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Anyone driving near Jerusalem's government district cannot miss it. On a triangle-shaped lot bordering the Knesset, the Israel Museum and government ministries (did anyone say "location, location, location"?), a magnificent addition to the capital city's landscape is taking shaper under a jumble of cranes, earthmovers and other heavy machinery: The National Library of Israel building.
In the scintillating promotional material posted on the library's web site, the futuristic design is described as follows: The building's curved, elevated and cantilevered form necessitates a contemporary take on the cut Jerusalem limestone found throughout the rest of the city …Openings and carvings, whose shapes are derived from a projection of erosions on ancient stone walls, are designed to minimize solar heat gain on the windows behind. The pattern is reminiscent of culturally specific imagery and text but remains abstract in origin. The mineral surface continues to the vitrine legs below…Uncommon in contemporary Jerusalem, the wood brings a human scale and detail to the pedestrian experience while linking the building to timber traditions important to the local vernacular from ancient to early modern times…Our design responds to the context and reflects the ambitions of the National Library of Israel. It is open and transparent but grounded in the traditions of great libraries and the city itself. As in the past, books will remain at the center…"
The National Library's new building – which, like the Knesset and other monumental projects in Israel, is being funded by the Rothschild Foundation – is ambitiously slated to open in 2020.
But this institution has its foundation 108 years earlier in a historic decision by members of the B'nai B'rith Jerusalem Lodge to establish a library in Jerusalem that would be the home to the huge fountain of Jewish wisdom contained in its great written tomes. Led by visionary and pragmatic figures like David Yellin, Zeev Hertzberg, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, Yosef Meyuchas and Yehiel Michel Pines – all leaders of the "New Yishuv" - who were inspired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the Jerusalem Lodge (est. 1888) succeeded where two earlier attempts had failed to establish a sustainable library in the cradle of Jewish renaissance then stirring in the Land of Israel – Jerusalem – after libraries had been established by B'nai B'rith lodges in Jaffa and Tzfat (both chartered by the Jerusalem Lodge). Founded to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the New World and the Spanish Inquisition, the library in Jerusalem was named for the great Jewish statesman and scholar Don Isaac Abravanel, who led the convoy of denuded Jews out of the Spanish kingdom. It opened with 947 books donated by lodge members and other Jewish residents of Jerusalem. Two years later, 2,000 books from a defunct library established earlier by Eliezer Ben Yehuda – the father of modern Hebrew – were gifted to the B'nai B'rith Library, and in 1895, Dr. Josef Chasanowich augmented the collection with his private corpus of 10,000 Jewish books, sending them from Bialystok to Jerusalem. The library was officially renamed "Midrash Abravanel ve'Ginzei Yosef" (Abravanel Seminary and Yosef Archives"). In 1899, Theodor Herzl, in the name of the Zionist Congress, sent Chasanowich a congratulatory letter and a donation towards the library, to which Chasanowich remained committed. By 1886, the rented quarters had become cramped and the lodge began to plan a purpose-built facility which opened in 1902 to great fanfare. The building, which sits on B'nai B'rith Street in the center of the historic district surrounding Prophets Street, is still owned by the Jerusalem Lodge. In 1920, the collection was transferred to the World Zionist Organization and subsequently (in 1925) to the Hebrew University, at which time it took on the name Israel National and University Library. The next year, it opened in its new venue as the Israel National Library.
Leading historians have long recognized the role of the B'nai B'rith Library in the development of Jewish culture and education in Jerusalem and as the foundation of the National Library. Writing in The Book of Jerusalem, Yosef Salmon writes "…the 'B'nai B'rith' library…served at the time also as a community center for the New Yishuv in Jerusalem and eventually became the National Library…". Dov Sidorsky, writing in Libraries and Books in Eretz Israel at the Close of the Ottoman Period, notes "The ambition to establish 'the treasury of Jewish books' in the city, which is a center for Judaism, indicates the primary purpose of the library and was a guiding light of the board of the B'nai B'rith library…" Writing in "New Jerusalem at its Beginning", Yehoshua Ben-Arie writes, "Behind the idea of combining the two libraries in Jerusalem and the addition of Sirkin's books to the 'B'nai B'rith' library in Jerusalem stood Zionist ideology about creating a national library in Eretz Israel." Finally, writing in "Prophets Street, Ethiopia Neighborhood and Musrara Neighborhood", David Koryanker writes "In 1892…the third attempt [to establish a library] … was crowned with success at the initiative of B'nai B'rith …The establishment of the library – the nucleus of the National University Library – was the fruit of a determined decision by Jerusalem intellectuals and Hovevei Zion in the Diaspora, who believed that a library is one of the important symbols of national renaissance…'"
The significant contribution made by the B'nai B'rith Jerusalem Lodge and subsequent B'nai B'rith lodges established in Jaffa, Zichron Yaacov, Tiberias and elsewhere at the end of the 19th century, to the Jewish renaissance in Eretz Israel, even before the establishment of the Zionist Movement, is indeed well-documented. These contributions include the establishment of the first Jewish settlement in the Jerusalem area (Motsa), the first Hebrew-speaking kindergartens and adult education in Jerusalem, hospitals and civic institutions. They also made clandestine missions to Jewish communities throughout the Levant with the purpose of drawing them into the modern era and harnessing their support for Jewish renaissance in Eretz Israel and fought the discriminatory decrees of the Ottoman authorities against Jewish immigration and property ownership. Many of their initiatives were designed to counter the Christian mission to the Jews, very active at that time. They laid the veritable building blocks upon which the "state in the making' was founded at a time when Jerusalem's Jewish population stood at a mere 15,000.
Together with Jerusalem Lodge President Zvi Rotenberg, and with the support of B'nai B'rith President Charles Kaufman, we are currently engaged in an effort to ensure that B'nai B'rith's critical role in the founding of the National Library will be recognized in the permanent exhibit that will be a major feature of the new building, and we are seeking other opportunities to bring this proud history to the fore. As President Kaufman concluded in his letter to Library chairman David Blumberg: "This important legacy is too precious for us to ignore and I am sure that you too wish to strive for historical accuracy and recognition for the accomplishments of those who came before us."
Ma'ase Avot Siman L'Banim (The actions of the fathers are a signpost for the children – Rambam).
Alan Schneider is the director of B'nai B'rith World Center in Jerusalem, which serves as the hub of B'nai B'rith International activities in Israel. The World Center is the key link between Israel and B'nai B'rith members and supporters around the world. To view some of his additional content, click here.
As B'nai B'rith continues to celebrate its 175th anniversary, the menorah continues to be a link to the past, a commitment to the present and a promise for the future.
The founders of B'nai B'rith found their inspiration in the Torah. The name they chose, "Sons/Children of the Covenant," referred to the covenant that the Jewish people have with God. That definition made them a Jewish organization, with the Torah as a guide to living a Jewish life. B'nai B'rith's founders wanted each of the members of the organization to commit to becoming a better person by developing good character. This would be accomplished through their personal relationships as well as by helping others that needed assistance in their community.
They chose the menorah, one of the ritual objects described in the Torah, as their emblem. The seven-branched menorah is described in detail in Parashas Terumah. The placement within the Tabernacle is very specific.
We are told that the menorah should be made out of one piece of gold and God shared its creation in a vision to Moses. Commentaries have interpreted the design to have several meanings.
