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Cool Stuff: 'I Love You, Man' Art Show Focuses on Film Friendship
Posted on Friday, May 10th, 2013 by Germain Lussier
From black lights to best friends, Brooklyn's Bottleneck Gallery is getting sentimental for their next pop culture art exhibit. It's called I Love You, Man and is focused on friendships that are prevalent in film or television. Some examples: The Channel 4 News Team in Anchorman, the Ghostbusters, Ferris and Cameron in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Bill and Ted, The Boondock Saints, The Three Amigos, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid or Donnie and the Rabbit in Donnie Darko. Obviously, it's a theme the gallery allowed to be twisted ever so slightly, but if you've ever dreamt of an Encino Man print, this is the show for you.
"I Love You, Man" opens at 7 p.m. Friday May 10 and will remain on display through May 26 at the gallery, which is in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. Check out a nice, big sampling from the show below. Read More »


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Thank goodness, the principal who showed a silly video of himself as the Terminator during school announcements won't actually lose his job. Erick Naumann is just getting a two-day suspension, after a meeting where a dozen parents, teachers and staff members spoke in his support. Typical comment:
"I don't think he was trying to do anything bad," said Everett High School Junior Sarah Noelsaint. "He was just trying to find a way to connect with the students."
Score one for common sense. [Boston.com]

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The latest video highlights a lone survivor facing off against the King of the Zombies and his undead horde in the game's multiplayer mode. The trailer uses live actors in the beginning.
People claim they want a real survivor horror game and ZombiU is supposedly that game. We will see how well this game sells. Capcom thinks survivor horror games wont sell that well, so it will be interesting to see if ZombiU has great sales numbers.
So thats what the multiplayer for this game is like. While that looks fun, no online kinda hurts. Its probably better this way to start off. I'd rather them focus on single player and gameplay, but wait until Nintendo has a clear direction for online. That way if they make a stellar single player and a fun offline multiplayer, if sells are there, the possible sequels online modes will blow the doors off on a more fleshed out network. This trailer still has not sold me on the game for day one, but I will keep an eye on it and hope for a demo.


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By Shira Sorko-Ram
Across the board, Christians of all types almost universally see no anti-Semitism in the movie, The Passion, but rather they see their beloved Yeshua who intentionally gave His life for their sins.
But Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of the Christ, has brought to the surface an explosion of outcries and protest, exposing a deeply rooted anxiety and dread in the hearts of the Jewish people that is extremely difficult for Christians to comprehend.
Christians, especially in the Americas, are barely aware of the history of European Jewish-Christian relations over the last 2000 years, and therefore are astounded at comments such as those of Jerusalem Post journalist, Stuart Schaffman, who professes not to have any aversion to Christianity, but who wrote, "What shocked me more as I watched The Passion…was just how unambiguously anti-Semitic Gibson's film turned out to be." (Jerusalem Post, Mar. 22,04)
Schaffman's voice was one of a multitude of Israelis and Jews across the world who wished so earnestly that the film had not been made. The average Christian would assume that this response simply comes from Jewish rejection of Jesus. But often that is not the case!
What, then, has caused our Jewish people to literally freak out over The Passion? Unfortunately, there is very good reason for such concern—and it is imperative for Christians to know the answer to this question.
Some of what I am about to write may be difficult, but hear me out because this information is critical to the returning of the Jewish people to the God of Israel and His Son, Yeshua.
Christians must comprehend this: Jews are not automatically against the story of Yeshua's death being told; they are terrified that the Christian world, and the entire world for that matter, will see the Jewish people as His killers.
The sad, but incontrovertible truth is that Christianity, in its infancy, laid the foundation for a doctrine of hatred towards the Jew as an individual and as a nation. Satan's well-thought-out plan to cleave and separate the link between the Messiah and the Jewish community forever was thus incubated and spawned.
The theology is nearly 2000 years old: The Jews, being forever rejected by God because they rejected and killed Christ, are now replaced by the Church. The early Church fathers gave themselves over to hatred of the Jewish people, and then imposed it on their Christian fold by making their contempt into Church dogma. There are three main Scriptures in the New Testament on which this doctrine is based. Comparing these Scriptures with others is for another article, but it is important to know what anti-Semites have used as their Biblical basis:
1. "And all the people answered and said, 'His blood be on us and on our children.'" Matthew 27:25
2. "'You are of your father the devil, and the desire of your father you want to do.'" John 8:44
3. "'Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews, and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them to come and bow down at your feet, and to know that I have loved you.'" Revelation: 3:9
Over the first 1000 years after the Messiah's death and resurrection, the Jewish people were gradually subjected to a demonization of their national character. The Church attributed to the Jews all of the evils of the world the portrayal of Jews as the enemy of all that is good and the repository of all that is evil. The Jews were Esau, the Christians Jacob. The Jews were Cain and the Christians Abel.
The Jews were accused of poisoning the wells of Europe and causing the bubonic plague among the gentiles. The Church fathers such as Justin Martyr, Gregory of Nyssa and John Chrysostom laid the foundation for the phenomenon of extreme hatred towards a people unparalleled in the annals of nations. Hear St. John Chrysostom in the 4th Century: [The Jews are the] "most miserable of all men….lustful, rapacious, greedy, perfidious bandits….inveterate murders, destroyers, men possessed by the devil….The synagogue is not only a whorehouse and a theater; it is also a den of thieves and a haunt of wild animals."
St. Jerome, about the same time, stated of the synagogue, "If you call it a brothel, a den of vice, the Devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul…you are still saying less than it deserves."
Theologically, for the Church to validate the premise that she was the "True Israel," or the "Israel according to the Spirit," heir to the divine promises, it was essential that the Church discredit the "Israel according to the flesh." In order to substantiate the doctrine that God had transferred His love to the Christians, the clergy had to show proof that God had cast away His ancient people.
After Christianity became the official religion of the Roman state (321 A.D.), the emperors began to translate Church theology into more practical forms. Gradually, the Christian nations took away the civil rights, human rights, and practical rights of the Jewish people. Jews became illegal aliens in the Christian lands, even though they had often lived there for generations.
Jews were not allowed to own land, to work in most professions, to attend universities or to hold public office. In some areas, they were not allowed to eat in the company of non-Jews. In many countries, they were reduced to abject poverty, cursed and despised by their Christian neighbors, and subjected to brutal decrees by the Christian rulers.
Now I am aware that the readers of this article are quite sure that the vast majority of citizens living in these European Christian lands were no more true followers of Jesus, born-again by the Spirit of God, than are their descendants today. Nevertheless, during those many centuries, unlike today, Europeans definitely considered themselves Christians, and so did the Jews.
