- Barry Minkow Turned Over A New Leaf - From Ponzi to Insider Trading
It’s not often that a white-collar criminal returns to his/her wayward ways, but it does happen. Barry Minkow was a Ponzi prodigy that took ZZZ Best carpet cleaning public by manipulating (making up) financial statements that wowed lawyers and investment bankers along the way. Minkow spent 7 years in prison thinking about his mistake and returned to found the Fraud Discovery Institute and became a pastor at Community Bible Church in San Diego (good gig for a convert from Judaism). He was fighting crime and saving souls….what a great turnaround….until today. それは彼/彼女のわがままな方法にホワイトカラー犯罪を返しますが、それが起こることはしばしばです
- Wall Street Wanders as It Awaits Inventory Data
Light volume is expected Friday because of the Jewish holiday, Rosh Hashanah, which can exaggerate market movements. ライトボリュームは金曜日市場の動きを誇張することができますユダヤ教の祝日、新年祭、が期待される
- Denis Glaser obituary
My husband, Denis Glaser, who has died of cancer aged 78, was a scientist who became a conceptual artist. Denis's extensive knowledge of materials and mechanics led to his daring and varied installations, which involved circular motion, water, video projection and sound. In the 1990s, he exhibited at many group shows and venues including the Barbican and Lisson Gallery in London, as well as in Düsseldorf, Caracas and Seoul.Denis was born in London. He was evacuated during the second world war to live with an aunt in Argentina from the age of eight to 12. On his return to Britain, he attended William Ellis school in London. He graduated with a degree in chemistry from Oxford University in 1954 and spent the next 40 years working in the aircraft and motor industries.He had made stoneware pottery and jewellery in his spare time and, in 1992, Denis changed direction to study fine arts at Middlesex University and Chelsea College of Art, where he gained his master's degree in 1997. Initially making figurative sculpture, Denis moved on to abstract installation art. His love of, and keen eye for, aesthetics was not his primary goal; he was far more concerned with expressing the conceptual and emotional meaning of his creations, often infused with memories.At home in London, and at our retreat in Yorkshire, alongside being a hands-on father, Denis was perpetually engaged in DIY, ranging from plumbing, wiring, carpentry and machine and car repairs to building a harpsichord. Although reserved and often quiet in company, he was engaged in communal affairs, including our children's schools' governorship, chairing the neighbourhood association, local community radio and community action.A secular, Liberal Jew, he nevertheless held some affection for Jewish tradition. His love of Isra 78歳がんで死亡した夫が、デニスグレイザー、概念的な芸術家になった科。。u200b。。u200b学者でした
- Pilots lock down cockpit over praying passengers
Pilots on an Alaska Airlines flight locked down the cockpit and alerted authorities after three passengers conducted an elaborate Orthodox Jewish prayer ritual during their Los Angeles-bound flight.Airline spokeswoman Bobbie Egan... アラスカ航空のフライトでパイロットが操縦席を閉鎖し、そのロサンゼルスバインドflight.Airline広報担当者はボビーイーガン中に手の込んだ正統派ユダヤ教の祈りの儀式を行い、3人の乗客の後に当局が警告...
- Who should replace Jonathan Sacks as chief rabbi? | Alexander Goldberg
It is an odd, many-layered job, and the kind of person a polarising Jewish community should choose is not at all obviousLord Sacks, the chief rabbi, announced on Tuesday that he will be stepping down from his post in September 2013 after nearly a quarter of a century in the job. In the next few weeks and months there will be speculation about his successor and the meaning of the role in the 21st century.What sort of candidate should the community be looking for? Is it more important to have a candidate that can speak to the outside world or one who can speak to disaffiliated Jews? Should the candidate seek to unite orthodox factions, reaching out to the strictly orthodox, or try to engage with reform and progressive movements? How about a great intellectual or academic? Will he be a reformer or a reactionary?The chief rabbinate is an odd job: representing Judaism to the outside world; providing spiritual leadership for mainstream orthodox Jews in the United Kingdom, Australia and Hong Kong (when Britain gave up its colony, the local community kept our chief rabbi); and finally trying to please conservative, centrist and liberal wings of those who recognise his spiritual authority (the United Synagogue and the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth). This final task will probably dictate the choice of chief rabbi.Sacks has given the community great standing in the outside world. In academic and political circles he is taken as a serious thinker on modern social issues; the government has openly borrowed his ideas on integration and cohesion; and his contributions to Thought for the Day on Radio 4 have given millions a window onto modern Jewish ideas. Sacks will be remembered for his intellectual endeavours, his championing of Jewish education and as an a これは、奇数、多くの層の仕事です極性ユダヤ人のコミュニティは選択する必要があります人の種類は、すべてのobviousLordサックスではない、彼は後に2013年9月に彼のポストから辞任することを火曜日に発表した首席ラビ、ほぼジョブの四半世紀