The Italian commentator Sforno interprets the branches, saying that the three branches on the right represented intellectual ideas and the ones on the left represented ideals that applied to how one made a living. The central candle represented the Torah. The six candles on the left and right are connected to the candle in the middle.
The menorah would stand in the outer chamber of the Tabernacle as an inspiration to those who saw the light it emitted. It was not to be placed in the Holy of Holies, as that was the place for the Torah, which did not need any additional light beyond its own. In Parsha Beha'aloscha, we find out that the job of lighting the menorah was given to Aaron, Moses's brother, and the tribe of Levi. While other tribes were involved in the creation of the Tabernacle, the tribe of Levi did not have a special role until this important responsibility was given to Aaron. The menorah becomes a central piece of history later on later in the Chanukah story, as the Hasmoneans, descendants of Aaron, were the ones who drove the Syrian-Greeks out of the Temple.
The menorah has continued to be the emblem of B'nai B'rith, and in each of our districts, regions and communities we find its counterpart. We have seen it used in many ways; on the large display banner surrounding a stage of leaders and dignitaries at special events, on invitations or on certificates of service. It is proudly displayed on a lapel pin and used as a signet ring. You will see it on T-shirts, hats or neckties.
The menorah candles are used for the induction of members, installation ceremonies, conferences and special occasions. Each candle represents an ideal that B'nai B'rith members are expected to strive for. Light, justice, peace, benevolence, brotherly and sisterly love, harmony and truth are the words and concepts described in the reading. These words and concepts are also referenced in daily prayers, often as attributes of God and how man treats his fellow man. The traditional ceremony used today is one found in B'nai B'rith guides to ritual, but many other creative interpretations exist. The honor of lighting the menorah is one that is taken very seriously, and the ceremony is given a place of honor. The candle lighting ceremony has also been used to share the work of the B'nai Brith Program Centers and /or events in Jewish history, with each candle assigned a special project or event.
B'nai B'rith has been described by scholars as an organization that helped create civil society in America. The desire and need that existed for a Jewish civil society organization helped create the mission that continues to this day. As the Jewish community spread its wings across America, activities that support the Jewish and general community grew. Across the globe, the Jewish community adopted the organization as their means of organizing themselves within the Jewish community. The menorah came with them and the ritual demonstrated a link for all of those involved.
The menorah's message for today's members and supporters becomes even more meaningful when it is shared at events that bring together leadership from around the world. At these gatherings, individuals are honored for their good work in the community when they are called to light one of these candles. You will see the menorah used in the logo of B'nai B'rith International. It also is a symbol of the Jewish people and our bond with Israel, as it is part of the official seal for the country and stands outside the Knesset, Israel's parliament.
Help us keep the candles burning by introducing people you know to the wonderful work of B'nai B'rith as members and supporters. There is a pin with a menorah waiting for them.
Rhonda Love is the Vice President of Programming for B'nai B'rith International. She is Director of the Center of Community Action and Center of Jewish Identity. She served as the Program Director of the former District One of B'nai B'rith. In 2002 she received recognition by B'nai brith with the Julius Bisno Professional Excellence Award. This June will mark her 38th anniversary at B'nai B'rith. To view some of her additional content, Click Here.
Chagall in Motion
Arguably the most readily identifiable and popular artist of the 20th century, Marc Chagall was a man of astounding versatility. Born in 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia, he grew up and gravitated to his chosen profession during an era that celebrated the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk—stage projects in which music, dance, drama, poetry and the visual arts harmoniously combined to present a more profound experience. One of his St. Petersburg teachers, Leon Bakst, was another Jewish master whose Art Nouveau sets and costumes for the Ballets Russes transformed the world of dance in the years before World War I. It would not be until after 1918, in Soviet Russia, that Bakst's student would become involved with the Yiddish theatre, where he developed yet another aspect of his genius that would continue to flower until the end of his life.
This season, events on two continents have been inspired by Chagall's biography and creative vision. Hailed as the winner of the annual Carol Tambor Foundation's Best of Edinburgh Award at this year's Fringe Festival in August is "The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk," written by Daniel Jamieson, a co-production staged by Cornwall's experimental Kneehigh Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic.
Incorporating expressive movement and dance, as well as Ian Ross' music and songs orchestrated for an onstage band, this multi-disciplined work depicts both the romance of Marc and Bella, the woman who became his muse and the subject of many of his masterpieces, and the cultural roots that sired the artist's unique perception. Despite the poverty, bleakness and violence of the shetl, the horror of World War I, and finally, the turmoil and suffering caused by the Russian Revolution, the artist forged an alternate reality, a joyous fantasy that continues to affect the visual and performing arts. "Flying Lovers'" sets, costumes and cast enervate Chagall's dream world while the cruelty of real life is always at hand. The play's final scene depicts Chagall's response to Bella's death in 1944. Acclaimed by critics and audiences, "Flying Lovers" is touring the United Kingdom through the spring of 2018, and will open in New York, probably later next year.
On view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) until Jan. 7, 2018, is the first exhibit focusing on Chagall's later stage works. Curated by Stephanie Barron, with an installation designed by LACMA's artist-in-residence, an innovative opera director and set designer Yuval Sharon, "Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage" surveys the Russian master's involvement with ballet and opera spanning the decades initiated by his arrival in New York from Nazi-occupied France, and continuing through 1967.
On display are films, studies and sketches, as well as the original costumes, sets and backdrops from four Chagall productions: "Aleko," danced in 1942 by the company now known as the New York City Ballet; famed impresario Sol Hurok's 1945 revival of Stravinsky's "Firebird;" the 1956 Paris Opera staging of Ravel's "Daphnis and Chloe" ballet, and the artist's beloved treatment of "The Magic Flute" which debuted at the Met Opera during its first Lincoln Center season
in 1967.
Visitors will also be able to see Chagall's paintings and drawings focusing on the subject of theatre, furthering enhancing their understanding of his creative process, and the significance of the performing arts within the context of his oeuvre.
Cheryl Kempler is an art and music specialist who works in the B'nai B'rith International Curatorial Office and writes about history and Jewish culture for B'nai B'rith Magazine. To view some of her additional content, Click Here
The U.N. and its system of "specialized agencies" is famous for barring down indiscriminately on the world's only Jewish state—Israel—and serving as a kangaroo court to heap abuse on the only country in the Middle East that boasts democratic elections, peaceful transfer of power and an independent judiciary that ensures equality for all citizens. According to figures compiled by Fiamma Nirenstein, a journalist and former Italian parliamentarian, the U.N. Human Rights Council has adopted 135 resolutions from 2006 to 2015, of which 68 have been against Israel; the General Assembly has approved 97 from 2012 to 2015, of which 83 have been against Israel; and UNESCO adopts ten country-specific resolutions every year, and all of them against Israel.
This travesty continues despite the U.N.'s abysmal failure, since its establishment in 1945, to achieve its chief goal to "maintain international peace and security." The number of deaths attributed to the 100-year old Israeli-Arab conflict are estimated at some 120,000—compared to the grotesque number of deaths attributed to other wars, massacres, slaughters and oppressions are upward of 200 million in the 20th Century. Still, the U.N. system continues to undermine its credibility by finding new and imaginative ways to attack Israel, serving as one of the chief enablers of anti-Semitism—a term which today includes, by most versions, anti-Israel bias.
