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  List of Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rabbinic law defines a Jew as either a convert or a person with a Jewish mother, where the first Jews are defined to be those who entered the covenant at Mount Sinai, as described in the Biblical narrative, even though the person may be non-practicing and may not acknowledge himself or herself as a Jew.
This list takes the widest view to include most individuals who might be considered Jewish, but attempts to note such issues in order that more restrictive definitions may be applied by the reader, based on their own opinions or interpretations of the issue.
List of Jewish Fellows of the Royal Society
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Jews   (431 words)

  
 Secular Jewish culture - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In recent centuries, Jews in Europe and the Americas have traditionally tended towards the political left, and played key roles in the birth of the labor movement as well as socialism.
The strong representation of Jews in science and academia is represented in the fact that at least 167 Jews and persons of half-Jewish ancestry have been awarded the Nobel Prize, accounting for 22% of all individual recipients worldwide between 1901 and 2004.
For example, ethnic Jews formed an enormous proportion of the literary and artistic life of Vienna, Austria at the end of the 19th century, or of New York City 50 years later (and Los Angeles in the mid-late 20th century), and for the most part these were not particularly religious people.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Secular_Jewish_culture   (1655 words)

  
 "The Torah lights, the Torah shines, but only money warms
Jews were hence positioned for centuries as prime war profiteers and beneficiaries of Gentile political turmoil.
Jews risked not their lives in these conflicts as combatants (some Jews began to serve in armies after Emancipation), but their investments (and increased popular Gentile hostility) during risky times.
"[Jews] were a crucial element in the development of South Africa during the final quarter of the nineteenth century and a considerable proportion of the 'Uitlanders,' whose restiveness undere Boer rule was to lead to the South African war, were Jews.
www.jewishtribalreview.org /06money.htm   (9434 words)

  
 FORWARD : Forward 50   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Leading the list are a brace of politicians, thinkers and activists who have helped frame America's response to the threats, driving the administration's war policy or leading opposition to it, rallying support for beleaguered Israel and building new and unfamiliar alliances.
Jews may welcome the day when Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, does not land at the top of the year's list of most influential Jews.
Not that she'd been sitting around before: Shoretz, an Orthodox Jew, mother of two young sons and trained attorney — she clerked for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1998 — had been serving for a year as volunteer executive director of Sharsheret, a support network for young Jewish women with breast cancer.
www.forward.com /issues/2002/02.11.15/forward50.html   (8784 words)

  
 The Rainbow Swastika - New Age Views on Jews & Judaism
Bailey variously identifies the Jews as the 1st rootrace Lemurians, the 4th Aryan subrace who ruled the age of Aries, a race originating in the previous solar system, and a reincarnated species from the moon and other planets.
Jews who want to live as Jews in a homeland of their own are morally wrong, and Jews who are content to live as Jews among the nations are "parasitic".
Indeed, some of those in the forefront of helping to promote this disinformation are secular Jews themselves, whether from a desire to justify their own abandonment of orthodoxy, or from a sense of spiritual sibling rivalry, or an acceptance of the NA price for acceptance into their circles, or simply uncharacteristic gullibility.
philologos.org /__eb-trs/naE.htm   (5567 words)

  
 Crypto Jews in the U.S. Southwest - By Seth Ward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Research Literature and Resources Looking at the research literature as a whole, one notes that prior to the early 1980's, there may have been some hints of awareness of aspects of Jewish identity among families of colonial Spanish heritage in New Mexico, but essentially the phenomenon was unknown and unreported.
In 1990, Tobias' History of the Jews of New Mexico, gave a fair but brief description-although to be sure, within the context of a discussion of New Mexico's primarily Ashkenazic Jewish community.
In 1994, JFER published Judith S. Neulander's "Crypto Jews of the American Southwest: An Imagined Community," in which she described her attempt to do a professional ethnographic field study of this phenomenon, as a dissertation at the University of Indiana.
www.du.edu /~sward/cryptojews.html   (4227 words)

  
 List of Jews - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Some Jews would not agree with listing as "Jewish" someone who was not brought up Jewish, who does not adhere to Jewish beliefs or practice, and who does not identify as Jewish; however others would.
For instance, traditional Rabbinic law defines a Jew as a person with a Jewish mother, where the first Jews are defined to be those who entered the covenant at Sinai, as described in the Biblical narrative, even though the person may be nonpracticing and even not acknowledge himself or herself as a Jew.
This list takes the widest view to include most individuals who might be in some way identified as Jewish, but attempts to note such issues in order that more restrictive definitions may be applied by the reader.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_Jews   (3501 words)

  
 "If the literary output of 1999 reveals anything, it reveals that Jewish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He had tabulated lists of contributors to leading American "intellectual" publications, narrowed the names down to 200, and in a series of queries or interviews asked his subjects who were the most influential intellectuals around.
"Jews play a markedly disproportionate role in political intellectualism in the United States," wrote Stephen Isaacs in 1974, "Jewish intellectuals tend to stand out because many of them have been heavily advertised and, having a touch of the tummler, they themselves are often experts at self-promotion.
A key influence in his decison was all the information he was hearing about Jews in the Holocaust; it is the key entre to empathy for Jews for many: the Jewish victim paradigm.
www.holywar.org /jewishtr/25write.htm   (9831 words)

