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Our Jewish History tours of the Met were just fabulous and a highlight of our year! Nachliel Selavan, the educator who led the tours, is passionate, extremely knowledgeable, and highly entertaining. He knows how to engage the students and keep their attention. Rather than the standard walk/lecture approach through the ancient history galleries, he employs fun and exciting interactive techniques like scavenger hunts, riddles, jokes and more to get students (and teachers too!) to be active participants and learners during the tours.Mrs. Miriam Wielgus
The tour brings so much of what we study in class to life. Our curriculum in ancient Jewish history covers the Greco-Roman period and seeing that culture vividly depicted and explained immeasurably enhances our curriculum and contribute to a greater appreciation of our history.
I cannot recommend these tours highly enough!
Jewish History Chair, Joel Braverman Yeshivah of Flatbush High School
With Nachliel HaCohen Selavan and some of his fans! This guy is incredibly diverse. A painter, archeology expert, "chazzan", Torah scholar and more.Rabbi Levi Welton
I had seen all the media buzz about his tour at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York but didn't really know what to expect. But as he presented his lecutre "A WINTERS TALE", I was blown away by how he masterfully weaved anciet archeology and history with sources from all over the Torah. One second he's talking about Athena and the fascinating influence she had over the Founding Fathers of this country and the next second he's talking about the "spiritual maturation" that took place in the conversations between Queen Esther and Mordechai in the story of Purim. It didn't surprise me that he received a resounding applause from all who were there.
I'm proud to say that if you're the least bit interested in ancient Israel, archeology or the Jewish story as expressed through art history , you should head to his website or Facebook page Torah Intermedia LLC and book a tour with him ASAP: https://torahintermedia.com/book-now/
P.S. He didn't pay me a cent or even ask me to say any of this. But I'm just so bored of people who are showboaters and this guy has this "quiet charisma" that I truly admire!
Lincoln Park Jewish Center, Yonkers, NY
I am happy to highly recommend Nachliel's Tour to anyone who would like to learn and understand our past and our biblical history. Our family joined his Avraham's Journey tour in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The kids were enthralled and the stories from the Torah came alive. It is important to understand that the stories of the Torah are true and happened. These tours go a long way in helping the participants visualize our history.
I highly recommend Torah Intermedia for students and families of all ages! May you be blessed to keep sharing your light and knowledge with the world. Warmly,Rabbi Benzion Klatzko
For kids participating in the Chidon Ha'Tanach who had spent their entire year immersed in dozens of chapters of Tanach, the Tanach Tour conducted by Nachliel was the perfect experience. He brought the texts that they had learned to life in an entirely new way. Students loved the energy in and excitement he brought to the tour. We're excited to continue to partner with his Tanach Tours in the future!"Dovi Nadel
Coordinator, National Bible Contest
The Jewish Agency for Israel
Nachliel knows his stuff…he can create a unique blend of the ancient and the modern, as he tickles your imagination at the Met. A deep, impressive dive into Jewish History. Dive in!Rabbi David Fohrman
I had the pleasure of attending 2 amazing tours with Nachliel these past couple of months (April 2019).
First, was a daytime tour I worked with Nachliel to organize as part of a series exploring Art & Idolatry in the ancient world. We explored the strange and fascinating world of the Ancient Near East, and Greco-Roman period through the eyes of Torah and our tradition. We revisited Torah verses we thought we knew, and watched them take shape in front of our eyes at the Met. We left with a deeper understanding of our ancestor's struggles, and a greater insight into our history.
After that tour, I couldn't think of a more enjoyable way for my family to spend Hol Hamoed Pesah than with Nachliel at his "Leaving Egypt without leaving New York" kids-tour at the Met. From the moment we arrived our kids were engaged and excited to learn, carrying their crayons and clipboards ready to accomplish their missions. Through non-stop fun Nachliel kept the kids (and adults) hooked! We were fully immersed in ancient Egyptian culture, and were naturally questioning what effect it had on us now, and over 3,000 years ago. From the Nile River, to mummies, to the history of bread-making, we experienced Egyptian life and what it meant to be free from it on Pesah!
Nachliel's talent and knowledge is such a gift to experience, I'm looking forward to the next tour!Aimee Bailey
Sephardic Community Alliance
Board member
It was my pleasure to share in the tour of guide Nachliel Selavan at the Israel museum. The rooms of archeology brought us into the Phoenician, Mycenaean and Roman periods…Nachliel was quite versed in the archeological finds. We journeyed through cultures, lands and peoples with the interplays and interpretations and influences on each other and into the future.
Nachliel's well chosen words, exciting introductions and historic connections brought us into the first and second temple periods with great grandeur in architecture, coloration of Hadrian times he sprung us into the future..the influences architecturally build on today's interpretations and springboard me back to my Boston MFA days of doing classical tours and directing many programs as chairman of the gallery instructors…
So, I thank Nachliel Selavan for his creativity and his royal tour.Miriam F. Teplow
Former Chairman of Gallery Instructors at the Boston MFA
I brought a group of middle school students who had spend the last year studying for the Chidon HaTanach to New York for the national finals…I had presumed that a tour built for middle school students would not be interesting for adults. Nachliel however was able to build an amazing tour that both provided for students and adults on differing levels at the same time. He provided different source packets for different levels and was truly well prepared for the situation.Rabbi James Williams
My students at first were not keen on the idea of a tour and really just wanted to hang out in NYC. Nachliel was able to engage them so well that they enjoyed the tour and learned so much from the experience that it built vast discussion over Shabbat over what we had seen and its relevance to Tanach.
I highly recommend taking a tour with Nachliel and look forward to my next opportunity to do so.
