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Goga Ashkenazi | Vionnet
Posted By richards on March 26, 2016
Born in Kazakhstan, raised in Moscow, and educated in the United Kingdom since childhood, Ashkenazi is a highly motivated and successful entrepreneur whose business experience spans across a myriad of diversified industries from finance, oil and gas, to real estate, engineering and most recently high fashion.
Currently the Chairwoman and Creative Director of the 100 year old fashion label Vionnet, Ashkenazi possesses a degree in Modern History and Economics from Oxford University, has taken fashion design courses at Moscow State University of Design and Technology, and has sat on the board of a number of multi-national companies with global business interests.
Drawing upon her varied business background, experience with differing corporate cultures and wide personal interests, she has creatively crafted an innovative professional path and become a highly regarded businesswoman along the way.
Ashkenazi began her career in the investment banking sector at top financial institutions such as Merrill Lynch (London), ABN AMRO (Hong Kong), Morgan Stanley (London). In 2003, she started her own oil & gas engineering and construction company, MunaiGas-Engineering Group, where she served as Chairman and CEO. In directing all of the companies activities, in addition to brokering mining deals in East Kazakhstan, Goga demonstrated a flair for entrepreneurialism, savvy business thinking and a proven track record of strong company management.
She now brings her business expertise and innovative thinking to the fashion industry, a personal passion that she has stoked since childhood. In May 2012, Ashkenazi took a majority stake in Vionnet, a recently re-launched label originally founded by the revolutionary fashion designer Madame Madeleine Vionnet in 1912. By November 2012, her holding company, GoTo Enterprises Sarl, gained full control of the brand. Ashkenazi, who uniquely heads both the creative and business sides of the Milan-based company, is personally committed to renewing this historic gem to its former glory, developing a global retail network and profitably growing its business.
Ashkenazi is a passionate supporter of a number of charitable organizations, including her own Erkin charitable foundation she founded to help handicapped children in Kazakhstan which supports over 400 individual cases on an ongoing basis and has been able to fund over 500 individually directed medical assistant acts. She is also on the board of Angel Foundation, created by Denise Rich to benefit leukemia patients, and also actively supports Portland hospital in London. Ashkenazi also deeply committed to the arts. She is a chairwoman of the London Hermitage Council and a board member of the Serpentine Gallery Council in London.
Ashkenazi has lived and travelled around the globe. Currently she resides in Milan where Vionnets headquarters are based.
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Posted By simmons on March 23, 2016
Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Louis Farrakhans first public appearance after suffering a heart attack featured a number of anti-Semitic claims about Jewish control over the American government, Black organizations and other sectors.
During his December 1 speech at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Farrakhan revealed he was hospitalized approximately two months ago due to a heart attack. When Farrakhan was unable to deliver his 2013 Holy Day of Atonement speech in Alabama in October, the NOI originally said he was hospitalized for an infection.
In his speech, Farrakhan bluntly stated his theory about who controls the U.S. government: were gonna bring you up to speed. The American government is under control of the Zionists. Farrakhan went on to claim that the Jewish community has power over the NOI and other Black organizations. Its not that Im against the Jewish people. Thats just falseThey have such power and influence that they made most of you believe that Im against the Jewish people.
He made similar claims about the NAACP, stating You members of the NAACP, you want to put on a march to Washington but you dont have no money, so who do you go to? You go to philanthropists, many of them are Jewish. He continued, They tell you who you can have speaking. And they told you dont have Farrakhan. And you couldnt say a damn thing because it wasnt your money it was theirs.
Farrakhan also described sending a copy of the NOIs anti-Semitic book, The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews, which alleges disproportionate Jewish involvement in the slavetrade, to the presidents of all the major Jewish organizations as well as some Jewish public officials. This is not the first time Farrakhan has done so. The letter stated that the purpose of sending the book was to appeal to Jews who are sitting on top of the world in power with riches and influence while the masses of my peopleare in the worst condition of any member of the human family to convince them to repair the damage that has been done by your ancestors tomine.