The most recent series of tainted resolutions have come from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which is headquartered in Paris. In October, the Executive Board voted three times on resolutions that have denied the Jewish connection to Judaism's holiest site—the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The resolutions, promoted by the Palestinians (which became a full member state at UNESCO in 2011), the Arab bloc and others, were allowed to pass—with diminishing majorities—by the feckless abstentions cast by many member states. This included Christian-majority countries that ostensibly have a vested interest in maintaining the Judeo-Christian historical narrative of the late Second Temple period in the cradle of Christianity.
These resolutions were so outrageous that they even elicited a rare written condemnation by UNESCO Secretary-General Irina Bokova of Bulgaria and expressions of remorse by the presidents of Mexico, Brazil and Italy at their country's vote. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi went as far as to tell Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a subsequent telephone conversation that: "To say that the Jewish people have no connection to Jerusalem is like saying that the sun creates darkness." Renzi promised to vote against such resolutions in the future, and to act to convince other European governments to adopt his position.
All of these efforts by world bodies whittle away at the legitimacy of Israel's presence in Jerusalem and elsewhere in the region, but they have little impact on the ground. These resolutions in fact are so outrageous that they have provided Israel with a perfect cover for keeping out recurrent committees of investigations that the U.N. has tried to send here—usually populated by "experts" whose anti-Israel bona fides are quite evident— in an effort to ignite an already flammable situation.
The UNESCO resolutions could in fact be credited for the record number of Jewish visitors to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount during the Sukkot holiday. On Oct. 23, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (Shas) called on all Israeli Jews to converge on the Western Wall for the Priestly Blessing. On a Facebook post he said: "This year, we'll come, in our masses, to Jerusalem, to the Western Wall, to the Priestly Blessing. This Wednesday…we'll all be there. We'll send a clear message—nobody will separate us from our holy places."
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the Rabbi of the Western Wall, responded to the UNESCO decision by saying that, "In all of world history I don't know of an 'occupying power' whose land is full of the relics of its ancestors. The holiness of the Temple Mount and the Western Wall for the Jewish people goes back many generations. It does not need anyone's approval. It is ridiculous to deny the (archaeological) discoveries that are occurring all the time. The millions of worshipers who come to pray at the Western Wall in front of the Temple Mount are the Jewish answer to UNESCO."
And as if in perfect timing, two major archaeological discoveries that reinforce the Jewish narrative and connection to Jerusalem came to light just as the international community sought to deny it. On Oct. 27, compelling evidence of the breaching of Jerusalem's so-called "third wall"—which was said to have surrounded the city during the Roman destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E.—was announced by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). The new archaeological find included scores of ancient ballista and sling stones that the Romans fired from catapults at the Jewish guards stationed on top of the tower to defend the wall.
The excavation directors described the find: "This is a fascinating testimony of the intensive bombardment by the Roman army, led by Titus, on their way to conquering the city and destroying the Second Temple." And a day earlier the IAA displayed an unprecedented document containing a reference to Jerusalem from the First Temple period.
Written in ancient Hebrew script and dating back to the Kingdom of Judah during the 7th century B.C.E., the rare relic—a shipping document made of papyrus—was seized from now-jailed Palestinian antiquities plunderers in a complex IAA unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Robbery operation. The papyrus was pillaged from a remote Judean desert cave and represents the earliest extra-Biblical source yet found to mention Jerusalem in Hebrew writing.
While UNESCO's words might not yet have caused any physical harm, they do undoubtedly provide the grist for ongoing Palestinian efforts to engage in widespread damage to the physical elements of Jewish patrimony in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel. Those archaeological finds provide incontrovertible evidence of Jewish primacy in the Holy City from the time of King David and beyond.
As an avid hiker in the less traversed mountains and valleys of Judea and Samaria, I am confronted with this sad reality on a regular basis in all areas under Palestinian control: plundered Jewish burial caves, mikvas and wine presses. Nowhere is this destruction more prevalent than on Temple Mount controlled to this day by the Muslim Waqif (Holy Trust). In an article released on Oct. 27 at an IAA conference in Jerusalem spotlighting major archeological finds over the past decade, Yuval Baruch, IAA Jerusalem Region director, describes the vast destruction caused by the Waqif in 1999. Heavy machinery was used on the Temple Mount to dig out an entrance to "Solomon's Stables," which turned it into the largest mosque in Israel. In 2007, the Waqif dug a channel for laying electrical cables on the mount.
The debris from the first incident—dumped unceremoniously in the Kidron Valley—is still yielding artifacts that corroborate the biblical story. One of the most significant discoveries was presented by experts just last month—geometrically patterned marble floor tiles believed to have covered the porticos atop the Temple Mount during the Second Temple period. The tiles are so vivid, intricate and novel in design that you can still read the Talmudic teaching that "whoever has not seen Herod's building has not seen a beautiful building in his life."
The second incident was approved and overseen by Baruch and yielded some of the only First Temple artifacts to be found in situ on Temple Mount. But other senior archaeologists fault IAA for what they argue is a continuing pattern of non-intervention in the Waqif's design to damage and destroy vestiges of Jewish presence on and around Temple Mount. They fault the state for allowing the Temple Mount artifacts to remain buried due to considerations of expediency (i.e. that such digs would cause turmoil in the Muslim world).
While confronting—with considerable success—the diplomatic war against the Jewish people's chronicle in Jerusalem, the State of Israel must do more to ensure that our physical patrimony is not eliminated under the same motivation. If Israel is unable at this time to engage in a comprehensive expert and vetted archaeological dig on Temple Mount—something which is long over do—due to political, diplomatic and other temporal considerations, it must ensure that these artifacts remain in situ until future generations will have the fortune to do so.
Alan Schneider is the director of B'nai B'rith World Center in Jerusalem, which serves as the hub of B'nai B'rith International activities in Israel. The World Center is the key link between Israel and B'nai B'rith members and supporters around the world. To view some of his additional content, Click Here.
Josh Kun
Slated to receive a stipend of $625,000 over the next five years, Josh Kun is a cultural historian who was selected as one of 23 new MacArthur Fellows announced in September. Kun is a brilliant academic, journalist and NPR broadcaster who has mounted exhibits at museums, including the Getty Foundation and the Skirball Center in Los Angeles and Long Beach's Museum of Latin American Art. The 46-year-old scholar is based at the University of Southern California, where he teaches at the Annenberg School of Communications and serves as director of the Popular Music Project at the school's Norman Lear Center.
Kun envisions his hometown of Los Angeles—and America as a whole—as a tapestry whose rich and varied coloristic shadings in the visual, performing and culinary arts result from the fusion of his city's multicultural heritage. Describing his publications including the 2006 "Audiotopia," a study of Jewish, Latino and African-American multi-cultural music and "You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl" (2008), exploring the iconography of the covers of over 400 Jewish music recordings, the MacArthur Foundation states that Kun, "brings to life forgotten historical narratives through finely grained analyses of material and sonic manifestations of popular culture."
Much of this "sonic manifestation" has been realized through Kun's efforts as one of the founders of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation, named for the composer of "Hava Nagila" and sponsored by "Reboot," an organization dedicated to contemporary Jewish living. With a mission dedicated to the rediscovery and reassessment of niche music including the Latin-Jewish music craze of the 1950s, unknown to generations. Restoring classic recordings including "Mazel Tov," "Mis Amigos" on DVD, the Society also assembles and produces new DVDs, including "Black Sabbath," a selection of Yiddish songs, prayers and chants performed by African American artists from Cab Calloway to Aretha Franklin. Another release includes music by Black composers inspired by and incorporating Jewish melodies and liturgical elements.
