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Years ago, when I started playing the guitar I wanted to play blues, I hired a blues teacher, listened to blues music, but no matter what I did it came out sounding like the Indigo girls. Probably because at that point in my life the Indigo Girls spoke to me, they were queer and at that time there just were not a lot of out gay or lesbian musicians. When I started working on this dvar, I was going to connect Sukkot and creating the temporary structures to the Occupy Movement and the global social protest that have happened this year. I saw it as the perfect theme. Perfect for me, I mean after all I am an activist and now a rabbinical student and I thought I could deliver that message. But I'm not going to deliver that message because just like when I started playing the guitar, I have another message about Sukkot that speaks to me and that message is about welcoming the stranger.
When I think about Sukkot, I remember Abraham, he was 99 years old, in his tent recovering from his circumcision when three strangers, angels, payed him a visit. When Abraham saw the men approaching his tent, he ran to welcome them, knowing that the importance of hospitality to strangers took precedence over his own needs. Our tradition places such strong emphasis on the mitzvah of welcoming the stranger that no one should be made to feel like an outsider especially during a holiday.
When I think about Sukkot I remember a little over 10 years ago when I met a man–his name is Joshua Lesser. I spoke a little about him last night and called him my angel. I had no interest in religion but Josh was my friend and I thought he was a pretty cool dude who just happened to be a Rabbi. As our friendship grew, he would often invite me to his shul for services and I would politely say no. Then every time there was a holiday he would invite me. Finally, I agreed, and I remember the holiday was Hanukkah. I was worried, I was worried about how I would be treated. Would they see me as an outsider? Would anyone speak to me? The opposite was true. The community was warm and loving and welcomed me, a stranger into there community to celebrate the holiday. In fact, until recently, this was the only Jewish space that did not treat me as an outsider. This community, Congregation Bet Haverim, lived in a temporary home. We can call it a sukkah. They were searching for their permanent home and they welcomed me the stranger into their community.
I also think of another time during Sukkot when a friend invited me to her shul. I was new to Baltimore and wanted to find a synagogue. When she invited me, I got worried. Would they see me as an outsider? Would anyone speak to me? I thought I could sit in the back of the shul and somehow go unnoticed. But it was Sukkot, the time when we open our hearts to strangers. The Rabbi, Elizabeth Bolton, and the community welcomed me, the stranger, into their community. Like Rabbi Josh, Rabbi Liz became not just a friend, but an angel.
During Sukkot we build a sukkah and we become surrounded by the walls of a fragile hut with a roof covered in branches, sparse enough to allow a glimpse of the heavens. Although the sukkah has specific requirements regarding how small or tall it can be, there are no limits to how wide and long it can be. In fact, the Talmud says that it can be big enough to accommodate the entire Jewish people.
If our tradition places such strong emphasis on the mitzvah of welcoming the stranger, then why should anyone be considered an outsider, especially during the observance of a holiday?
During Sukkot we welcome the stranger, we think about welcoming the marginalized strangers. So many of us today, have felt marginalized within Jewish spaces, we have to remind our brothers and sisters in synagogues that the doors to the sukkah, as well as the synagogue, are supposed to be open. The Sukkah reminds us that our structures and institutions need to be opened up.
The sukkah is a sign to open our hearts at this season. Just as its roof opens to the sky, so too many those celebrating Sukkot be open to the stranger, the other, and the guest who they do not see everyday. Even in a world where many synagogues require membership or tickets to enter into the building for Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur, all are welcome in the sukkah. The sukkah invites the community to be welcoming even the living quarters themselves become open and we are ready to receive guest.
I believe this holiday, and the sukkah, expresses the peace and wholeness that we can share with every Jew in the world. Haskivenu, "u'phros aleinu sukkat shlomecha" (spread over us your sukkah of peace).
Today is Tisha B'av, the ninth of the Jewish month of Av, a day when Jews traditionally remember the destruction of the Temples and other tragedies of our history by fasting and reading from the Book of Lamentations, culminating a three week period of remembering and mourning. As I fast, I am remembering the destruction that so many teachers, advertisements, politicians, a lobby group, and synagogues have tried to instruct me to 'forget' or not know: the destruction of Palestine. This destruction continues today, as we see the actions of modern day Israel in repressing freedom of speech, movement, and quality of life.
The idea of destroying someone's sacred site had always been appalling to me – shouldn't holy grounds remain beyond the reach of warfare, just as the lives of children should remain untouchable by the clutches of warriors? My naivety has waned as I have grown to understand that warfare is a blind beast that cannot help but harm the innocent and the sacred, like a bull in a china shop. Nonetheless the reaches of the violence of occupation are still unnerving. One year ago I was standing in a destroyed Palestinian village in northern Israel, staring at what was once a sacred mosque, and is now an off-limits crumbling building, sealed by the same barbed wire that kept my not-so-distant relatives in the death camps in Poland.
How do we mourn destruction while it continues in every moment? Even as I write this new settlement homes are being built in the West Bank and companies continue to profit from occupation. For so long many have cried out for an end to the destruction, shook their fists in the air, marched, rallied, lamented, sobbed. It is essential to feel our grief and to vocalize it, but it is not enough. Today is a day that my people do not eat to express our grief. But there is something more we can do. We can refuse to buy the products that continue to destroy people's lives, homes, and sacred sites. By putting our money where our mouths are, and refusing to imbibe products that have led to the suffering of people elsewhere on the planet, we can embody our values.
And truly embodiment is at the core of Tisha B'av. During the time of wandering the desert for 40 years after fleeing slavery in Egypt, legend says that my Jewish ancestors would dig shallow graves for themselves on the night of Tisha B'av and lie down in them to sleep, so that when they awoke they literally crawled out of their graves and were reborn anew. Tisha B'av is not only about mourning death and destruction, then, it is also about rebirth and renewal, the promise of creative innovation that destruction forces upon us.
Mishna Taanit 1.6-1.7 states that the public ritual during days of fasting include imposed limits on "buying and selling; on building and planting; on betrothals and weddings; and on inquiring about each other's well-being…" Perhaps we can continue to carry this imposition through for the following weeks until the High Holidays (the Jewish New Year, a time for reflection, mourning, and the creation of resolute commitments for the year to come) and beyond, until a just peace is attained in the Middle East. We can refuse to buy goods made in the Occupied Territories, or do business with companies who are illegally profiting from the occupation; we can refuse to support businesses that contribute to the building of settlements; we can ensure that all people can live, love, and grow in peace.
As I write this, an angry backlash has sprung up in response to one moral act of boycotting a business involved in the illegal occupation of the West Bank: ultra-Orthodox and pro-occupation groups are calling for a buycott of illegally-made Ahava cosmetics sold at Ricky's, a family beauty supply chain in New York City. The buycott call comes after peace groups CODEPINK and Brooklyn for Peace coordinated a public action outside the Brooklyn store on July 9. An online "mud fight" erupted in the comments section of a Brooklyn article about the peace action, in which people commenting went so far as to equate one activist with pogroms and make comments about her vagina and sexuality. Groups including the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) on the East Coast have stepped up to defend the occupation by promoting this product. Read more about it in Adam Horowitz's post on Mondoweiss. It seems that when the ugly truth behind fancy skin care products is revealed, the beauty of Jewish teachings in the minds of those who profess to be most observant is more dead than the Dead Sea itself.
May the ancient teachings of Tisha B'av be remembered in place of modern attempts to wipe out the history of a people living in a land that was given to a people without a land.
"Any person who can prevent the people of their household from committing a sin but does not is responsible for the sins of their household. If a person can prevent the people of their city from sinning, they are responsible for the sins of the people of their city. If the whole world, that person is responsible for the sins of the whole world." ~ Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 54b
Rae Abileah is a national organizer with CODEPINK Women for Peace and lives in San Francisco, CA. You can join the monthly Jewish Fast for Gaza at http://fastforgaza.net/ and pledge to boycott of Ahava products at www.stolenbeauty.org.