  
 Matthew Yglesias: Jews To The Left of Me, Jews To The Right
Jews are disproportionately present among many sections of elites, largely drawn from the college educated.
But I ask myself what liberal jews in the media would think (they live in rich suburb so they have no problem with arabs), I think they won't support it because the coalition between the far right and conservative jews is not sane (In fact like in USA).
One should understand, though, why a small minority, of mostly poor Jews, do so: they reside in close proximity to muslim communities, and have suffered violence in recent years, and they are afraid for their personal safety.
yglesias.typepad.com /matthew/2005/02/jews_to_the_lef.html   (6555 words)

  
 LiteraryPundit
The immense popularity of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown goes once again to prove that the mass of men and women are children who are attracted by a good fairy tale well told.
Another possible cause is the desire of some scientists in certain specialities to write as densely as possible, so that the audience is restricted to a clique of peers.
This is not literature so much as the delineation of territory: for the same reason that dogs mark fire hydrants in ways inaccessible to human apprehension, the message is not intended for everyone, only competitors."
literarypundit.blogspot.com   (1872 words)

  
 Hunter S. Thompson: Pitchfork Tribute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In a news world overrun by pundits drunk on their sense of infallibility, the needle of Gonzo journalism is all the more necessary, which is probably why "The Daily Show" out-reports the 24-hour infotainment factories with a scarily high frequency.
Literature meanwhile continues to go through cycles of fourth-wall demolition, most recently with the rise and fall of hyper-reflective memoirs, while documentary films start to free themselves from the restrictions of cold, emotionless observation and embrace subjectivity with the same rush HST delivered 30 years ago.
So let's not dwell on the ugly details of his death, nor the cultural distortion of his personality into a grinning Johnny Depp gripping a cigarette holder between his teeth and popping mescaline.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /features/tributes/thompson_hunters   (781 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History: Books: James Carroll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As a young priest at Boston U (which his colleagues disparagingly referred to as B-Jew, since so many Jews were enrolled), Carroll began to spend time with rabbis and Jewish students whose political and social commitments he found congenial.
The implication of this thesis is that all other proposed routes, and especially the one proposed by the Jews, who should "know better" are false.
Yes, it is true that Carroll emphasizes the horrible things that Christianity and its followers have historically done to Jews; it is also true that he tends to ignore the good.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395779278?v=glance   (2757 words)

  
 List Of Jews Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Rabbinic law defines a Jew as a person with a Jewish mother, where the first Jews are defined to be those who entered the covenant at Mount Sinai, as described in the Biblical narrative, even though the person may be non-practicing and may not acknowledge himself or herself as a Jew.
www.aplaceinthesun.com /encyclopedia/List_of_Jews   (645 words)

  
 Numismatic Literature: Published by the American Numismatic Society
The study focusses mainly on the gold and silver issues and to a lesser extent the bronze with the view to assessing the validity of four theories.
A comparison is also made with Augustus' document the Res Gestae: an appendix lists the datable events from this work and their numismatic parallels.
Although the Ptolemaic line ends in Egypt with the famous Cleopatra VII, her daughter, Cleopatra Selene, by Mark Anthony, was married to Juba II becoming Cleopatra VIII Selene thereby extending the Ptolemaic line.
www.amnumsoc.org /numlit/authors145.html   (13721 words)

  
 Forward Thinking
After all, American Jews, the paper’s prime audience, could never have expected such heresy in a mainstream Jewish publication: “Israel, having ceased to care about the children of Palestinians, should not be surprised when they come washed in hatred and blow themselves up in the centers of Israeli escapism.”
Recent front-page articles have looked at a study claiming that 22 percent of Israeli households are malnourished, exposed the role of an Orthodox Jewish organization in supporting a conservative U.S. judicial nominee, and examined the unstable and insecure character of Jack Ruby (known to his Yiddish-speaking mother as Jacob Rubenstein).
If the Jewish community had a voice, this was it, where socialists and communists fought it out, labor laws were explained, lonely young women had their questions about love answered, the proper use of a handkerchief was illustrated, and confused greenhorn fathers learned why their sons wanted to hit balls with a round wooden bat.
www.cjr.org /issues/2004/1/forward-beckerman.asp   (3159 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of famous Jews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Most Jews would not agree with listing someone who was not brought up Jewish, or who does not adhere to Jewish beliefs as "Jewish."
Many listed here may have spent their lives disguising their Jewish origins, and married gentile (non-Jewish) spouses.
They may have never practiced Judaism, and may even have adopted another faith, or may be secular or atheist.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-famous-Jews   (1500 words)