The Society also partners with other institutions in presenting concerts, producing documentaries, and even opening a pop-up Jewish record store in San Francisco. Visitors to the Idelsohn web page are able to read about the men and women associated with the genre's evolution. They can also access digitized versions of songs like "It's a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba," a title which certainly distills the essence of Kun's passions, not to mention providing a little kitschy and light-hearted whimsy.
Fittingly appropriating the jargon associated with sound engineering, Kun said: "I strive to be a scholar who crossfades (to make an image or sound gradually emerge on top of another which is, conversely, fading into silence) disciplines, who slides between and creates conversations between multiple publics, who diligently works with archives in order to animate them in new ways, and who follows historical and critical clues to excavate and learn from points of intersection."
Simon Schama
Reinventing the cultural landscape of history through an innovative approach and thinking outside of the box is not relegated to the domain of younger scholars. Hailed as a "splendid" book "seething with ideas" by The New York Times, and ranking high on its list of recommended nonfiction is "The Face of Britain: A History of the Nation Through its Portraits." Simon Schama, a noted English art historian, is best remembered by American audiences as the writer and narrator of the 2014 PBS documentary series "The Story of the Jews." His new book was written as a compendium for a 2015 English television show that he hosted at the National Portrait Gallery. The book is organized thematically, focusing on paintings, sculptures, drawings, graphics and photos of men and women from all walks of life—from Queen Victoria and Sir Winston Churchill to Hogarth's memorable panoplies of 18th century urban dandies and criminals—whose depictions became synonymous with their deeds, and determined the way they would be treated by posterity. Assessing the often primal and voyeuristic immediacy of modern portraits and self-portraits of icons like John Lennon or Lucien Freud, Schama provides an analysis of the contemporary viewer in a nutshell: "we come into the world wide-eyed, ready to stare."
Art critic Benjamin Binstock writes that Simon Schama is today known for his books on history and culture which display his trademark "sparkling prose and… brilliant capacity to synthesize information." Born in London to immigrant parents, Schama studied the Talmud as a teenager, and went on to receive his degrees at the University of Cambridge. His award-winning publications include "Citizens," a history of the French Revolution, "Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel" and "Landscape and Memory." Introducing new audiences to the visual arts and history through his radio and television broadcasts in Europe and the United States, Schama received the Commander of the British Empire (CBE) from Queen Elizabeth II in 2001.
Recognizing Jewish Rescuers 70 years After the Holocaust: Reflections on Yom Hashoah 2016
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Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day) in Israel is not something that can be ignored. All the newspapers and broadcast outlets are dedicated to it. In thousands of ceremonies across the country, schools, academic institutions and government offices solemnly mark the murder of one third of the Jewish people during World War II. Traffic comes to a standstill and everyone—or nearly everyone—stops in their tracks while a piercing siren is heard across the land. I very much doubt that there is another nation in the world that shows greater respect for its national tragedy than Israel does towards the victims of the Holocaust.
Although the main thrust of the commemorations remain on the crimes of the Nazis and the devastation they wrought to a world of Jewish communities, rites, learning, traditions and individual victims, the B'nai B'rith World Center has been at the forefront of an effort to use these tragic events to fittingly turn the spotlight on Jews who went beyond the call of duty, endangering themselves and their families to rescue other Jews. Little known to most people today, thousands of Jews were engaged in such rescue activities in Germany, in the Axis states and in German-occupied territories. Together with a dedicated group of volunteers, members of the Committee to Recognize the Heroism of Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust (JRJ) and the B'nai B'rith World Center have held annual large scale events on Yom Hashoah in partnership with the Jewish National Fund. JRJ was established over 15 years ago at the initiative of Haim Roet, who survived in Holland as a child through the heroic efforts of two non-Jews who were subsequently recognized as Righteous Gentiles by Yad Vashem and a Jew, Max Lions.
This event is, to the best of our knowledge, the only annual tribute dedicated to Jewish rescuers anywhere in the world. Through it we strive to inspire the nearly 1,000 school students and border police cadets present with the understanding that contrary to the popular perceptions validated by some Holocaust historians, Jewish solidarity did not die in the Holocaust—although it was, undoubtedly, put under tremendous strain. In reality, thousands of Jews rose to the challenge and, when the opportunity arose, found ways and the wherewithal to help fellow Jews.
The contemporary message we wish to promote is clear: these days when divisions among the Jewish people are escalating and dialogue has become polarized, the example of those Jews who rescued others in the face of annihilation should encourage us to rally our sense of solidarity and common Jewish destiny. Hundreds of thousands more in Israel are exposed to this message through the press coverage the event receives and other initiatives undertaken by the Committee.
Another 8,000 young German Jewish men released from Nazi imprisonment—many ransomed using his own fortune—were rescued through a scheme he proposed to establish internment camps in Britain. Israel died on June 1, 1941 along with actor and British intelligence office Leslie Howard when their plane was brought down in the Bay of Biscay by the Luftwaffe on a flight from Lisbon, Portugal. At that time Israel was busy planning the rescue of children from Nazi-occupied Europe to pre-state Israel for the Jewish Agency. He is credited with saving 50,000 Jewish lives. Each rescue story—like these two examples—is a narrative of heroism and selfless dedication to fellow Jews.
Through the efforts of the World Center and the Committee, key institutions and leading figures have become aware of the phenomenon of Jewish rescue. Writing to me and to Roet last month, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot noted that "our letter to him (about rescue by Jews in the Holocaust) brought home the importance of memorializing the Jews who endangered their lives to rescue the lives of their brethren during the Holocaust. As a result of this I found it appropriate to note these heroic rescue activities in my comments at a symposium of the General Staff at Yad Vashem prior to Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day. We must remember and not forget the bravery that was shown alongside the pain. The principals of courage and camaraderie upon which the Jewish people acted in order to rescue their brethren, accompanies us—the commanders of the IDF and its soldiers…"
Also, in a letter dated May 17, Asa Kasher, professor emeritus in philosophy at Tel Aviv University and the author of the IDF's code of ethics and a leading moral voice in Israel, wrote to the Committee in support of its initiative to amend the Yad Vashem Law and charge it with recognizing Jewish rescuers.
Another recent breakthrough is the acceptance of an MA thesis by the University of Haifa Faculty of Humanities, Multidisciplinary Program in Holocaust Studies by Noa Gidron, "Jews Saving Jews—individual initiative during the Holocaust 1939-1945" in which the World Center's work on this issue was recognized.
These developments have inexorably set Jewish rescue on a path to become the next major topic of Holocaust research and attention.
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Sonia and Fanny
Days ago, Queen Elizabeth II awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to theatre and the arts to Sonia Friedman, the most acclaimed producer of her generation. The daughter of two eminent British musicians, Friedman founded Sonia Friedman Productions in 2002, and has gone on to establish a reputation as the guiding force behind literally hundreds of hits in London, New York and around the world. Winning more Oliviers—the British equivalent of the Tony Awards—than any other producer, she possesses the vision and acumen for bringing together gifted teams—directors, writers, designers and ensembles of actors—that assure success to a wide range of repertory, encompassing the mounting of classic plays like "Othello" or "Death of a Salesman," as well as staged adaptations of films including "Boeing- Boeing," "Legally Blonde" and "La Cage Aux Folles," to groundbreaking new works ("1984," "King Charles III") "must sees" which have quickly taken the theatre world by storm.