The crowd applauded as Farrakhan read the last line of the letter which claimed that if the Jews do not make the wise and best choice, that God will bring you and your people to disgrace and ruin and destroy your power and influence here in America and throughout theworld.
Also in the sermon, Farrakhan compared the Jews of today to those of Jesus time, claiming both had disproportionate influence over the government. Did you know the Jesus had a real problem with the Jewish community? They had power, the rabbis of that day, over the Roman authorities just as they have power today over our government, he alleged.
Farrakhans blatantly anti-Semitic public statements are just one part of the NOIs larger anti-Jewish propaganda campaign. The NOI Research Group (NOIRG), which created a website in 2012 that promotes virulently anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, tweeted and posted on Facebook a number of times that Israel was behind 9/11, including most recently (December 3) posting that #Israel has an ugly history of deadly false flag operations, including9/11.
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Sionism Wikipedia
Posted By simmons on March 22, 2016
Sionism r en nationalistisk[1] rrelse med rtter i 1800-talet som strvar efter att stadkomma en judisk stat i Palestina. Namnet kommer av bergsfstet Sion utanfr Jerusalem som under diasporan fick symbolisera judarnas lngtan tillbaka till landet Israel. ven om sionismen r baserad p en religis tradition som kopplar judarna till Israel r det i huvudsak en politisk rrelse som blev ett svar p 1800-talets antisemitism och frtryck av judarna i Europa.
Sionismen vxte fram under slutet av 1800-talet. Under den perioden hade det uppsttt en ny form av antisemitism i Mellaneuropa som byggde p pseudovetenskapliga rasteorier dr judarna tillskrevs de smsta rasegenskaperna, i motsttning till arierna vilket kade frtrycket mot judarna. Samtidigt fanns det en djup rotad antisemitism i stra Europa som ledde till frtryck och pogromer mot judar i bland annat Polen och Ryssland. Situationen fr judarna i Ryssland frsmrades nnu mer efter mordet p tsar Alexander II 1881 som ledde till vldsamma pogromer. Samtidigt vxte den moderna europeiska nationalismen fram med krav p att olika folkgrupper skulle f sina egna stater.
Bde den kande antisemitismen och den vxande nationalismen utgjorde grogrunden fr sionismens framvxt som politisk rrelse. Grunden fr sionismen formulerade i Theodor Herzls bok Der Judenstaat (Judestaten, utgiven p tyska 1896). I boken argumenterar han fr att den vxande antisemitismen inte kan lsas i Europa utan att en judisk stat br skapas. I boken sista sida finns ett bermt citat som uttrycker en central tanke i sionismen och tidens nationalism Vrlden kommer att befrias genom vr befrielse. Innebrden r att varje fngslat folk tynger vrlden, att kampen mot frtryck r en kamp fr att bli fria (den tanken r genomgende i mnga sociala rrelser, Martin Luther Kings tal genomsyras stndigt av den tanken).
1897 sammankallade Theodor Herzls frsta sionistiska vrldskongressen ett nytt organ upprttades, The World Zionist Organization (WZO). I Baselprogrammet som antogs fastslogs att mlet fr sionismen vara att skapa "ett genom offentlig rtt garanterat hem i Palestina".
Under mellankrigstiden fortsatte arbetet med att skapa en judisk stat i Palestina. Under Herzls eftertrdare Chaim Weizmanns lyckades man 1917 utverka den s.k. Balfourdeklarationen dr Storbritannien stllde sig bakom sionismens intentioner. Under den brittiska mandatperioden i Palestina 1922-1948 utvecklades det judiska samfundet i Palestina i sionistisk anda och alltfler kibbutzer skapades (den frsta grundades 1910) och nya stder vxte, som exempelvis Tel-Aviv. Den tidigare judiska befolkningen vxte med vxande skaror av emigranter (ven om den brittiska mandatregimen speciellt under senare tiden och andra vrldskriget frskte begrnsa den judiska immigrationen till Palestina). Samtidigt vxte sionistiska organisationer i Europa som propagerade fr emigration till det blivande Israel.