Because of the intensity of Christian degradation during the Dark Ages, there was a steady flow of Jews migrating to Islamic countries. True, Jews were looked upon in an unfavorable light by Muslims. But that was to be preferred over living in Christian countries where Jews were vested with a satanic character, and even considered to be sub-human.
Then came the First Crusade in 1096. On the way to recapture the sepulcher of Jesus, the Crusaders attacked the Jewish quarters of German and French towns along the way. During subsequent crusades, masses of Jews were butchered, raped and locked up in their synagogues which were then burned to the ground. The tradition of Kiddush HaShem (sacrificing one's life for God) was expressed by many Jews committing collective suicide rather than being forced to convert to the Catholic Church.
The accumulated hatreds and fears resulting from charges of deicide and usury exploded in the Crusades. In the eleventh century, Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem were persecuted by the ruling Muslims, who also defiled the most sacred of Christian churches, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, site of the Resurrection and tomb of Jesus. Spurred by the preaching of Pope Urban II and scores of Christian clergy, crusading nobles set out under the sign of the cross to free the Holy Land from the Muslim infidels. As encouragement, the pope promised salvation to those who would slay the offending Muslims.
But local priests reminded the faithful that the most terrible enemies of Christ were permitted to live and prosper in the very midst of Christian civilization. As one crusader's account recalled, "Behold we journey a long way to seek the idolatrous shrine and to take vengeance upon the Muslims. But here are the Jews dwelling among us, whose ancestors killed him and crucified him groundlessly. Let us take vengeance first upon them. Let us wipe them out as a nation." As a contemporary noted, the Crusaders "exterminated by many massacres the Jews of almost all Gaul, with the exception of those who accepted conversion." Religious passion, greed, and the vulnerability of Jews led to the rise of violent mobs that murdered thousands of Jews to the cry of "Convert or Death!" It seemed just and honorable that the wealth of blasphemers should fall to those who did the work of the Lord.
As the centuries passed, there was no letup of the most incredible persecution of Jews by Christian kings and rulers of Europe. For example, Christian theology considered lending money (usury) as endangering the eternal salvation of its flock, and opposed the overt and authorized practice of usury. But since borrowing money was inevitable in contemporary economic conditions, and since the Jews were already considered infidels and deicides, and since they were allowed to work only in limited professions anyway, it seemed fitting for Christian rulers to allow the Jews to be their royal and official bankers. This profession was doomed to become a major source of even greater anti-Semitism as Jewish bankers were inevitably pitted against peasants and the poor who owed money. The Jews were soon regarded as greedy, closed-fisted money-mongers, the symbol of the hostile stranger par excellence.
But one rumor, known as the "blood libel," became the centerpiece of Christian anti-Semitism. It began with an unfounded rumor in eastern England: The Jews had kidnapped a Christian child, tied him to a cross, stabbed his head to simulate Jesus' crown of thorns, killed him, drained his body completely of blood, and mixed the blood into matzos (unleavened bread) at the time of Passover. The boy became known as St. William of Norwich. Many people made pilgrimages to his tomb and claimed that miracles had resulted from appeals to St. William.
The rumor arose from a former Jew, Theobald, who had become a Christian monk. (There have been a number of incidents where converted Jews became extremely hostile to the Jewish people. Thus converts are often looked upon with fear and suspicion.)
Theobald claimed that Jewish representatives gathered each year in Narbonne, France. There they decided in which city a Christian child would be sacrificed. The myth shows a complete lack of understanding of Judaism. Aside from the prohibition of killing an innocent person, the Torah absolutely forbids the drinking or eating of any form of blood in any quantity. However, reality never has had much of an impact on blood libel myths. This rumor lasted for many centuries; even today it has not completely disappeared.
Pope Innocent IV ordered a study in 1247 A.D. His investigators found that the myth was a Christian invention used to justify persecution of the Jews. At least four other popes subsequently vindicated the Jews. However, the accusations, trials and executions continued.
Holy shrines were erected to honor innocent Christian victims, and well into the twentieth century, churches throughout Europe displayed knives and other instruments that Jews purportedly used for these rituals. Caricatures of hunchbacked Jews with horns and fangs were depicted in works of art and carved into stone decorating bridges. Proclaimed by parish priests to be the gospel truth, each recurrence of the blood libel charge added to its credence, thus prompting yet more accusations. This vicious cycle continued to spiral.
The absurdity of these spurious accusations can only be appreciated when we think of the condition of the Jews living during that time. They existed at the mercy of their Christian rulers, constantly terrified of being accused of anything that would bring them imprisonment, torture or death. Yet the wild rumors of the Jews and their demonic rituals took hold and spread throughout Christendom generating fear and horror among the Christian populations.
In 1181, three Christian boys disappeared after playing on a frozen river in Vienna, Austria. Several "witnesses" swore that Jews had slaughtered the boys. Three hundred Jews were burned at the stake. After the spring thaw, the bodies of the boys were recovered. They had drowned, and were otherwise unharmed.
Sadly, the blood libel finally spread into Muslim countries in 1840. An elderly Italian monk-priest, Padre Tommaso, disappeared in Damascus, Syria, after having visited the Jewish quarter in the city. Twelve Jewish leaders were arrested and tortured. Sixty of their children were held hostage to pressure the parents into confessing. Four adults died from the torture, and most of the rest confessed to the ritual murder. As a result of widespread protests, the lives of the survivors were spared, but the event introduced the blood libel myth to the Arab world, where it remains alive and well to this very day.
In all, there are at least 150 recorded cases of the charge of ritual murder, and many led to massacres of the Jews. (religioustolerance.org/jud-blib2.htm)
The Black Plague in the middle of the fourteenth century killed approximately one-third of the population of Europe. At the time, it was not known how the illness spread, but stories and rumors circulated that Jews had poisoned the wells and many Christians believed the myth.
This accusation led to severe consequences for Jews. More than sixty Jewish communities were burned to the ground with all their occupants killed. In cities in Switzerland and Germany—Basel, Cologne, Strasbourg, and Mainz—Jews were tortured and, in some cases, burned to death in bonfires. Christian writers rationalized the attacks on Jews, claiming that Jews deserved death for killing Jesus Christ and for taking unfair economic advantage of Christians
The Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 decreed that Jews would from then on wear a distinguishing mark throughout the Christian world. In some countries it was a badge; in others a hat. The mark of difference helped to propagate fables which supported the myth that Jews are physically different from other people. Other features ascribed to Jews were a tail and horns attributes of the devil and even a foul smell.