- Interfaith is no longer all talk | Stephen Shashoua
Interfaith work allows people to break through old prejudices and get to know the actual person behind the stereotypeMost people would probably agree that trying to establish better relationships between people of different faiths and beliefs is very desirable, in particular in today's multifaith, multiethnic society. We have all seen what happens when those relationships are not working, with everything from inter-communal tensions to religious and far-right extremism rising to the surface. But fewer people have any concrete suggestions about how to actually go about improving the relationships. Interfaith work is a vital part of the solution, if it is done right.The days when interfaith was all talk are long gone. Organisations like ours, the Three Faiths Forum, now place emphasis on generating shared action between people from different communities – at all levels of society. We work with teachers and pupils, with artists and professionals, doctors and lawyers, political leaders in parliament and potential leaders still at university.Dialogue in the classical sense is still important, and we obviously want to see more religious and community leaders involved in interfaith initiatives – but we will not stop there.So this National Interfaith Week, instead of going the well-trodden route of sloganising the promotion of interfaith harmony, we've organised an interfaith arts festival. Not only have lasting collaborations been established between artists from Muslim, Christian and Jewish backgrounds, the festival allows the wider communities to see what co-operation across religious and cultural boundaries looks like in practice.With this artistic backdrop, there is a school-linking morning for faith and community schools taking part in our and Pears Foundation's faith-sch 異教徒の仕事は、人々は古い偏見を打破するため、おそらく様々な宗教や信念の人々の間のより良い関係を確立しようとして、今日の宗教的多様性のある、多民族社会のなかでも特に、非常に望ましいことに同意するstereotypeMost人の背後実際の人物を知ってもらうことができます
- Eyes Wide Open reveals the homophobia of Orthodox Judaism
The important yet depressing Eyes Wide Open is true to life: it shows a Hassidic community that preaches sexual intolerance and a terror of differenceEyes Wide Open may be sensitively filmed and movingly narrated, but it is also profoundly depressing. Set in a fundamentalist religious community in Jerusalem, it tells the story of two men who fall in love and embark on an illicit affair. Same-sex relationships within any conservative religious community are generally forbidden. Orthodox Judaism, for its part, teaches that men and women should marry young, have lots of babies and live as purely and God-fearingly as possible. This film follows on the heels of Sandi Simcha DuBowski's fascinating 2001 documentary Trembling Before G-d, which interviews lesbian and gay Orthodox Jews trying to come to terms with their sexuality. The fascination for me was the subjects' allegiance to their religion rather than their sexuality. Why do they stay wedded to a set of beliefs that interprets their lifestyles as an abomination? What pull does fundamentalist religion have for these people, who, unlike many others, could walk away into the arms of another community?My partner Harriet's brother, Daniel, is a Hassidic Jew living just outside Jerusalem. Two years ago, Harriet and I – out and proud lesbians – attended the arranged marriage of Daniel's 17-year-old daughter. As I stood talking to Harriet's parents, the father of the groom approached me, thinking I was Harriet. I braced myself. When Harriet's father introduced me as his daughter-in-law, the father of the groom blanched and turned away, not out of rudeness or open hostility, but because of his inability to cope with the knowledge of my lesbianism.The odd thing about the wedding was the sex segregation. Men and women do not 重要なまだ気のめいるようアイズワイドオープンの生活に真である：それは性的不寛容とdifferenceEyesの恐怖ワイドオープンに敏感と撮影することが感動ナレーション説教Hassidicコミュニティを示していますが、それはまた、深く気のめいるよう設定します原理主義の宗教社会ではエルサレムは、それが恋に落ちる2人の男の物語と不倫に乗り出す
- Labour's organising roots | Luke Bretherton
