Image Magazine WEEKLY Newsletter 03/13/15
Image Magazine WEEKLY Newsletter 03/13/15
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10 Hamantaschen Recipes for Purim
Wondering why Hamantaschen are traditional Purim fare?
The reasons and symbolism are abundant.
Today I’ve got a great round-up of sweet and savory, traditional and non-traditional hamantaschen. Choose some to make, or come up with your own combinations.
Note: If you’re sharing your hamantaschen with others, be sure to let them know whether they’re meat, dairy or pareve.
Chocolate-Dipped Cream Cheese Hamantaschen
Elegant and delicious!
Gluten Free Triple Chocolate Hamantaschen
European rabbis get self-defense training after anti-Semitic attacks
In the wake of a spate of anti-Semitic terror attacks across Europe in recent months, hundreds of rabbis from around the Continent received self-defense and first aid training at a conference in Prague on Tuesday.
At the conference, organized by the Rabbinical Center of Europe and the European Jewish Association, participants were presented with possible terror attack scenarios on Jewish institutions. They were instructed on basic self-defense moves, as well as instruction provided by Israelife-United Hatzalah on how to provide initial medical treatment prior to the arrival of emergency services.
Conference organizer Rabbi Menachem Margolin said that “unfortunately, the vast majority of European Jewish institutions are not provided with sufficient security by their governments. This is why we have decided to provide rabbis and Jewish community leaders across the continent with basic knowledge and tools in order for them to be able to provide initial first aid and self-defense during a terror attack.”
The conference came after two very high-profile attacks against Jewish targets in recent months. On January 9, a gunman killed four Jewish victims at the Hyper Cacher kosher market in Paris. That attack was followed by a February 15 attack outside of a synagogue in Copenhagen Denmark in which a Jewish security guard was shot in the head and killed.
Battle rages for town where Ukraine rebels reject ceasefire
Ukrainian government forces are encircled in the eastern town of Debaltseve, a strategic railway hub. They’re sandwiched between rebel positions and are being pounded by shelling.
The fighting means a Euoropean-brokered peace deal — that included Russian-President Vladimir Putin – is on the verge of collapse, just one day after a ceasefire took effect.
(SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) UKRAINIAN SOLDIER, AKHMET, SAYING: “The shelling does not stop. And although Putin said there is a ceasefire, it does not make any sense….We don’t’ know ourselves what is going to happen. I have to run as there is not much time left.”
The fighting in Ukraine subsided in many parts of the east after the ceasefire began. But in Debaltseve, where most of the intense fighting has taken place in recent weeks — the truce appears to be stillborn.
Rebels have been advancing on the town since January and say they have no intention of observing the truce.
(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) REBEL, NOM DE GUERRE “SCORPION”, SAYING: “Debaltseve is our land. It is not Ukrainian. And we will take it as it is our land and it is our people there.
People do not want to live with the authorities who came there and which is imposing their will on them.”
Instead, separatists surrounding Debaltseve offered government troops a safe corridor to — quote — “get out of here” … a proposal the government rejected.
Under the peace deal, government forces were to pull back heavy weapons from the front-line – something Ukraine says it won’t do as long as this fragile truce is violated.
What You Should Do If You Win the Powerball Jackpot
Are you feeling lucky?
Did you buy a Powerball ticket for tonight’s drawing, which will pay out an estimated $500 million jackpot? Join the club: Thousands upon thousands will fork over at least $2 apiece for a ticket in the 43 states—along with the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands—participating in the lottery.
Like almost anyone else, if you win, you will probably visit a real estate agent to purchase that new home and then call a travel agent to book a luxurious vacation. You might also decide to pay a visit to a dealership to buy a fancy car.
While each of these suddenly affordable opportunities would tempt a newly minted megamillionaire, none would be the best initial course of action.
Just look at the history of lottery winners. Many ended up in debt—or worse, went broke because they mismanaged their newfound riches.
Easy money can do that to people. It makes them blind to what steps to take to ensure that those funds last a lifetime—and, for their loved ones’ sake, beyond. Rather than being prudent, many of the suddenly super-rich feel obligated to make that big purchase or, for some reason, agree to provide financial support for a third cousin of their step-brother-in-law.
But instead of visiting that car dealer or travel agent, the first thing anyone lucky enough to win a lottery jackpot should do is to find a trusted, qualified financial planner.
Iran to host Holocaust denial cartoon competition
Artist who creates best drawing satirizing the genocide of Jews will receive $12,000 prize, in contest inspired by Charlie Hebdo images.
An Iranian cultural center announced a plan to hold a competition for Holocaust denial cartoons, in response to the massacre targeting the Charlie Hebdo magazine after it published cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
Iran’s House of Cartoon and the Sarcheshmeh Cultural Complex organized the competition, according to the Independent, and invited participants to submit satirical drawings on the subject of Holocaust denial by the beginning of April. The competition announced a $12,000 prize for the winner, with prizes of $8,000 and $5,000 for second and third place, respectively.
Masud Shojaei-Tabatabaii, the organizer of the competition, said the cartoons would be displayed at the Palestine Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran before being shown in other parts of the capital.
The competition is the second of its kind in Iran. In 2006, Hamshahiri, the country’s most popular newspaper, announced a search for the “cleverest” cartoons satirizing the genocide of Europe’s Jews. The newspaper said the competition was a reaction to the “double standard” in the West about freedom of expression.