Friedman's current productions in the West End are "Bend It Like Beckham," a musical treatment of the feel-good movie about a girls' soccer team, and J.K. Rowlings', "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," which is a sequel to the "Harry Potter" series and the first official staging of a work by the author, is slated for an official opening at the Palace Theatre later this summer. Replete with amazing special effects, but now using puppets instead of the live owl, whose anarchistic behavior created havoc on opening night, the drama naturally attracts legions of devotees who are eager to experience the tribulations of the adult Harry and his son as they conjoin their magic powers to defeat the forces of evil.
Playing at the Savoy Theatre is the first revival of the musical "Funny Girl" since it made its British debut in 1966. Remembered for catapulting the young Barbara Streisand to fame, it now features a new book by American actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein, but happily retains Jule Styne's dynamic score, including the music for show stoppers such as "People" and "Don't Rain on My Parade"
The story of "Funny Girl" was inspired by the life and career of Fanny Brice (1891-1951), a singer and comedian born to Lower East Side immigrants, who rose to fame as a Jazz Age star and frequent headliner of the Ziegfeld Follies. Numbers which she popularized during her heyday included "My Man," an American version of a French torch song whose lyrics proclaimed a street waif's devotion to her boyfriend, a faithless and violent pimp, as well as the wistful lament "Second Hand Rose," and the whimsical and sunny "I'm Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love." Characteristically resorting to the stylized Yiddish inflection that was at the time was considered funny by both Jewish and non-Jewish audiences, she lampooned the contortions of a snooty Russian ballerina in "It's Gorgeous to Be Graceful" and fused Native American ethnicity with that of her own Lower East Side persona in "Look at Me, I'm an Indian." On radio and then on television, she starred as Baby Snooks, a snarky little girl whose sarcastic comments delighted fans nationwide. Using tricks which often bordered on blackmail, Snooks always got the better of her long suffering and harried dad.
For more than a year now, the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council document Nostra aetate, on Catholic relations with other faiths, has been celebrated. Though lamentably still unknown by most people irrespective of their religion, Nostra aetate is indeed of great importance in a positive sense. Catholic bishops' formal post-Holocaust adoption, not without internal struggle, of an essentially constructive approach to Jews marked a pivoting away from the contempt and estrangement that had characterized much of nearly two millennia of relations between the church and the Jewish people. Even more substantial, though, has been the remarkably rapid and continual deepening of Catholic-Jewish friendship in the few decades that followed 1965.
At the same time—ironically, since Nostra aetate is probably more often commemorated by Jewish institutions than by Catholic communities worldwide—the document is not quite, from a Jewish vantage-point, a "perfect" one. The text, which makes clear the special status afforded by the church to Judaism in light of Christianity's Jewish roots, is nonetheless a decidedly Christological one, written by Christians for Christians. Even as it continues to be abhorred by a tiny fringe of Catholic ultraconservatives, its content fell somewhat short of what Jewish communal professionals at the time (and some theologically progressive Catholics) had hoped for. The declaration established, vitally, that "the Church… decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone," that "the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures," and that a charge of responsibility for the death of Jesus cannot be applied to "all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today." It does say, though, that "the Jewish authorities and those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ," and that most Jews did not adopt Christianity, adding, "indeed not a few opposed its spreading." Finally, Nostra aetate affirms belief that while God "does not repent of the gifts He makes," including to the "chosen people," "the Church is the new people of God." Its all-but-explicit eschatological vision is one in which all people ultimately find salvation through acceptance of the truth represented by the church. Accordingly, the text's assertion that achieving "mutual understanding and respect… is the fruit, above all, of biblical and theological studies," and not only of "fraternal dialogues" and cooperative coexistence, deserves more attention by Jewish readers.
The Holy See and Israel have established diplomatic relations (if rarely convergence on Middle East politics). And successive popes have regularly met with such Jewish organizations as B'nai B'rith, paid tribute at sites where the crimes of the Holocaust occurred (Francis is expected to do so in Poland this July), visited synagogues and made pilgrimages to the Jewish state.
Arguably, Jews should also be better attuned more broadly to the theological framework within which, and the lexicon using which, modern Catholic overtures to Jews have been conducted at the official level. Again, this outreach has been momentous and laudable; the global Jewish community, no less than the Catholic community, can do more to make the genuine progress in relations known to its members; and even any "deficiencies" in the church's conciliation have been situated primarily in the realm of theoretical belief rather than that of practical engagement. However, while the Vatican has been largely consistent, and uniquely artful, in crafting careful messaging to and about Jews, the nuances of its positions are often lost on Jewish observers keen to take the overtures only at face value.
"Constructive ambiguity" that might be overlooked by master diplomats characterized even some of the celebrated relevant pronouncements of Pope John Paul II, who had an undeniable personal kinship with Jews. For example, his written prayer at the Western Wall in 2000, which spoke of being "deeply saddened by the behavior of those who in the course of history have caused these children of Yours to suffer… the people of the Covenant," did not quite spell out the perpetrators and victims to whom he was referring. (Likewise, even Pope Francis's statement in 2013 that "a true Christian cannot be anti-Semitic" can be interpreted in different ways. Did he mean to absolve all Christians, including senior churchmen across time, of anti-Semitism, or simply that anti-Semitic hatred is incompatible with a faith whose call is to love and whose focal point was a Jew?)
More substantively, was John Paul's 1987 reference to Jews as "our elder brothers in the faith of Abraham" not merely a moving expression of esteem but an attempt to equate and link the "old" and "new" covenants, or, even more problematically, in keeping with the biblical propensity for younger brothers to have spiritual superiority over their elder ones, a subtle nod to the theology of Christian supersession of Judaism? (Pope Benedict XVI—who himself in 2008 reauthorized a Good Friday liturgy that includes a revised prayer for Jews' hearts to be "illuminate[d]" so that they "acknowledge Jesus Christ is the Savior of all men"—wrote in a later book that he chooses to call Jews "fathers in the faith" rather than "elder brothers" in order to allay such concerns.)
In a gesture at the dawn of Catholic-Jewish rapprochement that could similarly be understood in different ways, Pope John XXIII received an American Jewish delegation in 1960 with the stirring words, "I am Joseph, your brother!" The pope—a champion of the reconciliation with Jews who had personally worked to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust, and whose given middle name was the Italian for Joseph—was invoking the story in Genesis in which the youngest of the patriarch Jacob's first eleven sons is reunited with his long-estranged siblings, but in which Joseph also effectively reveals to them the fulfillment of the prophecy of his privileged station after they had rejected and persecuted him on account of it.