Youth Director
Young Israel of Hollywood & Fort Lauderdale
On Thursday morning, May 31, Rabbi Dr. Yonatan Grossman (Bar Ilan University) and Rabbi Itamar Eldar (Head of Bet Midrash in Amit – the Hesder Yeshivah in Raanana), joined me for a private Four Kingdoms Tour at the Met.
Rabbi Eldar gave his review, and Rabbi Grossman insisted he would say the same thing, so no need to repeat. Hebrew with English subtitles.
Our Synagogue organized a private tour of the Met with Nachliel's Torah Intermedia as a Hanukkah synagogue outing, and I must say that the tour was fantastic. Nachliel is as knowledgeable as he is entertaining, and he seems to know the museum like the back of his hand. Our tour was Hanukkah-themed, and was well attended and well liked. I would certainly recommend the tour to synagogue leaders looking for a creative synagogue event, and to families seeking to engage their children in exciting conversations about Jewish History. I can say that the tour brought History to life, and provided important context for better understanding the era in which the Hanukkah miracle took place. I would certainly hire Nachliel for future events, and would recommend the tours to anyone.Rabbi Mimon Mamane
Associate Rabbi
Congregation Magen David of Manhattan
We had the privilege to join Nachliel's exciting guided tour at the Metropolitan Museum, which dealt with Ancient Egypt in advance of Pesach. Nachliel connected between the archaeological artifact and the Exodus story in a professional and exciting way, while displaying impressive scientific, historic and archaeological background knowledge, and fluency in Tanach and Talmudic literature. Nachliel did it with a unique sweetness, engaging the crowd and adapting the content to the various age groups. The tour for us was a wonderful and innovative preparation, and thought-provoking; in advance of the Passover holiday.Rabbi Baruch Gigi and Rabbi Amnon Bazak
Yeshivat Har Etzion
….although the goal of Met is to present art and not teach history, history is there for us especially with the right guide. We were lucky to have with us Nachliel SelavanRabbi David Bibi
…our tour was focused on the four kings, we took many tangents beginning with tracing Abraham's journey from Ur Kasdim to Haran and down into Canaan to Egypt and back. We traced the steps of the fleeing prophet Jonah from Israel to Tarshish and back across the fertile crescent to Ninveh. We stood in the corridor of an Assyrian throne room experiencing what the Jewish kings must have felt during the time of Sennacherib. And then we began our journey in the world of Nebuchadnezzar who insisted that his name be everywhere trying to imagine his world and our people in their first exile…We moved from Babylon to Shushan, seeing a palace larger than we ever imagined and understanding how a party could go on for six months…We traveled to Macedonia with King Philip II and then saw how Alexander the Great conquered and changed the world…We saw the beauty of Yefet. We saw that which influenced us and undoubtedly influenced our ancestors leading to a civil was which culminated in Hanukah…We met with Nero, Vespasian and Titus discussing the Talmud's stories of them. We heard how the Torah was saved by Rabbi Yochana Zakai and how the oral Torah was saved through Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi and Antoninus his friend and Caesar and we discussed who the Antoninus of the Talmud may have really been. It was truly a journey through the four kingdoms and one I will continue to explore…
Senior Rabbi Benai Asher of Long Beach
Resident Scholar Edmond J. Safra Synagogue Manhattan
The faculty of the Ramaz Upper School Bible Department really enjoyed our 3 hour session with Nachliel. We started in the classroom with an overview of reading materials and maps associated with the era and then accompanied Nachliel to view various artifacts from the Assyrian and Babylonian periods. He tailored the tour to specific areas of our Bible Curriculum as per our request and was interesting and entertaining throughout! I highly recommend the tour for both educators and non-educators alike, especially if you are interested in the context, both historically and philosophically, behind specific biblical texts.Miriam Krupka
Dean of Faculty, Tanakh Department Chair, The Ramaz Upper School
Our group of about thirty had a unique educational and experiential museum encounter.Norman Lerner
Nachliel has an excellent command of our ancient past and is able to communicate history and its importance to his audience.
He goes out of his way to involve individual group members in the museum experience.
Kingsway Jewish Center, Adult Education Chairman
Just a line to express our HaKarat HaTov for the entertaining and interesting time we had today at the Met, thanks to you.Henry & Tehilla (AKA the Mayor) Rieser
We so enjoyed having Nachliel as our guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Our group had been studying rabbinic materials about idolatry and Nachliel helped bring those issues to life through the Met's collections. His comfort both with the ancient and classic sculpture we looked at as well as his fluency in Bible and rabbinic literature were terrific!Rabbi Ethan Tucker
Rosh Yeshiva, Hadar Institute (formerly Mechon Hadar), New York
Thank you so much for an incredible tour of Ancient Greece at the Met! The tour aligned perfectly with our 9th grade unit on Greek Mythology and Greek Tragedy, and deepened our students' learning on the subject. Mr. Selavan was extremely knowledgable, interactive, and moulded the tour based specifically on the needs of the students. We will definitely be organizing another tour next year!Rachel R. Harari
Department Chair, English Language Arts
Magen David Yeshivah – Joe & Celia Esses High School
I want to recommend Mr. Nachliel Selavan who has developed an entertaining and informative program giving meaning to artifacts from the Ancient Near East in various museums in the North America. I have taken his guided tour at the Boston Museum for the Fine Arts and enjoyed every minute of it. He has the knowledge to place these artifacts within the scope of the Bible and Jewish tradition. This tour is particularly beneficial for Jewish groups, synagogues and day school students of all ages and background. Nachliel's delivery is superb and his excitement for his subject is contagious. I am happy to recommend him to you.Professor Aaron Demsky (retired)
History of Ancient Israel
Director, Project for the Study of Jewish Names
Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar Ilan University
Nachliel Selavan's presentation on certain aspects of Jerusalem's history was fascinating and highly informative. We were all enthralled by his material.Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Congregation Beth Jacob, Atlanta GA
The talk was given with enthusiasm, clarity, by an obvious master of the subject. He was able to demonstrate the connection between archeological finds and Biblical verses, such that it felt as if we were discussing current events. The discussion left me craving to learn more about the Prophets and their history.Rabbi Ilan D. Feldman
Congregation Beth Jacob, Atlanta GA
Nachaliel gave a great presentation at Congregation Etz Ahaim over Shabbat without any slide shows. His fluency, enthusiasm and obvious expertise on the subject synchronized the biblical account with the archaeological artifacts and brought the past alive with very important moral messages for us in the present. Highly recommended.Rabbi David Bassous
Congregation Etz Ahaim, Highland Park NJ
We had Nachliel come to our campus and teach two groups of 30 + Rutgers students, most with limited Jewish background. The presentation was very well received and got great reviews from our students.Rabbi Meir Goldberg
Nachliel really brought Tanach to life and made the students feel a powerful connection to Yerushalayim.
