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As commonly used in reference to Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism — broadly considered (I can't speak about other Churches) — in the Western world, the informal noun jurisdiction seems to indicate a particular ethnic, national, and/or patriarchate's Church in a given country, region, or continent(s) … considered a part of The One Single Orthodox Church [or "The Catholic Church," in ECs' case], completely sharing the same doctrine and Faith, "In Full Communion" and not separate "denominations." (However, the term may also be used, less commonly, in connection with "non-canonical" groups.) I believe the term in this usage is so prominent in the West because, due to "overlapping" (or disagreement regarding … jurisdiction), there are so many here, more per square mile than in 'the Eastern world' where Orthodox Church structures are mostly integrated in one way or another.
I'm describing this very carefully. Technically, any Ruling Hierarch's area or class of responsibility might be (and sometimes IS) called his jurisdiction, or for Greek words, his eparchy ("to rule over") or omophorion (his liturgical-vestment stole, essentially, symbolic of his shepherding [like a Latin metropolitan-archbishop's pallium]). However, I believe in common, colloquial discussion, the term is rather used as I stated above. This may be because any local bishoprics within "a jurisdiction" are perceived as being able to "come and go" over time, as with their boundaries, while "the jurisdiction" itself — in this case a parent body if you will — has had a longer existence, and often a more stable or knowable one, especially in the eyes of people less familiar with the jurisdiction under discussion at this or that moment.
I said "a particular ethnic, national, or patriarchate's Church" generically, too. A "jurisdiction" in fact may be a Bishopric, a cluster of Bishoprics, or one or more parishes overseen in some other way. To flesh this out, in the United States and Canada, the following are currently clusters of Bishoprics commonly described as ("canonical") jurisdictions:
- The Autocephalous Orthodox Church in America (OCA), consisting of 11 "territorial" dioceses (one called an Exarchate), 3 additional "ethnic" dioceses (these latter may also sometimes be referred to as "jurisdictions," even though they are parts of The OCA), and 3 parishes in Australia;
- the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America, structured as 9 territorial dioceses, as well as the overlapping Western Rite Vicariate;
- the Greek Archdiocese of America, consisting of 8 metropolises (local/regional bishoprics), a Direct Archdiocesan District, the overlapping "Vicariate for Palestinian/Jordanian Communities in the USA" (which may also be referred to as "a jurisdiction"); and a Patriarchal monastery with its dependent monasteries, parishes, and missions in the U.S. and Belize, Central America;
- the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA, with 3 eparchies;
- the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada, also with 3 eparchies;
- The Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America, with 4 dioceses in the U.S. and one in Canada; and
- the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), with 3 dioceses in the U.S., one in Canada, 2 in Western Europe, one each in Australasia and Russia, along with an "ecclesiastical mission" in Jerusalem, a cluster of parishes in South America, and an Old Rite (Old Believer) parish administered by a vicar-bishop (auxiliary) of the First Hierarch (primate) of ROCOR.
The following are currently single Bishoprics commonly described as ("canonical") jurisdictions:
- The American Carpatho-Russian Diocese,
- the Albanian Diocese in America,
- the Greek Metropolis of Canada (separate from the Greek Archdiocese of America — formerly "of North and South America" — since the 1990s),
- the Romanian Archdiocese in the Americas,
- the Bulgarian Diocese of the USA, Canada, and Australia, and
- the newly-established Georgian Eparchy of America and Canada, which so far has one monastery in the works, expecting to offer public church Services, and a kind of school, just south of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, (at 60 Charles Street in Hanover Township, 18706, near Ashley … the former Holy Rosary Slovak RC Church); and possibly a mission in the Philadelphia area; both with archpastoral oversight by Metropolitan DIMITRI (Shiolashvili) of the diocese of Batumi and Lazeti, Georgia, and reportedly his Patriarch's nephew (scroll down).
The following are currently other parish structures commonly described as ("canonical") jurisdictions:
- The Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA, administered by a vicar-bishop (auxiliary) of the Patriarch of Moscow, and
- the Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in Canada, also administered by a vicar-bishop (auxiliary) of the Patriarch of Moscow.
How are they (within "canonical" Orthodoxy) different from denominations? Due in part to unfamiliarity, rough analogies, and/or misinformation, Orthodoxy is widely considered "a family of churches," compared to the Oriental Churches or the historic Anglican Communion, contrasted with the Papacy of Rome, etc. But I believe Holy Tradition from within Orthodoxy views it as a single Church, subdivided into Patriarchates and other Autocephalous Churches, just as these are further comprised of Autonomous, Semi-Autonomous, and other local Churches — ecclesiastical provinces and bishoprics, generically speaking. We Westerners aren't used to thinking of a single Church including more than one 'effective' Patriarch, who "does not submit to another patriarch," since the Patriarch of Rome is effectively "more equal" than his Eastern Catholic and other Latin Patriarchs … with whom most Westerners are unfamiliar anyway! (This isn't a put-down of Catholicism in this case, merely an observation.) Orthodoxy has no human 'top dog' able to force other Bishops to his will "under pain of excommunication" the same way Rome has, "merely" a First Among Equals — the same for over 1,600 years.
Orthodoxy's internal squabbles, turf battles, boundary disputes, and apparent "ethnic" divisiveness, further remind Westerners more of Protestant denominations than of a single Body. But the institution of the o/Orthodox Ecumenical Synod (Council) makes Orthodoxy's unity, oneness, most visible. Before the 20th century it was not unheard of in Orthodoxy to say we had had 9 of these: the 7 commonly-considered during the first Christian millennium, an 8th in there, and the 9th during the 1300s. It's been a while, but the next has been in the works for most of the last century (the first that won't be "strongly encouraged" together by an Orthodox Emperor!). o/Orthodox Ecumenical Synods have refuted errors and the erroneous, sacked Patriarchs, even examined Popes of Rome for heresy, as well as brought greater order to disorder in the Church … all under the heard/felt, experienced, confirmed leadership of the All-Holy Spirit of God, One of the Trinity, in the meetings and among the holy ones outside the meetings — the true "guardians of the Faith" — who received their Teaching (and rejected "robbers' synods" lacking the Spirit and misleading the Flock). Today's autocephalous Orthodox Churches are the true successors of the 1st millennium's autocephalous ecclesiastical provinces, and the ante-Nicene "autocephalous" bishoprics, maintaining The Church's conciliarity, Truth, and reasonableness for nearly 2,000 years.
So internal — if you will, inter-jurisdictional — disagreements are temporary … even if it takes a while to work them out … this seems to be God's Most Holy Will.


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Whew: Shareology needs to catch her breath after all that excitement! What's this? Something New! Butterfly Bay! Let's go inside:
Before you leave Butterfly Bay, make sure you don't have any hitchhikers on you…these butterflies don't mind hitching a ride! One more stop before we leave:
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[pp. 107-125]
by Cheina Rabinovich
(sister of Yehoshua Rabinovitz, mayor of Tel Aviv in the 1970s)
Translated by Eilat Gordin Levitan
In contrast there was also the more traditional Agouda. At the head stood Rabbi Weinstein with a few well-to-do homeowners who were strongly opposed to Zionism. Amongst the people were Moshe Shimshelevicz, Leib son of Kopl, and others. They tirelessly (though with little success) worked against Zionist activities in town. At one point they decided to change the essence of the Tarbut school from one in which all subjects were instructed in Hebrew only into an old-fashioned religious school of the Agouda. The Rabbi viciously attacked Tarbut during synagogue meetings but his influence was not strong and the Zionist activities continued. I would like to point out that as soon as the Russians came, Rabbi Weinstein left the town, successfully crossed the border to Lithuania, and from there he succeeded in reaching Israel. Today (1960's) he lives in Jerusalem. (He wrote a chapter in the Yizkor book for Visnnevo)
Anyway, back to August 1939. In the midst of our routine disputes between the different ideologies, the war was announced and the Nazis marched towards the border of Poland. The atmosphere became full of anxiety, and the morning after the announcement, we saw the first refugees from Warsaw and Lodz. With them came rumors that the Germans were already very near us. From the refugees we promptly heard that the Nazis were terrorizing the Jews as soon as they arrived at Jewish towns and all the Jews in Vishnevo became very fearful.