1947 freslog FN en delning av Palestinamandatet i en judisk och en arabisk stat (av de omrden av det ursprungliga mandatet ster om Jordanfloden hade redan en arabisk stat, Jordanien, bildats). Ledningen fr den judiska befolkningen i Palestina accepterade delningsplanen medan ledningen fr den arabiska befolkningen, samt omgivande arablnder, inte gjorde det. Nr staten Israel utropades 1948 invaderade 5 arabiska armer frn omgivande lnder den nyfdda staten och tillsammans med inhemska arabiska styrkor skte man utplna den. Dock gick israelerna segrande ur kriget och de delar som var tilltnkta den arabiska staten kom att ervras dels av den nya staten Israel, dels av Jordanien (Vstbanken) och Egypten (Gazaremsan).
I och med utropandet av staten Israel den 14 maj 1948 hade sionismens huvudutopi frverkligats. Organisationen WZO finns dock kvar och organiserar 1,5 miljoner medlemmar spridda ver vrlden genom sin organisationsstruktur av landsfederationer. Organisationens ml r att frmja det judiska folkets enhet och tersamlande i sitt historiska hemland Eretz Yisrael samt stdja staten Israel.
Sionismen hade mycket mindre lockelse fr orientaliska n fr europeiska judar. De orientaliska judarna hade historiskt sett inte lidit samma grad av frfljelse och diskriminering som drabbat de europeiska judarna. Under tiden fre statens bildande kom endast ungefr 10% av de judiska invandrarna till Israel frn Afrika och Asien.
I Irak levde mnga judar. Under en tid fanns i Bagdad fler judiska n arabiska invnare.
I april 1950 detonerade i Bagdad en bomb, kastad frn en frbipasserande bil, p trottoaren precis utanfr Dar al-Beidas cafe p Abu Nuwasgatann dr unga judiska intellektuella var samlade. Ingen skadades men ddet skakade landets judar. De var vertygade om att irakiska extremister ville dda dem. Nsta dag blev det rusning till de kontor dr judar som ville uppge sitt irakiska medborgarskap mste instlla sig fr registrering. Deras rtt att emigrera hade officiellt erknts av regeringen en mnad tidigare. Totalt anmlde sig cirka 10 000 judar fr att ge sig av efter bombanslaget. Efter ett tag kom nnu en explosion, nu vid Amerikanska informationscentret, dit mnga unga judar brukade komma och studera. ven nu misstnktes att en extremistisk irakisk organisation hade placerat ut bomben, som dock av en slump inte skadade ngon. En tredje bomb i januari 1951 skrdade offer. Det var vid Masuda Shemtov-synagogan, som fungerade som samlingspunkt fr utvandrare. Efter detta bombdd anskte nnu fler judar om utvandring. Snart hade merparten av Iraks judar lmnat landet. Ngra dagar efter bomddet antog det irakiska parlamentet en lag som innebar konfiskation av alla de judars egendom som gav upp sitt medborgarskap.