A former IDF soldier is speaking out in opposition to the occupation of Palestine. An 85-year old Holocaust survivor testifies to the peril of waiting to make a decision rather than saving lives now by stopping war machines. A queer Jewish Latino speaks about his own journey from living in a settlement in East Jerusalem to coordinating a national organization opposing the occupation. A Palestinian student shares the story of his own family's loss and highlights the lost logic in the room. The Israeli Consulate General admits to the existence of an "occupation" and states that Israel wants to end it! An orthodox man calls in a metaphor of candlelight illuminating goodness, each of us a candle. Facts are flung around like snowflakes that melt on impact spilling into the subjective world of painful stories that pull at heartstrings and paint barbed pictures. It all went down in Berkeley, California on Wednesday night, April 14, as the world watched (and tweeted).
The UC Berkeley student government became an impassioned theater of views on the occupation of Palestine. The UC student government (ASUC) Senate started a meeting to discuss the divestment bill at 10:30 pm that lasted until daybreak. While the ASUC has passed countless bills of political nature – supporting the Dream Act for immigration reform, for example – on the issue of divestment from the Israeli occupation, the Senate ran into blowback and took time to deliberate the issues. This pro-occupation lobby turned the bill about divesting from two specific US companies involved in the illegal occupation into a fear-for-all — suddenly Jewish students were the only marginalized community, and the passage of the bill would somehow make them unsafe and endangered on campus. (Incidentally, marginalization of other minority groups on campus, and the daily dangers Palestinians face in the occupation were not mentioned by the pro-occupation speakers at the ASUC meeting.)
Let's rewind for a little background on the Berkeley debate: On March 18, Berkeley's Student Senate voted 16-to-4 to divest from two American companies, General Electric and United Technologies, because of their role in harming civilians as part of Israel's illegal occupation and the attack on Gaza. A week later, the Senate president vetoed the bill. The bill's opponents waged a fierce campaign of misinformation; student senators were flooded with letters from many persuasions. UC Berkeley's Students for Justice in Palestine mobilized over 35 campus groups, and dozens of national and international human rights and interfaith organizations, and many well-known voices for justice, including Naomi Klein, Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, and Noam Chomsky signed on to support the bill.
Finally after weeks of debate, the student Senate had an opportunity to overturn the president's veto. More information about the bill can be found here.
The democratic process of the CAL student Senate meeting to vote on overturning the president's veto created an opening for dozens of testimonies on all sides of the issue on Wednesday night in a ballroom on campus where over 1,000 students gathered. 85 year old Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein gave a moving opening statement in which she said, "[Student Senate] President Smelko does not speak for me, nor for over 20 Jewish and Israeli organizations who endorsed the bill, and whose members sent him more than 1,000 emails, nor for many more in the Jewish community, some of whom are in present in person here, or in spirit, in support of this bill." Epstein went on to cite Israel's war crimes: "Throughout its 62 years of existence, Israel has been in flagrant violation of international law, even some of its own laws, the fourth Geneva Convention, more than 70 UN & Security Council resolutions, besides 32 US-vetoed Security Council Resolutions. Israel's attack on Gaza amounted to war crimes were all confirmed by the UN's Goldstone commission report. 62 years make not only Israel culpable, but all of us, who stand idly by, or who veto resolutions like the one before us. I have lived 85 years; I have not witnessed one other war crime theater allowed to exist for this long."
Professor Judith Butler gave a moving testimony as a Jew and an academic. Many students with Students for Justice with Palestine and many other campus groups spoke eloquently on the bill. Penny Rosenwasser, who teaches a course on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, stated, "For 20 years I have organized marches and rallies and nonviolent civil disobedience. I have lobbied senators, signed petitions, and toured the country giving educational slideshows. But none of this has worked, none of this has ended the occupation – in fact things have only gotten worse. More Israeli and Palestinian lives have been lost. I am asking you to vote for this bill for two reasons: 1. It supports a nonviolent strategy 2. It targets US – NOT Israeli – companies who are profiting from the occupation."
Matthew Taylor, a Jewish Bay Area resident, wrapped himself in the Israeli flag, and brought the occupation issues home to US history:
"When Americans took action against slavery, against segregation, and for women's rights, were they anti-American? Of course not. They were patriots.
Imagine that the year is 1960 and you are being asked to divest from companies that sell busses to segregated US southern states. On one side of the room you'd see a large number of white Americans who would claim that the bill marginalizes white students, that you can't possibly understand the complexity of the US South enough to cast a vote. And they would claim to speak for all white students. On the other side of the room you'd see a large number of white Americans saying, 'Please vote for this bill for the benefit of the South, for the benefit of blacks and whites.' They'd be a diverse multicultural group [like the group of students advocating for this bill last night]. I am a patriot of Israel, of the Jewish people. I beg you please vote yes."
Those of us who spoke up as Jews implored the senators to not be fooled by the baseless claims of anti-Semitism from our Jewish brothers and sisters. After all, the majority of Jews, 55%, oppose Israel's illegal settlements on Palestinian land. We drew attention to the reality that holding Israel accountable to the same standards of international law that the rest of the global community must follow is not an attack on Jewish identity. I spoke about feeling safer as a young Jew in the Bay Area since ASUC passed the bill.
I also stated, as a representative of CODEPINK Women for Peace, which also signed onto the letter of support for the bill, "When I critique or protest the US occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, I am not anti-American or un-patriotic. Passing a bill to divest from US corporations who are profiteering from an illegal occupation is not anti-Israeli. It is in the best interest of Israel to end the occupation. This bill will take a bold step towards doing just that – ending the occupation. I yearn for a day in which Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and security, with dignity and human rights for all. If you share that vision you will vote to again pass Senate Bill 118A." I also yearn for the day when all war profiteers will be held accountable and when our nation will reinvest our resources in life-affirming pursuits.
On the final day of the women's suffrage movement struggle, one state's vote came down to one person. Those in the audience wore colored roses to show which way they would vote. On Wednesday night many of us wore neon green stickers, which said "Another (fill in the blank) for Human Rights. Divest from the Israeli Occupation!" People in the room wrote in "mother" "Jew" "Israeli" "person of color" "self loving queer Jew" and such. These stickers signified that we were not pro-Israel or pro-Palestine – we were on the side of justice. There was a time when our country asked if women had rights like men did. On Wednesday night the underlying debate was about whether Palestinians, and all who live under occupation, have rights like people who are free. What would the Berkeley Senate answer?
The student senators most likely did not bargain for an international political debate when they were sworn into office. But on Wednesday night, faced with history in the making, many senators rose to the occasion and made excellent points on occupation, justice, and moral responsibility. One student of color senator commented, "This bill did not marginalize me; I was marginalized when I stepped on this campus. To veto this bill is to marginalize the majority of the student senate."
Finally, in the wee morning hours, the bill came (yet again) to a vote. After countless testimonies, recesses, heated cheering and clapping (contrary to the asks of the Senators), and discussion within the Senate, the roll call began. The final vote was 12-7, which was not sufficient to repeal the president's veto. But it was still the majority of the student senate. The majority of student senators in favor of the bill then took another tack and entered into more rounds of discussion, and ultimately the bill was tabled with the added suggestion for the writing of another bill focusing on war crimes and profiteers in several nation states. (Or at least that's what I thought the outcome was, after 12 hours of listening and a sleepless night!)
While the veto was not overturned, the all-nighter meeting represented a huge step in building the global movement for justice in Palestine and Israel. The eloquent testimonies and words from the senators moved many who listened to tears and heightened awareness. As Cecilie Surasky, Deputy Director of Jewish Voice for Peace, stated, "If the enemy is the status quo, which feeds on silence and invisibility, then that enemy fell tonight. An incredible coalition of Jewish groups, student groups, human rights groups, prominent activists, authors, and Nobel Prize winners, came together to take a stand for justice. This is the future, right here in this room."
