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  Jewish History of Czech Republic
The Jewish communities of the various regions hence differed substantially in their demographic, economic, and cultural aspects, with influences of assimilation to the Czech and German cultures prevailing in the west, and the Hungarian in conjunction with the traditional Orthodox Jewish way of life in the east.
Jewish journalists were on the staff of many newspapers, excepting those of the extreme right, and in all languages.
The Jewish underground succeeded in temporarily diverting the peril of deportation in the spring of 1943 as a result of negotiations with Wisliceny and bribes to Slovak leaders.
www.porges.net /JewishHistoryOfCzechRepub.html   (7680 words)

  
 American Heart Association's top 10 research advances for 2001
In what could become one of the biggest breakthroughs in treating cardiovascular disease, scientists used drug-coated stents to prevent the reblockage of the stented section of a coronary artery.
Jewish Hospital is one of five sites participating in the AbioCor artificial heart clinical trial.
The heavier a woman was, the greater her risk of developing the disease, even if she was at the high end of a normal BMI (body mass index, a measure of body fat).
www.americanheart.org /presenter.jhtml?identifier=3000094   (3411 words)

  
 350th.org
The American Jewish Committee, a secular defense organization, is established by the American Jewish elite.
American Jewry succeeds in inducing Congress to abrogate the 1832 treaty with Russia because the czarist regime would not honor an American passport carried by an American Jew.
The American Jewish Archives is established on the campus of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.
www.350th.org /history/timeline.html   (3038 words)

  
 The Diversity of Scientists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It merely lists twelve famous scientists and describes their link to God and religion.
List of Jewish Scientists and Philosophers - While representing the Jewish faith, select scientists based on their major field of study such as biology, chemistry and even computer scientists!
Career Scientists who are Disabled Role Models - Modern-day scientists describing their disability, job responsibilities and accomodations they need for their job.
www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/listscientisj.html   (607 words)

  
 The Jewish People: Our Ancestors in Faith by Kevin Regan -Youth Update ©2003
The great Jewish thinker Martin Buber said their common Scripture was the place where Christian and Jew could listen together to the voice that speaks there.
These religious leaders are experts in Jewish law and have written down their understandings of the Torah and the ways Jews should practice their religion.
The Jewish people are so awestruck by God's presence, so full of reverence for God that they will not even say the divine name and will only write it in an abbreviated manner.
www.americancatholic.org /Newsletters/YU/ay0403.asp   (2909 words)

  
 American Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American Jews, also commonly Jewish Americans, are Americans who maintain an active connection to the Jewish community in the United States or abroad, either through an active practice of Judaism, or through cultural and historical affiliation, or both.
Jewish American writers of the time urged assimilation and integration with the wider American culture, and Jews quickly became part of American life.
On the countercultural and radical political front, Jewish hippies Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, with help from Allen Ginsberg, formed the controversial Youth International Party ("Yippies"), and the four main organizers of the 1969 Woodstock Festival concert were all Jewish, as was Max Yasgur, the man on whose farm the legendary concert took place.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_American   (2363 words)

  
 .:: AJCongress ::. American Jewish Congress Home Page
The American Jewish Congress is demanding that the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) criticize Hezbollah’s positioning military assets in densely populated civilian areas.
American Jewish Congress has a long and proud history of accomplishment in both of these goals in the United States, Israel and throughout the world.
American Jewish Congress Says: “It seems evident that Iran is hell-bent on developing a nuclear weapon despite warnings from the international community that it should not do so,” the American Jewish Congress today condemned Wednesday’s resumption of Iran’s nuclear research program.
www.ajcongress.org   (987 words)

  
 Jewish Journal Archives
Jewish leaders and lawmakers are hoping Bush will stress the need for Russia to break its nuclear ties with Iran for Russia's own benefit, as well as for the benefit of the United States and the international community in the struggle against terrorism.
American Jewish leaders hope Bush will use his upcoming trip as an opportunity to express publicly views that he has said in private to the American Jewish community.
And many Jewish early childhood programs are not as effective as they might be at teaching Judaism because their educators lack strong backgrounds in Jewish education and the programs' goals for religious education are often vague.
www.jewishjournal.org /archives/archiveMay24_02.htm   (13732 words)

  
 Harnik's Happy House Of Books Jewish Fiction List
Learning of her secret Jewish heritage for the first time, aspiring actress Alison Plantaine visits her newly discovered kin in northern England and becomes torn between her newfound home there and a life on the stage.
Since the 15th century, in the Cuheno family, the first daughter born to the family is given the name Rachel and a heritage of faith and courage as precious as the family diamond.
A saga sweeping from the Spanish Inquisition to the birth of a Jewish homeland.
www.harnikbk.com /jlit2.htm   (599 words)