More than a half-century since John XXIII signaled a promising but complex trajectory in Catholic-Jewish ties, the two communities (or one, if you're a Catholic seeing Judaism as "intrinsic" to the church—a view reflected in the inclusion of its office for relations with Jews within the Vatican's intra-Christian, not interreligious, affairs wing) continue along this path. By now, interspersed with disputes such as those over papal ties to Kurt Waldheim or Yasser Arafat, sainthood for Edith Stein or the war-era pope Pius XII, a convent at Auschwitz or the taxation status of Catholic assets in the Holy Land, the church has repeatedly denounced anti-Semitism (and, less prominently, anti-Zionism) as a sin. The Holy See and Israel have established diplomatic relations (if rarely convergence on Middle East politics). And successive popes have regularly met with such Jewish organizations as B'nai B'rith, paid tribute at sites where the crimes of the Holocaust occurred (Francis is expected to do so in Poland this July), visited synagogues and made pilgrimages to the Jewish state.
And, in late 2015, following several prior publications on Catholic-Jewish engagement since the adoption of Nostra aetate, the Vatican's commission on the relationship released a new document, "'The Gifts and the Calling of God Are Irrevocable' (Rom. 11:29): A Reflection on Theological Questions Pertaining to Catholic-Jewish Relations." The text validates some of the hallmarks of the process of relationship-building between the Catholic and Jewish communities, while also attempting to keep in check what Catholic traditionalists can perceive as theological oversteps emanating from the "reforms" of the Second Vatican Council. The result is that the document confirms, most importantly, that "the Catholic Church neither conducts nor supports any specific institutional mission work directed towards Jews," and also disputes the suggestion that "Jews are excluded from God's salvation because they do not believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah of Israel and the Son of God." At the same time, the document states that "Christians are nonetheless called to bear witness to their faith in Jesus Christ also to Jews," albeit "in a humble and sensitive manner," and that because "God has never revoked his covenant with his people Israel, there cannot be different paths or approaches to God's salvation." It strongly rejects any "theory that there may be two different paths to salvation, the Jewish path without Christ and the path with the Christ," saying that this "would in fact endanger the foundations of Christian faith."
It is clear, then, that the theological strains that complicate this exceptional interfaith relationship have not vanished. Neither is the relationship free of political tripwire: the Holy See's recent agreement prematurely recognizing a "State of Palestine" (and one, it is implied, with oversight in Jerusalem), Arab Christian clerics' mimicking of one-sided Palestinian narratives concerning Israel and Pope Francis's surprise 2014 photo-op at an imposing section of Israel's security barrier near Bethlehem are only a few examples. (Francis could perhaps be counted among those world leaders, with longtime Jewish friends, who have maintained friendships with Jews as well as Israel, but who may be less sentimental than some predecessors about that relationship and most personally invested in other "liberal" concerns that now also resonate more with younger constituents.) This said, in how "normal" and well-established the Catholic-Jewish engagement has become, featuring as it does commonalities and differences alike, this relationship may be optimally positioned to model for other communities the possibility of overcoming even the most longstanding of divides, and even those hardened by a religious orientation. At a time when the challenge of "holy war" overshadows international affairs—nearly 15 years following the 9/11 attacks—any cause for hope in the potential for such peacemaking could not be more welcome.
Moreover, as the Jewish community looks this summer to yet another round of proposals in mainline Protestant churches for harming Israel practically—and Israel alone—through economic pressure campaigns, the larger Catholic Church certainly manifests a friendlier interfaith partner.
To be sure, the Catholic orbit, too, is not immune to a skewed, astoundingly simplistic post-1967 view of who in the Arab-Israeli conflict represents "David" and who "Goliath." As disturbingly, some anti-Israel activists in the Christian world are quick to invoke Jesus' challenge to "the Pharisees" in their treatment of complex contemporary geopolitics. But Roman Catholicism, characterized by more centralized and cautious decision-making than certain ecumenical counterparts, has solidified ties with the Jewish community on a rather firm footing—undergirded by warm personal relationships and by ongoing channels of communication.
In this sense, the ostensibly modest 1965 document Nostra aetate demonstrates that a start may be only a start, but it can have a profound and lastingly positive impact on what is to follow.
Images of breathtaking architectural treasures photographed at sites across Europe draw the visitor into the website of the European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage (AEPJ). AEPJ is an organization that was established in 2004, and now sponsored by a consortium of six Jewish organizations, including B'nai B'rith Europe, which sponsors two major activities, the European Days of Jewish Culture and the European Routes of Jewish Heritage. Both projects were originally initiated in 1987 by the Council of Europe, which continues to provide generous support to these and other AEPJ endeavors. Throughout its history, AEPJ has continually expanded its mission to introduce and educate people of all backgrounds to the development and innovations fostered by Jewish architecture, fine and decorative arts, literature and their role within the context of European history and culture. One of AEPJ's missions is to keep alive the memory of the Shoah for generations to come.
The European Days of Jewish Culture is an annual celebration which takes place in dozens of cities and towns across the continent every fall, with each year focusing on a multifaceted theme like music, festivals, nature, art and even Jewish humor. Communities, arts organizations, churches and synagogues partner with AEPJ to produce concerts, tours, lectures, film screenings, art exhibits, theatrical productions and interfaith ceremonies that entertain and expand the perceptions of the topic for its audiences. In 2016, "European Days" will explore the myriad aspects of Jewish languages. Those interested in reading more about the past history of these observances can access eleven years of handsomely produced reports and documentary photos archived on a special webpage.
In March, the AEPJ coordinated a week of events that honored the 500th anniversary of the Jewish ghetto in Venice, Italy, culminating in a series of moving ceremonial tributes taking place in the ghetto itself.
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A decade ago, The Jerry Springer Show was a popular TV program featuring dysfunctional people yelling and accusing and threatening and sometimes even physically attacking one another on the studio set.
Producers seemingly looked for the most bizarre toxic relationships that could be put on display in order to attract the most voyeurs of emotional disarray.
There are still shows on TV today with the same format.
It's crazy and I hope you don't patronize them.
If Jerry Springer would have been alive 3,800 years ago, he would have loved to have staged a market-square assembly of people to watch him interview a man named Jacob and his wives and his wives' servants whom he impregnated.
Oh yeah, Jerry would also have wanted to have interviewed Jacob's scheming father-in-law and his brothers-in-law.
It would have made for a real draw for observers, that's for sure.
Genesis 30-31:16 provides a glimpse of this messed-up extended family. It's not a pretty sight by any stretch.
But my advice that you read the passage is not based on it providing a role model for behavior. Instead, I'm wanting you to see that of which I was reminded this morning — God's grace is amazing.
God was irreversibly committed to His promise to ultimately bless the entire world through Abraham's offspring — including the eventual descendent who would become the Messiah.
That meant that God held to the promise even through the head-shaking, eyes-closed and breathing-deeply moments when Abraham's descendants acted in ungodly ways.
It's easy to look at Genesis 30 and disparage the behavior of Abraham's grandson and those around him.
But before we start tossing rocks at the story's characters, let's remember that we live in glass houses.
We've all had The Jerry Springer Show moments somewhere along the way that gave emotional disarray voyeurs an eyeful and/or an earful.
Please join me in thanking God for His amazing grace that saved wretches like us, people who once were blind but now can see.
Pray for the people in your life still entrapped in toxic situations.
Encourage them to consider that path that can lead them from chaos into contentment.
God hasn't given up on wanting peace for their souls.
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A compact standard room sleeps up to three people, with a bedding configuration consisting of a queen size bed and a single bed.
Room features: TV, air conditioning, bar fridge, tea & coffee making facilities and en suite.