Just at that point we found out about the agreement between the Soviet Union and Germany. We learned that under this pact, the Soviet Union would annex our area, which we knew would bring an immediate end to all our Zionist activities. While this change in regimes meant that we would most likely not be able to make aliyah to Eretz Israel, we also knew that at least our lives would not be taken from us. It is no wonder then that when the rumors came true and the first tanks of the Soviet Union arrived, the entire town came to greet them with flowers in their hands and everyone was very excited. At the center of the market, a stage was built and the representative of the Jews, Yakov Hirsch Alishkevitch, along with a few local Christians, made excited speeches. At the end of Yakov's speech, he said, Long live the Soviet Union! And all of a sudden we were part of the National Socialist Republic of White Russia.
One day a special commission arrived from the capital of the district, Volozhin, to make a census report of the population and to cleanse it of counter-revolutionary elements. They explained to us what was now politically correct and called all the youths to join the Communist party. Some of the youths were invited to SelSoviet and they were offered jobs to go amongst the municipality population and promote the Soviet ideology.
So what did the Jews do? They used all their connections and resorted to cronyism to join the poor class, which was really the most privileged class under the Soviet rule. One day, a second committee came, sent by the NKVD to clean the population of all unwanted elements, meaning anti-Soviet elements. First they deported all the Asdoniks; they were the Polish settlers from the old veterans of Polish legionnaires who had received land from the Polish government as a reward for their service. After that came all the people who were suspected as anti-Communists; these were mostly from the village's Christian population. Their crime got them sent to prison and later to Siberia. A few of the Jews also suffered. Three Jews who were suspected anti-Communists (Zeev Davidson, Yishaiau Rubin, and Mordechai Zallak) were arrested and sent to Siberia--first them alone, and shortly after also their family members. The men were separated from the women and children and for many years did not know their fate. Miraculously most of them survived the war, except for Zeev Davidson's wife, Yente, who became sick with pneumonia and died in Siberia. Fate separated them through the entire wartime but they were all united afterwards and they are now all in Israel.
We didn't want to accept it and we started underground activities. We were able to communicate with the Zionist headquarters in Vilna, and as a result we organized a group of youths who tried to reach Vilna (in 1939 it became part of Lithuania), from where it was still possible to reach Israel at that point of time. But fate was against us: one of the girls became sick so we decided to delay our departure for a week. A few days later we found out that Baruch Milikovski, who studied in Vilna, and was to help us cross the border, was caught by the authorities near the border. He was waiting for us there with a few Christians, and his arrest abruptly stopped our underground activities, leaving us no choice but to accept the situation in town.
To fill the void, we all started participating in the work activities. I became the head of the library, which once again was organized as a combination of the Jewish and Polish library. This job would have given me a lot of satisfaction, but on the second day of my job, an announcement came from the Communists' district headquarters in Volozhin. Two young men arrived and started purifying the library. First they took out all the books written in Hebrew and demanded that they be burned. From the Yiddish books they only let us keep a few of the classic books. The rest we were ordered to destroy.
Emotionally it was devastating for us. We knew how difficult it was to buy each and every one of those books. We knew that years of love and cultural energy were put into getting those books, and we couldn't accept the verdict, so we decided to secretly take a few of the very special Yiddish and Hebrew books and hide them in the junkyard. The ones we were not able to hide we had to burn with our own hands. Until today my heart aches when I think about it, but we had no choice. The rule came from the Soviet headquarters, and there was nothing we could do. This was the way the Soviets treated the Hebrew and national and spiritual culture of the Jewish nation then, and this is how they treat them now. All with one aim: to bring the Jewish nation in the Soviet Union to complete assimilation. Once more, as I emphasize, at least we kept our lives and we felt that as long as we were alive there was hope and that one day we would reach the land of Israel.
At 4 that afternoon there was an order that all the Jews must gather in the Provoslav Church. At that hour, the entire Jewish population, children, old, youths, etc. gathered. We were all ordered to lie on the ground, surrounded by armed Germans. At ten at night they started taking groups of twenty each inside the Gmina, the police station, and there they put them all together in a small space where they could hardly breathe1, and kept them there until the morning hours. At that point they let the women and children go home, and the men were taken to work. They were held for three weeks. In the daytime they were taken to work and at night they returned them to the Gmina, where they stayed. The women would bring them food from home, but except for that trip no one dared going out of the house. There was a deep sense of hopelessness with all of us and we were all very fearful. All the doors were shut and people were skulking about like shadows. Anyone who dared to go out did so through the backyards.
Immediately as the Germans came, they appointed a militia that was filled with Christian youths. They were headed by two FolkeDeutsche (ethnic Germans). One was Finger and the other was Tyrinski. Both of them came to the town from the Danzig area. They used to work in the forest for a Jew who came from Danzig by the name of Yavelovsky. After a while they put roots in the area and married women from the Polish schlachta (well-to-do, ruling class Poles, small town gentry). As soon as the Nazis appointed them, they started terrorizing the Jews and they took part in all the troubles that happened to the Jews (all the atrocities) until the day of annihilation. As we will tell you later, one of them we took revenge upon when we joined the Russian partisans. But I must emphasize again through all the days they were like bloodsucking leeches, taking all the blood of Jews of the town.
They didn't allow us to take them to a Jewish burial. (Gdaliyau Dudman tells us more details about this: after the wives of the victims begged the Jewish community to help, they decided to send someone to plead with the German officer to let them bury their husbands in the Jewish cemetery. Among those who went with the wives were Mordechai Dudman and Yosef Menachem Rabbinovitz. They traveled, endangering their lives, to the main headquarters. After many, many hours of waiting, they were allowed to enter. As soon as they made their request, the officer started screaming profanities at them, saying, Thousands of soldiers from the best of the German youth are lying on the battlefields and are not taken to burial, and you are asking me to bury two corpses of filthy Jews? With severe beatings he kicked them out of his office.)
Not many days passed, and the infamous officer Moko (Muki?) arrived in town. Rumors started about a list he had. They said that 80 Jewish people were about to be executed, and soon we found out their names. That evening, two Jews who headed the community, Yosef Berkman and Baruch Rabbinovitz, asked my father to talk to Finger and plead with him to save the people in return for a huge amount of money. Every Jew in the neighborhood was looking out the window that evening since we all knew that Finger would pass by our house on the way to his house from the Gmina as he did every day. When they saw him coming from afar, the committee asked him to enter our house. He entered and sat down and asked what they wanted. Everyone started begging him to cancel the list, promising him hills and mountains. Baruch Rabbinovitz fell to his knees and begged for his son Yosef, saying, He's only a child! He wailed and sobbed, but Finger merely answered, Today nothing will happen and what tomorrow will bring, only God knows. And then he left. You can hardly describe the panic that spread in town. People were running all over the place, not knowing what to do about saving their loved ones. Everyone saw death approaching. At night they took the group of men to the cemetery and demanded that they dig graves.
That night, no one slept. It was filled with terror. When it was still dark, my mother sent me to my uncle Shimon. She said that maybe there it would be safer. As soon as I stepped out of the house, I was met by a militiaman who yelled, Where are you going? You cannot sleep, eh? I knocked on the door of my uncle Shimon and there was no answer. I returned to the street and saw from afar that someone had opened the front door of Israel Elie Rabbinovitz, and entered. I ran and also entered the house.
We all stood there, looking from behind the shadows, we saw that the main market was surrounded by German soldiers, and soon the first Jews were marched by the soldiers. We saw Zelig the glazier (glassmaker) who wore his talit and fellim, and next was Yakov Hirsch Alishkevich. the beloved teacher, who was joined by his young son, like Abraham taking his son Isaac to be sacrificed. And here I saw them take people from the house of my uncle Shimon. I saw them taking his granddaughter Rivkaleh. who was still a baby still in her nightgown. (After a short time she was released and sent back home). And here they took my uncle, Leib Novoprotsky and his three sons. And here also was Misha, the son-in-law of Zelig the glazier; he was also taken to be slaughtered.
From the very edge of Volozhin Street, surrounded by soldiers, Shaika Kaplan with his two sons, and then Yakov Horowitz, the son in law of Moshe Shimshelovich was taken by soldiers. He was practically naked; leaving a one-and-a-half month old baby whose mother died during delivery on the day the Germans entered Vishnevo.
Altogether they killed 38 people that day. They all fell in one big grave, in the Jewish cemetery that was dug by the group of other Jews they kidnapped that night. They put them all there and shot them, and they fell, one by one, into this grave. This was the first bloodbath. Father buried his son, and son buried his father. Amongst the fallen were my uncle Leib Novoprotsky and his youngest son Lipa. First they took all four, the father and the three sons, but two of the sons survived by a miracle. One of them, Berl, was able to hide amongst the gravediggers (those who buried the dead) and with his own hands buried his father and young brother. The second one, Chaim, was able to escape from the grave pit after it was already covered with dirt. Both of them hid in the graveyard all day and when evening came they entered our house, in half-crazed condition. From what the Christians told, many of the victims were buried alive and days after this occasion, they could see movement in the dirt.