I recommend that you bring Nachliel down to your shul, school or campus and have him inspire your students.
Meor Rutgers Jewish Xperience
I liked seeing the visual of all of the holidays spread out in order. I had never heard of some of them so I was interested to learn more about their significance. And of course Lion King is never a bad thing!Leila Gordon
It was a relaxed environment which I enjoyed, and I thought he taught well. A little awkward sometimes with all of the papers and things, but they were a useful prop too.
Holiday Co-chair of Rutgers Hillel Student Board
I have been running Jewish outreach programs in Miami for over a decade. Nachliel Selavan gave our students a passionate, articulate, and content packed presentation. His ability to bring the ancient world of the Jewish people to life is truly impressive. His classes were very effective at engaging our students, and giving them a thirst for more Jewish learning. Of the many Jewish educators I have met, I found Mr. Selavan's material uniquely content rich and yet simultaneously accessible.
Rabbi Saj Freiberg
Outreach Director, YEHUDI, Miami, FL
To Whom I May Concern,Susan Eckman
As the Chairperson of the Cultural Committee of Vacation Village, I had the pleasure of inviting Nachliel Selavan to be the featured speaker on a Shabbat afternoon during the summer of 2015 before a large and diversified crowd. He spoke about the connection between Tanach and the Geography of the land, a subject that he knows well. He described the topic in both an educated and interesting manner allowing his audience to gain much insight from the Biblical text as our guide. Because of his topic there were more young people than usual who followed closely both his narrative and the varied visual materials employed during the talk. Mr. Selavan's presentation was engaging and entertaining, involving a large span of ages for a memorable experience.
It was a rather novel experience to see issues in Tanach, and about Israel and Geography brought to life under Nachliel's well-prepared, unique and capable instruction.
Chairperson, Vacation Village Cultural Committee
Loch Sheldrake, NY, 2015
I am writing with regard to Nachliel Selavan, whom I had the distinct pleasure of working with in the summer of 2015. During said summer, I was the director of Vacation Village Day Camp, in the Catskill Mountains, and Nachliel was the Chinuch Director. I could not have been more pleased with his performance. Nachliel's duties included planning and curriculum building.Robin Loewenstein
This was no easy task, he had to address the needs of children of various ages and from varied Jewish educational backgrounds. Additionally, Nachliel had to compete with sports, drama, and the like, for the children's interest. His creativity, organization, and preparation yielded unbelievable success. Campers truly enjoyed the project-based learning and went home talking about what they'd learned. Be reminded, this was summer camp!
Nachliel had a great chemistry not only with the campers, but with the counselors as well. He gave them guidance with regard to everything from spirituality to behavior management. He readily shared such hobbies as caricature drawing and Capoeira. He assisted with Color War and participated in the camp play. Nachliel was generally available to assist with all aspects of camp.
Director of Vacation Village Day Camp, Loch Sheldrake, NY, 2015
I have known Nachliel Selavan for over ten years. I know him to be a serious and dedicated individual to the work in which he invests. Nachliel has many talents that make him a strong teacher…Every time I've observed him teach I have not only been able to follow his lessons with absolute clarity, I also learn something new. Nachliel has an excellent knowledge of Tanach.Rabbi Joseph Dweck
In addition to being a caring and erudite teacher, he is also artistic and creative. During his time at Barkai Yeshivah, Nachliel drew beautiful pictures for each Parshat haShavua. They enhanced the school environment and the staff and students enjoyed them a great deal. He has helped with the artistic element for many school programs and events…
Rosh Yeshivah – Head of School, Barkai Yeshivah, Brooklyn, NY
…Throughout the tour, my students made connections to many other units they covered in all of their studies, and delighted in that they were able to integrate their knowledge. After the tour, the students thanked me heavily and unanimously agreed that they felt they connected more with the story of Hanukkah after having done the tour. Nachliel, they agreed, was knowledgeable, passionate and brought this piece of history to life. Like one student said- "I never knew that these galleries in the museum had anything to do with the Jewish people-but now I see that we really were there". The tour gave my students a feeling of relevance and belonging to the ancient world, and they walked out feeling uplifted and happy with their newfound understanding of this time period. I am very grateful that these tours exist and look forward to doing more in the future, in relation to Hanukkah and other periods in Jewish History. [for the full review, click here]Doris Dweck-Cohen
Barkai Yeshivah, Brooklyn
Rabbi Selavan:Rabbi Menachem Friedman, MSW
I would like to thank you for coming into our school to give your Tanach presentation. Despite the fact that this topic can be technical and non engaging for children you kept them extremely interested and engaged for the entire session.