  
 Guide to the American Jewish Tercentenary Celebration Collection, n.d., 1949-1956*I-11
Longheld differences in the Jewish community were fading; class and immigrant/native born distinctions, Zionist and Socialist opinions were being replaced by a shared commitment to the new State of Israel, and a new obstacle: defining one’s Jewishness.
Records of the American Jewish Press Association, Records of the Boston Tercentenary Committee (located in Newton Centre, MA), and the Records of the Executive Committee on the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Jews in the United States.
List of Congregations and Rabbis, 7/30/54, 8/12/54, 8/13/54
www.cjh.org /nhprc/TercentenaryCelebration.html   (3498 words)

  
 List of Jewish American computer scientists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of famous Jewish American Computer Scientists.
For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
John McCarthy, inventor of the term "artificial intelligence" (half Jewish)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_computer_scientists   (130 words)

  
 COEJL
In addition, the Jewish community is very effective at advocacy, having made significant contributions to social causes—far disproportionate to its size—on labor, civil rights, gender equality, and other issues.
Jewish communities have the potential to mobilize effectively to advance environmental protection.
speakers guide for environmental speakers, we have compiled a special list of Jewish scientists who are willing to speak in synagogues and other Jewish venues about the science behind climate change.
www.coejl.org /action   (392 words)

  
 On being Jewish 2 | www.somethingjewish.co.uk
There are all sorts of denominations and sects and cliques in the Jewish world who all claim they are being true to Torah in their way.
Very often Jewish, Torah, solutions incorporated interchanges with other societies and civilizations, such as the idea of ‘schools’ from the Greeks.
There is a current notion in certain quarters that it is conceptually possible to live a life that is totally isolated and insulated from all external ideas.
www.somethingjewish.co.uk /articles/1883_on_being_jewish_2.htm   (1208 words)

  
 Lists of American Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of famous American Jews.
The Jewish population of the United States is currently the largest Jewish population in the world.
Here is a list of some prominent American Jews, arranged by field of activity.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_scientists   (128 words)

  
 Biblical Research Institute - American Power and Jewish Influence
Indeed, American Edomites today are in the lead as star protagonists brutally raping the planet of its remaining natural resources and ravishing the face of the globe for the last of its timber, oil, minerals, and gold.
The Jewish people as descendants of Judah, a son of Jacob (whose name was later changed to Israel), are the chosen people of God.
Compulsory Jewish ghettoes - Synod of Breslau, 1267 CE
www.biblicalresearchinstitute.com /american_power_jewish_influence.html   (6210 words)

  
 Jewish Computer & Information Scientists
Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists, by Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere (Copernicus/Springer-Verlag, New York, 1995, p.
Jewish father, mother of partial Jewish ancestry, self-identifies as a Jew, although not religiously; see Models of My Life by Herbert A. Simon, BasicBooks, New York,NY, 1991, pp.
George Tarjan, 112th President of the American Psychiatric Association, who "was raised in an intellectual, liberal Jewish family" in Hungary, where his parents and younger brother Endre perished in the Holocaust; see obituary in the American Journal of Psychiatry (150:5, May 1993, pp.
www.jinfo.org /Computer_Scientists.html   (702 words)

  
 Jewish languages dying out | www.somethingjewish.co.uk
As Jews, we have reason to be alarmed, considering many of the 27 Jewish languages listed in Ethnologue.com are extinct or nearly obsolete.
Yiddish courses are offered at European, North American and Israeli universities; and Yiddish cultural festivals are held worldwide.
A group of scientists and engineers are crafting a modern Rosetta stone that will preserve more than 1,400 of the world's 7,000 languages on a 3-inch nickel disk with a thousand-year lifespan.
www.somethingjewish.co.uk /articles/379_jewish_languages_dyi.htm   (748 words)

  
 Jewish Genealogy Books
Because Jewish names have been adapted and modified so often over the years, it's all the more a triumph that Kaganoff has traced the history of so many common Jewish names and their offshoots.
Supplementing the "how to" instructions is a guide to some 8,000 Jewish family names, giving the origins of the names, sources of information about each family, and the names of related families whose histories have been recorded.
Thus he describes the elements of Jewish experience that became the basis for a "core Jewish identity"--an identity that accompanied the majority of Jews into modernity.
expertgenealogy.com /booksJewish.htm   (1304 words)