Efter ett tag framkom (*framkom var?) att de tre explosionerna var ett verk inte av arabiska extremister utan av en hemlig judisk organisation som kallade sig "Rrelsen" och vars ledare kallades "Chef fr de judiska gettona i Irak".[kllabehvs] Sanningen avsljades av Yehudah Tajjar och ledde till fler gripanden. Under den fljande rttegngen anklagades de fr att vara medlemmar av en underjordisk sionistisk rrelse med ml att skrmma judarna att utvandra s fort som mjligt. Tv blev dmda till dden, resten till lnga fngelsestraff. Tajjar sjlv blev den som frst brt judarnas tystnad om bomberna. Efter en dom p livstids fngelse frigavs han efter tio r och begav sig till Israel. 1966 publicerade veckotidningen Hafolam Hazeh en redogrelse fr de irakiska judarnas emigration, baserad p Tajjars vittnesml och 1972 publicerade tidskriften, de orientaliska judarnas militanta sprkrr Black Panther hela historien. [2]
Sionismen har som andra rrelser diskuterats och kritiserats, inte bara frn antisemitiskt och nynazistiskt hll dr det har konstruerats konspirationsteorier kring sionismen (bland annat Sions vises protokoll). Sionismen har ocks kritiserats av flera judiska organisationer fr att vara kontraproduktiv i frhllande till Israels intressen och av enskilda judar som fresprkar samexistens mellan judar och palestinier. Sionismen har ocks kommit i skottlinjen i samband med diskussioner om Israels agerande, bland annat stmplas den som rasistisk i en FN-resolution[3] som 1975 drevs igenom av stblocket och lnder i tredje vrlden. (Resolutionen drogs tillbaka 1991 efter att Israel stllt detta som villkor fr att delta i Madrid Peace Conference och under starka ptryckningar frn USA.) FN:s rd fr mnskliga rttigheter har dessutom frdmt Israels agerande, inte minst ockupationen av palestinskt territorium, i fler resolutioner n fr alla andra lnder sammanlagt och ven FN:s generalfrsamling har i ett flertal resolutioner kritiserat Israel fr en aggressiv och expansiv politik i regionen [4] Det r dock viktigt att komma ihg att sionismen existerar i olika former och att vissa av dessa har ett strre inflytande p israelisk politik n andra. Strst inflytande har den nationalistiska revisionistiska sionismen haft, som bl a fresprkar utkade israeliska bosttningar och israelisk militr nrvaro i hela Palestina.
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Synagogue | Define Synagogue at Dictionary.com
Posted By richards on March 21, 2016
synagogue [(sin-uh-gog)]
In Judaism, a house of worship and learning; also, the congregation that meets there.
(Gr. sunagoge, i.e., "an assembly"), found only once in the Authorized Version of Ps. 74:8, where the margin of Revised Version has "places of assembly," which is probably correct; for while the origin of synagogues is unknown, it may well be supposed that buildings or tents for the accommodation of worshippers may have existed in the land from an early time, and thus the system of synagogues would be gradually developed. Some, however, are of opinion that it was specially during the Babylonian captivity that the system of synagogue worship, if not actually introduced, was at least reorganized on a systematic plan (Ezek. 8:1; 14:1). The exiles gathered together for the reading of the law and the prophets as they had opportunity, and after their return synagogues were established all over the land (Ezra 8:15; Neh. 8:2). In after years, when the Jews were dispersed abroad, wherever they went they erected synagogues and kept up the stated services of worship (Acts 9:20; 13:5; 17:1; 17:17; 18:4). The form and internal arrangements of the synagogue would greatly depend on the wealth of the Jews who erected it, and on the place where it was built. "Yet there are certain traditional pecularities which have doubtless united together by a common resemblance the Jewish synagogues of all ages and countries. The arrangements for the women's place in a separate gallery or behind a partition of lattice-work; the desk in the centre, where the reader, like Ezra in ancient days, from his 'pulpit of wood,' may 'open the book in the sight of all of people and read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and give the sense, and cause them to understand the reading' (Neh. 8:4, 8); the carefully closed ark on the side of the building nearest to Jerusalem, for the preservation of the rolls or manuscripts of the law; the seats all round the building, whence 'the eyes of all them that are in the synagogue' may 'be fastened' on him who speaks (Luke 4:20); the 'chief seats' (Matt. 23:6) which were appropriated to the 'ruler' or 'rulers' of the synagogue, according as its organization may have been more or less complete;", these were features common to all the synagogues. Where perfected into a system, the services of the synagogue, which were at the same hours as those of the temple, consisted, (1) of prayer, which formed a kind of liturgy, there were in all eighteen prayers; (2) the reading of the Scriptures in certain definite portions; and (3) the exposition of the portions read. (See Luke 4:15, 22; Acts 13:14.) The synagogue was also sometimes used as a court of judicature, in which the rulers presided (Matt. 10:17; Mark 5:22; Luke 12:11; 21:12; Acts 13:15; 22:19); also as public schools. The establishment of synagogues wherever the Jews were found in sufficient numbers helped greatly to keep alive Israel's hope of the coming of the Messiah, and to prepare the way for the spread of the gospel in other lands. The worship of the Christian Church was afterwards modelled after that of the synagogue. Christ and his disciples frequently taught in the synagogues (Matt. 13:54; Mark 6:2; John 18:20; Acts 13:5, 15, 44; 14:1; 17:2-4, 10, 17; 18:4, 26; 19:8). To be "put out of the synagogue," a phrase used by John (9:22; 12:42; 16:2), means to be excommunicated.
