Found in translation From Centre Daily Times, September 20, 2008, Letter to the editor section Wikipedia: Professor of Bible, Hebrew Union College Harry Orlinsky: Harry M. Orlinsky (14 March 1908 – 21 March 1992) was the editor-in-chief of the New Jewish Publication Society (NJPS) translation of the Torah (1962). Orlinsky helped to keep the committee on track in […]
Archives for April 2015
Published today in Scotland: Detroit trendy city, covering Renzo Piano’s opening of the new Whitney in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan, pain relief through radio waves, not outlandish walking again for the first time in 25 years through NYC technology
No fair. You can not read the entire article here because Isabelle Lomholt and Adrian Welch just published Joel’s Column in Scotland to an audience of nearly one million hits a day from architects and the building community. Go to Scotland. Read Detroit Trendy City in Scotland where it was meant to be read first […]
Silicon India Interviews Joel Solkoff
http://www.siliconindia.com/profiles/Joel-Solkoff-C5W8MGcL.html Joel Solkoff Columnist www.e-architect.co.uk Prized Accomplishment(s): Following the details of Renzo Piano’s first New York City assignment The Morgan Museum and library. In my column and in YouTube style videos, I followed the project from creative vision through construction. The Journey So Far: I am a 66 year-old paraplegic who is a research assistant […]
April 2015 Motto
Motto “Westmoreland, says a friend, is not much interested in sociology or personality; he is much more interested in facts and figures; if he had to describe your personality he would probably do it in percentages.” –From The Best and The Brightest by David Halberstam ++++ William Westmoreland was was in command of all US military operations in […]
“We Shall Overcome” is the greatest Passover song ever written
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“We Shall Overcome” is the greatest Passover song ever written
April 3, 2015 by joel Leave a Comment (Edit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Ld8JGv56E
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Welcome to My Seder
Sedar 2015
My Seder indeed took place last night beginning at 5:30 p.m. Eastern Standard time and 11:30 pm in Pontevedra, Spain
Streaming live video from Pontevedra, Spain jointed by her fiancé the respectful Javier Blanco had an old-fashioned seder,Amelia had distributed to their dinner guests a Spanish copy of the Hagaddah. My sister Sarah, with whom I have spent a considerable portion of my life celebrating Passover, joined My Seder, explaining her seder experience as guests of Amelia and Javier read from the special book the Hagaddah in Spanish. The word Hagaddah comes from the Hebrew root word that means “to tell.” God commanded us to tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt. There is a psychedelic quality to the seder. The requirement is NOT that we remember freedom from slavery in Egypt.
Rather, the requirement of the SEDER is to relive the experience. No seder fulfills the requirement unless its participants believe then and there (here and there on Skype) that tonight we have become Free. For me, for my mother, Freedom requires the Seder to relive the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Those were the days when Rabbit Abraham J. Heschel marched arm-in-arm with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as they crossed together–50 years ago last month–Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
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Illuminated Haggadah (14th century)
Illuminated Haggadah (14th century)
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The White House press office describes the scene 50 years ago last month
“Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, hundreds of people gathered in Selma, Alabama to march to the capital city of Montgomery. They marched to ensure that African-Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote — even in the face of a segregationist system that wanted to make it impossible.
“On the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, state troopers and county members violently attacked the marchers, leaving many of them injured and bloodied — and some of them unconscious.
“But the marchers didn’t stop. Two days later, Dr. Martin Luther King led roughly 2,500 people back to the Pettus Bridge before turning the marchers around — obeying a court order that prevented them from making the full march.
“The third march started on March 21, with protection from 1,000 military policemen and 2,000 Army troops. Thousands of people joined along the way to Montgomery, with roughly 25,000 people entering the capital on the final leg of the march. On March 25, the marchers made it to the entrance of the Alabama State Capitol building, with a petition for Gov. George Wallace.
“Only a few months later, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, which President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law on August 6, 1965. The Voting Rights Act was designed to eliminate legal barriers at the state and local level that prevented African-Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment — after nearly a century of unconstitutional discrimination.”
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Martin Luther King’s Last Speech: “I’ve Been To The Mountaintop
https://youtu.be/aL4FOvIf7G8
. Martin Luther King was shot and killed the day after he delivered this “mountaintop” speech. This is an excerpt from the speech. The entire speech, 45 minutes, was not recorded in video. Rather, the audio complete speech–from You Tube–ends My Seder. Some time when you are in need of spiritual comfort, know that the speech is here below.
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“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.”
— Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel
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Alabama State troopers attack civil-rights demonstrators outside Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965
Alabama State troopers attack civil-rights demonstrators outside Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965
Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, Professor of Mystecism and Theology at the Jewish Theological Seminary. marches arm-in-arm with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Selma-Montgomery March
Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, Professor of Mysticism and Theology at the Jewish Theological Seminary. marches arm-in-arm with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Selma-Montgomery March.
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
— Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel
Can Cesar Chavez Cope with Success? May 22, 1976 New Republic Cover
“Cesar Chavez, whose beatific smile, hunger strikes, and friendship with Bobby Kennedy made him a culture hero of the late ’60s, is again flexing his political muscles in California—a state in which Mexican-Americans are the largest minority and where the governor sought and got his endorsement in the last election.” This is the first sentence […]