Not many days passed after that bloody day that was named by the Germans Das Spiel, and they demanded that we must give them a certain amount of silverware, gold, and other jewelry. As ordered, we sent it to the heads of the Jewish community, Yosef Menachem Rabbinovitz and Mordechai Dudman the shoemaker. They were told to come with the loot to the Gmina were Moko was waiting for them. There they started beating them up until they bled. One of the local Polish men, Dedzhi, from the village Salkoviczizna, hit Yosef Menachem Rabbinovitz with his fist in his face and knocked out two of his teeth. After such a welcome committee, Moko took from them all the gold and silver that they had brought, and kicked them out.
The next day, an order came that all the Jews must leave their homes and transfer to a ghetto that was located between the synagogue and the end of Karve Street. The entire area was fenced in by barbed wire, with one gate. Near the gate there was a guard station manned by the militia, and now no one could go from the ghetto to the outside without permission. The ghetto became isolated from all outside contact except for the people who would go to work. I will never forget the image that in its cruelty was a symbol of the torture and the tragedy of our people. My heart is crying inside when I write this. The reflection of my people emerge in front of my eyes, the tormented Jews surrounded by the SS and Polish militia who were holding clubs and pushing us out of our homes, toward the ghetto, while all the Christian neighbors stood around, impatiently waiting for the moment when they could enter the Jews' houses, repossess them and use all of our belongings.
More than a thousand souls were gathered in a very small and narrow area, in a very little part of the town. You can hardly describe how crowded it was in the homes where we lived in the last months before the annihilation. Seven to eight families dwelled in each house; each family would cook, bake, and wash according to a set schedule. Each evening another family. And while the women were busy with household chores, the men would pray to god to rescue them out of the horrific situation. But: the ears of God were sealed shut, and it was clear to us that he was not listening to those who called him out of their deep despair.
Every day produced disparate adversity upon us, and now it became much easier for the Germans to torment us since we were all sealed in a small area.
The Judenrat--the members of the community: Ordansky, Yosef Menachem Rabbinovitz, Yosef Berkman, Bar-Mikhail Rubin, and Mordechai Dudman. Added to them by the Germans were Mikhail Milikovsky, David Shlopsky, Baruch Rabbinovitz, Yehoshua Sorser, and Abba Gumnitz. The secretary was Gdaliyau Podversky. The Judenrat was appointed chiefly to be used as a tool of the Germans to keep the Jewish populace down. Their role was to fulfill all the orders the Germans gave, and in exchange they were promised that the Jews would be kept alive. The German collaborators also demanded things from the Jews; most orders were about paying financial penalties that were given to the entire Jewish community. One day the Germans ordered them to collect all the furniture that was found in the houses of the Jews and to take them to the German authorities in Vilejka.
No one volunteered for that mission because we all knew that the end of such a mission might be a death penalty on the Jew who performed it. Finally there was a sole volunteer: Mordechai Dudman the Shoemaker. He was nicknamed Mordechai the Hatzadik (the Righteous) in the ghetto. Never mind, he said, I will just go. He left and when he returned some days later he was like a walking shadow of himself. He was badly wounded and bleeding, but he still had his kind smile, as if he was saying, I was blessed that I was a victim. For many days he could hardly move and his bride Sera who lived with him had to feed him by hand.
The youths who resided in the ghetto, boys and girls starting at age 12 were taken out of the ghetto to work in Bogdonova, Vojgany, and other forests in the area every day. Some were also taken to the Krasne camp, among them about 80 men. Later on they all found their death together with the Jews of Krasne. (See http://eilatgordinlevitan.com/krasne/krasne.html.)
There was no school, and the children crawled in the streets with no purpose. There were no celebrations, no marriages. The crowded conditions that we lived in forced the mothers to keep very strict hygienic rules on their families so there were hardly any diseases spreading, but once there was a severe illness there were no medicines available. The person who was appointed as a medical director for the area, Doctor Fobol, was a known anti-Semite, and he proved his hatred of the Jews by refusing to give any medication to Jewish people.
Here I must emphasize the special character of the Jewish Doctor Gershon Podzelver (Padzelver?). He was an excellent doctor and well known amongst the Jewish and Christian population and he proved himself particularly in the days when no medicine was allowed. The only medicine he had was some alcohol he had hidden in the ground. He would give the patients some of it to calm them down and as a painkiller together with words of sympathy and some psychological counseling.
So how did we survive? Endangering our lives we would go and exchange possessions with the Christian neighbors for food. On one occasion, a Jewish woman went on top of the barbed wire, aiming to go to a Christian neighbor to exchange some possessions for bread, but as soon as she attempted to pass, the Polish policemen shot and killed her. In Vishnevo and nearby areas, especially Silviczi (where the Polish shclachta used to live), in the forest there were Polish youths who started underground activities against the Germans. They communicated with the Judenrat in the ghetto. They would come secretly and bring news from the radio, and sometimes even some pamphlets from the Polish underground. They even talked with us about weapons that they would bring to the ghetto. Everyone discussed the idea that on the day of annihilation (we all realized that such a day will soon arrive) we should have explosives and to use them so that some might be able to escape to the forest. After some long discussion, a decision was made to nix this plan, since everyone was too scared and maybe still had some hope that they would somehow survive. We still kept in touch with some of the towns nearby, such as Volozhin, Olshany, Trav, Ivie, and Kerve. Some Christian people secretly took letters from us to Jews in the other ghettoes and back. Most of the communication was about the different annihilations and who from the people we knew had perished.
As I said, women were sent to work. They were busy with miscellaneous hard labor jobs. They built a bridge on the river Gishrena and they carried wood for the train station in Bogdonov. At the end they were transferred with other women from the area to Vojgany. And there they were told to bake bread. The raw material was given by the Judenrat in Vishnevo. They baked the bread for a group of 40 Jewish men who worked in the area.
In June 1942, a group of Partisans came to the camp in Zardel, where a few youths from Vishnevo worked. They put the big mill on fire. They called all the workers for a meeting and asked the workers to join the partisans. Some of the guys from Vishnevo joined them and didn't return home. As soon as the Germans found out, they came to the Judenrat and warned the Jews that if the men did not return they would annihilate the entire town. This caused great panic among all the ghetto residents, and they asked two farmers, at a great price, to find the boys. They found them and returned them to the ghetto.
Two: The Judenrat was responsible for finding food supply for people who would otherwise starve. We didn't have any milk for a while but at one point we asked the German authorities if they would give us some skim milk. It was just sitting in the dairy pointlessly, and after a while they responded to our pleas positively. So we started getting milk that we distributed in the ghetto.
Three, the Judenrat safeguarded the hygienic conditions in the ghetto to prevent diseases, and we were very successful in this area.
Four, the number one job was to take care of the constant demands by the Germans and their collaborators. The Gmina would demand building materials; glass, wood, nails, and everything needed to be given to them immediately. The police demanded things like boots, new uniforms, watches, bedding, and underwear for their wives and children. So we supplied them with that. The Strosava also demanded building materials, furniture, bedding, rugs, fur coats, and leather coats. The Gavita's commissar demanded furniture, beds, leather goods, and money, money, money, and once again money. They were not satisfied with small amounts. Sometimes we would send a transport of fifteen wagons filled to the tops.
I must emphasize that once in a while we had to send someone amongst the Judenrat people to transfer the goods, and this job was filled with danger and it was very hard to find volunteers. Time and again, Mordechai Dudman, the simple Jew who was renamed Mordechai the Detzhadik (the righteous) would volunteer for the job, which ended every time with him being badly wounded and lying in bed for many days. But no matter how bad it got, it never stopped him from volunteering again.
We didn't write much about the SS, the Gestapo and the brigades of German soldiers. They had a very simple technique. They would surround the ghetto and approach the Judenrat and demand immediately to be supplied with nightgowns, soap, gold, but they were not the only ones. Some of our Christian neighbors would also come and make demands. One day the people of the Strosava picked 40 random Jews in the Ghetto and took them to the Gmina and demanded that they lie on the ground for many hours, facing the floor. After many hours they announced to the Judenrat that they had to either give 500 gold rubles in twenty minutes or come to get their corpses. Clearly the money came in time.
So these were the activities of the Judenrat. With the blood in our hearts we would fulfill all the requirements they constantly spited at us. Once in a while we would meet and discuss how we would get the money from the residents of the ghetto. In some cases there were some in the ghetto that refused to give money, so then we would enter their house and forcibly gather the appropriate possessions since we knew that for the good of the community we must immediately obey.