David Miliband is right to highlight the power of community organising, a power that often has religion at its foundationThrough his movement for change David Miliband has made community organising the basis for what he hopes will be a renewal of the Labour movement. This raises the question of what the relationship is between Labour and community organising. It turns out they share a common ancestry.In the American and British contexts forms of popular, local self-organisation and common action emerged within such movements as the anti-slavery and abolitionist movements, the chartists and the temperance movement. These were aligned and had a symbiotic relationship with popular religion. Whether it was Methodism, working class Catholicism or the Shtetl movement in Judaism, popular forms of religiosity were a key social force generating the practices and common values vital for such grass roots activism. We see this confluence embodied in a figure like Keir Hardie, RH Tawney and Cardinal Manning – Manning was of course central to the 1889 London dockers strike, a turning point in the history of the British labour movement, as well as being founder of the Catholic temperance society. It resurfaced on 3 May this year at the CitizensUK event when Gordon Brown connected to his Presbyterian and Labour roots and gave the speech of the campaign, if not his career.What all such movements shared is a commitment to the priority of relationships – family, friendship, and neighbourhood – and the commitment to a common set of values – taking responsibility, hard work, loyalty (what religious people call faithfulness), reciprocity and the dignity of the individual. What these movements represent, and what they feed into community organising and the unions, is the assertion of the prio デイヴィッドミリバンドは、しばしば、そのfoundationThrough変更のための彼の動きでデービッドミリバンドは、コミュニティを、彼は労働運動の更新されることを願って何のための基礎を整理した宗教を持って力を社会組織の力を強調するための権利である
- You can't clone the Ka'bah | Riazat Butt
Islam's holy sites cannot remain unchanged. But the suggestion that a new 'Ka'bah' be constructed in Sinai has ruffled feathersYou wait for a story about Mecca all year and then two come along at once. First it was Egyptian writer and academic Sayyed al-Qimni suggesting Mount Sinai as an affordable religious tourism destination for members of the Abrahamic faiths. Now a Saudi cleric at a Riyadh university has called for the construction of extra floors just for women at the Grand Mosque in Mecca in order to prevent them from mingling with men during tawaf and prayers.I'm no builder but even I realise the latter would require, at the very least, demolition of the Grand Mosque and a temporary shutdown of pilgrimage facilities lasting months, probably years.Qimni's idea – and it is just that – was well-intentioned and he makes several valid points. Not everybody has the finances to perform the hajj, Mount Sinai has special significance in Christianity, Islam and Judaism and the Bedouin have no income. I would also concur with his assertion that there is not much in that neck of the woods except the mount itself, St Catherine's Monastery and the Burning Bush. It might be fruitful, in an economic sense, to develop the area further.Where al-Qimni comes a cropper is his use of the word Ka'bah, which has immediate and almost non-negotiable connotations of a particular granite building in Mecca. The word itself, or so my rudimentary Arabic tells me, means cube or cubic. It could be applied to any similarly-shaped structure but it isn't, because that would be offensive, right?Al-Qimni, who was once described as being more fatal to Islam than Salman Rushdie, is the theological and ideological opposite of Dr Yousuf al-Ahmed, the professor of Islamic jurisprudence at Imam Muhammad イスラム教の聖地をそのまま維持することはできません
- New Yorker's 20 under 40: a diverse and interesting line-up
Authors from countries including China and Ethiopia bring a fresh tempo to the story of life in 21st-century AmericaAnyone concerned that America is becoming an insular nation should take heart from the latest New Yorker list. Here are writers from China, Ethiopia, Russia, former Yugoslavia, all of whom are winding new immigrant stories into the narrative of American life in the early 21st century, much as the fugitives from war-torn Europe did in the 20th century.Dinaw Mengestu, whose first novel won the Guardian first book prize in 2007, speaks for a generation of young Ethiopians who have made Washington their home.Published in the UK as Children of the Revolution, the novel appeared in the US as The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears – somewhat bizarrely, given its downbeat subject matter.Mengestu's cast of braggarts and drifters look on helplessly as the yuppies move in on their deadbeat neighbourhood, gentrifying the houses while boycotting the mouldering cornershops.Yet it is not only new characters that writers such as Mengestu or another Guardian prizewinner, Yiyun Li, bring to the party, but fresh tempos and tempers. Mengestu's prose is so restrained as to seem at times almost lethargic, while Chinese-born Yiyun Li's debut story collection and the novel that followed it have a flatness of style that is not incidental to her storytelling but an essential part of it.Compare these with the neurotic realism of the one married couple to appear on the list, Jonathan Safran Foer – another Guardian prizewinner – and the undersung Nicole Krauss, both of whom write within the rich European Jewish tradition of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Philip Roth. Or with Joshua Ferris, whose first novel, Then We Came to the End, offered a pin-sharp post-modern portrait of office life.O 中国やエチオピアなどの国々から筆者らは、21世紀のAmericaAnyoneでの生活の物語は、アメリカは、最新のニューヨーカーのリストから心臓を取る必要があります島の国になっている関係者に新鮮なテンポをもたらす