  
 Jewish Physicists
NB: This reference includes biographies of individuals who are both of Jewish and of half-Jewish parentage, but does not generally specify which is, in fact, the case.
These were Jewish children conscripted into Russian military institutions, where they received military training and were placed under intense pressure to convert.
The extent of Tamm's Jewish background is unclear.
www.jinfo.org /Physicists.html   (1082 words)

  
 The Kashering of Coca-Cola
As a symbol of American culture, Coca-Cola has penetrated every nation in the world and is served at the most strictly kosher events.
While seltzer water might have been the preference of many traditional Jewish immigrants, their rapidly assimilating children and grandchildren demonstrated their Americanization by drinking Coke.
When Geffen was given the list of ingredients, he discovered that one of them was glycerin made from non-kosher beef tallow.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/Kashering_Coke.html   (683 words)

  
 JewishLA.org: Federation in the News - August/September 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Amidst overall changes in donor interests, Jewish Federations across the country are fine-tuning and modifying their operations to boost fundraising, strengthen communal bonds and fund programs that resonate best with Jewish communities.
During his five-day visit to Israel, Reeve met with scientists and doctors on the forefront of Israeli stem cell research.
California's ongoing budget crisis has Jewish Federations and their social service agencies bracing for deep cuts that may leave some of their most vulnerable clients in dire straits.
www.jewishla.org /news/html/aug-sept03.html   (505 words)

  
 Mideast Briefs - Florida Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The latest edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, drawing on newly released White House papers, reports that Israel had a nuclear bomb by 1967 and that within two years this was discovered by U.S. intelligence.
Peretz was given the power Sunday by a narrow 667-633 margin as the Labor Central Committee voted to appoint the Labor lawmakers of his choice to the seven ministerial portfolios which the party is to receive in the next government.
Seventy-six percent of the population is Jewish, 20 percent is Christian or Arab Muslim, with the remainder being immigrants or foreign workers without religious classification.
floridajewishnews.com /articles/content/view/331/52   (1857 words)

  
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He had to convey light from the rarefied medium of the traditional Jewish world to a denser medium, where Torah was not as well understood.
The Rav was concerned that American Jewry, the first generation given the opportunity to gain an intensive secular education and use it to enter the professions, saw the world of secular knowledge as profound and the world of Torah as customs and ceremonies.
The Rav strove to build a Jewish society in the world, to build a world where chesed meets emet; not to retreat into the dalet amot of halacha.
mail-jewish.org /rav/rav_hespedim.txt   (18617 words)

  
 JEWISH GENEALOGY
The Genealogical Institute of the Jewish Heritage of Western Canada
Jewish Studies: Sources in the British Library Slavonic and East European Collections
List of Jewish scientists and philosophers - Enpsychlopedia
www.kesh.com /hnoh/JEWISHGENEALOGY7.html   (1199 words)

  
 JEWISH
Perhaps Hashem, our Jewish revelation of God is intentionally obscure, requiring Jews from the beginning to twist and turn their "grubber finger", their fat finger, in increasingly didactic exercises of logic, thereby honoring and rewarding smartness in their long history of service to mankind.
Hashem is on the side of the enlightened, not on the side of the Serbs, the Americans or the Jews.
The native Americans are the only ones that could claim it as a homeland, but even they came here from other continents.
www.aloha.net /~morty/jewish.htm   (17976 words)

  
 Biographies - Homework Center - Multnomah County Library
A list of the career highlights of one of the members of the gold medal women's olympic softball team.
This website lists all of the Nobel Prize laureates and why they won, with a biography of each that includes their Nobel lecture.
The Oregon Pioneer List is a list of settlers to Oregon who migrated to or were born in Oregon prior to 1900.
www.multcolib.org /homework/biohc.html   (5405 words)

  
 Political Advocacy Groups: Alphabetic List of all Groups
American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
www.csuchico.edu /~kcfount/alpha.html   (277 words)

  
 Beyond Seltzer Water: The Kashering of Coca-Cola.
Overview Academic Council American Jewish History Awards and Fellowships Members of the Academic Council AJHS Speakers Bureau American Jewish History in the University Other Historical Societies
Because Coca-Cola has already been accepted by the general public in this country and Canada and because it has become an insurmountable problem to induce the great majority of Jews to refrain from partaking of this drink, I have tried earnestly to find a method of permitting its usage.
Center for Jewish History • 15 West 16th St. • New York, NY 10011 • Tel: 212-294-6160 • Fax: 212-294-6161
www.ajhs.org /publications/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=270   (844 words)

  
 List of Jewish American social and political scientists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of Jewish American social and political scientists
This is a list of famous Jewish American social and political scientists.
Arthur Jensen, race and intelligence researcher (Jewish mother)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_social_and_political_scientists   (95 words)

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