As the final speaker before the vote, a Palestinian student in favor of the bill said, "This bill asserts that I am human, that Palestinians are humans, that we are equal." May the University of California, and all campuses and governments, speedily realize these words and divest from the corporations in violation of human rights and the basic principle that we are all one, we are all equal. And may the UC Berkeley campus continue to create safe spaces for dialogue between students of many perspectives and exposures.
The 12-hour meeting ended on Thursday morning, April 15, Tax Day, just hours before Tea Partyers would begin pouring into American streets to protest bloated federal budgets (among other issues). How fitting for the local debate on war funding to end on this day, when taxpayers will fork over the funds to give Israel another $3 billion in military aid (which last year was used to break international law in Gaza) and potentially another $33 billion to fund the occupation of Afghanistan. While many may not yet be ready to engage in war tax resistance, or feel that Congress is listening to the call to stop funding war, local divestment campaigns such as the courageous bill in Berkeley offer an avenue for putting our community's money where our values are – for justice and peace, not endless war and occupation.
Rae Abileah is an American Jew of Israeli decent who lives in San Francisco, CA. She works with CODEPINK Women for Peace and can be reached at rae[at]codepinkalert.org.
This Saturday night (March 6 2010) will witness one of the most important demonstrations in years, in the struggle for human rights and justice here in Israel. The struggle against injustice and dispossession, against the Hebronization of East Jerusalem, and against the anti-democratic processes undermining Israeli society. In this struggle, Sheikh Jarrah has already become a symbol. But as in any struggle for justice and equality, that has never been the goal. The goal is justice and equality, human rights and a future that embraces all human beings without distinction. Saturday night's rally organizers hope to attract thousands and to finally make justice ring in Sheikh Jarrah. If successful, it may gradually become possible — to move beyond symbolism to the true purpose of the already months' long Sheikh Jarrah struggle: justice.
The asymmetric legal situation in Israel, through the Absentee Property Law, makes it possible for Jews to return to property that was owned by Jews before 1948 — while Palestinian property return is completely impossible. This is both unjust and unwise. In Sheikh Jarrah, this has resulted in Palestinian refugees, originally housed in the neighborhood by the Jordanian government after 1948, becoming refugees a second time. Of course, unlike the settlers forcing the Palestinians out of their homes, the Palestinians cannot return to the homes they owned before 1948 — not in Jaffa, nor in West Jerusalem or anywhere else.
So far, four families have lost their homes: Al-Rawi, Hanoon, and the two Al-Kurd families. Many more families face a similar fate if the plans of the Simeon the Just Company materialize, to destroy their homes and instead build 200 housing units for Jewish settlers.
By itself, what is described above is already more than sufficient to require us to demonstrate against. But the injustice does not stop with that: what is happening in Sheikh Jarrah is part of a larger process — the Hebronization of East Jerusalem. In the raging struggle over Jerusalem's future, facts are already being determined on the ground, and the Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem are forced to pay the price upfront, their human rights violated in a great variety of ways. Inadequate to non-existent infrastructure, shortage in classrooms, social, health and mail services, revocation of residency status, lack of planning programs that would have allowed for legal construction and the constant fear of house demolitions – all these are added to the destructive processes sadly familiar to us from another city: Hebron.
As if watching the replay of a movie whose ending we have already seen, here in front of our eyes the Hebron processes are taking place once again, this time in Jerusalem: the entry of settlers to the heart of a Palestinian neighborhood, the provocations and violence, the one-sided actions of the security forces – always serving the interests of the Jewish settlers over the rights of the Palestinian residents. And then, what follows: restrictions of movement, segregation, life becoming a nightmare, and all this in the name of "security considerations". Shuhada Street in Hebron is already closed for Palestinians for years — a street that was part of the bustling heart of one of the largest Palestinian cities, and has become a ghost road in the service of extremist settlers, the human rights of local Palestinians thrown to the roadside.
A similar process to what has already happened in Hebron is now happening in Jerusalem. Sheikh Jarrah now has police checkpoints at the entrance to the neighborhood. During certain hours on Friday the entrance to the neighborhood is generally blocked, but is open to Jewish worshipers. In contrast, Jews wishing to enter Sheikh Jarrah to express solidarity with the Palestinian families are prevented from entering the neighborhood. Violence against Palestinians ends with arrests — of Palestinians. The mechanism of dispossession and the construction of security excuses are already at work. And all this is happening right here, in Jerusalem.
In tandem, the Jerusalem Police tried to break the Israeli activists who wanted to express solidarity with the Palestinian families and protest against the injustice done to them. Only after nearly a hundred false arrests and a series of hearings at the Jerusalem Magistrate Court, did the police finally allow for the protest vigils to take place. For many weeks, each Friday, rain or cold, arrests or no arrests, hundreds of Israelis gather to protest in Sheikh Jarrah. Now, the Police is trying to keep Saturday's planned demonstration as far as possible from the neighborhood, perhaps fearing the thought that the Palestinians will be able to hear the voices of those who consider them human beings, not objects for removal. High Court justices will hear an urgent petition on this matter Thursday morning; hopefully they will not forget the Court's ruling in a similar context almost twenty years ago: "The location's effectiveness is the lifeblood of a people's assembly."
Whether the police will succeed in distancing the demonstration or the Court will intervene in defense of freedom of speech is yet to be seen. Either way, what is at stake is the process that has not begun in Sheikh Jarrah nor will be stopped there, unless we begin to change course. It is the process of dispossession and the constant injustices against the Palestinian residents – while canonizing acts of violence. Israelis demonstrating in Sheikh Jarrah are no longer regularly arrested, but that is not the heart of the matter. The question that should concern all of us — and mobilize all of us — to demonstrate in Sheikh Jarrah this Saturday night is this: How to stop injustice and how in its stead promise a shared future, common to all people, based on foundations of human rights and equality. It is this voice that will ring this Saturday night from Sheikh Jarrah — a strong voice that we must ring for Israelis and Palestinians, a resonant voice that we must ring for the world to hear, a personal voice that we must ring for ourselves. And this can only happen in one way: for each and every one of us to come this Saturday night at 7pm to Sheikh Jarrah. Together, let us bring justice to ring in Sheikh Jarrah.
Hagai El-Ad is the Director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). He blogs at the Huffington Post.
Purim is a celebration of reversals. The Book of Esther, which is traditionally read twice on the holiday, states in Chapter 9 verse 1:
Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have rule over them; whereas it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them
This notion, of things being turned on their heads, called "venahafoch hu" in Hebrew, is at the core of this lively, raucous little holiday. The very purpose of our celebrating is intertwined with this overturning "from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a holiday" (Esther 9:22). As Rabbi Irving Greenberg puts it in his essay "Confronting Jewish Destiny: Purim," in his book The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays:
Part of the dizzying paradox of Purim is the extraordinary and capricious reversals it reflects. Vashti is deposed as queen for showing modesty. Esther wins favor for the queenship because of her modesty…Mordecai, in one day, is raised from gallows candidate to prime minister. The very name of the holiday – Purim (meaning lottery) – suggests the absurdity and vulnerability of historical events when a turn of the wheel, a night's insomnia, a moment of jealousy on the part of a drunken king, spells the difference between degradation and exaltation, between genocide and survival.
On Purim, we wear costumes, get drunk, and let go of the daily inhibitions – the cloak of order – that characterizes our lives, in order to acknowledge that our lives can change on a dime, and that a situation that looks devastating and grim can in fact become uplifting and celebratory.
But what is lurking beneath this notion of "venahafoch hu?" And what does it have to teach us, as a Jewish community, about our relationship to innovation and change, and those who turn, and sometimes overturn, the strictures of our community?