When the demonization of the Jewish people had reached an unbearable apex, the king of England expelled all the Jews of Great Britain in 1290. He flushed the land of every single Jew, and for more than 300 years England was ethnically cleansed of Jewry. France followed suit with its first expulsion a few years later. Expulsions and massacres continued into the German territory. These expulsions only helped to perpetuate the image of Jewish homelessness—a cursed, condemned race with no future.
The greatest expulsion took place in 1492 in Spain. Masses of Jews had been forcibly converted to Catholicism. However, a new phenomenon arose: Some converts continued to secretly celebrate Passover and other Jewish traditions from the Bible. Called Moranos or New Chritians, many thousands were found out and burned at the stake by the Inquisition. The Spanish government that sent Columbus to discover lands beyond the sea, expelled all Spanish Jews, estimated to be between 250,000 to 800,000 souls -- from their kingdom the very same year. As late as the middle 1900's, there were hardly any Jews living in Spain.
The Reformation and emergence of Protestantism brought little relief to the Jewish people. Although Calvinists were quite genial to Jews, Lutheranism became increasingly anti-Semitic. At first Martin Luther was favorable towards the Jews, believing that because Christian theology had been amended and rectified, the Jews would now accept Jesus as Messiah. When the Jewish people declined the Lutheran faith, all of the anti-Semitic DNA passed down through the Church for 1500 years, blazed forth out of Luther (See box) and cascaded into Lutheran-dominated Germany, with disastrous results.
The fortunes of the Jews rose and fell as Jews resettled in Europe wherever they could. Then, once again, in 1633, the bubonic plague swept across Europe. One small town gathered together to beseech God for a miracle. They prayed that if the Lord would spare little Oberammergau, they would promise to thank Him by performing a Play every 10 years to commemorate Jesus' crucifixion. After this vow, not one Oberammergau villager died of the plague, and the Play was first performed in 1634. So far so good, but not for long. As Passion Plays spread across Europe, Christians portrayed the Jews as they perceived them. While Yeshua and his followers looked like Europeans, the Jews who opposed Him looked sinister, with hooked noses and disfigured faces, and they wore degrading horned-hats made mandatory by Christian rulers. And guess what happened? Times without number, Christian audiences, after seeing the play, rose up as a man, rioting through Jewish neighborhoods, raping, killing the Jews and seizing their possessions. Jews dreaded Passion Plays.
To bring this down to the 20th century, Adolph Hitler went to see the Oberammergau Passion Play in 1932 when he was chancellor of Germany. In 1942 he recalled in his journal, "It is vital that the Passion Play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation….One sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands out like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry…" Hitler called the Play a "precious tool" in the war against the Jews. The message was inescapable: Evil Jews killed Jesus.
Hitler explained that his vision to totally destroy the Jewish race to the last person had a spiritual basis. "I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. (Mein Kampf, p.46)
And so, understandably, there has been an automatic alarm that sounded in the souls of many Jews when they heard Mel Gibson was creating a Passion Play on film. Jewish journalists were all the more distressed with the report that Hutton Gibson, Mel Gibson's father, disclosed prejudices that were undeniably birthed out of Christian anti-Semitism. He said among many things, "Jews are out to create a "one world religion and one world government." Among his numerous accusations, he argued that many "victims" of the Holocaust were not murdered by the Nazis. They simply fled to countries like Australia and the U.S. Obviously, Mel Gibson is not responsible for his father or his father's views. But the Jewish people were hoping he would publicly reject his father's statements. Out of deference to his father, he did not.
Beginning with Pope John XXXIII, the Catholic Church has made significant strides towards reaching out to their Jewish brethren by annulling much of the anti-Semitic dogma of the Catholic Church. That is why Jewish writers constantly refer to the Nostra Aetate, issued in October 1965 by Pope Paul IV, and subsequent documents. The Jewish people know a lot more about these documents than most Protestants, or even Catholics, for that matter. Jews have been relieved and gladdened by the thaw in the Catholic Church's acceptance of the Jewish people as equal human beings worthy of esteem and respect. The Second Vatican Council has deplored "the hatred, persecutions, and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and from any source." The Church also stated that liturgical passages referring to Jews would be interpreted to avoid prejudice. In 1993 the Lutheran Church issued a similar statement. While such documents cannot with the stroke of a pen erase Church anti-Semitism, they indicate an effort to counter the centuries of anti-Semitic thought and action.
One of the fascinating outcomes of the search for ways to fight any modern anti-Semitism resulting from today's Passion Plays is that some Jewish public figures are demanding that Jesus look more Jewish! The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith has suggested changes in the Oberammergau Passion Play (many of which were accepted) such as "Yeshua and his followers should clearly appear to be Jews, as much so as his opponents, and conversely that his opponents not simultaneously be made to look evil and more "Jewish" than Yeshua." (http://ecumene.org/SHOAH/oberammer.htm)
In America, there has been little anti-Semitism, relatively speaking, and Christians, immersed in democracy and tolerance, have little knowledge of Jewish-Christian history. But Jews everywhere do know it. Therefore the Jewish people have been inherently afraid of "devout Christians." Jews have traditionally supported political parties to the left, believing "it would be better for the Jews." But what has astonished the Jewish people today is how fast almost all the world including post-Christian Europe, the Muslim countries and atheistic and leftist regimes has emphatically turned against the Jews and Israel in the last few years, while Evangelical Christians in America, Europe and other places have embraced the Jewish people with an intensity and force never before witnessed. Jews do not want to lose their newfound friends and allies.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach declared, "I pray the intimate bond and deep respect forged between the Christian and Jewish communities over the past few decades will not be impaired by this film. But notwithstanding how much I love my Christian brethren, I will still not allow the lie that the Jews killed Jesus to go unchallenged….I'm not a murderer." (Jerusalem Post, Feb. 19, 2003)
The greatest love Christians can show to the Jewish people is to fight anti-Semitism every way possible. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has made an open appeal to Christians of goodwill to do for Jews what they cannot do for themselves i.e., to work to ensure that The Passion does not become a vehicle for arousing anti-Semitic furies. The Jewish people must some day see that the Passion of our Messiah is the only hope for the Jewish nation and for all humanity. What the devil meant to do through the death of Yeshua (to cause Christians to hate and destroy the Jewish people), God has ordained for salvation! In fact, the only salvation there is! Christians and Messianic Jews must fight with all the strength that is within them against the terrible, demonic scourge of anti-Semitism that has separated the Jewish people from Christians, and from the truths of Yeshua, the Prince of Peace. Those who truly love God will truly love the Jewish people. God will then reveal His risen King of the Jews to the children of Israel.