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EventPrime is an easy to use, beginner-friendly WordPress Events Calendar plugin. Using EventPrime, you can now create events with a single click. Just click on a date from the Events Calendar 📅 in the WordPress backend and begin creating an event starting from that date. Create free as well as paid Events by enabling Bookings 🎫 from EventPrime's Event Settings. PayPal payment gateway is supported out-of-the-box. The EventPrime event plugin also allows you to create and assign Event Types, Performer(s), and Event Site(s) to your Events.
EventPrime is the newest event plugin built by the RegistrationMagic plugin team and in active development since past 12 months. EventPrime provides WordPress users the same level of control over event management that RegistrationMagic provides over user registrations. We are eager to get as much feedback from you as possible on our new event booking plugin.
For any issues, bugs, feature requests and general help, contact our awesome support!
Cheers, EventPrime Team
With EventPrime, you now have an event management system to create an event list the way you always wanted. No more difference between the event calendar you create from the back-end and the calendar that is visible to users on the front-end. The Event Calendar on the front-end will appear exactly the way you configure it from the back-end. Event management in WordPress is now as easy as it can ever be.
EventPrime is an event plugin that supports free event bookings, paid event bookings, single day events, multi-day events, event performers, event sites, event gallery, event registration, event calendar widget and a lot more. Check out our Starter Guide to get up and running with this awesome event manager tool.
If you want more of EventPrime, do check out its Extensions. We have added Live Seating, Event Analytics, Event Sponsors, Stripe Payments, Offline Payments, Recurring Events and a lot more planned for the future!
EventPrime Back-end
Events Manager
- Create or Edit Events directly from the Events Calendar.
- Click on a date on the calendar to open the Add Event Pop-up form.
- Set Event Start & End Dates, All Day Event, Enable Bookings, Booking Price, Event Type, Event Site, and Performer(s) from the Add Event Pop-up.
- View events on the calendar as colored bars spanning from the start date to the end date of the event.
- Hover cursor over an existing event in the calendar to view its details in a quick pop-up.
- Drag and drop events from one date to another in the calendar to quickly change event dates.
- Click on an exiting event in the calendar to open the Edit Event Pop-up. Allowing you to edit event details on the fly.
- Click on the Dashboard link from the Event Details Pop-up to access Event Dashboard for complete event manager toolkit. You'll find all settings associated with an event in the Event Dashboard for more detailed event configuration.
- Change view of the Events Calendar to Monthly, Weekly, Daily, List, or Cards for better event visibility.
Event Types Manager
- Create or Edit Event Types that you can then assign to Events.
- Set specific name, color, age group, image, and special instructions for your Event Types.
- Events in the Events Calendar will appear in the color of their assigned Event Type.
Event Sites Manager
- Create or Edit Event Sites that you can then assign to Events.
- Event Sites have their own name, description, address, date of establishment, seating type, operator, Facebook page, and photo gallery.
- Sort Event Sites Alphabetically or by their number of events.
Performers Manager
- Create or Edit Performers that you can then assign to Events.
- Performers have their own type (person or group), name, role, cover image, and description.
- Sort Event Sites Alphabetically or by their number of events.
- You can also create events that are a match between more than one Performers. Configurable from the Event Dashboard.
Attendees Manager
- View a complete list of all Attendees for all your events.
- Filter Attendees by their events, booking time, and booking status.
- See a table of Attendee details containing their booking ID, username, email, and number of tickets per booking ID.
- Edit Attendees' individual booking details and also add note for an attendee which the attendee can see on his/her event booking.
EventPrime Front-end
The Event Calendar
On the Front-end, EventPrime sports a beautiful yet convenient event calendar layout. The events can be displayed monthly, weekly, daily, event list, or as event cards. Hovering over any event in the calendar will display the event card in a pop-up. Viewers can see all information in brief about an event on this event card. Clicking on the event card will lead to the individual page for that event. Users can register as attendees for an event if event registration is enabled for it.
In addition to the comprehensive Events Calendar view, EventPrime offers complete directories for entities associated with events. The directory pages are created automatically on your site along with the installation and activation of EventPrime. The directories include:
- Event Types
- Event Sites & Locations
- Performers
Single Entities
EventPrime also allows you to create individual entity pages using shortcodes with ID parameter. You can setup individual pages for:
- Single Event
- Single Event Type
- Single Event Site & Location
- Single Performer
User Account Area
The Directory and Single entity pages are for displaying Events and related entities. For a user to see his/her own activity with events, our event booking plugin offers a full-fledged User Account Area on the front-end. With this EventPrime page, users can login and manage their event booking. Users can also cancel their event booking and find directions to Event Sites where Events are booked.
EventPrime offers you 4 highly useful widgets to setup anywhere on your site. These are:
- Countdown Event Widget- This is a reverse countdown to upcoming events which you can select from the Widget settings. The upcoming events countdown displays the Days, Hours, Minutes and Seconds left till the event goes live.
- Slider Event Widget – This widget is a slideshow of the Featured Images from various Events on your site. Clicking on a Feature Image from the slideshow will lead to that Event's individual page.
- Calendar Event Widget – A smaller view of the Events Calendar that lists upcoming events underneath it.
- Event Site Map – This widget contains Google Map with markers of all Event Sites & Locations.
What's Next?
EventPrime is in active development with a lot of features planned ahead. Here's a quick glimpse of what we have in queue for the future…
- Multiple Payment Gateways – It is always important for an event organiser to accept event booking payments with their choice of payment gateway. EventPrime event booking plugin is going to make it easier for event organiser by adding more payment gateways. In addition to the existing payment gateway support with PayPal.
- Import/Export Events – No event organiser or event planner tool can work standalone. That is why EventPrime team is going to add Import/Export events feature to work with other popular event management tools.
- More Event List Widgets – We plan to add more widgets to our event list plugin. Widgets such as Featured Events, Recommended Events, Most Popular Events etc. Our aim with these widgets is to propel EventPrime to become the best event list plugin for WordPress.
- Save Events – Event attendees find it easier when they are able to save preferred events to their user accounts for future reference. The EventPrime event list plugin will soon give this power to such event attendees.
Snímky obrazovky
Download the plugin zip.
Open your WordPress Dashboard and access the 'Plugins' menu tab.
Click on the 'Upload Plugin' button and enter path of the plugin zip that you downloaded. You can also drag & drop the file to the 'Upload Plugin' button.
Click on the 'Activate Plugin' button.
Časté dotazy
- How can I get started with EventPrime?
Check out our Starter Guide to get up and running with EventPrime.
- I found a bug in EventPrime. How should I report it to you?
That's easy. Just write to us at our Contact page and our support team will get in touch with you in a matter of minutes.
- I like EventPrime, but it doesn't have some of the features I really require. How can I get them?
We are always happy to hear your particular needs and requirements. Similar to reporting a bug, just write to us at our Contact page. Our support team will contact you right away.