The Jewish Bible uses the term "hafach," often translated as "turned," in a number of different ways. Often, it is used to convey a reversal from one state to its opposite state, as in the case of the Megillah, or, as in Deuteronomy 33:6, "God turned the curse into a blessing for you." It is also used to indicate any change, and not always necessarily as predictable as from a state to its opposite. Exodus tells of Moses' staff, which turned into a snake (7:15) and of the water in the Nile river, which turned to blood (7:17), and the psalmist reminds us of God's having turned the rock into a pool of water (Psalms 114:8). The term is also used to convey destruction, as in Jonah's warning to the people of Ninveh: "Another forty days and Ninveh shall be overturned" (Jonah 3:4). This is not only a change from one state to another, but a change from a state of order to a state of chaos, from civilization to destruction. And, finally, the term is used, simply, to convey movement. Lamentations refers to the heart that spins and turns within our midst (1:20), and Genesis describes the Garden of Eden as being guarded by the cherubim, holding a flaming sword "turning every which way" (3:24). This is not simply motion, but implies a spinning that is just barely in control, hovering at the edge of turmoil.
On Purim, then, we are not simply acknowledging that despair can turn to joyous exaltation. That is merely the tip of the Purim iceberg. The holiday, in fact, is intensely sobering. It reminds us that the world is spinning beyond our control, and, despite what we think, we cannot predict its direction, nor can we be certain that it won't spin into a state of total destruction. This, perhaps, is why joy must be dictated during this month: mishenichnas Adar marbim be'simcha – when the month of Adar arrives we abound in joy (Talmud Megillah 29a) – because it is counter-intuitive to face the notion of "venahafoch hu" and to celebrate.
Perhaps this understanding of Purim can shed light on the Jewish community's complex relationship to its innovators.
Our innovators keep us spinning. Paul Light, in his article "Social Entrepreneurship Revisited" in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, describes social entrepreneurship as "a wave of creative destruction that remakes society." Innovators are involved in all levels of the "venahafoch hu" process, changing things from one state to another, sometimes to their opposite states, and keeping the world in motion, even sending it into turmoil. Jewish social entrepreneurs, as they spin and blow through the community, hover on the brink of overturning the Jewish world as we know it.
The field of Jewish innovation, like the holiday of Purim, may appear celebratory and joyous on its surface. It marks the possibility of renewal, which, in the Jewish community, ultimately means survival. But, like Purim, there are cold depths beneath this surface. There is something profoundly threatening about the field. New Jewish ideas and institutions often, and sometimes by definition, threaten traditional modes of operating and thinking in the Jewish world. In creating something new, Jewish social entrepreneurs sometimes destroy the old. In painting a new portrait of our community, they sometimes eradicate the faces and images that have defined us over time.
This Purim, perhaps our challenge as a community is to approach this field of innovation, this realm of "venahafoch hu," with the same simultaneously tremulous and unwavering joy we bring into the month of Adar. Light writes: "social entrepreneurs are driven by a persistent, almost unshakable optimism." This attitude of hope in the face of potential adversity is a very Jewish notion, one of which we are reminded during the month of Adar. When we face the spinning world, the possibility of unending turmoil and the potential destruction of all that we hold dear, we are reminded to approach it with joy and hope, with an eye towards redemption and possibility, with merry-making and feasting. With a celebration of our innovators, and the belief that, ultimately, when the book ends, we will have survived, flourished, thrived, and come out stronger for all the motion.
This Sunday, February 21st, prominent Jewish activists and artists will share their skills at Inside the Activists' Studio SF, which will feature workshops on art, food justice, spirituality, and other topics, a spoken word performance by poet Josh Healey, and a panel discussion with leading activists. Daniel Kaufman, one of the panelists, shares his thoughts on creating infrastructures for philanthropy, engaging young adults, and expressing Jewish values through giving.
Daniel is the founder and president of the One Percent Foundation.
Tell me about the One Percent Foundation.
The One Percent Foundation is basically the missing piece of the civic engagement puzzle. There's a lot of engagement around voting, volunteering, and activism, and we're trying to be the giving piece. We want to create an infrastructure that will engage and empower people in their 20s and 30s – average, run-of-the-mill millennials – who perhaps haven't thought of what it means to be a philanthropist.
The core program is the One Percent Giving Circle. We ask people to commit to giving one percent of their annual income, and at least half of that through the One Percent Foundation. Once people start giving, they're considered Partners, and can nominate organizations to receive our quarterly grants. Our Working Group identifies the top five nominees, posts them online, and all Partners log in and rank them from 1-5. The top nominee gets the grant. The whole process lets us see what we're doing as civic engagement.
There are three barriers to philanthropy for young people. First off, they feel like they can't afford it. They're earning money for the first time, and there are lots of demands on that money. Secondly, they don't have the tools to identify a good nonprofit from the hundreds out there, so they don't know who they want to give to. Finally, even if they have the money and know who they want to give to, they think, what's the point? It's not going to make a difference. So we really want to get people engaged.
What made you decide to make philanthropy your primary form of activism?
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine – actually, the cofounder of the organization – when I was in law school. He was working with big donors, linking them with political organizations. I had never really thought about philanthropy in my entire life, but as we were talking, I realized that there wasn't really an infrastructure to support people who wanted to learn to give in a meaningful way. There were programs that targeted young kids or wealthier high-end donors, and there were some programs for people in their 20s and 30s, but those were very targeted. So we started talking to friends and creating this infrastructure. There was more and more unsolicited interest, and that organically became the One Percent Foundation. I gradually acquired an interest in philanthropy – I never set out to do it.
Where do you think you've made the biggest impact?
I think more and more people are taking notice and starting to think more strategically about what it means to create a broad-based movement for philanthropy. Our goal is to make giving a core component of the average citizen's engagement portfolio, like voting. People who give to and engage with innovative nonprofits are more able to engage with their communities. Even giving a couple of dollars a month is very valuable to supporting good ideas.
The concept of ordinary people coming together to give sounds like it's very rooted in traditional forms of tzedakah. Do you view your work as grounded in Jewish tradition?
Totally. I grew up in the Reform movement, which shaped who I am, and how I view the world. This organization sprouted from a group of friends who worked together at a Jewish camp. There's no doubt in my mind that Jewish values drove the creation of the One Percent Foundation and continue to drive the growth of it. One of the things that's so appealing to people about it is that it allows them to express their Jewish values in a very broad way, a community-based way. It's not as insular as other Jewish experiences that they've had. Not that insular experiences are bad – this is just a different way to think about it. But, yes, my work is driven by Jewish values, tzedakah, and tikkun olam.
Do you have any goals for Inside the Activists' Studio? Any particular ideas you want to bring to the table?
I don't have a specific agenda. I love the concept and I'm excited to participate. It's going to be an incredible program. The One Percent Foundation is totally organic and peer to peer, and what we've found and what has really surprised me is that there's incredible interest when the demographic is presented with an opportunity to engage in a really meaningful way. They feel really empowered. It's going to be very helpful in building the next generation's philanthropy movement, which is ultimately what we're trying to do.
This past Shabbat, I was at this pretty progressive shul in Baltimore. I say progressive because I want you to understand that what I experienced is typical of my experiences in synagogues, and also typical of the experience of other Jews of color. Anyway, the service was really cool and we had this awesome discussion on King and Heschel.
During the oneg, after the service, this woman comes up to me. Let's just call her "S". The discussion went something like:
S: "Hi my name is S." I replied with same. "…are ya Jewish"
Me: "I'm wearing a Kippah (pause breath)…Yes I'm Jewish"
S: "Well obviously you weren't born Jewish!"
Me: "Why do you say that."
S: "Well…Because you're black!"
Me: "Well at least you're honest."
What was so surprising about this exchange was not that she asked me, "was I Jewish?," or that she assumed I wasn't born Jewish. It's the fact that she was actually, to quote Mixedjewgirl, an honest bigot. Does that mean she should get applause? No, of course not. But usually when faced with these questions, and I ask back, I get every conceivable tap dance that one can imagine.
I did use the opportunity as a teaching moment and quickly educated S. on the diversity of the Jewish community, and the sheer numbers of Jews of color in the United States.
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Bob Goldfarb, in his recent piece "Innovation, Management, and Leadership," raises an interesting question about the relationship between "innovation" and "leadership." He writes: "From a structural perspective… [innovators] have simply added independent, entrepreneurial elements to Jewish communal life that complement the established, centralized bureaucracies."