(Numerous facts taken from Encyclopedia Judaica under the topic, "Anti-Semitism)
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Two weeks before Mel Gibson's Passion flashes onto two thousand screens, online ticket merchants are reporting that up to half their total sales are for advance purchases for Passion. One Dallas multiplex has reserved all twenty of its screens for The Passion. I am neither a prophet nor a movie critic. I am merely an Orthodox rabbi using ancient Jewish wisdom to make three predictions about The Passion.
One, Mel Gibson and Icon Productions will make a great deal of money. Those distributors who surrendered to pressure from Jewish organizations, and passed on Passion will be kicking themselves, while Newmarket Films will laugh all the way to the bank. Theater owners are going to love this film.
Two, Passion will become famous as the most serious and substantive Biblical movie ever made. It will be one of the most talked-about entertainment events in history, it is currently on the cover of Newsweek and Vanity Fair.
My third prediction is that the faith of millions of Christians will become more fervent as Passion uplifts and inspires them. Passion will propel vast numbers of unreligious Americans to embrace Christianity. The movie will one day be seen as a harbinger of America's third great religious reawakening.
Those Jewish organizations that have squandered both time and money futilely protesting Passion, ostensibly in order to prevent pogroms in Pittsburgh, can hardly be proud of their performance. They failed at everything they attempted. They were hoping to ruin Gibson rather than enrich him. They were hoping to suppress Passion rather than promote it. Finally, they were hoping to help Jews rather than harm them.
Here I digress slightly to exercise the Jewish value of "giving the benefit of the doubt" by discounting cynical suggestions growing in popularity, that the very public nature of their attack on Gibson exposed their real purpose-fundraising. Apparently, frightening wealthy widows in Florida about anti-Semitic thugs prowling the streets of America causes them to open their pocketbooks and refill the coffers of groups with little other raison d'être. But let's assume they were hoping to help Jews.
However, instead of helping the Jewish community, they have inflicted lasting harm. By selectively unleashing their fury only on wholesome entertainment that depicts Christianity, in a positive light, they have triggered anger, hurt, and resentment. Hosting the Toward Tradition Radio Show and speaking before many audiences nationwide, I enjoy extensive communication with Christian America and what I hear is troubling. Fearful of attracting the ire of Jewish groups that are so quick to hurl the "anti-Semite" epithet, some Christians are reluctant to speak out. Although one can bludgeon resentful people into silence, behind closed doors emotions continue to simmer.
I consider it crucially important for Christians to know that not all Jews are in agreement with their self-appointed spokesmen. Most American Jews, experiencing warm and gracious interactions each day with their Christian fellow-citizens, would feel awkward trying to explain why so many Jewish organizations seem focused on an agenda hostile to Judeo-Christian values. Many individual Jews have shared with me their embarrassment that groups, ostensibly representing them, attack Passion but are silent about depraved entertainment that encourages killing cops and brutalizing women. Citing artistic freedom, Jewish groups helped protect sacrilegious exhibits such as the anti-Christian feces extravaganza presented by the Brooklyn Museum four years ago. One can hardly blame Christians for assuming that Jews feel artistic freedom is important only when exercised by those hostile toward Christianity. However, this is not how all Jews feel.
From audiences around America, I am encountering bitterness at Jewish organizations insisting that belief in the New Testament is de facto evidence of anti-Semitism. Christians heard Jewish leaders denouncing Gibson for making a movie that follows Gospel accounts of the Crucifixion long before any of them had even seen the movie. Furthermore, Christians are hurt that Jewish groups are presuming to teach them what Christian Scripture "really means."
Listen to a rabbi whom I debated on the Fox television show hosted by Bill O'Reilly last September. This is what he said, "We have a responsibility as Jews, as thinking Jews, as people of theology, to respond to our Christian brothers and to engage them, be it Protestants, be it Catholics, and say, look, this is not your history, this is not your theology, this does not represent what you believe in."
He happens to be a respected rabbi and a good one, but he too has bought into the preposterous proposition that Jews will reeducate Christians about Christian theology and history. Is it any wonder that this breathtaking arrogance spurs bitterness?
Many Christians who, with good reason, have considered themselves to be Jews' best (and perhaps, only) friends also feel bitter at Jews believing that Passion is revealing startling new information about the Crucifixion. They are incredulous at Jews thinking that exposure to the Gospels in visual form will instantly transform the most philo-Semitic gentiles of history into snarling, Jew-hating predators.
Christians are baffled by Jews who don't understand that President George Washington, who knew and revered every word of the Gospels, was still able to write that oft-quoted beautiful letter to the Touro Synagogue in Newport, offering friendship and full participation in America to the Jewish community.
One of the directors of the AJC recently warned that Passion "could undermine the sense of community between Christians and Jews that's going on in this country. We're not allowing the film to do that." No sir, it isn't the film that threatens the sense of community; it is the arrogant and intemperate response of Jewish organizations that does so.
Jewish organizations, hoping to help but failing so spectacularly, refutes all myths of Jewish intelligence. How could their plans have been so misguided and the execution so inept?
Ancient Jewish wisdom teaches that nothing confuses one's thinking more than being in the grip of the two powerful emotions, love and hate. The actions of these Jewish organizations sadly suggest that they are in the grip of a hatred for Christianity that is only harming Jews.
Today, peril threatens all Americans, both Jews and Christians. Many of the men and women in the front lines find great support in their Christian faith. It is strange that Jewish organizations, purporting to protect Jews, think that insulting allies is the preferred way to carry out that mandate.
A ferocious Rottweiler dog in your suburban home will quickly estrange your family from the neighborhood. For those of us in the Jewish community who cherish friendship with our neighbors, some Jewish organizations have become our Rottweilers. God help us.
Radio talk show host, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, is president of Toward Tradition, a bridge-building organization providing a voice for all Americans who defend the Judeo-Christian values vital for our nation's survival. For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact: Jennifer Brunson (206) 236-3046 http://www.towardtradition.org/
It is Passover time. This is the time when Christians - as never before - can make a difference by rising up and standing with Israel and the Jewish people.
Today, the withering spiritual war against Israel and her people's existence is still being waged. But these are days when God is turning back to our people - to save them, to build them up and to give them back their land. To make them a light to the nations! All this He has promised and He will do it.
Here is a practical way you can bless the seed of Abraham. Our Israeli congregation, Tiferet Yeshua, in downtown Tel Aviv is growing and growing. We now have a group of our members who are developing their leadership gifts and roles - pastors, evangelists, teachers, musicians, administrators, children's ministers and business men and women.