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Zionism | Define Zionism at Dictionary.com
Posted By admin on March 20, 2016
Historical Examples
This is an allegory referring to certain aspects of Zionism.
The premises of political Zionism are that there is a Jewish nation.
Zionism, Socialism and Anarchism come up in turn, and so many trenchant and vital things are said on these subjects.
This is, in brief, the theological side of the vexed question of Zionism.
The common opinion is that you are an enemy of Zionism in general, and of the Jewish Legion in particular.
British Dictionary definitions for Zionism Expand
a political movement for the establishment and support of a national homeland for Jews in Palestine, now concerned chiefly with the development of the modern state of Israel
a policy or movement for Jews to return to Palestine from the Diaspora
Derived Forms
Zionist, noun, adjectiveZionistic, adjective
Word Origin and History for Zionism Expand
"movement for forming (later supporting) a Jewish national state in Palestine," 1896, from German Zionismus (from Zion + Latin-derived suffix -ismus; see -ism); first recorded 1886 in "Selbstemancipation," by "Matthias Acher" (pseudonym of Nathan Birnbaum).
Zionism in Culture Expand
The belief that Jews should have their own nation; Jewish nationalism. Zionism gained much support among Jews and others in the early twentieth century, and the hoped-for nation was established in the late 1940s in Palestine, as the state of Israel. Zionism is opposed by most Arabs. (See Arab-Israeli conflict.)
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Anti-Defamation League sends $56,000 in Trump contributions …
Posted By simmons on March 20, 2016
Trump and his foundation have given the organization, which fights anti-Semitism, $56,000, the group said.
"We are taking this step to demonstrate that, even as the campaign has surfaced ugly rhetoric, we can reach higher," said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation League's chief executive officer, in a statement.
"Even as his campaign has mainstreamed intolerance, we can push back on the hate and evoke our better angels not just with words, but with deeds," he said.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Greenblatt also said that "in light of the recent campaign, we have decided to redirect the total amount of funds that he contributed to ADL over the years specifically into anti-bias education programs that address exactly the kind of stereotyping and scapegoating that have been injected into this political season."
The move comes the day before Trump speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's policy conference in Washington.
Trump previewed his comments Sunday on ABC's "This Week," saying he supports a peace deal between Israel and Palestine and claiming that "there is nobody more pro-Israel than I am."
"I don't know one Jewish person that doesn't want to have a deal, a good deal, a proper deal, but a really good deal. But I would say it's probably one of the toughest deals," Trump said.
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Jewish American Heritage Month Local Hero: Janice … – KCET
Posted By richards on March 19, 2016
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Talmud | Define Talmud at Dictionary.com
Posted By richards on March 17, 2016
[tahl-moo d, -muh d, tal-] /tl md, -md, tl-/
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the collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara and being either the edition produced in Palestine a.d. c400 or the larger, more important one produced in Babylonia a.d. c500.
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the primary source of Jewish religious law, consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara
either of two recensions of this compilation, the Palestinian Talmud of about 375 ad, or the longer and more important Babylonian Talmud of about 500 ad
Derived Forms
Talmudic, Talmudical, adjectiveTalmudism, noun
Word Origin
C16: from Hebrew talmdh, literally: instruction, from lmadh to learn
Word Origin and History for Talmud Expand
body of Jewish traditional ceremonial and civil law, 1530s, from late Hebrew talmud "instruction" (c.130 C.E.), from lama-d "to teach." Related: Talmudic.
Talmud in Culture Expand
Collections of commentaries on biblical texts that form, with the Torah, the foundation for the religious laws of Judaism.
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