But is that really all they have done?
Goldfarb points out that leadership and management are two separate activities. He claims that "leaders [should] resist institutional inertia, challenge fashionable ideas, question the trends of the moment, articulate new visions, and rally a broad following so that true transformation is possible." Leadership, then, is as an activity that draws attention to a community's pressing hidden issues, and that challenges and mobilizes the community to deal productively with those issues. I would argue, then, that the innovation movement as a whole, and many of today's Jewish social entrepreneurs, are exerting vital leadership in our community.
The San Francisco Jewish Community Federation's 2004 demographic study revealed that the vast majority (80%) of Bay Area Jews do not participate in programs offered by existing Jewish institutions. This is a profound challenge for the Bay Area Jewish community. People do not agree on the problem – why do these people who self-identify as Jews not participate in communal offerings? Is it a problem with the institutions? Is it the nature of the Bay Area Jewish community? And people do not agree on the solution – should we reevaluate our existing institutions, and change them? Should we offer new programs for this 80%? Should we focus on providing quality programs for the 20% who are engaged?
The Bay Area Jewish social entrepreneurs are exerting leadership around this issue by virtue of the nature of the work they are doing. Organizations such as Jewish Milestones, which provide meaningful Jewish ritual opportunities outside of synagogues, and G-dcast, which creates Jewish literacy opportunities outside of formal Jewish school environments, are "articulating new visions, questioning trends, and rallying a broad following." In founding these organizations, thereby drawing the community's attention to the institutional inertia and tried and no longer true patterns that are plaguing this community, the innovators behind these projects are beginning the process of communal transformation, and, therefore, are exerting leadership.
Today's Jewish innovators are part of a movement that is squarely facing the challenges and opportunities in today's Jewish communities. They are grappling with some of our most pressing questions – at the end of the paradigm shift currently underway in Jewish life, what will Jewish life look like, and who will be living it? Leadership is a reflective act, and, if nothing else, the flurry and bustle of the innovation ecosystem is giving our community pause, and challenging the perceptions we have taken for granted. Today's Jewish social entrepreneurs are constantly adjusting their directions in light of their learnings, and, therefore, are poised to profoundly alter human relationships. Let us hope that the broader Jewish community joins their conversations and engages with them in the risky, difficult processes that leadership involves.
Maya Bernstein works as the Director of Education for UpStart Bay Area, which supports Jewish social entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. Her writings appear regularly online at Lilith Magazine and e-jewishphilanthropy.com.
Last summer, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography teamed up with Project Kaisei to form SEAPLEX, a 20-day expedition to gather data about the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," a massive whirlpool-like current between North America and Asia that's filled with trash. SEAPLEX sought to develop a better understanding of the size of the garbage patch, its contents, and its effects on local ecosystems, in hopes of paving the way for further action.
If you need any more proof that modern civilization has a waste problem, this is it: despite all of our sanitation and waste disposal systems, despite our countless landfills, incinerators, and photos of seagulls with soda rings around their necks, unprecedented amounts of nonbiodegradable garbage is ending up in the ocean. Social justice issues often seem disconnected from environmentalism – and with the gyres as far from people as you can get, this issue seems like environmentalism in its purest form – but when you examine the root causes of human exploitation and environmental degradation, they often turn out to be one and the same. Consider, for example, the sweatshops that churn out cheap goods, which are then quickly thrown away because – well, they're so cheap!
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Miriam Goldstein, the chief scientist on the SEAPLEX expedition, who gave me some information on the trip, the findings, and her outlook in general. Miriam is a fourth-year graduate student at Scripps and a science blogger at Double X and The Oyster's Garter.
Tell me about the North Pacific Trash Gyre. What is it? How did it form? How is it developing?
First of all, there are lots of gyres. They're natural features formed when a jet stream goes to the east and an ocean current goes to the west. It pushes the top of the ocean east and the bottom west while the Earth is rotating, creating a big, slow whirlpool. There are five major gyres, and all the stuff that falls off of continents falls into them. Since plastic doesn't break down, it all gets sucked into these whirlpools. We don't really know what happens to it then. One of the big open questions we're trying to answer is whether the plastic eventually breaks down or whether it keeps accumulating. Right now there aren't any good measures of it.
On the SEAPLEX website, there's a picture of a stuffed animal caught in a fishing net. What other sorts of recognizable garbage did you find this summer? Anything interesting or bizarre?
The stuffed dog was definitely the most bizarre. We found Lucky the Dog in a ghost net, which is a piece of fishing debris that gets lost. Nets are also made of plastic, so they don't go anywhere, either, which is a big problem because they go on killing [sea life] even though no one is using them. Lucky was stuck in one and we had no idea how he got there. He'd only been in there for a couple of weeks, because he wasn't too stinky. Other things we found were plastic bottles, pieces of combs, and seawater filters, which are pieces of boat engines. We saw recognizable debris like construction hats and bits of plastic crates, but the vast majority of it was tiny pieces of plastic. More »
Sarah Lyhall of the New York Times reports that Britain's Supreme Court ruled against a Jewish high school in London that had rejected an applicant because his mother wasn't Jewish enough – and so, by extension, neither was he. Yep, she had chosen Judaism years ago and gone through a conversion process, but
By all outward appearances, the JFS applicant, identified only as "M" in court papers, is Jewish. But not in the eyes of the school, which defines Judaism under the Orthodox definition set out by Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. Because M's mother converted in a progressive, not an Orthodox, synagogue, the school said, she was not a Jew — and neither was her son. It turned down his application.
As we say in my home town, oh no you DIDN'T!
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Who says long-distance relationships don't work? When they released their debut album Demons in 2005, the members of Envelopes were living variously in Stockholm, Malmo and Paris. Somehow they managed to scrabble together enough time during school holidays to record their songs. We should rejoice at their persistence, that they refused to bow to geography, for three years on they've delivered a second album, Here Comes The Wind, that is a sumptuous miracle. Feral these songs roam, chasing us with their loose-limbed melodies, snapping at our ears with their frisky guitar and resolute rhythms.
Rollicking opener 'Party' betrays the band's love of the Pixies, Henrik Orrling and Audrey Pic doing the alternating boy/girl vocals thing, Ulf Höglund pumping the bass full of amp-humping menace and the guitars buzzing like bees around a discarded soft drink can. In addition they've even worked in a reference to poodle-haired warbler supreme Bonnie Tyler: "Once upon a time I was falling in love / now I'm only falling apart / totally fucked from the start."_ Amazing.
They're back paying their respects to Black Francis's Boston alt-rock legends on 'Heaven'. But, hey, who cares if they're flashing their influences so freely; it's not the ingredients, but how they are brought together that makes Envelopes such a palate-teasing proposition. And they certainly have more than one means of piquing our interest. 'Freejazz' is a somewhat misleading title for a song whose zesty indie-pop recalls The Sugarcubes. Here Pic urges us to_ "make things happen, provoke them"_. It is an affirmative vocal and fits snugly with the undeniably uplifting feel of the music.
Elsewhere and Talking Heads are invoked on 'Smoke In The Desert. Eating The Sand. Hide In The Grass'. The staccato guitar lines and jerky vocal create a bizarrely entrancing combination. All the while Orrling is intoning lyrical fragments, conjuring with image and metaphor, hallucinations transmitted from his head to his mouth. 'Boat' takes a more straightforward narrative slant, a familial tale ripe with emotional friction, the music here akin to the Velvet Underground's most devastatingly unadorned moments. Think 'I'll Be Your Mirror'.
'Put On Hold' is bracingly different, its heavily treated vocal and slap and tickle electronica recalling The Postal Service. Its lemon sherbet, synthesised fizz is enjoyable, if a relative oddity within the context of this album's guitar-led indie-pop. We're back on more familiar territory for 'I'd Like 2 C U', all buoyant and in-your-face in a B-52's style, those old bedfellows pop and romance creating an uncomplicated, but hugely enjoyable concoction.