There came a point in which we couldn't supply what they asked us for from what we had in the ghetto. So we started buying from the Christians whatever we could, but then came a time when we had no more supplies to give, so the Germans came and took us, all the members of the Judenrat, to the marketplace and demanded that we crawl on the floor. The Polish police walked behind us, hitting us with rubber bats. At the end they returned us to the ghetto and they said, You must know that you are all outlaws. Your life is not even equal to that of a leashed dog and your sentence is one of humiliation and contempt as long as we give you the gift of survival.
After everyone that the Germans found in the Ghetto was taken to the yard of the synagogue, they were told to lie facing the ground, and everyone who would lift his head would immediately be shot. Two, amongst them Berl Pirkovicz, who was insane, and Shaina Gitka, the daughter of Zelig the glazier, lifted their heads and were killed on the spot.
After a few hours of lying motionless on the ground, the head of the SS, who was leading the action, put a table in the area and called one of the Judenrat people to read aloud. From a list he had he called the names of the first 20 people. They were surrounded by SS troops. At first the Germans pretended as if they weren't going to annihilate them, only to send them to work. So they announced that anyone who wanted to change their clothes could do that and then return immediately to be taken to work. Many were confused and did it. They wore better clothes and returned.
The first twenty were taken to the edge of Karve Street, on the way to the village of Vistovicz. There stood a building that was unfinished. In the area of the building they put tables. They ordered the Jews to crawl on their knees between the tables, facing the wall, and there they shot them in the back with machine guns. With their blood splashing on the walls and the tables. A few died on the spot, but many were hanging between life and death. Some were just wounded and were fully conscious. But the Christians who were helping the SS threw all of them inside the house.
When the Jews heard the shots and the screaming of the first victims and it was clear what was happening, the next group that was approaching the area started screaming. Someone amongst the Jews yelled, Hora hora. Immediately they started running; some jumped off the trucks and started running towards the forests and fields. The policemen that ran after them caught most of them (except for two or three).
Some policemen were riding horses; they shot at the Jews who fell on the ground. Their bodies covered the entire area between the village and the forest. You cannot describe the sounds that came from the yard of the synagogue where the rest of the Jews were located when they heard the shots.
Only a few of the Jews who were at that point still in synagogue made an attempt to save themselves. Most of them walked to the killing field in total depression with no will to survive, like lambs to the slaughter, group after group, taken in both trucks and walking to the slaughter place. Each group was ordered to walk between the tables on their knees and was plowed by automatic weapons inside the house. And after the last body was thrown in there, they pushed in additional Jews who were still alive.
The house was set on fire with all the people in it. This was on a Sunday, the day of Ginusia). Since morning all the bells of the churches tolled, all the Christians in the villages, around the annihilation of the Jews. Thousands of them gathered in town, filling the streets near the place of the annihilation. After the war, many told the partisans that they saw the victims standing in the windows, screaming while the fire consumed the house. Finally their voices quieted, and the house with all its victims became dust.2
They said that the last two who were taken were Yosef Dudman and Doctor Podzelver. Yosef Dudman worked all day in his barbershop that was outside the ghetto area. He was almost sure that nothing bad would be done to him. He felt that the Germans needed him so they would keep him alive. On Sunday he was in his barbershop while the rest of the Jews were waiting for their fate. He worked hard that day, shaving and cutting hair for the Germans and other Christians. He put colognes on their faces and tried to smile, but his smile had the shape of a strange death. The soldiers patted him on the shoulder and said, Vas zin zay troy arik, Herr Dudman? They made jokes with him, and he continued to the end to work. His hands were working and his feet were like stone, until two SS soldiers came to take him.
As for Doctor Podzelver, the Christians say they begged to keep him alive since he was such a good doctor, but there was no use. When the SS brought him to the place where they annihilated the Jews, they didn't shoot him. They just threw him in the burning house. The Christians said they could see him standing in the window. He was covering his face from the flames that were already holding his clothes. He didn't beg, he didn't scream until his whole body was on fire, and he fell and became dust.
Kokin also survived. The Germans ordered him out of the line of those to be taken to be killed and sent him to a camp in Molodetshno. He succeeded in escaping from there and he arrived to the area of Vishnevo where he joined the partisans. Today (1970s) he lives in Canada.
Two brothers, Zalman and Berka Levin, hid on the day of the annihilation in a shed next to the synagogue that was full of hay. They hid in the hay and no one saw them. At night they escaped. The older one, who was 13, joined the partisans. The second one, who was 8, kept walking in the forests until he arrived at Vilna, where he entered the ghetto and suffered all the torments along with other children there. He survived by hiding in the underground sewers. After the war he was put in a trade school near Volozhin.
A third child by the name of Yosef Shlopsky, who was 8 at the time, escaped from the burning house and somehow survived. At night he returned to his house and found his father who was also able to escape. During that night they both escaped from town and joined the partisans. The father was killed in action. The son kept going from place to place with the partisan unit, and after the liberation was also sent to a technical school in Minsk.
There was also a refugee from Lodz who lived in Vishnevo. He escaped when he was taken to the killing field. He was shot and his guts spilled out, but still he was able to run to the forest while holding his guts, and bleeding profusely. In the forest he met with other people from Vishnevo and here they took care of him. He healed from his wounds but we don't know what happened with him after that.
Other than this there were additional people who were not in the ghetto at the time who survived, among them:
Rabbinovitz, CheinaHere is the description of Cheina Rabbinovitz who at the time of the slaughter worked at the Bogdonova Camp:
Dudman, Gdaliahu
Bar-Mikhail, Rubin, and his daughter who now lives in Vilna
Podberzesky, Ziska
Alishkevich, Zuska
Dudman, Leah
Glick, Yaheskel
Noah Podberzesky and his wife Mina Podberzesky
As I said before, most of the youths of Vishnevo worked either in Vojgany in Bogdanova or in the forests around Vishnevo. On Sunday the day of the Vishnevo holocaust, my friend and I entered the house in Bogdonova where we would bake bread. We started preparing for the baking and a Christian woman, an acquaintance came to us and said, Listen to me, it's very hard to say what I am saying but you must know that Vishnevo is burning and all the Jews were annihilated.
My hands went numb, my knees started shaking and my whole body twitched and I was momentarily in shock. But immediately I ran with all my might to the Jewish men in the area and told them what the woman said. We were at a loss for what to do. Finally we decided to send someone to town and the rest would meanwhile wait.
The messenger Sladinski came back on his bicycle and when he saw me he yelled from afar, In the name of God, save your souls! In Vishnevo there is not one living person! The men immediately left work and group-by-group they ran into the forest that was near the workplace. I returned to my friend who was staying in Vojgany since I wanted to take her with me. Together with me there were a few men, my cousins Berl, Leib Rabinovich Hirsch Davidson, and others. We all aimed to take the rest of the people who worked in Vojgany and together run to the forest.
It was an unlucky choice. As soon as we got to Vojgany we were surrounded by Nazi soldiers and they ordered us to join them. First they took us to Daviknevich, where there was a group of Vishnevan Jews working. As we were walking there the Germans said that they were going to combine our group with theirs and take us all to Vishnevo to kill us. As we arrived we found no one there. Some of them left on Saturday to visit their houses and were killed with the rest of the townspeople, and others escaped to the forest when they found out the fate of the ghetto. So we were taken now to Bogdonova where the Germans found a few more men. Now we were 12 young men and women surrounded by German soldiers, and at their head was the feldpebble.
We whispered to each other and the men said we must escape, no matter what. When we left Itzganzova, someone yelled, Hurrah hurrah. It was my cousin Berl. The men started running and a few succeeded but Berl was shot. He had a bullet in his intestines and he fell next to me, gravely wounded. He lay on the ground, begging, Cheina, save me. But I stood frozen next to him, my eyes saw it, but I could not come any closer to him. And soon a death rattle came over him. He shook with unbearable pain right next to me until his soul departed. When we returned to Bogdonova after an hour and a half, we saw him lying there at the place where he fell, but now he had no shoes and no coat, as the local people had taken them. From all the other men, all succeeded to escape except Hanan Ohishiskin, who was now with us. So now we were seven girls and one guy being taken to be killed. What did each one of us think while we were going to our deaths? To tell you the truth we were so confused and frozen with fear that we could not comprehend our situation. To say it simply, it's as if our ability to think was diminished and oblivion filled our skull. Our feet walked android-like.