- Sounds Jewish: July 2010
Joining Jason Solomons in studio this month are broadcaster, journalist and author of The Extra Mile: The Twenty First Century Pilgrim, Peter Stanford, and Rabbi Miriam Berger, from Finchley Reform Synagogue in North London. Ahead of his official trip to Britain, we find out why Pope Benedict is wading into troubled waters – again – with Jews. And should we be worried about the pope re-opening the door of the Catholic church to a disgraced Holocaust denier (and then half-closing it again)? And while Christians are tying themselves up in knots over women bishops and priests, female rabbis are on the rise: half of progressive Judaism's rabbis are now women, and this month they celebrate a big birthday: Britain's first woman rabbi was ordained 35 years ago this month. We'll hear some choice examples of sexism in the synagogue.And grab your fiddle, tune your accordion and krekhts like crazy on your clarinet because KlezFest is hitting London for one week only in August. Cellist Francesca Terberg and accordionist Carol Isaacs join Jason in the studio to perform a live acoustic Klezmer set.Sounds Jewish is taking a break on August, and will be back again in September. Sounds Jewish is produced with the Jewish Community Centre for LondonPost your comments on the blog below or find us on Facebook and Twitter
スタジオでは今月ジェイソンソロモンズを加わるのは、放送局、ジャーナリスト、余分なマイルの著者です：21世紀の巡礼者、ピータースタンフォード大学、およびラビミリアムベルガー、フィンチリー改革シナゴーグ北ロンドンから
- Face to faith | Ian Bradley
Liberals across all faiths should create a coalition to turn the fundamentalist tideThe compromises of coalition government are presenting many of us who are political liberals with the unsettling prospect of seeing cherished principles watered down in favour of policies driven by conservative ideology. For theological liberals this is an all too familiar state of affairs. For much of the last hundred years theological conservatism and its close ally, fundamentalism, have been in the ascendant across the world's major faiths, and liberalism in steady retreat.The consequences of this are all too clear to see: rising levels of bigotry within and across faiths, judgmental attitudes leaving no room for generous, fuzzy broad-mindedness, and an obsessive interest in sexual behaviour expressed especially in rampant homophobia.Increasingly, the divisions within Christianity are not denominational but rather between liberals and conservatives. Powerful new alliances are being forged between Roman Catholics, evangelical Protestants and Pentecostalists against abortion, homosexuality and liberalising social and cultural tendencies. It is not inconceivable that fundamentalist Muslims and Jews will soon also be entering these coalitions.What can those of a liberal theological inclination do in the face of this fundamentalist tide? We, too, need to band together across both denominational and faith boundaries. There are strong liberal traditions within all three of the great monotheistic faiths. In Judaism it is the rabbinic approach of imaginative interpretation of the Torah, so different from the literalism of the scribes and the Pharisees with whom Jesus clashed. In Christianity it is that grace-filled universalist impulse that stretches back from the Broad Church movement of the 自由党はすべての宗教者大事原則を政策保守的なイデオロギーによって駆動に有利な水で見ることの不安の見通しとの政治的リベラルている私たちの多くを提示さ連立政権の原理tideTheの妥協を有効にするために作成してください
- Marynia Chatterton
My grandmother, Marynia Chatterton, who has died aged 93, was the first female fellow of the British Institution of Structural Engineers. Deploying considerable determination, intellect and tenacity to succeed in a profession that still remains very much a man's world, she designed most of the high-rise buildings in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.She was born Marynia Znamirowska in Warsaw, into a large Orthodox Jewish family. In 1931, her younger sister died, prompting her family to emigrate to the British Mandate of Palestine. She finished her schooling in a new language, Hebrew, and enrolled as a student of engineering at the Haifa Technion. Graduating with the first distinction in engineering to be awarded there, she went to work for the collective association of kibbutzim. While a student, she served as a weapons trainer in the Jewish paramilitary force Haganah and, when Haifa was bomb]ed during the war, as a firefighter.After marrying my British grandfather, Frank Chatterton, Marynia emigrated in 1947 to Southern Rhodesia. Initially facing scepticism from the construction community, she emerged as one of the country's top engineers, starting her own consulting firm in 1957. She joined the Institution of Structural Engineers, as the first female fellow, in 1954. Marynia went on to design some of the capital's most recognisable landmarks: the National Library, Museum and Art Gallery, and the Meikles hotel.But it was her expertise in high-rise buildings that made a lasting impact on the skyline of modern-day Harare. She designed many of the capital's skyscrapers, her life's work culminating in the 26-storey Reserve Bank headquarters, still Harare's tallest building. And while remaining one of Zimbabwe's most respected practising engineers long after the country's independ 93歳で死去した私の祖母は、Maryniaチャタートンは、英国の研究所構造技術者の最初の女性の仲間だった