The dully repetitive 'I'm In Love And I Don't Care Who Knows It' is the one occasion on Here Comes The Wind when Envelopes are less than beguiling. It's a ramshackle and wearying offering, the lyric and guitars droning in infuriating fashion. Redemption is not far away though and the final duo of 'What's The Deal?' and 'Seawise' are reinvigoratingly spry. The latter track in particular is an instantly loveable little scamp, the guitar pleading, Pic's vocal cool and compelling.
With Here Comes The Wind, Envelopes have delivered a smorgasbord of all the finest delicacies that indie-pop has to offer. It is a credit to inspired songwriting and impeccable taste.
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NZ 72/1 against Warriors Taylor 29* SR 100
Good to see his form is carrying on.
101/1 after 20.3 overs.
Should really be looking at 300+
Last edited by Athlai; 18-09-2009 at 04:05 AM.
Taylor eventually gone for 51 off 70, SR 72. Seems he got a bit bogged down.
Guptill going for it now.
And out for 78.
Elliott's taken over now.
any channel showing warm ups like ICC T20 world cup???????????
And now 237/8 after 44.2 - pretty rubbish lower order collapse there, though tbf when 6,7,8 is Hopkins, Mills, Diamanti that's to be expected.
Broom continues to fail which is disappointing.
And NZ collapses unsurprisingly considering we have Hopkins as 6 and Mills 7.
Rusty with a Michelle.
Don't fancy the Warriors chances, not much after Davey Jacobs, Smuts and Kreusch in terms of batting. Missing Arno Jacobs but looks like the New Zealanders are Bond and Vettori lite.
Rusty! The Paul Adams of fast bowlers.
227-4 to 237 all out? Seriously?
Arno is playing. Warriors 57 for 1 off 11.
New Zealand 237 (46.1 ov)
Warriors 201/5 (40.0 ov)
Warriors require another 37 runs with 5 wickets and 60 balls remaining
Pakistan 112/3 (25.4 ov)
*Kamran Akmal (rhb) 62
Misbah-ul-Haq (rhb) 25
Pakistan for me struggling at the moment
Kamran Akmal b Muralitharan 82 (126m 78b 11x4 2x6) SR: 105.12
He's out after hitting a six of Mendis
wish there was live TV coverage
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Daytona Beach, FL (February 20, 2014) – How lucky you can be. This was part of the conversation as the Germain Racing crew was returning to the garage after Duel number two at Daytona International Speedway on Thursday evening. Just a day earlier, a practice crash involving Cole Whitt sent Brian Vickers across the nose of Casey Mears' #13 Chevrolet SS, forcing the GEICO driver to the garage for minor repairs. A lap later, cars were crashing, but Mears was out of harm's way thanks to the inadvertent contact just moments prior.
Last night, after 58 laps of clean racing, the final five miles culminated in a cruel swing of emotions that found the GEICO team in tears of pain and then joy, all inside of a couple of minutes.
Their driver, Casey Mears, experienced misfortune that only served to benefit the team moments later. Mears' #13 GEICO Chevrolet SS was strong throughout the 60-lap mad dash, running solidly in the top seven cars for the bulk of the evening. He ascended the leaderboard and the #13 GEICO Chevrolet even sat atop the scoring tower as the race leader on lap 36.
It was lap 56 that got Mears' heart racing when he noticed a drop in fuel pressure, causing concern among the Germain Racing engineering staff. Two laps later, Mears found himself shaking his racecar side-to-side hoping to re-fire his GEICO Chevrolet. Fortunately, he was able to make it around the 2.5-mile superspeedway without incident and delivered his Germain Racing entry to the attention of his pit crew. Just after Mears departed pit road, the 'big one' took place a lap later as the field approached the checkered flag. Jimmie Johnson ran out of fuel, initiating a crash that would collect a handful of drivers and also see Clint Bowyer flip over, land on his wheels and drive away. If not for Mears' misfortune a lap earlier, the #13 GEICO Chevrolet SS would have most certainly been collected, as well. Instead, Mears was credited with a lead lap, 14th place finish that placed him comfortably in the 2014 Daytona 500 starting field. Most importantly, he was left with a clean, undamaged racecar. For the second time in as many days, pain quickly turned to comfort as the racing gods smiled down on Mears and his Germain Racing crew.
"We've been fortunate the last two days and it's nice to have things go our way here. We would've definitely been in that mess tonight if I didn't have the fuel issue, so in retrospect it worked out," Mears said. "Our GEICO team has worked hard all week and I'm glad they are having some positive things happen. We're really strong and I'm thankful to all of the Germain guys and the folks at RCR (Richard Childress Racing, Germain's technical partner) for giving me a fast racecar. We're looking forward to Sunday."
Mears and his GEICO team have been strong since they unloaded their #13 GEICO Chevrolet a week ago for the season's opening practice session. To this point, fortune has favored the team, so both crew and driver excitedly await Sunday's Daytona 500.
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Janine Jarman has been the successful owner of her Hairroin Salon in West Hollywood, California. Founded in 2005 with a tagline: "Addicted to Style" for "Hair Addicted" clients and staff, Hairroin is unique in its design and diverse clientele. A popular destination for fashion-forward Hollywood Elite, Fergie, Adam Lambert, Britney Spears, Christina Applegate, Katy Perry, Lil' Kim and Zooey Deschanel are just a handful of celebs who have stopped by for a touch up.
The good news for the east coast is that Jarman is opening a salon in NYC, in a surprising location...right near Macy's on 34th and Broadway. Scheduled to open in early June, Hairroin will serve as Sebastian's flagship salon in Manhattan (Jaman is a member of the Sebastian Design Team). The 1,500 square foot space will be located at 1333 Broadway and will house approximately 16 stations with 10 stylists. Hairroin will maintain the vintage theme that has worked so well in its West Hollywood location.
"New York is one of the world's style capitals, inspiring trends that shape the entire industry," says Jarman. "We're excited to bring our brand of hair artistry to the scene, delivering fresh and inspired looks to the fashion-forward men and women of Manhattan. Our team considers every client a work of art, and this represents an amazing opportunity to contribute our talents to this vibrant beauty scene."
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This is a photograph of Robert and Hazel Gomez. He served in the Navy as a fireman from 1941 to 1945 and again during the Korean conflict from November 1950 to December 1951. Robert, along with Hazel and numerous others, was a founding member of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council #11071 (a national civil rights organization) and served as its president from 1986-1989. Hazel began her volunteer activities as a teenager. In 1942, she helped organize and served as president of the Y-Senoritas club, sponsored by the YWCA. They helped soldiers stationed in and near Topeka lead a more active life outside the military. In 1943, she was queen of Our Lady of Guadalupe Fiesta. Hazel served as LULAC president from 1977-1979 and 1983-1984 and as state director from 1980-1983. She advocated on behalf of the elderly, serving as chairperson for the advisory board for the LULAC Elderly Center in 1973, secretary for the La Colonia Elderly Housing Project board from 1982-1984 and as its president from 1984-1985. In addition, she was vice president of the silver-haired legislature board from 1982-1984 and was a delegate to the 1995 White House Conference on Aging. Hazel was honored with numerous awards for service including the 1977 Kansas LULAC Outstanding Service Award, Outstanding Leadership Award at the 1982 National LULAC convention, and the LULAC Women's Hall of Fame Award in 1992. Additional awards include the 1992 Governor's Martin Luther King, Jr. Award and induction into the Kansas Women of Color Hall of Fame. In February 2001, the Kansas Senate passed Resolution No. 1822 in memory of Hazel for over 60 years of community service to the Hispanic Community. After Robert's death in 2001, Living the Dream, Inc. named an award for the couple, the Robert and Hazel Gomez Alma (soul) Award, in memory of their hard work and community service.
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Do capital market banks deserve more investor respect?