The topic was presented, not as a subject but as a very real part of our history. The artifacts you brought in made it all the more real as the students were actually able to touch history.
The clarity in which you presented and your use of media made the presentation extremely interesting and your use of Tanach to transmit Jewish values was extremely important and timely. I especially appreciated your emphasis on Jewish unity.
I wish you much success in the future and we hope to have you back soon in our school.
Director of student activities, RTMA Middle School
My family had the honor of hosting Nachliel as a Shabbat lunch guest, and I asked him if he would be willing to speak later that evening at our Shul's seudah shelishit. Nachliel graciously accepted the invitation and with virtually no notice spoke passionately and compellingly on archeology as it relates to TaNaKh and Jewish history. I hope we have future opportunities to learn from this unique teacher of Torah.Rabbi Benjamin J. Samuels
Congregation Shaarei Tefillah, Newton, MA
We recently had the opportunity to have Rav Nachliel lecture at our institution about the Biblical perspective of the geography of Israel. In his brief but powerful presentation, he actively engaged the students in a participative exercise sketching the pathways of our forefathers through Israel on their journeys. He displayed mastery in both Jewish History and geography while offering a startling new perspective of the layout of Israel and the importance of visual learning. The students walked away with renewed excitement and a fresh interest in our holy sites!Rabbi Chaim Davies
Talmudic University of Florida, Miami Beach, FL
This was an amazing experience! Our family really felt like our history was before our eyes and from now on Hanukkah will be much more meaningful and inspiring. Nachliel's knowledge of the museum artifacts combined with his personal experience and his knowledge and warm fun personality make him a great choice for a fantastic tour experience! I suggest you read the materials beforehand if possible and read up on the subjects he will be touring about as It will enrich the experience that much more.Jesse Sutton
Nachliel is a talented tour guide; his engaging presentation style and his deep knowledge enabled us to learn so much when we toured the MET with him. If you're looking to learn a lot and let the history come alive — I definitely recommend Nachliel!Sarah Robinson
Judaic Studies Teacher at Rae Kushner Hebrew Academy
Nachliel put together an interactive and informative program in the MET. It was a great experience to see firsthand some of the artifacts that our biblical ancestors saw, as presented to us in the Tanach. It was especially moving to stand under the Ishtar Gate, the same gate our ancestors entered through as they were exiled from Jerusalem to Babel during first temple period, circa 586 BC.Jesse Salem, Brooklyn, NY
Founder of Tanach Study Group
Principal at Sam Salem & Son
Rav Nachliel led my ninth grade Jewish History students on an eye – opening tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Assyrian, Egyptian, and Babylonian wings. It was important to me that my students gain the requisite background knowledge to more deeply understand the Second Temple Period.Mrs. Frieda Cattan
Before the museum trip, Rav Nachliel visited my classes to introduce artifacts which the students would be viewing in the museum. He also prepared excellent resource material including maps and accompanying text. The following week my two classes met Rav Nachliel at the Met. The students were excited to view the artifacts which Rav Nachliel had carefully selected. His descriptions engaged them and evoked curiosity.
A majority of the students had never been to a museum, and they expressed how much they loved and appreciated the experience as well as their desire to return. I noticed that the students approached the next part of their study enthusiastically as they researched and created Second Temple Period artifacts based on what they had learned at the Met.
Rav Nachliel was professional and thorough and provided an enriching and worthwhile learning experience. I highly recommend a museum tour guided by Rav Nachliel.
Jewish History Teacher
Magen David Yeshivah Celia Esses High School, Brooklyn, NY
Dear Rav Nachliel,L.A. and S. G (freshmen at Magen David)
We want to thank you as a class for taking time out of your mornings to teach us about the history of Assyria, Babylon, Israel, and Egypt. Our classes found it very interesting that we learned about objects and what they mean such as the watches with sun dial that represents royalty, and how beards represented power. We also admired how you told us about the history of the walls in the museum like the Assyrian wall that used to have coloring, but because it has been through a lot of damage, it lost its color. Once again, thank you for giving us a great experience!
Dear Rav Nachliel,S.M. (freshmen at Magen David)
Thank you so much for giving me and my friends the opportunity to learn more about our history. It is a great feeling to learn about something in the classroom and then go physically see it. I learned about how in Assyria and Babylonia you can distinguish the difference between royalty and lower class citizens very easily. What was also new that I found out was that the Egyptians were obsessed with the afterlife and preserved their bodies very carefully. They both had beautiful jewelry that ironically are things me and my friends would wear today. The trip to The Met after the amazing days of learning with you in my classroom was fascinating. You opened up my interests into more of the exhibits we visited and all of the exhibits in The Met. Which are probably as interesting and awesome as the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian wings. Thank you so much for this experience we really appreciate the time you put into it!
…I just wanted to say that my day at the Met was so amazing. I got to experience things I've never seen before. My favorite part was when we all got the chance to do the mannequin challenge, I loved how we mixed the past with the present….V.S. (freshmen at Magen David)
Thank you
Dear Rav Nachliel,S.M. (freshmen at Magen David)
Thank you so much for giving me and my friends the opportunity to learn more about our history. It is a great feeling to learn about something in the classroom and then go physically see it. I learned about how in Assyria and Babylonia you can distinguish the difference between royalty and lower class citizens very easily. What was also new that I found out was that the Egyptians were obsessed with the afterlife and preserved their bodies very carefully. They both had beautiful jewelry that ironically are things me and my friends would wear today. The trip to The Met after the amazing days of learning with you in my classroom was fascinating. You opened up my interests into more of the exhibits we visited and all of the exhibits in The Met. Which are probably as interesting and awesome as the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian wings. Thank you so much for this experience we really appreciate the time you put into it!
