FIFTY SEVEN SIXTY FOUR
FIFTY SEVEN SIXTY FOUR A JEWISH YEAR RELIGION Self Help for Jewish Souls Mussar may be the next ancient Jewish tradition to catch on in the modern world. Thousands of Jews around the world are...
...The best way is not to click on anti- Semitic sites out of curiosity, since every click improves the likelihood that they will move higher on the results page...
...Conservative Rabbi Ira F. Stone offers classes at the Philadelphia Mussar Institute at Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel...
...August 2 - 12 20th Zimriya: World Assembly of Choirs in Israel...
...You don't have to be Jewish to love "Hava Nagila," the instantly-recognizable song that symbolizes universal celebration along the lines of "Happy Birthday" or "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
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...The men and women I work with are some of the happiest, funniest, most generous people I've ever known...
...In an informal survey I conducted, every one of my students said he or she wanted to "learn...
...All Harry Belafonte concerts end with a rousing rendition...
...Google politely refused, explaining that it only censors sites that engage in illegal activities like child pornography, and that the search results are generated "completely objectively and are independent of the beliefs and preferences of those who work at Google...
...Young singers from all over the world gather in Jerusalem to participate in choral workshops and perform in concerts led by renowned conductors...
...Leonard Felson MUSIC Who Wrote Hava Nagila...
...In the note, Google suggests searching with terms such as "Judaism," "Jewish people," or "Jews," since the singular "Jew" is more often used in an anti-Semitic context Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham H. Foxman believes that Google has responded appropriately, and hopes that publicity about Jewwatch and other anti- Semitic web pages will be an opportunity to educate people about what to do when they find a hate-oriented site...
...The Jewish Museum, New York, NY...
...Some of them seem to recognize me as I pull on my shirt and begin jogging up a dirt path...
...The European Mussar movement, however, vanished when most of its brightest teachers and students lost their lives in the Holocaust...
...FIFTY SEVEN SIXTY FOUR A JEWISH YEAR RELIGION Self Help for Jewish Souls Mussar may be the next ancient Jewish tradition to catch on in the modern world...
...The AishDas Society has information about Mussar, and Rabbi Zvi Miller's Salant Foundation in Israel emails what he calls "e-Mussar lessons" almost daily...
...There are ways of knocking them out of first place," comments Foxman...
...Salanter, the father of the modern Mussar movement, spoke about the role of the unconscious mind on our behavior several decades before Sigmund Freud introduced the subject to the western world...
...or "train...
...A traveling exhibition of rarely seen photographs and memorabilia that traces Singer's life and career from the shtetl in Poland to his American home, featuring Singer's famous Underwood typewriter, handwritten notes and letters, and his Nobel Prize Certificate...
...National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC...
...Surrounded by clean mud huts with thatched roofs and hanging cloth windows, I don't really see much call for the new technology I am sharing...
...let us be happy and rejoice in it...
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...He also teaches Mussar under the auspices of Hadar, a minyan on New fork's Upper West Side...
...The song, he says, has "had a great influence on the formation and resettlement of our homeland, and infused young people with the idea to come back...
...thejewishmuseum.org...
...Please read our note here...
...Maya Avrasim Calendar August The 2004 Maccabi Games are coming to four cities across the U.S.: Austin, TX (Aug...
...When Idelsohn challenged his students to put words to the melody, young Nathanson was inspired to take the words from Psalm 118: 24, Zeh hayom asah Admuii, nagila v'nislmiekha vo, "This day the Lord has made...
...The tradition is attributed to a Talmudic scholar known as the Saadia Gaon, who lived in Babylonia 1,000 years ago...
...Today's revival is being recalibrated for the 21st century, says Morinis...
...Mussar has been learned and practiced differently in every generation, though the goal has always been the same—to show us how to transform the qualities of our soul...
...Thousands of Jews around the world are rediscovering the millennium-old discipline that helps people overcome habits which keep them from performing mitzvot and feeling close to God...
...Now, however, if you type "Jew" into the Google search engine, the first thing that catches your eye is a message from Google: "We're disturbed about these results as well...
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...Incomprehensible to most westerners, these so-called "dispossessed poor" do not necessarily lust for better houses...
...Despite its popularity, few Americans know the story behind the song, which originated in Eastern Europe as a wordless Hasidic melody known as a niggun...
...Its techniques— which include contemplative meditation and study groups— can lead to greater awareness of personality traits that obstruct the light or holiness radiating from the heart...
...Perhaps next time I go to Africa, local mud and sticks can be used to build something that really matters to the community...
...Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel...
...Washington, D.C...
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...Admire this collection of more than 80 paintings, sculptures and drawings...
...202) 783-5000...
...This is not to say they would not build a new home, expand electrical coverage or pave their roads if they had the chance...
...Long a part of the Orthodox yeshiva world, Mussar is now capturing wider attention, in part because of the work of Alan Morinis and his book, Climbing Jacob's Ladder...
...Based in Vancouver, B.C., Morinis offers online courses in Mussar, and has organized two conferences—one in New York last year, another in Houston this year—that drew hundreds of potential Mussar teachers...