Banks make tangible progress
Despite dramatic improvements in capital levels, liquidity, and asset quality, large capital market banks (i.e., brokers and money centre banks) trade at half their pre-crisis levels on a price-to-tangible book basis. Are investors correctly evaluating the risk and reward or do they remain anchored in crisis-era thinking?
Preparing for the quarterly earnings season, I was recently reminded of just how far the large global banks have come in terms of safety and soundness.
To be sure, the US has led the charge, but Europe is doing its best to catch up and adapt as well.
Despite this, the global banks are broadly trading at approximately half their pre-crisis valuation levels on a price-to-tangible-book basis. In our view, this presents an opportunity.
Pre-crisis: Picking up quarters in front of a steamroller
Prior to 2008, I would argue that owning brokers and money centre banks left investors exposed to catastrophe risk.
Nine out of ten years, investors collected premiums in the form of healthy book value growth.
However, leverage, illiquid asset build-up, and flawed funding structures meant that investors were constantly at risk of dilution or permanent loss.
Despite this, these global banks traded between 1.5 times to 2.5 times (or more) tangible book value.
Fast forward: What a difference seven years make
We believe today's investors in capital market banks are exposed to a more favourable return profile.
Why the change in view? Regulators, rating agencies, and politicians have forced significant change within systemic banks. Key aspects of this change include:
- More capital: Banks are holding a lot more capital. On a simple capital-to-assets view, equity has more than doubled versus 2007
- More liquidity: Bank liquidity is many times higher than in 2007. Furthermore, funding stability has increased significantly. These changes are due, in large part, to rules such as the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR), net stable funding ratio (NSFR), and total loss-absorbing capital (TLAC/MREL – pending final rules)
- Reduced trading inventory and illiquid assets: The prohibition of proprietary trading and changes in risk-weighting methodology have caused trading inventory to fall by more than 50% and Level 3 (illiquid assets) to fall by more than 60% on broker balance sheets. While this may well be leading to liquidity and volatility issues outside the banks themselves (i.e. with asset managers and other buyside participants), the brokers are undeniably more robust against market stress
- Reduced counterparty risk: Given the importance of bank counterparty risk, the improvement of all major trading partners should not be underestimated. In other words, the system is as strong as the weakest link. Regulators are also enforcing counterparty limits and central clearing of most over-the-counter derivatives, reinforcing market structure
- Regular exams: Regular stress tests reduce the likelihood of risk build-up and keep both regulators and bank executives attuned and engaged with one another. These tests continue to become more thorough and difficult as time goes on due to the layering of stresses, providing further comfort on bank durability.
Better structure, higher returns?
The underlying structure of the industry is improving and should continue to do so.
Market share is consolidating, with banks in Europe, in particular, shifting away from the most capital intensive market-making business lines; there is anecdotal evidence of improved pricing, the litigation peak appears to have been reached for most banks, and the end of re-regulation appears to be in clear sight.
There is also a structural growth story outside the US: while 80% of US non-financial borrowing takes place in the capital markets, Europe sees the reverse, with 80% of borrowing happening on bank balance sheets.
Given an increased focus on bank balance sheet efficiency, Europe's bond market will likely increase significantly over the next decade, with Asia not far behind.
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Why aren't banks better loved?
Despite the aforementioned improvements, many of these companies traded at current price levels, or higher, as far back as mid-2009.
Why? Well, for one, regulation is much tougher than what was imagined six years ago. Further, litigation expense has bled $200 billion and counting of shareholder funds.
Finally, unprecedented central bank involvement in markets has depressed both rates and volatility across major markets, reducing client activity levels and bank revenue.
I would characterise the above as reasonable reasons for less-than-stellar returns.
But, there also appears to be aspects of valuation that are being driven more by sentiment and fear than by fundamentals.
The logic seems to go as follows: Capital markets were the epicentre of the last crisis; therefore, any time there's a whiff of stress (i.e. housing bubbles, European dis-union, China wobbles), sell the global systemic banks.
Investors should consider taking advantage of the disconnect between sentiment and reality.
I'm very aware of the danger in prognosticating on complex, global banks. After all, the next global crisis or scandal may be just around the corner.
Furthermore, some European banks still have ground to cover before reaching their capital and liquidity end state.
However, looking at the sector broadly, I see strength, stability, and constructive industry dynamics.
If correct, this should result in a significant re-rating in addition to dividends, buybacks, and book value growth while investors wait.
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In Music Terminology is there difference between Fusion and Hybrid?
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Merlin Adair will celebrate his 97th birthday on Sunday with a family pizza party and card shower.
He was born Jan. 6, 1916, son of Harry and Pearl Adair. He married Jeanette Stumberg on July 26, 1938.
Family includes Bea (Dale) Greiner of Reinbeck and Curt Adair (deceased). Grandchildren include Steve Adair, Shelli Reab, Trevis Adair, Kim Thesing, Rita Hummel and Rodney Greiner. There are fourteen great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.
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Defience wrote:hmm.....try breaking them up into groups of twos and/or threes and looking at it that way.
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Thank you for the note. It's no surprise that such a verbose letter came from the Windy City.
I understand that as a new mayor over in the "big city" (which I hear sits on a very nice lake) you're not accustomed to making these wagers very often, but I commend you on an admirable attempt.
You see, here in Boston, we have sports fans with a little something called heart. And so, as one of the country's winningest mayors (championship titles, municipal elections, etc.), I'd like to offer you the following, though I feel strongly none of these items will be arriving at either of your airports:
- The "Best of Boston's Local Foods," foods that are grown or produced right here in the Hub, including some of our abundant seafood;
- Access to the City of Boston's website for one day, to post a promotional video touting Chicago and its great attractions – no profanities, please;
- I'll see your Steppenwolf with two tickets to the Tony Award-winning Huntington Theatre Company, and raise you two tickets to Theo Epstein's "Hot Stove, Cool Music" concert in Boston;
- And of course, I'll match you a tree, to be planted in the schoolyard of your choosing, highlighting our common commitment to education, parks and the environment.
I look forward to receiving your package. Please use ground transport as I would like to avoid any weather delays.
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I have planned another nS0TA adventure extravaganza for August, this time to Coloradio for two adventures: 1) the annual Colo-14er N0B event ( see http://n0b-14er.blogspot.com/ for detail information) and 2) three days in Rocky Mtn Nat'l Park. I've never spent any time in ROMO (see http://www.nps.gov/romo/index.htm for info) and am looking forward to exploring this magnificent NP. A local ham (W0LI) who also is a volunteer at the Park has assisted me in logistics planning: Aug 2/Tue: SOTA activate Hallett Peak (W0/FR-018), an iconic ROMO landmark. More info and pictures at http://www.summitpost.org/hallett-peak/151577. On Aug 3/Wed: activate Yipsilon Peak (W0/FR-009), another beautiful peak in the Mummy Range NW of Estes Park. See http://www.summitpost.org/ypsilon-mountain/151685 for some great pictures. Then on Aug 4/Thurs: W0LI/Rich has organized a "sunrise" local club hike and "demo" activation of Sundance Peak (W0/FR-019). The 3 or 4 am departure may be the biggest challenge! More info and pictures at http://www.summitpost.org/sundance-mountain/152726.
Then a drive south to Steve's/wG0AT place near Colo Springs to prep for our three day adventure into the San Juan Range in south central Colo for our "big 14-er event" for N0B and participation in the annual Colo-14er ham radio special event on Aug 7th. This year KT5X/Fred will join us. The plan is to drive into the trailhead on Friday, camp and hike locally, then on Saturday move up to a higher base camp (around 12,000 ft) in preparation for an early, before dawn departure on Sunday. Our faithful sherpas, Rooster and Peanut will help us "ol' goats" with the logistics! You can see some great pictures of Handies at http://www.summitpost.org/handies-peak/150302.
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Recently I was on hot on the trail of my great grandfather, Francis Walton Batchelor. This is my father's father's line and goes back through Harris County, Georgia. I have to admit, I've procrastinated on researching the Batchelors, in part because of the challenges of researching Black family genealogy back through slavery.