Our leaders-in-the-making need all the training and coaching they can receive because the harvest is already great and Israelis are searching for those who will love them and teach them the way of the Lord.
With our growing department of 70 children and 20 teens, our team is stretched to the limits. With every service seeing new unbelievers and searchers attending, our nets are stretched beyond our capacity.
So we have planned a leadership training trip (see reverse side) that will greatly enlarge the horizons of our young leaders and place in their hands skills and expertise needed to serve Him and His people in Spirit and in excellence.
We offer you the opportunity to team up with us this Passover season and help us purchase the airline tickets to send these Israeli men and women for training to become better ministers of the Gospel. They, themselves, are doing all in their power to save up the funds they will need for their room and board inside the U.S.
The tickets and other costs will be approximately $40,000. With the gifts of Maoz partners, we are already half way there!
All Israel shall be saved! The Lord has promised!
Thank you so much,
Ari & Shira Sorko-Ram
P.S. You can help send an Israeli for the two-week vision-building and equipping opportunity. Your gift today for $1,000, $500, $100, or even $50 will make this vital trip a reality!


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Simple Searches Can Yield Deeper Insights
On Monday, I wrote about a study of Psalm 91 I did with my family last week. We noted that the devil had quoted verses 11 and 12 in his temptation of Jesus, and we compared the context of the quotation with the context of the original. Then we read Psalm 91:13, which reads, "You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the young lion and the serpent." It occurred to me then that it is interesting that the devil chose not to quote that verse, particularly since Scripture describes the devil as both a lion and a serpent.
At that point, it would make sense to look at those passages where the devil is compared to a lion or a serpent. So how can we do that?
Let's start with the image of a lion. By selecting the word "lion" in Psalm 91:13 and choosing Search from the Search menu of the Resource Palette, we can instantly find every place the word "lion" is mentioned in the Bible. We could scroll through all 74 verses (in the HCSB) looking for places where the devil is compared with a lion, but it would be more efficient to create a search that would narrow down the number of hits.
One way to do that would be to look for any word that contains both the words "lion" and "devil." Then again, since the devil is also referred to by other names (Satan, adversary, etc.), we might do well to account for those possibilities as well. Here's one way to do just that:
In the new search tab, click after the word "lion" in the search entry box, then choose AND from the Enter Command submenu of the Search menu. Next choose Enter Words from the Search menu. This will open a dialog box which lets you choose any word in your search text. Type "devil" in the Go To box to scroll the word list to that point, then click the word "devil" in the list one time to add it to the list of words to enter. Next type "satan" into the Go To box and single-click the word in the list. Finally, type "adver" into the Go To box and double-click the word "adversary" in the list. (Double-clicking a word adds it to the list of words to enter and dismisses the dialog box.)
Your search argument should now look like this:
Hit return to perform this search, and you go from 74 verses to just one: 1 Peter 3:8. Drag the context slider to the right to see this verse in context, and it is striking how much the message of this passage parallels that of Psalm 91—namely, that if we entrust ourselves to God's care and protection, he will defend us from the "roaring lion" and save us from the time of trouble.
Now we can go back to our original Search tab containing Psalm 91 and select the word "serpent" in verse 13. Once again, we can choose Search from the Search menu of the Resource palette. Alternatively, we can right-click the word and choose Word from the Search For submenu of the contextual menu. Either way, the second tab will update to show every occurrence of the word "serpent." The HCSB only contains 19 occurrences of this word, so it's easy enough to scan the results without modifying the search further. In doing so, we'll see the references to the serpent in Genesis 3. We'll need to add a little context to see 3:15, which speaks of the woman's "seed" striking the head of the serpent while the serpent strikes his heel. This image of a man treading on the head of a serpent sounds very much like the promise in Psalm 91:13 that the one who "dwells in the shadow of the Almighty" will "tread" upon the serpent.
Other interesting uses of the word "serpent" include Job 26:13, which describes the defeat of a primeval serpent at creation; Isaiah 27:1, which identifies Leviathan as a serpent; and Revelation 12:9 and 20:2, which identify the dragon as the "ancient serpent," the "Devil," and "Satan."
Exploring the literary connections between Satan and serpentine monsters and dragons is beyond the scope of this blog post, but I hope you can see how this simple search can open the door to a much deeper study. When studying a passage, it's easy to find other uses of a given word by selecting the word and using the Search menu of the Resource palette, or by right-clicking the word and choosing to Search For that Word. If you're not using these simple methods in your Bible study, you're missing out on a seamless workflow that can pay rich dividends.


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Harvard is in search of its first Ivy win of the season Saturday (Photo Credit: Justine Agaloos).
The Particulars
The Harvard men's soccer team begins a five-game road stretch as it travels to Providence, R.I., to take on Ivy foe No. 19 Brown Saturday. The Bears represent Harvard's second straight ranked league opponent and fourth ranked team overall.
Series History
In a series laden with history, the Crimson holds a 46-28-12 advantage in 86 all-time matchups. Harvard captured the first four meetings between the teams, with the inaugural contest ending in a 4-0 victory for the Crimson. Recently, the teams have traded results with the Crimson holding a 2-1-1 record in the last four matchups. Last season in Cambridge, the Bears squeaked out a 1-0 victory, their first victory over the Crimson since 2007.
Last Time Out
A strong first half from the home team saw Harvard enter the break tied 1-1 with No. 18 Cornell, but to second half goals by the Big Red proved to be the difference as the Crimson fell, 3-1 Saturday at Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium. The guests struck first just nine and a half minutes into the contests but a strong effort by freshman Oliver White knotted the score at 1-1 before halftime. A high arcing ball was sent into the box and after the Cornell goalie failed to collect the pass, White deposited the loose ball into the back of the net for his second tally of the season. Goals in the 63rd and 76th minutes gave the Big Red a 3-1 edge and the game ended with that score.
About the Crimson
Harvard enters the Brown game with an overall mark of 1-6-3 to go along with an Ivy record of 0-1-1. Forwards Hiroki Kobayashi and Oliver White share the team lead in goals (2) and points (4) while Zack Wolfenzon is close behind in points with three, on a goal and an assist. Wolfenzon also has a team-high 21 shots on the year.
Joe Festa has seen the majority of action in goal this year and holds a 1.50 goals-against average to go along with 25 saves. The Harvard defense has been strong this season, allowing more than one goal in just four contests this year.