Nachliel's knowledge, energy and understanding of the art was thorough, colorful and rich. Through an intimate knowledge of history as well, he was able to vibrantly relate manifestations of ancient history to modern cultural events. A history lesson through art would have been satisfying enough, but Nachliel's added touch of historical events as they relate to modern culture, and his willingness to respond to many questions, often tangential, brought the tour to unexpected heightsEzra and Deborah Safdieh
I went with Nachliel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on several occasions. Nachliel is enthusiastic about Torah and archaeology, explaining Tanach and teachings of Chazal in a very engaging manner, passionately bringing Torah to life through the history and the archaeology that we explored together.Indeed, I too look forward to join him on future programs…Dr. Nisan Hershkowitz
A president of the New York State Academy of General Dentistry, Brooklyn, NY
I really liked going to the MET with Nachliel. We saw lots of amazing things together. We should go again soon!Talia (my cousin), age 4
Thank you Nachliel for a real eye opener! Arlene and I could have wandered for hours or even days in those endless halls of statues and artifacts of the Met. We would not have gleaned anything close to your two hour engaging tour. Your exceptional ability to organize and keep the group spell bound with your breadth of Tanach knowledge especially as it related to Assyria, Egypt and Israel was outstanding!Dr. Mayer and Arlene Teles
We recently joined Nachliel Selavan on a visit to the Walters Museum in Baltimore, MD. In the limited time that we had, Nachliel gave us tremendous insight into the various artifacts that we were looking at and explained how to interpret them based on the time periods. Through looking at the objects on display he was able to contextualize the time period and relate it to so much of the Bible and other historical references. His thorough knowledge of Jewish history as well as his clear and concise descriptions would be a tremendous asset to anyone, young and old, history expert or novice, who is fortunate to have him as a tour guide.Moshe Wealcatch, Educator
I was born and have lived my whole life in Brooklyn. I've been to the Brooklyn Museum many times, but after taking a tour with Rav Nachliel I feel as though I've seen it for the first time. His wealth of information and story telling skills bring to life an otherwise routine walk through the Assyrian and Egyptian exhibits. I felt as though I was walking through the centuries with our forefathers as Rav Nachliel would correlate the pieces in the exhibit to familiar dates and events in the history of Bnei Yisrael, as well as explain the meaning behind countless inscriptions and sculptures. He brings years of hard work and research right to your fingertips. I highly recommend taking a tour, few people around have the expertise to bring history to life in such a way.Dr. Charles Manopla
I was impressed with Nachliel's vast knowledge base and ability to highlight the Jewish interactions with different nations of the world throughout history. I highly recommend his tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He'll show you the Jewish fingerprints and paint a larger picture showing the path of our people within the museum's exhibits.Jacob Holdowsky
Finance Major at Rutgers Business School
Nachliel brings a passion for teaching about Torah and Judaism that is truly infectious. His excitement with the material gets his students interested. His knowledge and engaging teaching style makes him one of the best Jewish teachers you can find.Asher Weinstein
Highland Park, NJ
We had a wonderful experience with Rav Nachliel at the Met! He was obviously very knowledgeable about all the art, and was able to answer any questions we threw at him. His passion and enthusiasm throughout the tour was infectious, keeping me interested and even genuinely excited to learn. The best part was that he was able to connect the information he presented to Tanach, which made the whole experience really unique and meaningful. Would definitely recommend him to anyone!Alana Engel
Student at Rutgers School of Social work
I really enjoyed the Rosh Hashanah program. I thought it was incredibly engaging and well done. Nachliel was able to relate everything back to us to make it easy to comprehend"Sami Brandspiegal
President of Rutgers Hillel Student Board
Reb Nachliel has a special gift with teaching children. He taught our son, Moshe, so much about art. Moshe proudly hangs his artwork on the walls of his bedroom. We look forward to having Reb Nachliel learn Gemara with Moshe soon.Binyamin Roscher
Highland Park, NJ
Truly incredible.Shlomo Rafaelov
Even time I think about my previous experiences with R' Nachliel Selavan, I am blown away. He is an incredible orator, with a breath of knowledge that flows and comes together for the most articulate approach weaving together a myriad of sources, research, and a lifetime of experience to his audiences. He will captivate you with every word, and guide you through the Tales of History. A True expert in every sense of the word! Coming back every time!
Rav Nachliel, I knew you for such a short time as a teacher, but it was such a meaningful and helpful time – as much as was possible for such a duration. I was a sixth grader in the 2011-2012 school year, and you were our history teacher.Meir Brandwein
You came to us with a unique teaching style, and you brought in books to show us what things really looked like. You assigned us to write an "ancient newspapers" on what we were learning (and paid out of your own pocket to have them published!).
You taught me, most of all, how time is valuable and important. You showed care and love for all of us, and helped us as much as you could.
You gave over information in the most interesting and clear way than any other history reacher I have ever had until this day.
To me, you were a lot more than a "teacher", you were the best teacher ever.
Student at Ahavat Yisrael "Rappaport" Boys' School, Jerusalem. Class of 2014
I loved Rav Nachliel's teaching style. One thing I particularly liked was how he put all the historical stuff in context by finding objects from that time. For example, if he was teaching us about ancient Israeli politics, he would bring in kings seals, or a copy of a contract written by the king.Hillel Schwartz
Student at Yeshivat Netivot Montessori. Class of 2016
Nachliel HaCohen Selavan's leadership and contributions to the Jewish Community of Porto – Pesach 2011Rabbi Daniel Litvak
In this note I want to highlight character traits for which Nachliel Selavan provided evidence. Brief background. Nachliel HaCohen Selavan resides in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel. Nachliel motivated his Israeli Capoeira students and colleagues to attend the European Championship in Guimaraes, Portugal, which fell during the Pesach holiday. He organized that they observe Pesach in Porto's Jewish Community. His group prepared the kitchen properly for the community, and, he led the Pesach Sedarim of the community in several languages.