...One was "The Interactive Jew: The World's Foremost Problem," featuring the vmtings of Henry Ford...
...Hava nagila, hava nagila, hava nagila, Vnisbmekha, he sang, and the rest is history...
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...Nick Berg 1978-2004 "I wake up to another pre-dawn Uganda day...
...September 7-October 3 Isaac Bashew's Singer Centennial...
...jccmaccabi.org...
...zimriya.org.il...
...Usually I run alone, planning my day's schedule teaching 19 local young men and one outspoken woman to manufacture blocks from local soil and a small addition of Portland cement...
...not to "have...
...For so many years, the non-governmental organizations and governments who write the development mantras have stressed the importance if appropriate technology, without regard to appropriate utilization...
...The myth of roosters only crowing at dawn has long since laughed itself out of my brain—I hear them an hour or two before sun-up and often well after dark...
...Furious at the blatant online anti-Semitism, Weinstock created his own website called removejewwatch.com and began collecting signatures to petition Google to drop the listing...
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...Thousands of athletes, representing Jewish communities from around the world, will converge on their host cities for a week of competition...
...Nevertheless, Mussar might have become a historical relic if not for a 19th century Lithuanian rabbi named Israel Salanter who revived it...
...Through September 10 Modigliani: Beyond the Myth...
...Bob Dylan has his own version, "Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues...
...Teaching my students to make a "superior" brick— which costs more money, takes more time to make than a traditional brick, requires an expensive steel press that needs to be imported from Nairobi and yields a product for which there is little demand—does not change their lives...
...The artist's mix of Sephardic and Italian heritage is well represented in his work and has given him a singular style...
...For the famous lyrics, we are indebted to a red-headed 12-year-old named iMoshe Nathanson who lived in Jerusalem in 1910 surrounded by the music of his Yemenite, Turkish, Arab and Sephardic Jewish neighbors...
...Ritter Art Gallery, Boca Raton, FL...
...Excerpted from an essay Berg wrote in 2003 as part of his application to volunteer with AJWS...
...or "teach...
...It [the internet] is a changing technology, that has so much to offer our society, but permits hate to be disseminated in ways you could never imagine...
...Even the Orthodox world is taking a fresh look at Mussar...
...or "be like...
...His treatise, perhaps the world's first self-help guide, inspired other scholars— including a woman who is believed to have penned a Mussar guide around 1500...
...972-3-528-0233...
...At first glance, the site seemed innocent enough but as he scrolled down he came across a list of Jewish "terrorists" that included Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, and a section called "Jewish Mind Control Mechanisms" that listed "liberalism, civil rights, atheism, and homosexuality...
...Twenty-seven female artists reflect on worldchanging events such as the Holocaust and September 11th, and challenging the rules of book design...
...Through November 28 Book as Art XV...
...Even college kids are fans, downloading Ben Folds Five's cover from the Internet Cantor Sheldon Feinberg of Beaufort, South Carolina is on a one-man quest to inform the world about Nathanson, who went on to compose music, including the melody for the blessing after the meal, and serve for 46 years as cantor for New York's Society for the Advancement of Judaism...
...Horrified, Weinstock clicked on the other sites that had popped up in response to his search...
...He was scheduled to return to Africa with AJWS this August...
...I am attracted to the Jewish Volunteer Corps and the American Jewish World Service because they seem to recognize the significance of appropriate utilization in the development process...
...What my students really got from my class was the ability to adjust and challenge their own thinking and to organize a cooperative venture—in this case to build and maintain our miniature block works, attract and sell customers, and to produce and distribute their blocks...
...Hava Nagila" is more than just a happy song, explains the 83-year-old Feinberg, a student of Nathanson's who has written a biography and a one-man musical narrative, My Name is Moshe, about his mentor...
...Columbus, OH (Aug...
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...He also suggests that Jews buy up the rights to derogatory names to prevent them from being used by true hate-mongers...
...Other rabbis are also spreading the word...
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...His teacher, musicologist Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, had recorded the melody on Gramaphone wax cylinders as part of his plan to save "the songs, chants and melodies of the very many groups that had arrived in Palestine from the four corners of the earth," according to one account...
...In his Book of Beliefs and Opinions, Gaon observed that people have the capacity to make choices about their behavior...
...and Boston, MA (Aug...
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...But many are content in their current physical situation—a life carved largely from the land around them...
...By the way, says Fran Manushldn, author of the children's book, Come, Let Us Be Joyful!: The Story of Hava Nagila, Nathanson never copyrighted the words and didn't make a penny from the song.—Dehra Bruno T E C H N O L O G Y Googling Jews When Steve Weinstock typed "Jew" into Google on-line search engine, the first result was a website called Jewwatch...
...To date, the New York real estate investor and former Yeshiva student has collected over 120,000 names...
...or "build...
...To this day, no bar mitzvah or Jewish wedding is complete without the song, accompanied by guests dancing the hora in a large circle...
Vol. 29 • August 2004 • No. 4