Scouting Brown
The Bears are the second-highest ranked team in the Ivy League behind No. 16 Cornell, and boast an 8-1-2 overall record along with a 1-0-1 Ivy League mark. While Brown has tied its last two contests, it is undefeated in its last seven games, with its lone loss of the season coming Sept. 9 in a 1-0 game against Fordham. Brown has been solid defensively this year, as six of its eight wins have been shutout victories, good for the nation's fourth-best shutout percentage at 0.64.
Thomas McNamara leads a balanced Brown scoring attack with eight points on three goals and two assists. Voltaire Escalona ranks second with six points, and is the team's assists leader with four on the season. In all, Brown has 10 players that have scored this season, and 12 that have registered a point. Sam Schloss Kernan has been rock steady in goal for the Bears, playing all but four minutes this season. He boasts a 0.52 goals-against average, good for seventh in the nation, and has logged 23 saves on the year.
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Harvard's next game is a midweek non-conference matchup, as the Crimson takes on Boston University at Nickerson Field Oct. 16 in a 7 p.m. game.


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Tuesdays were my Dad's day off from Winn Dixie. But because he was a workaholic, he couldn't go a day without just popping in there to "check on things"- even on his day off. So Tuesdays became "our day". We'd wake up early and Dad would take me down the street from our neighborhood (sometime he'd let me ride my bike there!) to this little dive of a restaurant slash gum and cigarette store that had a lunch counter. That little place was just brimming with older retired men who would sit around and shoot the breeze all morning while they drank coffee and smoked one cigarette after another. We'd walk in there and the little bell on the door would tinkle and all those people would turn around to see who was coming in. A few of them would say, "Johnny" (my dad's name) in long drawn way when we'd walk in the door. I always thought that's probably how the Fonz would say my dad's name if we ever got to meet the Fonz.
Me with my Dad- April 1984
We had a little routine, my dad and I. He'd walk me over to the refrigerated case and hoist me up and let me get a Nestle Quik chocolate milk. We never had chocolate milk in our house and every time I'd get my milk, he'd give me this little look like we were pulling one over on my mom by conspiring about my bad choice in breakfast drinks. Then we'd walk over to the counter and sit down on the red vinyl covered stools. While we'd wait for Ralph, the owner, to come take our order, I'd stare at the coffee cups behind the counter. All the regulars there at Ralph's Market had their own coffee cup with their names on them. My uncle, Dru, had his own mug back there and in my mind that made him ridiculously cool. I think that one of my goals in life was to have my own mug with my own name on it at Ralph's.
Ralph would come over and chit chat with my dad for a minute. My dad always used this time to ask Ralph lots of times if I wasn't the prettiest little girl who'd ever sat on those red vinyl stools. All those retired men would shake their heads in agreement and make a fuss over me and at Ralph's Market, I felt like the most beautiful little princess that ever lived. I'd always order the same thing (which was the same thing my dad ordered because I wanted to be just like him) : 2 eggs with runny yellows, bacon and toast. With chocolate milk- you can't forget the chocolate milk. I don't remember a thing that we talked about back then, but I do remember that every word that came out of my mouth was doted on and treated as important on Tuesday mornings. We'd eat and then head over to Dad's grocery store. He'd put me in the back of a grocery cart and hand me a Coca-Cola in a glass bottle and off we'd scoot through the store making our rounds while he checked on things. The deli was my favorite stop. The old women who cooked in the deli would go nuts over me and slip me cookies or whatever else they were baking. Then as we were finishing up, we'd go through the checkout with me on the conveyor and Dad would talk to the cashier about whether or not they'd been busy or slow.
Those Tuesdays were some of my most treasured childhood memories. Not because we did anything elaborate or super interesting, but because I felt so special and loved. (And I had a parent all to myself) It made me resolve that when I had children that I would always try to date them. I wish it happened more often, but with three kids and life happening, it's not always easy. But we try our darnedest to make sure that all of our kids get to go on dates whenever we can.
Last night was Noah's kindergarten orientation (hold me) and so afterwards we decided that a little one on one date was in order. Noah is a simple kid with simple loves. He wanted to go out for a sandwich.
He normally has to split a sandwich with his little brother, but not on date night. He got a whole one to himself- with extra bacon. It's the simple things in life. Then it was off for chocolate ice cream.
Then, by Noah's choice, we went to the car wash and to Lowe's. He's a date that's easy to please. He's also the most comical date I've ever had. Noah is the comedian in our home. He has some auditory processing issues and so the way that he interprets what he hears and the way that he uses language constantly keeps us in stitches. Here are few of last night's highlights:
Noah: Mom, if I toot when I'm at school do I have to yell "safety!"?
Me: I'm so excited that you are going to learn how to read in kindergarten!
Noah: I already know how to read. Two words.
Me: Oh yeah? What are they?
Noah: "Pool" and "Cash Only"
Me: When we move, we'll plant a garden next summer. What would you want to grow?
Noah: Watermelon and mashed potatoes!
Me: Noah, you are just so cute, I could eat you with a spoon for dessert!
Noah: Don't do that. I'd rather you put eggs on my eyes and eat me for breakfast.
Noah: Mom, when I was at Granny's the other day, something very wrong happened. But it was funny.
Me: What happened?
Noah: Well, I crawled up on Granny's lap and I was looking at her face and then out of nowhere I burped really loud right on her face. I didn't even feel it coming up and it just shot out and then I couldn't stop laughing! I couldn't even stop laughing so I could say excuse me! But she's not mad at me. It was really funny. It was so funny I decided to go burp in Sadie's face. She didn't think that was very funny.
Noah: (while looking and rubbing at a bug bite on his arm) What do you think this is?
Me: Hmmmm. Maybe a bug bite? What do you think it is?
Noah: I think it's a hallucination.
I love that little boy so much- so much that I could eat him for breakfast. I can only hope that when he's a grown man out with his children that he'll remember how much he was loved while we were out eating sandwiches and going through the car wash. And maybe, if he's really lucky, my dad will let him ride the conveyor belt at the grocery store sometime :-)
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New York City plans to enact a far-reaching ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts, in the most ambitious effort yet by the Bloomberg administration to combat rising obesity.
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A Former Witch Doctor Shares His Thoughts About Pokémon
By Danique Tersmette, Little Light Studios,
September 26, 2016
There was only one thing in the world for which a 7-year old Dutch girl would get up at 6 am and turn on the TV: Pokémon. Even though I was not raised a Christian, my parents did not like the idea of me and my brother watching animals fighting each other. Too much aggression, they said. So the only option was to sneak out of bed, turn on the TV and watch Pokémon before my parents would wake up. They became a bit more mellow later on, and my brother was allowed to have Pokémon cards. I even borrowed a Pokémon Diamond game for the Nintendo GameBoy Color from a friend (which I forgot to return and kept for years). My childhood truly was all about Pokémon. But we all get older, and I had already forgotten about these little creatures. But then came Pokémon Go. Is the world hooked? Not a doubt.