When we passed near the Jewish cemetery, one of us, Riva (Rivka) Rodansky, started crying and begged the Feldpebble (rank of some kind?), Please have pity on us and kill us right here in the cemetery.
No answered the Feldpebble, The game must take place on the same stage.
We arrived at the central market in Vishnevo near the house of Sabertinivsky and there we stood, from afar we could smell the burned flesh and there was still smoke coming from the killing field, smoke that choked us. Every door on Vilna Street was ajar, and the new tenants, our Christian neighbors, sat on the porches and made love to one another. The market was crowded with thousands of people, partying and drunk. The gates of the ghetto were opened and the hundreds of Christians came in and out holding the last of the possessions of the ghetto's Jews. As soon as they saw us they gathered around us. A group of Christian girls, friends of Riva Esther's from the Polish elementary school, started bothering us from afar. They said, Give us your clothes since you are going to be killed anyway. A few minutes later Finger, who was completely drunk, came to me and put his hand on my shoulders and said, Look at me and see. There in the central market, the entire family of Israel Elie Rabbinovitz was just killed after they were taken from the attic of their house, where they had hid the day before.
The same fate was also dealt to Rosenberg and his family, Chaim Yudel Zusman, Bela Zusman, Batia Resnick, Avraham Itzhak Davidson, and others. They were able to hide for ten days, but then they were found by the Christian neighbors and with axes the neighbors smashed their heads and limbs.
We were taken back to Bogdanova, and the first job that we were ordered to do was to clean the tables stained with the blood of our martyrs.
At night they brought us to sleep in the house of a farmer by the name of Zirzitz. Meanwhile there were two trucks filled with Jewish laborers from Kerve, who worked in Zardel. As I found out, they were taken to be killed in Vishnevo, but their Feldpebble was very stubborn about saving them. He took them out of the burning house and protected them. But they were there through all the awful hours in the locality of the slaughter and witnessed the entire annihilation. Amongst them was a girl by the name of Raisel Milkovsky, who was born in Vishnevo but was married to someone from Kerve. She came to me and fell on my neck, hugging. We started crying. While crying she told me that she was there while they killed my parents. She told me that when their group was taken to be killed, my father left the line, came to her, and asked her to give me his last request, the request of all the martyred brothers, Revenge our blood.
At that moment I vowed inside that I must not wait for a minute, that I must escape to the forest and join the partisans so I could avenge their blood per my father's last testament to me. Eventually I accomplished my vows, but at that point there was a long, long way through all the rooms of Purgatory and Gehennam that I had to experience. At a late night hour I talked to the Christian man where I slept. He knew me from his friendship with my father and the rest of the family. He encouraged me. From now on you must be independent. Run to the forest. Here death will come to you. Behind my barns you will find farmer's clothes and a big kerchief and a whip. Take it and quickly wear it and run to the forest and may God be with you.
Then he described the road. It was a very dangerous road. I had to go about 40 km until I reached the place where he thought I would meet the partisans. I had to go through German camps, lakes, and forests all by myself, but I decided to escape no matter what. At four in the morning I went behind the barns dressed in the farmer's clothes with the kerchief on my head and the whip in my hand as if I was a herd's woman and left for the long and dangerous road to search for my partisan brothers.
I went around German camps, I crossed rivers, and only because I looked Christian no one paid any attention to me. I crossed the railroad of Yochiski, where German guards were standing, until I reached the forest of Vojgany. I sat there to rest for a few minutes. All of a sudden I heard the sounds of moving leaves. I lifted my eyes and I saw Alte, one of the girls taken with us to be killed, standing next to me. As I found out she followed me all the way here. I was very happy not to be alone. We sat there amongst the trees for a few minutes when all of a sudden we heard the sounds of German soldiers coming near us.
At the last minute we jumped in the bushes and lucky for us they passed by without seeing us. We got up and started running. For hours we ran without looking back and with no rest. So miraculously we arrived in the puszcza in the area of the forest that was amongst the isolated Polish farmhouses. It was a very, very hot day and we were very thirsty. We could see farmers working in the fields, but we were scared. Finally we arrived in a lonely ranch. There was no one in the yard. We approached the well and took the pail of water. We had no time to drink. All of a sudden a farmer came, the owner of the house we thought. He was huge and clumsy looking, with a heavy mustache. As soon as he saw us he started screaming, What are you doing on my land? Don't you know a death sentence is hanging on you? I put down the pail and said in Russian, Do as you wish. He answered, See this axe? Immediately I will smash your heads with it. My friend started crying and begged, You are the father of children. Have pity on us and let us go. He came near us and spit on us with his full mouth and cursed us in Russian and said, Well, if my hands won't be responsible, someone else will kill you. Get out of here immediately. We ran as fast as we could.
There were many other occasions that I will not tell you about, but anyway, at one point we met some of the Jewish guys from Vishnevo who were out in the field. We were very happy but after a while we were disappointed when they had to leave us alone in the forest. We also met a Polish Schletitz by the name of Yoshe (Joshe?), who was a putter in the puszcza. He was very fatherly towards us and helped us. Finally we met the partisan troop by the name of Pogdschov, and here we finally found our saviors. Amongst them were the same Vishnevoan guys who at that point let us join the partisans. Truly we always lived in danger but this was a troop that was always thirsty for action. Together with them, once we joined them our main occupation was revenge.
It took about a month until our partisans were able to get the respect and trust of the Russians and they started using us for sabotage in the army camps. Our first mission was to sabotage the bridge where the train tracks near the Vojgany station. We had information that during the night there would be a train filled with German soldiers with heavy ammunition (?) going to the front in Moscow. The bridge was located near a small forest and the entire area was guarded by a full garrison of soldiers. It was a dark night and heavy mist covered the earth. Hidden by the darkness we crawled from the side of the train tracks waiting for the designated hour.
All of a sudden, two farmers from Helinotzya passed by. We stopped them. Some of us said we must kill them, but they fell on our feet and begged for their souls. After inspection and interrogation, the mission commander said we would release them on the condition that they must supply us with some weapons. Otherwise, not only would their lives be in danger, but also their families', since we could reach them whereever they could hide. They swore on all that was holy to them that they would return, and they did.
We had some difficulties at first with the mission, but finally at 4 in the morning there was the sound of huge explosions. The bridge was destroyed just as the train filled with soldiers and ammo came by. We succeeded in running away at the moment of the explosion and we returned to our base minutes after the sounds of the explosions. Later we found out that the train blew up and the sounds of destruction were heard everywhere in the entire area.
Our missions were not always successful. We suffered some losses in one mission, such as the one where Shlobosky and Subotnik were killed
2 They did not become dust The bodies were in a pile cooked. On the very top of the pile was a mother holding her child to her heart. Return
3 A very swamp like area and heavily covered in moss and thickly wooded areas. Return
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What do you think about the leading actress in this film? Do Mark and Thandie look good together???
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Hey everybody! I just stopped by to see the latest news about this movie. I can't wait. I just saw Charade on video and I really liked it. Thandie is a good choice for this role. She's beautiful and very classy. I think Mark and Thandie will be smooookin'!
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yeah thandie was the mission impossible 2 girl. i think they look awesome 2gether. if u guys ahd to pick one hollywood actress to pair up with mark who would u pick? so far..im thinknig angelina jolie [the most gorgeous of all]
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I think Thandie is sooo beautiful and I bet they will have great chemistry. shes married and has a kid- not that it matters, just a bit of info 4 ya. Its great that 2 different races will be 2 gether romanticly in a movie. I cannot wait 'till it comes out!
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She is gorgous, and I think Mark looks even hotter with a sort of more exotic looking woman, you know, as opposed to a typical Hollywood bimbette.
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WOW, she`s beutiful!!!....Oh yeah she`s the girl in Mission Impossible 2.
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Thandie on Mark from Empire Online: 22/01/2002
Tom Cruise drew heaps of praise from all present at last night's Vanilla Sky premiere (21 January) and his Mission: Impossible 2 co-star Thandie Newton was no exception. But while singing Cruise's praises, Newton did stop long enough to give Empire Online the lowdown on her latest project.
"I've just finished a film with Mark Wahlberg, which Jonathan Demme directed. It's a remake of Charades with Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant, so it's that kind of banter and the chemistry between those two characters."
Based on the 1963 film, The Truth About Charlie sees Newton as a young woman in Paris who is about to divorce her husband when she finds out he's died and taken all their money with him. The plot thickens as a strange man (Wahlberg) tells her the money is really his and demands that she hand it over. Cue intrigues within intrigues and a string of dead bodies.
