The Titanic and Jewish History
Of the 2,225 people aboard the Titanic on its maiden voyage, 1,512 perished in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic when the ship went down.
Charles Kennell was among the nearly 700 crew members to die that night. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, the 30-year-old listed his address as 6 Park View, Southampton, the port city in southeast England from which the Titanic would embark.
Kennell had already served on the Titanics sister ship, the Olympic, which took its maiden voyage in 1911. Kennell was the ships Hebrew cook. The Titanic had kosher food service.
Midway through the great wave of Eastern European Jewish immigration to Americawhich brought two million Jews to the United States between 1881 and 1924major passenger lines crossing the Atlantic began instituting kosher food service for its Jewish passengers, mainly immigrants in third-class steerage.
During a visit to a synagogue that had been bombed 10 years ago, Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki said Tunisia is committed to the security of its Jews and that they are equal citizens under the law.
Tel Aviv was founded on April 11, 1909. Several dozen families gathered on the beach outside of the city of Yaffa to allocate plots of land for a new neighborhood they called Ahuzat Bayit (Homestead), later it became known as Tel Aviv (Hill of Spring). In Hebrew, Tel does not simply mean hill, but a man made hill covering the remains of an ancient settlement or a hill in an archeological excavation. And the word aviv means spring. Therefore, the name Tel Aviv stands for a link between old and new; antiquity rejuvenated. This is the concept on which the city of Tel Aviv was founded.
The words I remember uttering with a sarcastic laugh, when Rabbi Harold Sutton approached me two years ago, after he received a phone-call requesting a pulpit rabbi in Indianapolis are: There are Sephardim in Indianapolis?
Rio has an ethnic mix that includes Brazils second-largest Jewish community (after Sao Paulo). An estimated 30,000 of Rios six million residents are Jewish, with roots as varied as you might imagine: there are descendants of the first Iberian refugees of the Portuguese and Spanish Inquisition, who arrived before the countrys independence, as well as Sephardic and Ashkenazi families from successive waves of immigration.
Maimonides Medical Center has received a $150,000 grant from the New York State Department of Health for a project that will help children and families combat obesity. The funding will support training for health care providers and other initiatives.
Prevalence and Diagnosis
With over 10 years on the market and hundreds of thousands of satisfied patients, nearly everyone has heard of Invisalign. For those who are still unsure how it works, the process is this: detailed impressions of your teeth are scanned to produce 3-D images of your teeth. Corrections to your alignment and bite are programmed virtually and these images are used to fabricate clear custom plastic aligners to wear over your teeth. These aligners gradually and gently shift your teeth into a more ideal position. A fresh new set is provided approximately every two weeks until your treatment is complete.
Four Orthodox synagogues, a mikveh, a kosher coffeehouse and separate boys and girls religious high schools suggest a community far larger than just 750 Jews. But Gibraltar, the tiny British overseas territory of 30,000 that sits at the foot of Spain and at the gateway to North Africa and the Mediterranean, has spent centuries cultivating its individuality.
When walking into a bridal shop its best to have in mind the type of gown you are looking for. You can research dresses on bridal websites and in magazines.
Your drinking water should be filtered and its important, from a health and safety perspective, to periodically replace all filtration elements in accordance with the manufactures maintenance recommendations.
One of the fundamental precepts of Judaism is the inherent and infinite value of human life. This sentiment is strongly echoed in the famous maxim of the Gemara which states: Whoever saves a life, it is as if he has saved the entire Universe.
Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in the United States, causing almost 500,000 deaths annually. It has been the focus of tremendous effort and research in the medical community, and there have been tremendous advancements when it comes to heart disease, from preventing coronary artery disease, to stopping heart attacks in their tracks, and hopefully in the future, to regenerating new heart muscle after a heart attack.