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German bishops agree Catholic hospitals can prescribe emergency contraception to rape victims
BERLIN – Roman Catholic-run hospitals can prescribe limited emergency contraception to rape victims, German bishops said Thursday as they sought to contain fallout from an embarrassing recent case in which two hospitals refused to treat a woman.
In a statement issued at the end of a regular meeting in the western city of Trier, the German Bishops Conference said Catholic hospitals still can't provide drugs that would lead to the death of an embryo.
The German church was under pressure to clarify its stance after two Catholic hospitals in Cologne turned away a rape victim because of concerns over the pill. Cologne's archbishop, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, said last month that the church was "deeply ashamed by this incident because it goes against our Christian mission."
At the end of January, Meisner said it was "justifiable" in such cases to provide drugs that prevent conception. He later said he had consulted with Pope Benedict XVI's secretary, Georg Gaenswein, and was told that "everything is alright."
For decades, Catholic hospitals have in cases of rape allowed the use of spermicidal wash to impede sperm from reaching an egg and drugs to prevent the victim from ovulating. The rationale is that rape is an act of violence against a woman; to prevent the attack from continuing, a hospital can use drugs to impede conception.
Church teaching, however, holds that life begins at conception, and thus forbids the use of drugs that would intercept, dislodge or abort a fertilized egg, according to the Rev. Robert Gahl, a moral theologian at Rome's Pontifical Holy Cross University.
"This new determination by the German bishops is in full continuity with church teaching, and specifies how best to implement new pharmaceutical technology," Gahl said.
Thursday's statement by the bishops stressed that rape victims "can of course receive human, medical, psychological and pastoral help in Catholic hospitals.
"That can include prescription of the `morning-after pill,' insofar as it has a preventive and not an abortive effect. Medical and pharmaceutical methods which result in the death of an embryo still may not be used."
It said the bishops "trust that practical treatment in Catholic-run facilities will take place on the basis of these moral and theological guidelines."
The statement did not specify any timeframe within which the morning-after pill can be prescribed. That pill contains a higher dose of the female progestin hormone than is in regular birth control pills. Taking it within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse can cut the chances of pregnancy by up to 89 percent. But it works best within the first 24 hours.
If a woman already is pregnant, the pill has no effect. It prevents ovulation or fertilization of an egg.
Meisner's diocese has said that approval for emergency contraception does not extend to RU-486, which terminates pregnancy by causing the embryo to detach from the uterine wall.


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ID Card scheme banking on 28 million volunteers
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Government claims that the ID Card scheme will be self-financing are "completely deluded", the Tories have claimed today.
Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling launched the attack as the Home Office released its twice-yearly estimates on the multibillion-pound project's cost to the Exchequer.
His opposite number on the government benches, Alan Johnson, claimed that voluntary take-up will cover the £835m it is estimated the ID Cards themselves will cost.
The cards are expected to cost the public £30 each, so on the Home Secretary's reckoning, 28 million people - almost half the population of the UK - will come forward.
"If Alan Johnson seriously thinks that nearly half the adult population is going to voluntarily pay for ID cards out of their own pocket then he is completely deluded," said Grayling.
"It is time the government realised this whole scheme is a white elephant and it should be scrapped immediately."
The Tories are committed to scrapping ID cards and the accompanying National Identity Register (NIR).
The Home Office now estimates the total cost of its identity plans, which also include a commitment to biometric passports, will be £4.6bn. The figure is slightly down on six months ago.
Johnson has ruled out making ID Cards compulsory. So far just 2,000 have been convinced to join the scheme in a trial in Manchester. ®
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Olga Taussky-Todd's name before she married was Olga Taussky and she was born into a Jewish family. Her father, Julius David Taussky, was an industrial chemist who also wrote articles for a newspaper. Her mother, Ida Pollach, was never trained for anything other than being a housewife and looking after her children. Olga was the middle child of three girls, with three years separating her both from her older sister and from her younger sister. Of her parents she wrote [1]:-
My father was a very interesting man, very active, very creative. ... My mother was a country girl ... a rather quiet lady ... educated to be a housewife ...When Olga was three years old the family moved to Vienna. There Olga attended primary school and although she did well, her older sister was the star pupil. Olga received the top or second top grade for arithmetic but her favourite subjects were essay writing and grammar. In addition to her schooling she had private music lessons. When World War I broke out conditions became very difficult indeed in Vienna, there was severe shortages of food and the family were near to starving.
In 1916 the Taussky family moved again, this time to Linz where Olga's father had a job as director of a vinegar factory which, in addition to vinegar made jams and soft drinks. Julius Taussky was well qualifed for the job for he had coauthored a text on vinegar with his own father Samuel Taussky in 1903. Arriving in Linz in the middle of World War I, life was still hard for them but food, although still scare, was slightly more plentiful than in Vienna. When she was 14 years old Olga entered the high school where she spent a year before studying at the Gymnasium. At this stage she was still interested in writing and poetry, and initially the Latin that she began to study at the Gymnasium fascinated her, particularly Latin grammar. Suddenly, however, her interests moved to mathematics [1]:-
While I tried to read any books that came my way, the realisation that the greatest wisdom was not to be gained by reading books struck me suddenly. I felt that scientific experiments provided almost unlimited insight ... Mathematics, too, came to me at that time as an experimental subject ... Gradually it became clear to me that [mathematics] was my subject.From about the age of fifteen she tutored, starting by teaching chemistry to a classmate, but doing more and more over time. Olga's father died when she was in her final year at school so she increased her tutoring to try to help out the family finances. Knowing that it would be hard to fund her university studies she worked through the summer at the vinegar factory.
There was a lot of family pressure on Taussky to study chemistry, and indeed she loved the subject, so she entered the University of Vienna with a chemistry degree in mind, but her older sister qualified in chemistry and took over her father's work. The family pressure came off Taussky, and she was able to make mathematics her main subject.
At Vienna Olga was taught by Furtwängler, Hahn, Wirtinger, Menger, Helly and others, while she was a fellow student of Gödel. At that time, the most famous of these was Furtwängler but he was in poor health, only being able to walk with help and a student had to write for him when he lectured. Furtwängler became her thesis supervisor and after enjoying his course on number theory in her first year and his algebraic number theory seminar in her second year she asked him if she could write her thesis on number theory. He said that she would work on class field theory which, she wrote [1]:-
... was a great honour.She wrote her thesis on algebraic number fields just as class field theory was being developed. However things were not easy [1]:-
... I had a very tough time as a thesis student, I had no colleagues whatsoever and hardly saw my teacher, who for quite a while did not direct me towards a specific problem.She was awarded a doctorate in 1930 and her thesis was published in Crelle's Journal in 1932. After the award of her doctorate she earned some money by tutoring but also continued to work hard on her mathematics, continuing to develop the ideas from her thesis.