"We're not trying to recreate the film," says Newton, "it's a complete departure but it's still a romance, a thriller-romance." The original involved the theft of a WWII payroll but this has doubtless been rewritten to bring the story up to date.
With Newton having acted alongside Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and a number of other shapely actors, we can't help but wonder how well Wahlberg measures up?
"He's great. I found him quite controlled and reserved, he's an incredibly sexy presence in life and on screen he's all man."
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I reckon the chemistry between them should be electric, she is a beautiful and talented actress, I can't wait to see them both together!
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I have never seen Charade,but I'm going to see if I can find it.Maybe my local library has it,since they carry alot of old movies.Audrey Hepburn was an amazing actress.
I think Mark and Thandie will look good together on screen,and I can't wait to see the movie.
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My conference experience started off with the excellent NetBeans party on Saturday evening. I am a member of the NetBeans Dream Team, so many of my colleagues were in attendance at this party. It was the first time I had seen many old friends, and it was great to have a chance to catch up without needing to worry about rushing to the next session. I want to thank Geertjan Wielenga and Oracle for hosting this excellent event, and I cannot wait until the next Apache NetBeans party.
On Sunday at NetBeans Day, I had the pleasure of presenting "Enterprise Modeling of MVC and Java EE Artifacts" with experts Ivar Grimstad and Gaurav Gupta. Ivar is on the expert group for JSR 371 (MVC 1.0)...which we hope to move forward for use with Java EE 8. Gaurav is the lead developer for the excellent JPA Modeler tool. During our session, Ivar gave an overview of MVC 1.0, Gaurav highlighted the JPA Modeler utility, and I demonstrated how the JPA Modeler could be utilized with JSF applications, as well as MVC 1.0. I want to thank Geertjan again for getting the three of us together for this excellent talk.
The opening keynote was amazing. A large portion was devoted to showing how the world is using Java, including the outstanding Mars rover presentation by Dr. Anita Sengupta (@Doctor_Astro). It was amazing to see the complexity and detail that went into ensuring the Curiosity rover landed without issues. Of course, Java 9 was mentioned, along with a demo of modularity and the jshell by Mark Reinhold...very informative, as always.
During the opening keynote, I anxiously awaited word on the status of Java EE, and after quite a long wait, the announcement was made. I am very excited that Java EE 8 efforts are moving forward, albeit a bit differently than previously planned. Essentially most of the specifications for Java EE 8 is moving forward, and it is proposed that the following be removed so that resources can spend time in other areas: JSR 371 (MVC 1.0) and JSR 368 (JMS 2.1), JSR 373 (Management 2.0). I will cover my thoughts on these proposed dropped specifications in a follow-up post. The main focus for Java EE 8 will be to start paving the path for a more micoservices focused platform, whereby Java EE 9 will be released a year later and it will include the full microservices implementation. The addition of Health Checking and Configuration specifications would be beneficial for providing a standard means by which to monitor services and dynamically configure our applications. Overall, it is great to see things moving forward for Java EE, although I do have some reservations on the overall approach. I do not believe that every industry will adopt the microservices architecture, so there needs to be a path for those who will be continuing with the standard Java EE application architecture.
Rather than going through detail on each of the sessions that I had attended, I will provide a summary of my thoughts on the conference overall. As I have said many times before, time is not our friend...and this certainly was the case this year at JavaOne, as there were too many great tutorials, sessions, and networking events that it was difficult to see everything. Hats off to Sharat Chander and others at Oracle for organizing such a great conference. I also want to thank the content review committees for reviewing and choosing such great conference tutorials and sessions...the content was excellent!
The tutorials and hands-on labs dealing with Microservices were hot this year. I attended two of them myself. One of them was a hands on lab that enabled us to develop Microservices using JBoss Forge and WildFly Swarm. It was a fast pace tutorial covering everything from setting up Eclipse (unfortunately not my favorite IDE), through utilizing Forge, constructing services, and deployment. I am glad I attended, as it gave me a different perspective on development from what I am used to. The second was a tutorial on utilizing Payara Micro and the Payara MicroProfile. I found this tutorial very in-depth, covering these technologies from the ground-up, with lots of detailed explanation. I learned it is quite easy to add the Payara Microprofile to a project, simply by including the dependency in the POM:
Deploying is as simple as:
java -jar payara-microprofile-1.0.jar --deploy test-app.war
I attended many key Java EE sessions, including those given by Linda DeMichiel and others leading the specifications. All of these were informative, covering content from previous Java EE incarnations through what to expect in Java EE 8. Linda's presentation on Monday went into a bit more detail on the plans for Java EE 8, and it is clear to see that Oracle is "all in" on moving forward with the newly proposed plan for Java EE 8...which is great! Each of the specification-specific talks that I attended were excellent, including CDI 2.0, JAX-RS 2.1, and JSF 2.3. Great to hear from the experts for these areas. I also took in a couple of other key talks: Java EE Extendable to Functional by David Blevins, and 50 Java EE Best Practices by Ryan Cuprak and Michael Remijan...both great!
There were a lot of sessions on Java 9 and modularity this year. I attended a session on modularity, which was a great introduction for those hadn't yet had a chance to experiment with it. Docker was another hot topic at the conference, and I had the opportunity to attend a couple of sessions covering this great tech.
I had the privilege to attend the JCP Party on Monday evening. Always an excellent opportunity to network with others in the JCP, and this year's event did not let us down. The Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG), Bob Paulin, and myself won an award at the JCP Party on Monday evening for Adopt-a-JSR participants of the year. This was a very nice surprise! I also attended PartyOne, hosted by Tomitribe, ZeroTurnaround, BainCapital, and Hazelcast. This was a great opportunity to network with so many experts...and there was also a great view of the Bay Bridge off the balcony. I want to thank Tomitribe for the invitation! Lastly, I attended the Oracle Appreciation Event, which was very nice. The Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne attendees had AT&T Park to themselves, and we got to see Sting and Gwen Stefani. Great networking opportunity with many great friends.
Overall, JavaOne 2016 was another great conference...very glad to have been a part of it. If you have not done so already, please take the Java EE Survey and provide your thoughts on the upcoming Java EE 8 proposal:


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Provides patient/resident assessment, care planning, direct treatment and consultation to a general rehab caseload. Participates in the clinical team process. Provides teaching and training to care giver staff. Involvement in clinical program development. Supervises other licensed therapists, assistants, technicians, aides and students as required. In programs with two or more physical therapists/assistants, may provide additional administrative duties as assigned.
May supervise PTs, PTAs, PT Aides, Rehab Techs and/or Rehab Aides and students involved in the program.
Screens patients/residents.
Evaluates patients/residents and develops appropriate care plans.
May perform additional assigned administrative duties such as: assigning and overseeing patient/resident care activities, medical record oversight, assuring execution of physician orders, ordering supplies, etc.
Under a physician�s order, provides direct patient/resident treatment in accordance with an established plan of care. Treatment venue includes one-on-one, supervised and group.
Contributes to the team meeting and decision-making process as defined by the program.
Provides consultation and training to patients, residents, families, and care givers.
Monitors efficiencies on an ongoing basis in collaboration with supervisor.
Documents activities according to the company�s clinical documentation system on a timely basis.
Demonstrates consistent knowledge and application of Medicare and other reimbursement regulations.
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Promotes positive customer relations.
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Participates in clinical program development and implementation.
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Hidden in the three clips from the cute little comedy Seeking A Friend for the End of the World is this amazing gem of an end-of-the-world restaurant dining experience. In Lorene Scafaria's (Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist) movie, the government announces that the world will end in three weeks (thanks to an oncoming asteroid) and two strangers take a road trip to find one of their lost loves. It's all pretty sweet and fun and what you would expect — with the exception of this restaurant scene. We 100% believe that if the world was ending, at least one Chili's or TGIF restaurant would turn into a full-fledged sex party with mudslides and flair. It's delightful check it out.
Here's the official synopsis, and a few more clips and featurettes.
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
Seeking A Friend For the End of the World will hit theaters on June 22nd.


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Dr. Francis J. Beckwith, who is a professor of philosophy and church-studies at Baylor University and author of the book "Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice," will present the address "What the Abortion Debate is Really About" on Monday, March 2, at 4 p.m. in the Maas Center auditorium.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Beckwith teaches in the departments of philosophy and political science as well as the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, where he served as associate director from July 2003 until January 2007. He is also a Fellow and Faculty Affiliate in Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR). During 2008-09 he is serving on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame as the Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow in Notre Dame's Center for Ethics and Culture.