The community was very moved by the event, attended by dozens of people each night, and it made a tremendous impact on their Jewish identity. The group represented Israeli culture to the community as well.
Nachliel Selavan's openness, engaging manner, intellectual stimulation, and passion for the learning and the mitzvot came through during the sedarim and struck a deep chord. People stayed late, sang with energy, and left on a spiritual high they had rarely experienced. He showed great wisdom as a teacher, and as a rabbinical figure, a representative of Torah.
Some particular notes:
– Creativity out of chaos. Nachliel was quite unfamiliar with the overall context in Portugal as well as the Jewish community of Porto. In his preparations prior to the trip he invested the time and effort to put a picture together of this unknown context and thus be more effective, and, be better prepared for the responsibility of handling young people in a foreign country.
– Managerial and Organizational skills – two examples. First, he took care of all the details of the group's activities for the three weeks they were in Portugal and Spain. Second, he organized all the Kosher preparations for Pesach observance in the Porto community.
– Leadership qualities. Nachliel very effectively led a Capoeira group from the preparatory time period in Israel until after the championship events in Guemaraes in northern Portugal. Nachliel led the two Sedarim, and led them in Portuguese, in the community of Porto. The group included people of diverse cultures, backgrounds and knowledge, and Nachliel balanced his presentations with the same acrobatic skill he demonstrates physically.
– Dedicated to communicating and transmitting Jewish way of life. As Judaism involves all aspects of life, and not just ritual observance, Nachliel and his group communicated and transmitted the Jewish way of life to the community of Porto and at large. He communicated that you can be an observant Jew and fully enjoy sports competition at an international event. This means Jews can be integrated in the world without sacrificing their Judaism. That message is very important for my community.
We of the Porto community are deeply grateful that we had the pleasure and honor of having the benefit of Nachliel HaCohen Selavan's assistance during the Pesach period. Undoubtedly the qualities exhibited here in Porto, Portugal, in extraordinary condition, bode well for his future as a teacher and leader in the Jewish community, and for anyone who engages him in such capacities. We wish him well in all his endeavors.
Comunidade Israelita do Porto – Congregation Mekor Haim, Porto, Portugal, 2011
Shalom Rav Nachliel,Daniel Darmon
I'm happy to see that you are constantly broadening your work, and exposing more people to your educational approach. I was your student about seven years ago [2010]. Though a lot of time has passed, I still have vivid memories from that beautiful period.
I learned in a semi-Ultra-Orthodox school, and the method for learning Tanach did not add interest and motivation to keep learning Tanach seriously.
Once day, you showed up, you were just at the beginning of your way. You started translating Tanach to our language, 8th grade kids. We were learning the Book of Daniel at the time, which is mostly in Aramaic, another obstacle in the way of understanding the subject.
You overcame the obstacles with ease, and we anticipated your lessons from week to week. Every week there was something "different" that you brought in order to make the learning accessible to us. Once it was a cake with the lions from Daniel (See image below. Student in image unrelated), and once it was a slideshow with Daniel's wild visions.
Thank you for that beautiful period and for opening the path for learning Tanach.
Miss you, and sending love and appreciation
Student at Ahavat Yisrael "Rappaport" Boys' School, Jerusalem. Class of 2011


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I long to be, but just don't know how. It's not my default. Where do I even begin when asking the Lord to help me begin dreaming about the life he has planned for me?
I was so honored when Heather Boersma asked me to read and review her book, Dream Big: 30 Days to a Life Beyond All You Could Ask or Imagine. I may not be a dreamer, yet, but a table of contents that has a spirit-filled plan for each day has "me" written all over it.
Dream Big reads like a devotional, and each day Heather opens with a passage that asks readers to discover scripture and tangible instructions to, as Heather writes, "make our dreams a reality." There are also sections to write down your own reflections as well as opportunities to write and reflect with the Lord. I am so passionate about time spent journaling and love that Heather asks readers to commit to each of these sections as a spiritual routine throughout the 30 days.
I fell in love with Heather's section about community. As my husband and I prepare for a potential move this summer, finding a new community [and quickly] is going to be so important, especially as we watch our little family grow by one this October. Heather outlines God's plan for our lives, lives lived out with others, and reinforces the importance of building one another up. She writes, "Our gifts work best when they are used within community setting in cooperation with the gifts of those around us. We are designed to be one piece of the puzzle, not the whole picture. Think about how your gifts can be used to build up the community God has place you in."
I've only just begun my journey through Heather's book and my journey to becoming more of a spirit-filled dreamer, and I can't wait to see what I discover about the Lord and about myself.
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Sixty Abortion Clinic Workers Have Quit in the Last Year
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by Abby Johnson
What an absolutely incredible first year it has been for And Then There Were None! We are truly in awe about how God has used our ministry to do some incredible things. When we first launched our ministry in June 2012, we estimated that we would hear from about ten abortion clinic workers each year. Boy, did God have other things in store!
We never imagined that
we would be hearing from current and former abortionists
.We also weren't expecting that within the first few months, we would have thirty abortion workers leave the industry and come through ATTWN!!
That's just the beginning, though…
Sixty workers have come through ATTWN this year.
At one point, abortion clinic workers were contacting us almost weekly. We have now helped SIXTY abortion clinic workers from all over the country escape from the abortion industry. They have come from Texas, Georgia, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Florida, Oklahoma, Colorado, California, and Iowa. We had six abortion clinic workers leave from one clinic in Atlanta, and four clinic workers leave from a clinic in Houston.