Fear can hold you back
Life sucks. But you have two choices: Sit there and be depressed about it, or you go out there and do something about it.
“FEAR can hold you back from doing something you know within yourself that you are capable of doing, .”
Speakers:
Les Brown, Eric Thomas, Steve Jobs, Louis Zamperini
Rome’s Jewish leader ‘locked in Auschwitz’ on 70th anniversary
Riccardo Pacifici questioned by police after setting off alarm as he tried to escape former death camp.
Auschwitz concentration camp
An Italian Jewish leader, whose grandparents were murdered in Auschwitz, says he was trapped in the former Nazi death camp on Holocaust Memorial Day.
Riccardo Pacifici, the head of Rome’s Jewish community, and an Italian TV crew found themselves locked in Auschwitz after filming a television programme about the infamous concentration camp.
The group had been given permission to film live from the site, near Krakow, on Tuesday, the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation.
But at around 11pm, amid freezing temperatures, the guards who were meant to let them out had not arrived and they realised they were locked in, said Fabio Perugia, Rome’s Jewish community spokesman, who was with Pacifici.
Orthodox Union Urging de Blasio to Make Pre-K Program Truly Universal
Since the inception of the Mayor’s expanded Universal Pre-K (UPK) program in January 2014, OU Advocacy-Teach NYS has been advocating for full inclusion for all Jewish day school students. Currently, 89 percent of pre-school aged students within the Jewish day school community are not able to participate in a full-day UPK program. This is due to the difficulty Jewish day schools encounter in order to adequately accommodate 6 hours and 20 minutes of uninterrupted secular instruction while maintaining appropriate levels of privately-funded religious instruction.
As the largest provider of non-public education in New York City, Jewish day schools should be a partner in Mayor de Blasio’s UPK program, but his restrictive hour requirements make it impossible for Jewish day schools to participate.
OU Advocacy, together with our coalition of New York City Jewish day schools, has asked the Mayor repeatedly to make the requirements of the full-day UPK program more flexible and to expand the slots available for the half-day UPK program, in order to realize the Mayor’s vision of Universal Pre-K education for every child in New York City. Unfortunately, Mayor de Blasio has responded to our requests with no clear plan or timetable for including Jewish day school students.
Please contact Mayor de Blasio today and urge him to open New York City’s pre-K program to make it truly universal. Ask him to accommodate the Jewish day school community by making the restrictive hour requirements more flexible and adding enough slots to the program for Jewish day school students.
70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz – January 27, 2015
On January 27, 2015 we will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi German concentraction and extermination camp Auschwitz. On this day the whole world will be listening to the voices of Auschwitz. On this day we will meet at the authentic site of the former camp as the sign of our remembrance.
The whole commemoration event will be streamed on-line on January 27, 2015. More information: http://70.auschwitz.org
Auschwitz Survivor Gena Turgel Walked Out of Gas Chamber Alive
LONDON — Of all the stories of survival from the Auschwitz concentration camp, Gena Turgel’s is one of the most astonishing.
“When I think back, I have to pinch myself sometimes to see if I’m really alive,” the 90-year-old told NBC News.
Turgel, an elegant woman with more than a hint of mischief in her blue eyes, survived not one or two, but three Nazi concentration camps.
In the most notorious of all, Auschwitz-Birkeanau, she was herded naked into a gas chamber with hundreds of others.
Yet Turgel, who was 21 at the time, walked out alive.
Classic Sephardic Judaism
by Rabbi Uziel, Israel’s first Sephardic Chief Rabbi the State of Israel.
On the State of Israel as a fulfillment of Biblical Prophecy
The first stage to redemption is removing the Jewish people’s subservience to the nations of the world. This messianic stage is taking place before our eyes, as we well know that our past subservience to the nations has caused us great harm, but now, with the return of the Jewish people to their land and the building of our own state, we are no longer subservient to the nations. Despite all of the dangers we are encountering in realizing this messianic stage, we nevertheless see an awakening of God’s will for the Jewish people to settle in their own homeland. This Divine awakening is what inspired us towards the Declaration of Independence of our own Jewish state. We live in an era where we are witness to the fulfillment and realization of the vision of our prophets.
Michael Douglas Wins $1 Million Jewish Award
Actor awarded Genesis Prize for his commitment to Judaism and Israel
Michael Douglas on December 2, 2014 in New York City. ( Alex Goodlett/Getty Images)
Michael Douglas, the actor who last year suffered a hora-related injury at his son’s bar mitzvah then bravely continued the coming-of-age celebrations with a trip to Israel, has been awarded the second-ever $1 million Genesis Prize for his commitment to Judaism and the State of Israel.
This Day, January 21st, In Jewish History
1910: The Angel Island Immigration Station opened today.
Prior to the opening of the Immigration Station, immigrants landed directly in San Francisco.
Jews immigrated through Angel Island primarily in two waves:
in the 1920s from Russia to escape the Bolshevik revolution,
and between 1938 and 1940, when German and Austrian Jews crossed Asia to flee the Nazis.
In some ways, Angel Island was the Ellis Island of the West.
But because of the politics and laws of its time, unlike Ellis Island,
many immigrants were detained on Angel Island for weeks or months at a time,
particularly Chinese and other Asian immigrants.