- Why equality matters to us | Aaron Goldstein
Liberal Judaism looks forward to celebrating civil partnerships under its roofs. We hope that other religions follow suitIn 2005, the rabbinic conference of Liberal Judaism published Covenant of Love, a service of commitment for same-sex couples, and in doing so became the first religious movement in the country to produce official liturgy for this purpose. The same-sex commitment ceremony affirms the importance and holiness of marriage and Jewish family life. We remain steadfastly committed to the justice of civil partnerships and we see this as an extension of our belief that all are equal and created b'tselem Elohim – in the image of God. Our rabbis have long acknowledged that modern ethical, psychological and scientific insight demands a change in traditional attitudes to same-sex relationships, and have welcomed lesbians and gay men as members of its congregations, as teachers and as rabbis. We truly celebrate this inclusion and with it the enrichment that it brings to our community.Liberal Judaism's engagement in such ceremonies is not forced on our rabbis or congregations. Our rabbis have simply created the possibility for an affirmation of the sanctity of a loving and committed same-sex relationship within the bounds of Judaism. Neither do we seek to enforce our beliefs and practices on any other religious denomination, Jewish or otherwise. However, we have seen that our courage in making such blessings possible has emboldened other religious movements and individuals to follow suit, albeit timidly at times.Likewise, the amendment to the equality bill, proposed by Lord Alli, does not seek to force any organisation or individual to do anything in respect of civil partnerships. It merely allows those who wish to do so to open the doors – literally – to their house リベラルなユダヤ進む市民のパートナーシップを祝うため、その屋根の下に見えます
- Israeli settlers celebrate amid Hebron tensions
The settlers sang, danced and drank themselves into a stupor, ignoring the growing outrage of the Palestinians who make up the vast majority of this West Bank town.As they do every year on the Jewish holiday of Purim, the settlers donned costumes -- one was a clown, another a Palestinian -- and drank and danced to celebrate a biblical miracle that saved the Jews from the ancient Persians. 入植者、踊り歌い、昏迷状態に身を飲んで、パレスチナ人はヨルダン川西岸地区の広大な大部分を占めるの成長の怒りを無視してプリム祭のユダヤ教の祝日でもない、毎年town.As、入植者の衣装を着用 - 1別のパレスチナ自治政府 - と飲んで、踊りには、古代ペルシアからのユダヤ人が保存され聖書の奇跡を祝うためには、ピエロだった
- Bishops act the bully in parliament | Diarmaid MacCulloch
In denying the right of smaller groups to decide whom they marry, some C of E bishops look rather like hypocritesIt is more than 170 years since the Church of England was last able to dictate as to who presided at weddings in this country. In 1836, to much Tory and Anglican grumbling, Protestant Nonconformists were given the chance to celebrate the happiest day of their lives in their own chapels, rather than be forced to resort to an Anglican service in an Anglican church, and civil marriage was recognised in English law.At the present day, certain of the bishops of the C of E don't seem to have noticed that it is not 1835. On 25 January 2010, a group of bishops in the House of Lords led by the bishops of Winchester and Chichester scuppered an amendment to the equality bill which would have allowed three specific faith communities, Liberal Judaism, Quakers and Unitarians, to register civil partnerships on their own premises. These three religious groups, after much discussion (and of course, prayer), had each independently decided that they wanted to take this step, as part of their commitment to their religious life and as an expression of their communal belief – but my Lords the bishops took it upon themselves to decide for Jews, Quakers and Unitarians what they should believe and practise. Never mind what these non-Anglicans think, they proclaimed, the amendment was the thin end of the wedge, and soon Anglicans would be forced to do the same sort of thing willy-nilly.Quite apart from the fact that this group of bishops did not actually represent anyone in the Church of England other than themselves, their action was bizarrely inconsistent with what the same bishops had just secured for their own church. They had led the defeat of a government proposal to limit the s 小さいグループの右側には、誰と結婚する決定を否定では、いくつかのCメールの司教というようなhypocritesIt見て、170以上の年ですので、イングランドの教会には、この国では、結婚式での司会などを決定することが更新されました
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