I was blessed to have known my great grandfather. To my childhood eyes, he was a frail but handsome old man who loved to sit in the front room of my aunt's house and regale us with stories from the old days. Great Grandpa died in 1961 at the age of 91 years old. Here's a picture of him back in the day with four of his daughters:
In my research, I found Great Grandpa as an infant in the 1870 census. His race was listed as "Mu" which was the abbreviation for "mulatto". The term mulatto was officially used as a racial designation on the United States census from 1850 to 1930. By definition, at least in this country, a mulatto is a person who has a White and a Black parent. There are good discussions of mulatto at Blended People of America and Afrigeneas – helpful if you want to better understand the historic nuances of race that have an impact on African American genealogy.
As I reviewed the census records, though, they showed both Great Grandpa and his father, Luke Bachelor (sic) listed as mulatto. But Great Grandpa's mother was listed in the same 1870 census as Black. Later in the 1900 census and beyond, Great Grandpa's race was listed as Black. Hmmm…
Could Luke actually have been mulatto? Yes – if he had a White father, although I have no documentation of that yet in my research. But could Great Grandpa be officially designated as mulatto if he had a mulatto father and Black mother. No – and that's where the disconnect comes into play.
What I've come to realize from this and research on other family lines is that sometimes my ancestors were listed as mulatto because of the census-taker's subjective view based on their appearance. This is why when I see the term mulatto, it raises a red flag for me to be extra-vigilant to make sure I don't get side-tracked in my research because a census taker made a mistake more than 100 years ago.
To date in my family research, I have identified only two ancestors who are technically mulatto because they have one Black parent and one White parent. They are:
1. My other paternal great-grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Parker, was born in Harris County, Georgia in 1878. His father was Isaiah Parker, a White man and my great great grandfather. Isaiah was son of Isaiah Parker, the senior, a slave-owner and also my ancestor. Thomas's mother was Ann or known in our Black family history as "Charity Ann". She was a slave on the Parker cotton farm.
Charity Ann and Isaiah had 17 children together during and after slavery. My great-grandfather was the youngest. The story of Charity Ann and Isaiah is a fascinating one but that's a post for another day. My great grandfather Thomas died in 1963 but I don't recall ever meeting him. Here's a picture of him that I have at home in one of those old-fashioned frames with the "bubble" glass:
2. My maternal grandmother, Hazel Edna Dickinson (Weaver) who was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1891. Her father, Prince Albert Weaver was African American, born in Pittsburgh and raised in Washington D.C. Her mother was Jennie Daisy Hood was a White woman from Waterford, PA. Prince Albert and Jennie married in 1889 in Cleveland. It is my great grandmother's line that I've traced back to the American Revolution and the early days of colonial America. Here's a picture of my Grandmother Hazel, who died in 1946 – five years before I was born:
One of the big lessons I've learned in 36 years of researching my family history is not to let subjective information like, what I call, "the mulatto factor" stand in the way of getting the real facts about who my African American ancestors really were. And that's the challenge if you're doing Black family genealogy – take the records you find as clues and do further research to determine if you're headed down the right path looking for the next generation.
History will thank you.


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cleith necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 143 diseños de 39 diseñadores freelance.
I need a logo design for a parent and 2 subsidiary companies that share a common theme. I also need stationary and business cards designed as well.
Platinum Investment Partners/Platinum Asset Solutions/Platinum Lending Solutions
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Platinum and Steel Blue with maybe Black
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Platinum Investment Partners is the parent company, with Platinum Lending Solutions and Platinum Asset Solutions being the two subsidiaries. We are looking for a logo that can tie in the "Platinum" theme for all three.
We desire a "Wall St." type look... clean lines, simple, professional. We like the idea of having a roman pillar as the spine for the "P" in Platinum, as a symbol for strength and longevity, and possibly the rest of the name in a formal script, to soften the look. We welcome any other design suggestions you may have.
The main company we need a logo for ASAP is Platinum Lending Solutions, as this is the company we will launch first, but we'd like to see what ideas you can come up with to tie in the parent company and other subsidiaries.
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"Can residual bootstrap reliably estimate uncertainty in fiber orientation obtained by spherical deconvolution from diffusion-weighted MRI?", 14th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, vol. 41, Melbourne, Australia, June, 2008.
"Changes in intrinsic functional brain connectivity after first-time exposure to parabolic flight", 39th ISGP Meeting & ESA Life Sciences Meeting, 2018.
"Combination of super-resolution reconstruction diffusion tensor imaging and track density imaging reveals song control system connectivity in zebra finches", ISMRM 23th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, vol. 23, pp. 2861, 2015. Download abstract (108.98 KB)
"Combining 3D vision and X-ray radiography for internal quality inspection of foods", 30th Targeted Technologies for Sustainable Food Systems (EFFoST) International Conference,, Austrian Economic Chamber, Vienna, Austria, 28-30 November, 2016.
"Compensation of affine deformations in fan and cone beam projections", Micro-CT User Meeting, pp. 187-189, 2014. Download abstract (285.55 KB)
"Computed tomography on all scales using the ASTRA toolbox", Liege Image Days 2008: Medical Imaging, 2008. wvaarle_poster.pdf (610.59 KB)
"Constrained maximum likelihood estimator for more accurate diffusion kurtosis tensor estimates", 3rd meeting of the ISMRM Benelux Chapter, Hoeven, The Netherlands, January, 2011.
"Construction of a population based diffusion tensor image atlas of the Sprague Dawley rat brain", ISMRM, 18th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden, May, 2010.
"Correction of DWI gradient orientations using registration techniques", 3rd meeting of the ISMRM Benelux Chapter, Hoeven, The Netherlands, January, 2011.
"Correction of Gibbs ringing in diffusion MRI data using total variation regularization", Fourth Annual Meeting of the ISMRM Benelux Chapter, pp. 99, January, 2012.
"Counting the number of fiber orientations in diffusion MRI voxels using constrained spherical deconvolution", 2nd meeting of the ISMRM Benelux Chapter, Utrecht, The Netherlands, January, 2010.
"CSF partial volume modeling in diffusion kurtosis imaging: a comparative parameter estimation study", Front. Neuroinform. Conference Abstract: Second Belgian Neuroinformatics Congress, 11/2015.
"Deep learning based missing wedge artefact removal for electron tomography", Microscopy Conference, Berlin, Germany, pp. 660-661, 2019.
"Denoising magnitude MRI using an adaptive NLML method", ESMRMB Congress 28th Annual Scientific Meeting, Leipzig, Germay, pp. 383, 2011.
"Denoising of DKI images: effect on feasibility and accuracy of kurtosis parameters", ESMRMB, European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, 28th Annual Scientific Meeting, Leipzig, Germany, pp. 236, October, 2011. Abstract (313.22 KB) Presentation (1.13 MB)
"Denoising SENSE reconstructed MR images", 5th Annual Symposium of the Benelux Chapter of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2011.
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"Diffusion kurtosis abnormalities in pre-symptomatic (alpha)-synycleunopathy mouse model", 3rd meeting of the ISMRM Benelux Chapter, Hoeven, The Netherlands, January, 2011.
"Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging (DKI) reveals an early phenotype (P30) in a transgenic rat model for Huntington's disease", ISMRM conference proceedings, vol. 2009, pp. 359, April, 2009.
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"Discrete algebraic reconstruction in MRI: a simulation study", ESMRMB CONGRESS 2012: 29th Annual Scientific Meeting, vol. 25, issue 1, pp. 480-481, 2012. Download abstract (194.48 KB)
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"Distortion correction of DKI data: affine approach", 10th Belgian Day on Biomedical Engineering – joint meeting with IEEE EMBS Benelux Chapter, December, 2011. Abstract (362.44 KB) Poster (716.34 KB)
"DKI visualizes hippocampal alterations in the chronic mild stress ratmodel", ISMRM conference proceedings, vol. 2009, pp. 744, April, 2009.