Encouraged to attend two meetings of the German Mathematical Society, she lectured there on her results and began a collaboration on group theory with A Scholzy, a student of Schur. At one of these meetings Hahn recommended her to Courant and, in 1931 she was appointed as assistant at Göttingen. Courant had been looking for someone to work with Wilhelm Magnus and Helmut Ulm editing the first volume of Hilbert's complete works on number theory and Taussky fitted the bill perfectly.
While in Göttingen Taussky also edited Artin's lectures in class field theory (1932), assisted Emmy Noether in her class field theory and Courant with his differential equations course. Leaving Göttingen in the summer of 1932, she received a letter from Courant before the new academic year started advising her not to return to Göttingen due to unrest at the university caused by the deteriotating political situation.
In 1932-1933 Taussky tutored in Vienna, then she spent a year at Bryn Mawr before taking up a research fellowship from Girton College, Cambridge in 1935. Hardy helped her obtain a teaching post in a London college in 1937 where she soon met an Irishman Jack (John Todd) who was teaching analysis at a different London College. They began working on mathematics together and were married on 29 September of the following year. Taussky said 50 years later [14]:-
My life and my career would have been so different if my Irishman had not come along.During World War II Olga and Jack moved from place to place. They spent some time in Belfast with Jack's mother and some time in Oxford where Taussky-Todd's College had moved to avoid the London air raids. At this time Taussky-Todd wrote some papers on group theory, for example studying groups in which, in today's terminology, every subnormal subgroup is normal. She proved, among other things, that a group with cyclic Sylow subgroups satisfies this property. She also wrote several papers on matrices of finite order such at Matrices with finite period in 1940 and Matrices of finite period in the following year, both written jointly with her husband.
While teaching near Oxford she supervised Hanna Neumann's D.Phil. thesis on combinatorial group theory during 1942 and 1943. Given leave of absence from her College to undertake war work, Taussky-Todd worked at the National Physical Laboratory ay Teddington between 1943 and 1946. It was a useful experience for her mathematically [1]:-
The duties in my aerodynamics job were very heavy. ... For the first time I realised the beauty of research on differential equations - something that my former boss, Professor Courant, had not been able to instil in me. Secondly I learned a lot of matrix theory.Just to illustrate this let us note that during this time Taussky-Todd wrote several papers which were published by the Ministry of Aircraft Production in London. For example she published in 1944 A note on skew-symmetric matrices in which she discussed the form of the matrices X'X and XX', where X' is the transpose of the matrix X whose columns are the eigenvectors of a skew-symmetric matrix with distinct eigenvalues. In the following year she published On some boundary value problems in the theory of the non-uniform supersonic motion of an aerofoil in which she gives rigorous proofs of methods to find the velocity potential due to a two-dimensional airfoil in a supersonic stream whose shape and motion are given. These papers she published under the name Olga Todd, while most of her other papers she wrote under the name Olga Taussky, with a few latter papers written under the name Olga Taussky-Todd.
In 1947 Olga and Jack when to the United States, with the original intention of spending a year there, and they worked at the National Bureau of Standards' National Applied Mathematics Laboratory after spending a while at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton working on von Neumann's computer project. She worked as a consultant in mathematics at the National Bureau of Standards and because of her work there with computers she has been described as a:-
... computer pioneer ... who provided significant contributions to solutions of problems associated with applications of computers.She continued to write papers on matrix theory, group theory, algebraic number theory but she also wrote on numerical analysis.
In 1955 Taussky-Todd and her husband spent a year's leave at the Courant Institute in New York where she taught a matrix theory course and her husband taught a numerical analysis course. Although Taussky-Todd enjoyed working at the National Bureau of Standards she missed teaching [1]:-
... my job at the Bureau was not exactly right for me. It was certainly a very interesting job. I learned a lot there, contributed a lot, and was treated with great courtesy.In 1957 Olga and Jack both accepted appointments at the California Institute of Technology. She wrote:-
After many years of work mostly with applied mathematics, I was in the beginning rather uncertain about the teaching. But again it was the students who came to my assistance [as in the college in London]. It was clear to them that I had much mathematics to give them and they forced it out of me.In 1977 she retired becoming Professor Emeritus, but she continued to lead a very active mathematical life. Particularly she could devote even more time to the very large mathematical correspondence which she carried on with many throughout the world.
Olga's honours and work is described in [13] as follows:-
Olga Taussky-Todd was a distinguished and prolific mathematician who wrote about 300 papers. Throughout her life she received many honors and distinctions, most notably the Cross of Honor, the highest recognition of contributions given by her native Austria. Olga's best-known and most influential work was in the field of matrix theory, though she also made important contributions to number theory.In [13] there are also a number of tributes from those she taught over the years. Rober Guralnick writes:-
I felt very fortunate to have this chance to work with someone who had such a command of the field.Tom Apostol wrote:-
Olga was a superb advisor, encouraging, cajoling, and always there to help.But she was not without her idiosyncrasies as Charles Johnson writes:-
... she had rather particular ideas about mathematical writing. No pictures or diagrams were allowed, and, much as I wanted to write "n × n " to describe the dimensions of a matrix in my thesis, it had to be "n-by-n". I, and my students, still write "n-by-n".Finally we should mention some of the many honours Taussky-Todd received for her mathematical contributions. She received the Ford Prize from the Mathematical Association of America in 1971 for a paper on the sums of squares. She was elected to several academies: elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1975); elected to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1985); elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1991). She was honoured by the Austrian government in 1978 with their highest award, The Cross of Honour in Science and Arts, First Class and, in 1980, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna. She also was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern California in 1988.
Taussky-Todd served on the Council of the London Mathematical Society (1946-47 and she served on the Council of the American Mathematical Society (1972-78). She was Vice-President of the American Mathematical Society in 1985.
Let us finish by quoting her own words [1]:-
... from early childhood on, poetry and writing came to me in a natural way. But it seems to me that both in the work of others and in my own I look for beauty, and not only for achievement. ... a person who started with the enthusiasm that came to me and did not diminish through hardships, difficulties, and disappointments 'is not given a choice' and 'shadows of the future one does not see'.
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