Including "Defending Life," published by Cambridge University Press in 2007, he has authored 10 books, as well as numerous articles and book chapters, and is frequently quoted in the national media. He is the former president of the Evangelical Theological Society, a position he gave up after he converted to Catholicism, a process detailed in his book "Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic."
Beckwith's lecture is being sponsored by the college's department of political science; office of campus ministries; and chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honors society.
The Maas Center is located at 264 Columbia Ave., on Columbia Avenue at 11th Street.


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Authorities probe death of Indiana County man found frozen
Christopher Brander case being treated as homicide, sister says
A coroner says toxicology tests will likely pinpoint the cause of death of a man whose frozen body was found face down in a snowy western Pennsylvania yard.
Indiana County Coroner Michael Baker says Tuesday the body of 28-year-old Christopher Brander showed he was likely assaulted or in a fight before he died, but none of those injuries was serious enough to kill him.
Baker also ruled out hypothermia, saying the body was frozen because it had been there for a while before it was found Friday.
Brander's body was found in Glen Campbell. His sister has told investigators that Brander had abused drugs and may have had recently dealings with drug traffickers.
Catherine Byers, of Mahaffey, tells the Indiana Gazette (http://bit.ly/12F387q ) that troopers from the Punxsutawney barracks are treating the death of her brother as a homicide.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Dodgers reinstate Lilly from the DL, option Federowicz
The Los Angeles Dodgers today reinstated left-handed pitcher Ted Lilly from the disabled list and optioned catcher Tim Federowicz to Triple-A Albuquerque. Lilly, who will start tonight's game at New York, has been on the disabled list since March 28 recovering from his September 21, 2012 left shoulder labrum surgery and made three rehab starts for Single-A Rancho Cucamonga and Triple-A Albuquerque. Lilly last pitched on April 16 for Rancho Cucamonga at Lake Elsinore, allowing four runs (three earned) on seven hits and throwing 81 pitches in 5.0 innings. The 37-year-old last pitched in a Major League game on May 23, 2012.
Federowicz, who was recalled on April 17, has appeared in three games for the Dodgers this season and gone 0-for-5, including popping out as a pinch-hitter in last night's contest.
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Police look at Colo. teen in 2 other child cases
Denver — Police in a Colorado town where the body of a missing 10-year-old girl was found said Friday that they want to question a teenage suspect in two unsolved child enticement cases.
A sketch developed in the September incidents bears some resemblance to 17-year-old Austin Sigg, who's being held on suspicion of first-degree murder and kidnapping in the death of Jessica Ridgeway, Arvada police spokesman Sgt. Mark Nazaryk said.
The sketch and Sigg's mug shot wasn't an exact match, Nazaryk noted.
He also said investigators were trying to determine if Sigg had access to a royal blue, four-door sedan described by witnesses in both cases.
The September child enticement cases involved a man who tried to lure two boys about the same age as Jessica into a car.
No suspects were identified in those incidents.
Sigg is being held without bail on suspicion of murder and kidnapping in the death of Jessica, and attempted murder and attempted kidnapping in the case of runner at a neighborhood lake in May. Prosecutors were expected to formally charge him next week.
In arguing that Sigg be held without bail, prosecutors disclosed that Sigg confessed and that DNA evidence in the case was overwhelming.
Jessica disappeared three weeks ago after leaving her home in the Denver suburb to walk to school. She never arrived. Her remains were found on Oct. 10.
In the May attack, a 22-year-old woman told police a stranger grabbed her from behind and put a rag that smelled of chemicals over her mouth. Police haven't disclosed if the rag had a chemical on it meant to subdue the woman.
Sigg turns 18 in January. He remains in a juvenile detention facility and cannot face the death penalty because of his age when he allegedly committed the crime. Jefferson County District Attorney Scott Storey said Sigg will likely be charged and tried as adult by his office.
But that decision can be challenged by Sigg's public defenders who can ask a judge for what's called a reverse transfer to keep the case in juvenile court under a state law passed this year. Among the factors to be considered by a judge to keep the case in an adult court are the seriousness of the crime, impact on the victims, and the maturity and intelligence level of the defendant.
The difference between adult court and juvenile court is that the maximum sentence for serious crimes, such as murder, which in juvenile court is seven years, said Kim Dvorchak, founder of a the advocacy group, Colorado Juvenile Defender Coalition.
While adults face a mandatory life without parole for a murder conviction, juveniles tried as adults face life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years, Dvorchak said.
Even if Sigg's case remains in juvenile court and he's convicted, the changes to the law enacted this year allow juveniles to serve back-to-back sentences for multiple convictions for crimes of violence, which could mean a decades-long prison term for Sigg. That sentence would first be served in a youth corrections facility followed by a transfer to an adult prison at age 21, Dvorchak said.
That change was prompted by family outrage and prosecutor's frustration at a seven year sentence handed down in September 2011 to a Burlington, Colo., boy who pleaded guilty to killing his parents and severely injuring his siblings when he was 12. That boy will be on parole for two years after he's released from youth corrections when he's 20.
Whether a judge will approve Sigg being tried as an adult or send his case to juvenile court is yet to be seen as it is the first high-profile case under the changes meant to prevent a cookie-cutter approach for juveniles, Dvorchak said.
"This is a very unusual case," Dvorchak said.
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- Publication Date: December 30, 2013
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After killing his heartmate, Tarkhan is on a quest to destroy the evil that caused all his problems. He isn't ready for another relationship but Willem has different ideas, and when they band together with two more Wolven to rid their world of the Shades of Martak they are thrown together whether Tarkhan wants it or not. But it's not until he almost loses Willem that Tarkhan realises it's possible to love more than once.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Series Expands With 8-inch and 10.1-inch Tablet Variants
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Series Expands With 8-inch and 10.1-inch Tablet Variants
Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 8-inch and 10.1-inch are now available in the Philippines.
Offering an expanded range of options along with previously announced 7-inch version, the Galaxy Tab 3 Series comes packed with enhanced content and intuitive design perfect for viewing or sharing content with friends and family.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8-inch
The optimal device for viewing videos, playing enhanced games, and reading e-Books, the 8-inch device sports a slim bezel for maximum screen use that marries Samsung's "reading mode" technology to deliver perfect illumination and tone for comfortable paper-like readability in a variety of lighting conditions. Its Sound Alive for Audio and Dolby Surround for Video Play maximize every sound allow users to enjoy clearer dialogue, consistent volume levels, and superior audio to further enhance the overall multimedia experience with the new device. Also, the physical keys on the bezel at bottom give users a comfortable smartphone-like experience in navigating.
The Galaxy Tab 3 8-inch features S Translator, which provides instant translation through voice recognition and via text on applications including email, text message, and ChatON. This instant translation is possible both from speech-to-text and text-to-speech, ensuring that you can communicate with ease while traveling internationally. In addition, S Travel, the Smart Travel Companion, provides real-time local information in need for travel along with user's travel paths. Users can get information and make reservation of the places classified in various categories such as Place, Hotel, Tickets, Food and Forum, and more. Also, intuitive features such as Story Album and Group Play also allow users more ways to instantly share and enjoy music, photos, documents, and games with those around them.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1-inch
Equipped with a 1.6GHz Dual-core processor, the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1-inch comes with a comprehensive suite of video, music, and photo software, making it ideal for everyday family use and multimedia consumption. The tablet packs Smart Remote and MHL (TV Out) capabilities, seamlessly transiting from a gaming device for kids to the home media control device for the parents.