An abortion clinic has shut down forever.
We got an awesome Christmas surprise in December. After months of work, a former abortion clinic worker in Michigan who came through ATTWN had successfully helped shut down the very facility where she used to work!!
Women's Medical Services in Muskegon, Michigan was permanently closed down
Planned Parenthood is getting more and more paranoid.
Many who come through ATTWN want to go public with their stories, and we have a legal team ready and willing to help them do that. Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry will do everything they can to try and keep them quiet. Back in March, we shared part of Ann's story… she anonymously sent an ATTWN flier into the clinic where she used to work. No return address or anything. But, just days later,
Ann received a threatening letter from Planned Parenthood
that said "[PP workers] feel your communication is intimidating and harassing and they want it to stop…You do not have license to harass your former co-workers, either at work or in their homes, or to provide information to others that allows them to engage in harassing behavior. IF THIS BEHAVIOR CONTINUES, PLANNED PARENTHOOD, ON BEHALF OF ITS EMPLOYEES, WILL PURSUE ALL AVAILABLE LEGAL REMEDIES."
Wow!! If that isn't indicative of the paranoia Planned Parenthood is feeling, nothing is. We're not going to stop though, and neither is Ann!
Former clinic workers are going public.
Angie is another former Planned Parenthood employee who came through ATTWN a while back. One day, a young woman came in to her Planned Parenthood clinic, 20 weeks pregnant and bleeding. Angie examined her, listened with the monitor for the baby's heartbeat, and realized it wasn't beating. Angie sent the woman to the emergency room where they found that the baby had died. A few days later, Planned Parenthood's supervising Nurse Practitioner came to Angie's office inquiring why she had used a fetal heart Doppler to allow the patient to hear her baby's heartbeat. When I said it was part of the routine prenatal exam, she said "not at Planned Parenthood it isn't!" and asked Angie why she did not send her to Dallas for an abortion. Angie said, "You would have done a sonogram and told her that her baby was dead," and the nurse practitioner responded, "No we wouldn't have. By the time we do the sonogram, she has already signed consent for the abortion. We don't tell them if it is dead or alive, or twins, or triplets." At that point, Angie decided she could no longer work for Planned Parenthood.
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Deborah worked in the abortion industry for seventeen years before her pro-life conversion. She came through ATTWN not long after we launched. Since then, she has written about her experiences in the abortion clinic where she worked and has gone on the Huckabee show with me to talk about her time at the clinic as well. She is one of three former workers from a Houston clinic who are going after their former employer, abortionist Douglas Karpen, for committing illegal late-term abortions and killing babies after they were born alive after an abortion, which is routine for his clinic.
Exodus2013 was extremely successful.
In April, ATTWN launched an event that has never taken place before-'National Leave the Abortion Industry Day,' which we named Exodus2013, took place on April 8. Because of this initiative, FIVE clinic workers decided to leave and contact us.
Planned Parenthood actually did a fantastic job of advertising the event for us. Some affiliates sent out emails to their employees to "warn" them about Exodus2013, which they called an "intimidation technique." Then, some of their staff members sent ATTWN the emails they received from Planned Parenthood!!
Read the entire email that Planned Parenthood sent to their employees about Exodus2013 here.
We had our first-ever ATTWN abortion worker healing retreat.
Five former abortion clinic workers attended a healing retreat the last weekend in May. Father Frank Pavone and Father Terry Gensemer led the retreat and helped the former clinic workers open up about their pasts in the industry, work through the memories of seeing babies born alive then killed after a failed abortion, and piecing babies back together after procedures. All five began an intense healing journey and now have big goals for their futures.
Read the email we sent out about the retreat here.
ATTWN is continuing to grow.
The month of May has been very busy for ATTWN. Our 60th worker has come through the ministry, and we were contacted by seven clinic workers in a one-week period. For a year, only ATTWN's operations director and I ran the ministry on a volunteer basis. We realized it was time to add some new people to the ATTWN team. We are thrilled to have our friends Karen, Lindsey, and Briana on board as client managers for ATTWN!
We also now have merchandise that you can buy from our shop, www.attwn.org/shop. This is a great way to talk about our ministry. We are hoping to have someone outside every abortion clinic in the country wearing one of our shirts! We want these workers to know that there is a safe place for them to go.
We want to thank you so much for the support you have showed us this year! We couldn't do any of this without you!


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I've been in contact with two medical students over the past few years. Recently received a note from one wondering if perhaps the student had made a mistake. Below is the reply.
Received your e-mail yesterday. Much to say about your questioning and self-doubt.
Every medical student on earth has felt what you are feeling at some point during his or her time in school, particularly the latter stages. The following quote is near the end of the Temple Medical class of 1975 yearbook The Skull. "Remember feeling depressed with too much work to do and no end in sight to the hassle? One could always feel better by walking by the Dean's office and seeing the applicants waiting for an admissions interview. They were trying desperately to be as miserable as we were." It was funny but also summarized the reality of those four years that were mercifully at an end.
There is something important to recall during school. I call them 'The Three F's' of Medical School." Fatigue. Frustration. Fear.
Fatigue is the most self-evident. This is particularly true during the final two years when it seems that one is balancing a full-time job and life as a full-time student, reading, researching, and writing in addition to the hours at the hospital. However, even during the first two years with the demands for study, memorizing, more study, and weekends that were breaks only in the theoretical sense, i.e. not having to go to class, turned life into a grind. Computers have made life a little easier in that you don't have to go to the library to access the index medicus (a lot of students have no idea what that is) to research a topic. You can research from home or just about any place else at any time of day. However, there is so much to learn and so little time to learn it that intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and physical fatigue are more or less constants. It is almost impossible to describe the life change that happens upon beginning medical school. Friends get real jobs, marry, have kids, buy cars, and other perks (if they find a job) while we are grinding away at the books every night and most weekends. Oftentimes we lose touch with those friends because our lives have no common points any longer. The change in one's self-understanding will have to be the topic of another e-mail.