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Přehled změn
- New Feature: Option to change time format on event calendar from Global Settings -> Regular Settings
- Update: First day of week on event calendar will use the same option as 'Week Starts On' in WordPress General Settings
- Fixed: Validation error messages on Event Settings page
- New Feature: Custom link for Events
- New Feature: Option to add custom CSS code from Global Settings
- New Feature: Add address to Event Sites without the need to configure Google Map
- Improvements: General UI improvements for Attendee page in backend
- Added option in Global Settings -> Regular Settings to hide bookings of past events
- Added option in User Profile to add/update phone number for Attendees
- Fixed single event URL issue on frontend
- Improved responsive layout for user profile page on frontend
- Fixed single event UI issues on frontend
- Fixed incorrect external links in backend
- Added event name to the table of Attendees in backend
- Design update for info notices in the backend
- Added event description to event card view on frontend
- Added compatibility with the Recurring Events extension
- Design and UI improvements to the frontend Bookings page
- Added compatibility with Offline Payments extension
- Events with booking price of 0 will not show 'Free' on their info cards and 'Book Now' buttons
- Minor improvements to the backend UI
- Improved responsive layout for all directory pages on frontend
- Compatibility changes added for WP version 5.3
- Improved responsive layout for Event and Performer directory pages
- Events can now be dragged and dropped to past dates from the calendar in backend
- Clicking on event bar on the front-end calendar will now open its single event page
- Added option for enabling booking and setting booking price from the Add/Edit Event Pop-up
- Added option to delete event from the Hover Event Pop-up
- Minor UI fixes for the front-end
- UI improvements for the Single Event page on frontend
- UI improvements for Event Types, Performers, and Event Sites frontend directory pages
- Fixed minor UI issue on Performers directory page
- Added single Event Type pages linked from the Event Types directory page
- Improved frontend layout for Event Types directory page
- Improved frontend layout for Performers directory page
- Added option to upload Event Type image
- Added new option in Global Settings -> Regular Settings to disable event filters on frontend
- Minor UI improvements to the backend
- Added fix for registration and booking message issue
- Added WP dashboard menus for Event Type, Event Site, & Performer Manager pages
- Fixed date display issue with the Event Calendar on frontend for some themes
- Fixed some UI theme compatiblity issues on the frontend
- Now you can create events for past dates from the Event Calendar
- Changed the backend loading icon
- Made minor UI improvements to the add new event popup form
- Minor changes to texts for both frontend & backend
- Minor UI improvements to the All Events & Single Event frontend layouts
- Including patch for the guided tour feature
- Added a guided tour feature for the All Events page in backend
- Added new link on Event view popup to quickly access Event Settings
- Minor UI improvements to the Event Calendar display on frontend
- Minor UI improvements to the Event Calendar display
- More tutorial links added to the backend
- Linked frontend pages for Events, Event Types, Event Sites, and Performers from their backend pages
- Added sorting options for Performers page in the backend
- Fixed an issue with frontend event pagination
- Added option to select default event calendar view from the Global Settings
- Added support for ProfileGrid-EventPrime Integration
- Number of Events for a Performer will now appear on the Performer card in dashboard
- Age Group will not display on Event page frontend when the Event is open for all
- Minor improvements to the admin Event Types page
- Added compatibility with EventPrime Stripe Payments extension
- Minor improvements to the admin Attendees page
- Added new content to the Extensions page
- Added paid bookings
- Added compatibility with EventPrime Extensions: Live Seating, Event Analytics & Event Sponsors
- Added better compatibility with most popular themes
- Fixed front-end compatibility issues with other plugins
- Minor design enhancement to Event Site card in Dashboard
- Minor fixes to dashboard UI
- Improvements to frontend layouts
- Improved display for events with bookings disabled
- Minor improvements to the frontend events calendar
- Added link to Starter Guide in EventPrime Dashboard
- Minor improvements to event settings and help-texts
- Improvements to the Add Event dialog box in dashboard
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Three Golden Globe wins and two Oscar nominations aside, Robert Downey Jr. is known by most as the superhero with the red suit of armor, Iron Man. But Downey is now wondering if it's time to call it a day and move on.
"Everyone says to me it's like a glove that fits so well," Downey told News Corp Australian Network this month. "I have to start over every time but I am starting over with a pretty solid base. I just never want to blow it for the last six or seven [Marvel movies] I have done by dropping the ball because I decided to go do it one more time. I just want to hang up my jersey before it's embarrassing."
Not counting Tony Stark's appearance in a number of films within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the three "Iron Man" films alone have grossed north of $2.4 billion. That's a success that may be hard to walk away from for most actors, but Downey sees it differently.
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"It's this cyclical thing," Downey said. "I could have said when the first 'Avengers' came out: 'It's never going to get any better than that. Everybody stop.' But to me it's always about people and opportunities, like the ['Avengers' directors Anthony and Joe] Russos, who I adore."
Despite being unsure of his future within the MCU, Downey does appear in "Spider-Man: Homecoming," mostly because he liked what the film's director, Jon Watts, pulled off in his low-budget thriller "Cop Car" starring Kevin Bacon.
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That creative respect carried over when he finally sat down to read what was planned for Tony Stark in "Homecoming."
"I felt like we were literally back in the writer's room on the first 'Iron Man,'" Downey said. "So there was a real sense of a homecoming toward this — not experimental, because there is so much more data now and the process is so much more streamlined — but I didn't feel like I was being asked to just fit in somewhere. They wanted us to bring our own little thing."
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Sep 26, 2016
Rehabilitation Counselors are the healthcare professionals who would help people in coping up with their disabilities of any form and make them live independently. The types of disabilities that are handled by the rehabilitation counselor would include any of the following:
This is one of the several healthcare careers coming under the category of '
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Where would a Rehabilitation Counselor find a Job Placement?
As a rehabilitation counselor, you would find opportunities to work in a variety of settings like:
Rehabilitation centers
Senior citizen centers
Youth guidance organizations
Physical therapy clinics
Assisted living facilities
Independent living facilities
Nursing homes
Social service offices
Detention centers
Disability centers
Unemployment offices
Apart from these, a rehabilitation counselor could also open his/her own private practice.
Job Description:
In a given day, a rehabilitation counselor will have to perform the following tasks:
Offering counseling to an individual or a group with a view of helping them adjust to their disabilities
Evaluating the following aspects in the clients:
Creating a treatment plan for the patients by consulting with doctors or psychologists
Arranging for services like medical care, career training, and other things for their clients
Helping the employer understand the requirements and abilities of their clients
Helping the patients to develop strengths thereby making them adapt to their disabilities
Maintaining patient records
Monitoring clients' progress
Altering the rehabilitation treatment plans as and when necessary
How to become a Rehabilitation Counselor?
Education Requirements:
In order to get employed in a good healthcare organization as a rehabilitation counselor, you would require a master's degree in 'rehabilitation counseling'. You could get admission into this degree program if you have a bachelor's degree 'rehabilitation and disability studies'. Today, there are a few universities in the United States to offer dual-degree programs in 'rehabilitation counseling'. By joining this course, you could earn both your bachelor's, as well as the master's degree in about five years.
Obtaining a License:
It has been found that the licensing requirements for rehabilitation counselors are differing from state to state. They also differ according to the type of counseling service that is being provided. Most typically, the licensure would require a rehabilitation counselor to hold a master's degree plus 2000 to 4000 hours of clinical experience. More details about the licensing can be found on the website of 'Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification'.
Job Outlook and Opportunities:
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employment opportunities for the rehabilitation counselors are estimated to increase by 9% from the year 2014 to 2024.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average annual salary for the surgical technologists is found to be $34,390 (as of May 2015) per year which equals $16.54 per hour.
Average Annual Pay: $34,390
Average Hourly Pay: $16.54
Education: Master's degree
Employment Growth from 2014 to 2024: 9%
On-the-job training: None
Work Experience: None
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