  
 Hoystory.com
For the White House, the point of the exercise would be to propose a list of bright and articulate judges who are far more ideologically objectionable to the Democrats and their activist support groups than the president's current nominees.
NOW they come to their senses: The National Organization for Women's leaders, and even the woman who first assailed the decision of California prosecutors to charge Scott Peterson with the murder of his unborn son, have backed away from their stupid comments.
Of course, it's not great literature by any measure, but it certainly is fun and worth a read.
hoystory.blogspot.com /2003_04_01_hoystory_archive.html   (11751 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: New Targets for Suicide Bombers by Dr. Walid Phares
Mainstream Jews in Haifa eat at all kinds of restaurants, especially on the Sabbath.
Anti-Maronite hate literature abounded in Syrian-occupied Lebanon, and in the cyberworld.
Throughout the 1990s dozens of statements were made by Islamists and their allies across the continents vilifying the Christians of Lebanon, especially those from south Lebanon's security zone.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10189   (884 words)

  
 List Of Danes Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 List of Danes - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
List of Danes - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Listed are persons whose achievements have been important also outside Denmark.
This page was last modified 18:12, 16 Jun 2005.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/List_of_Danes   (115 words)

  
 Signs of the Times - November 12-13, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The paper described an experiment in which we had used a biomedical recorder to monitor electrical activity in the brains of several groups of adult men while they performed a language task.
If that (understanding of the meaning of life] is the disease from which the psychopathic inferior suffers, this term can be applied to most of us and certainly to the reviewer, since, so far as he knows, no one has yet given us an insight into the meaning of life.
Another troubling discrepancy is the fact that, on all four "hijacked" flights, none of the names of the alleged hijackers appear on the official passenger lists of those flights.
signs-of-the-times.org /signs/signs.htm   (4844 words)

  
 Judaism (Harpers.org)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Noting their mutual hatred of Jews, a neo-Nazi in Florida called on Al Qaeda to join forces with the Aryan Nations.
Harpers.org is the website of Harper's Magazine, an American journal of literature, politics, culture, and the arts published continuously from 1850.
From a list of titles allegedly used by “prominent leaders from 160 nations across the world” to refer to Kim Jong-Il, as announced last winter by North Korean state television.
www.harpers.org /Judaism.html   (803 words)

  
 List of Jews
"Jewishness" has the meanings both of "adherence to the religion of Judaism" and "membership in the ethnic group 'Jews.'" People of both groups are listed here.
Many may have spent their lives disguising their Jewish origins, and married gentile (non-Jewish) spouses.
Esther and Mordechai, Persian queen, and her uncle, saviors of the Jews on Purim
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_jews   (3236 words)

  
 All National Women's History Month Honorees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
After the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, Lazarus became a spokeswoman for Judaism and was an early advocate of a national Jewish homeland in Palestine.
She has advised the Women’s Sports Foundation and has received awards for expanding the image of women in broadcast journalism.
Her most famous book, Journey to Topaz, like most of her 28 books, depicts the unique experiences of young Japanese Americans and how they developed the inner strength needed to deal with the conflicts they faced.
www.nwhp.org /whm/all-honorees.html   (10326 words)

  
 CHAPTER V
The paradox of the literature of that time consisted in the fact that it was created overwhelmingly by people sanctified with the priesthood, yet it was not attracted by an enchanting call of God.
Polish literature prayed ardently and heretically for a war of nations that was supposed to bring the nation its desired freedom.
Another form of Franciscanism in Polish literature is fascination with St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, as this saint touched the sensibility of contemporary generations of Poles.
www.crvp.org /book/Series04/IVA-19/chapter_v.htm   (12285 words)

  
 The JEWS who Run Bush and the USA
He was one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the first Bush (Sr) Administration who sat on the National Security Council, and who consistently advocates going to war against Iraq.
He is also one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the Bush (Jr) Administration who advocated invading Iraq and occupying a portion of the country in order to set up setting up a Vichy-style puppet government.
More recently, he wrote an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal openly admitting his rascist hatred of Islam claiming that Islam should be the enemy, not terrorism.
www.biblebelievers.org.au /bushlist.htm   (4759 words)

  
 The Washington Monthly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
the author, phil, is a bit of a wingnut, that being the fashion in journalism and all.
You didn't respond to my question on peer-reviewed journal articles (and neither could I locate any), so I had to make do with what I could get a hold of.
I'm looking for a guide through the thicket of radical advocacy journalism he seems to publish on a regular basis to find the core of scholarly writing you claim exists.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2005_02/005595.php   (15162 words)

  
 The Wandering Jews > Book Joseph Roth, Mavis Gallant
This book, newly translated by Michael Hofmann, is a masterpiece of literary journalism whose political prescience (regarding tensions between Eastern and Western Jews and the too-easy consolations of assimilation) is grounded in eclectic character studies (of, for instance, Parisian elites, a carnival performer from Radziwillow, a dock worker in Odessa).
In an age of idea-driven journalism, when stories are often tailored to prove a writer's pre-existing thesis, Roth's lovingly inductive reasoning is refreshing.
Lest we forget that nothing in this world endures, not even a home; and that our life is short, shorter even than the life of the elephant, the crocodile, and the crow.
books.idealo.com /prices/P393049019K0.html   (375 words)

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