of new books about the capital. All can be found in or ordered from yourlocal independent book shop.
Mat Bayliss second Haringey-set crime novel sees troubled local news reporter Rex Tracey present at the sudden death of an entire family of Hasidic Jews having a picnic in Finsbury Park.
Shortly after, photographer friend Terry is charged with the murder of his next door neighbour, the eccentric and grumpy Dr Kovacs, who has written a new book about the 100 year old robbery and double murder known asThe Tottenham Outrage.
Determined to get Terry off the hook and unable to resist a mystery, Rex goes sleuthing, delving into Hasidic life and culture in Stamford Hill, visiting a Travelodge off the North Circular, attending an extraordinary gathering in cloud namer Luke Howards crumbling house, looking for terrorists on Wood Green High Road and popping into North Middlesex Hospital, Wood Green Crown Court and Tottenham nick along the way.
This intriguing and tightly plotted novel nips along as Baylis retells an infamous old story and gives it a new twist through a fascinating cast of characters. But as with his debut, A Death at the Palace, Londoners will take pleasure from the supporting cast and setting the people and places of Haringey.
Its 1814 and Covent Garden is a vice pit, Wapping is a working port and Hackney is in the countryside. Lloyd Shepherds third outing for Constable Horton sees him called to investigate strange goings on at a Surrey estate where the locals are convinced witchcraft is at work. Meanwhile in London, debauched young aristocratic men are being gruesomely murdered in their London homes, and left wearing a satyrs mask. Hortons investigative powers soon link the two cases.
Locked away from him, Hortons wife Abigail has sought relief from mental distress in a Hackney asylum and finds herself lodged next door to a seriously disturbed young woman, Maria Cranfield. Abigail makes a connection with Maria that mad-doctor Bryson cannot. But not even she can understand the power Maria seems to have over other people. What terrible ordeal has damaged Maria and who is she talking to in the dead of night?
Savage Magic is a dark, atmospheric, rich web of murder, madness and malign forces acted out against the backdrop of bustling 19th century London life.(NB: we read this as our first encounter with Lloyd Shepherd, and will now be going back to The English Monster and Poisoned Island.)
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Meet the Rookies: Ben Ashkenazi
Meet Victorian Rookie pace-bowler, Ben Ashkenazi.
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"Fight or Flight" - What Should the Pro-Israel students Elect?
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