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- Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 3G (SM-T2110) PhP 12,990
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Posted by Frank on December 27, 1997 at 22:54:48:
In Reply to: Paul Mitchell: There is 2nd witness to Constitution posted by Committee for Original Intent on December 26, 1997 at 02:21:06:
: The founding fathers knew what they were doing when they gave us the Constitution for the United States of America. They also knew it would be abused, amended, changed, etc. and at some point would need the people to stand up and reclaim their rights (similar to the Barons with King John in 1215 and also similar to our own Declaration of Independence etc.) When you read their diaries and correspondence, they all state how important it is to stay educated, etc. You know all of that, so I'll get right to the point. They gave us our basic tools to get the original intent back into our government. I'm speaking of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. Let me explain. The delegates met in May 1787 through September 1787 and hammered out the Constitution. During that same period of time, Congress was sitting and in July of 1787, they passed the Northwest Ordinance. This, of course, gave the basic ways the territoritory Norwest of the River Ohio could become States, (number of people, etc.). But within it, it contained the most important basic rights we need, i.e. trial by jury (not jury trial) and the judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law. The Northwest Ordinance was passed at the same time the delegates were meeting at the Constitutional Convention, but the delegates at the Convention knew what was in it and what had passed! Rufus King of Massachusetts stood up (during the issue of paper money) and quoted it!!!! How could they know what was in it?? I beleive it was part of a master plan to get us an unadulterated declaration of rights that wouldn't be changed or amended so that we could find it now that we need it. The Northwest Ordinance was about 8 pages and was based on a 2 1/2 page document written in 1784 by Jefferson. Others added to it and expanded it (Dane's diary states he is offended that Jefferson gets all the credit for it!). Now, here is the really interesting part. The Northwest Ordinance was passed under the Articles of Confederation which were in effect until the ratification of the Constitution in 1789. The Constitution recognized all engagements and compacts made under the Articles of Confederation as being valid under the Constitution. That should seal the fact that the Northwest Ordinance applies -- but, the founding fathers went even further. They waited until the 9th state had ratified the Constitution and then just after (August 1789) Congress adopted the Northwest Ordinance IN TOTAL as an Act of Congress!!! Why would they have to have it in twice?? They wanted to make sure we get to claim the right of trial by jury of PEERS and that we get the judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law. Trial by jury of peers means folks who of same education level and status (I'm researching old dictionaries), and it also means that the jury gets to decide the law and the fact. If we know how to seat a jury of peers, just to get a level playing field, we'll go back to a true jurisdicition under the common law, or law of the "country" or law of the "people." I've written 3 papers on this, expanding. Do you know all this stuff already or are you interested in the research? Let me know.
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Carnegie Mellon engineering researchers to create speech recognition in silicon
Team to develop new silicon chip
Carnegie Mellon University's Rob A. Rutenbar is leading a national research team to develop a new, efficient silicon chip that may revolutionize the way humans communicate and have a significant impact on America's homeland security.
Rutenbar, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon, working jointly with researchers at the University of California at Berkeley received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to move automatic speech recognition from software into hardware.
"I can ask my cell phone to 'Call Mom,'" says Rutenbar, "but I can't dictate a detailed email complaint to my travel agent or navigate a complicated Internet database by voice alone."
The problem is power--or rather, the lack of it. It takes a very powerful desktop computer to recognize arbitrary speech. "But we can't put a PentiumTM in my cell phone, or in a soldier's helmet, or under a rock in a desert," explains Rutenbar, "the batteries wouldn't last 10 minutes."
Thus, the goal is to create a radically new and efficient silicon chip architecture that only does speech recognition, but does this 100 to 1,000 times more efficiently than a conventional computer.
The research team is uniquely poised to deliver on this ambitious project. Carnegie Mellon researchers pioneered much of today's successful speech recognition technology. This includes the influential 'Sphinx' project, the basis for many of today's commercial speech recognizers.
"We're still not even close to having a voice interface that will let you throw away your keyboard and mouse, but this current research could help us see speech as the primary modality on cell phones and PDAs," said Richard Stern, a professor in electrical and computer engineering and the team's senior speech recognition expert. "To really throw away the keyboard, we have to go to silicon." But enhanced conversations between people and consumer products is not the main goal. "Homeland security applications are the big reason we were chosen for this award," says Rutenbar. "Imagine if an emergency responder could query a critical online database with voice alone, without returning to a vehicle, in a noisy and dangerous environment. The possibilities are endless."
Researchers plan to unveil speech-recognition chip architecture in two to three years.
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Archive for December, 2012
Fraud involving Australian credit cards, debit cards and cheques reached $285 million in June this year, down from a peak of $302 million in December.
Credit cards still dominate the statistics, accounting for $263 million, or 97 per cent, of all fraud in the 2011-12 financial year. Debit cards accounted for 3 per cent and cheques just 0.05 per cent.
This credit card figure includes an estimated $30 million taken over two years by a Romania-based crime ring that was only recently exposed. That syndicate had access to 500,000 Australian credit cards and about 30,000 credit cards were exploited, the Australian Federal Police said when the ring was smashed last month.
About 15.6¢ out of every $1000 transaction during the year was fraudulent, just a fraction of the $1.8 trillion spent through cards and cheques in total, according to the Australian Payments Clearing Association [APCA].
Transactions that do not require the customers' presence, such as online, telephone and mail shopping, are the most susceptible and the increasing rate of online shopping is likely to push fraud statistics higher in coming years.
''As people take to online shopping enthusiastically…that is a more challenging fraud environment because you do not know who you are dealing with and you do not know who is watching. That is an ongoing challenge for the entire industry,'' chief executive of the APCA, Chris Hamilton, said.
However, the average amount stolen during a fraudulent credit card transaction has dropped from $365 to $225 because criminals are ''testing'' their methods and trying to hide among normal transactions, he added.
About $14 million was stolen using debit cards that require a personal identification number [PIN]. This is down from a peak of $27.9 million in 2009-10 when Australia was targeted by international criminal groups skimming ATMs and eftpos machines. Since the group was busted machines have been updated and more Australian cards fitted with micro-chips that are harder to copy than magnetic strips. But criminals have found new techniques with debit card fraud rising to $7.7 million between December 2011 and June 2012, compared to $5.2 million in the previous six months.
''We understand there has been an increase in skimming activity at ATMs, in petrol stations and in taxis. Consumers can help stay safe by keeping their card in sight when making payments and always covering their hand when entering their PIN at point-of-sale terminals and ATMs,'' Mr Hamilton said.
Banks and credit unions usually reimburse card holders, providing the customer is not at fault.
Cheque fraud declined to $7.9 million in 2011-12 from a peak of $18 million in 2010 as fewer people use cheque books. However, it is more damaging with fraud reaching an average value of $11,000.
''The guys who used to be experts at cheque fraud are finding it harder and harder to do that, they are gradually going out of business. So I suspect what you are seeing are the last few people who are trying to engage in cheque fraud going after larger and larger values,'' Mr Hamilton said
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Federal authorities are investigating a website that leaked personal information on government officials including FBI Director Robert Mueller and celebrities including Jay-Z and Kim Kardashian.
It's another sign that anyone can fall victim to an attack by savvy hackers. So, what should you do if your accounts get hacked? Here are some tips.
Call your bank and/or credit agencies. If your personal or financial information has been compromised, contact the appropriate institutions as soon as possible. Banks can review and — most likely — halt any transactions made by another person.
Also, get a copy of your credit report. It's free, and gives you quick access to any accounts that are open or may have been opened in your name. Users can also set up a free fraud alert at one of the three major agencies — Experian, Equifax orTransunion. It lasts three months, and requires any creditor to contact you by phone when a request to issue credit is made. You can also opt to freeze your credit to prevent anyone — yourself included — from opening a line of credit.
Our tech expert Kim Komando has more on what to do in cases of identity theft.
Scan and update your computer. Perform an antivirus scan to ensure there's no malware or other virus looming on your computer. Also, make sure your computer is running the latest version of its operating system.
MORE: Celebrities aren't the only targets of data thieves
Update and bolster your passwords. If you discover your social network account such as Facebook or Twitter has been hacked, request a password reset immediately. Users will get an email with a link they can click to begin the process. If details such as email have already been changed, most sites have a process for recovering your account.
If the compromised account features a password you have used for other online accounts, change those too.
When choosing passwords, make them as complex as possible. Use a combination of letters, numbers and symbols when creating a password, and use several passwords for multiple sites.
Once you've created your passwords, if you have approved permissions to any third-party apps, disable that option.
Perhaps the most important thing to remember is to stay vigilant. No one is immune to hacking, but quickly responding to an incident can make the experience less stressful.


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Travel Medicine Program
The Mount Sinai Travel Medicine Program is a designated Yellow Fever Center and offers official yellow fever vaccine certificates to both adults and children. As an academic center for travel medicine, Mount Sinai serves as a referral center for patients working for the United Nations and Doctors Without Borders.
The Mount Sinai Travel Medicine Program is part of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine.
Mount Sinai offers comprehensive travel health services for individuals, families and groups:
- Pre-travel - assessment, all immunizations, health counseling and prescriptions for travel medications, including anti-malaria medications
- Post-travel care - evaluation and treatment for any travel-acquired health problem
Specialized Services
Customized services for business travelers, NGOs, and others are available. Please call us to discuss your particular travel health concerns and needs. We speak English and Spanish.
Pre-travel services are offered on a fee-for-service basis because most health insurance plans do not cover the pre-travel visit. Health insurance is accepted for post-travel services.
Daniel Caplivski, M.D.
Medical Director of the Travel Medicine Program
Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases
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