Once night call enters the equation you learn a whole new meaning of fatigue. You also learn that it can be overcome at least temporarily. Alas, even when that adrenaline surge hits during an emergency there is a price of physical exhaustion to pay afterwards. It may be difficult to feel rested. Sometimes it seems that from the standpoint of feeling rested medical school is a mild case of the flu that lasts for four years.
Frustration. This one is tough. It gets a lot better during internship, residency and the rest of life. A medical student has no job description. The student is expected to do what needs to be done, when told to do it, and in the way it is supposed to be done. The problem, particularly in junior year, is that rarely does the student know what needs to be done, is often times told to do it without a lot of instruction, and has no clue, for the most part, how it is to be done. I think that is one of the reasons I hated surgery. I could sort of figure out internal medicine but surgery meant that my ignorance was exposed in the OR. I never had a clue.
The frustration is compounded by the instability of rotations. Just as you are figuring out what needs to be done and how to do it four weeks into a six week rotation, you get ready move to another rotation. The six basic rotations we had (I am assuming they are the same) of medicine (twice), surgery, OB-Gyn, peds, psychiatry might as well be different solar systems from the med student's point of view. It becomes an completely different game with each move from one to the other: new attendings, nurses, hospitals, rules, regulations and expectations on everyone's part, including yours. Having to figure out a new parking lot, new route to the hospital and so on does not help the situation. On one memorable away rotation at the beginning of senior year I had a 9 x 9 room over the morgue. It was very quiet.
You can't really appreciate how off-balance you are/were during med school until you have the chance to look back from a point of relative stability. I don't think I fully realized this until I became a Jesuit novice. The same sense of being off-balance and geographic mobility--we were never in Boston for more than four months at a time--reemerged. That sense of being off balance as a novice wasn't pleasant until I figured out what it was. Then I realized that after med school the Society of Jesus could not throw one curve in my direction that I couldn't hit out of the park
The questions of making a difference and helping others bears attention. You do make a difference. You make a difference though neither you, nor the patient, nor the people with whom you work are aware of that difference. Most of the time, even when others and perhaps you yourself, are aware, there is no formal thanks or feedback or dissection of how you helped the other (or how the other helped you, something you must never forget). Being calm at the bedside while an attending was giving bad news, a reassuring hand on the shoulder, and visit after rounds, may make a world of difference that goes unappreciated at the time. As you progress through training you will become more secure in the kind of difference you make be it resuscitating someone during a cardiac arrest outside of hospital, putting the fears of a concerned parent to rest, or intervening in a way that relieves the pain or cures the illness. But it is too early for that. You are not allowed to do anything independently (a change from my day when we would make decisions to catheterize bladders and other things without supervision or discussion) or without guidance. At times you know the answer to a patient's question but prudence dictates that you not act on what you know.
Of course a source of frustration related to the above is that you don't know much and may be uncertain about the things you do know. It takes time to feel secure in one's knowledge. I can now joke, though at the time it wasn't a joke, that the first time I sent a patient home from the ER with the diagnosis of non-cardiac chest pain (my first day as an intern 24 June 1975), the patient slept better than the intern. It is the nature of the beast. The learning curve in medicine is steep. But any med student worth his or her salt is capable of traveling that curve.
Fear. Walking into a patient's room the first time with bad news. Being asked "Doc, am I dying?" Starting your first IV or drawing your first blood gas. Fear in its purest form. You may not be able to define specifically what it is that you fear. That is not a surprise as it is a fear that is not univocal. Living in a constant state of the Three F's while in med school is exhausting.
Once school and residency are over much of the fatigue (well, perhaps less than the other two) frustration and fear abate, though it is a slow process. The transition from book knowledge and boards to the bedside is a tough one. It is also prolonged. The first two to three years out of training are difficult in their own way but eventually things settle into a rhythm.
You wrote a bit ago about your frustration with routine. Some of us are happy with routine, not just in medicine, but in life. I remember a column written by a man who was considering becoming a Trappist monk. He lost that desire when he was working with a monk who had been at the monastery for over 35 years. They were packing eggs. The aspirant was getting bored. The Trappist noted that he had been doing this same job daily for 25 years and loved it. He saw it as the best job in the monastery.
The 'Dig and diuretics' (do you even use digitalis anymore?) of the primary care internist was a drag. How many times do I want to educate an old lady about regularity? How many times do I want to assure a man that his prostate is fine. But then there is the day that the hypochondriac comes in and you realize her voice is much deeper. And it isn't a cold. And after a few more questions you realize that her thyroid has become profoundly hypoactive since you last saw her two months ago. WHAT THE HELL? Yes, that did happen to me with one of the my most demanding and my favorite hypochondriacs ever, a total of forty-one years and counting.
The difference between you and all the others, nurse clinicians, practitioners, assistants and so on is that you are preparing to become a physician. You will notice the little things that the others may miss or, worse, be unable to explain. You know the physiology better, you are much more familiar with the anatomy underlying things, and you know a whole lot more about pharmacology than anyone except a pharmacist. That is a gift. Alas, you can't quite use that gift to its greatest extent because you are still a student.
There is the question of being an example to others, particularly kids who may be thinking of going to med school. Sometimes it is the encounter with a young physician that sends them in the same direction. You wrote of the physicians who influenced you while you were still discerning med school. We rarely, if ever, know how our example influences a younger man or woman to follow into the same career. Yes, it is wonderful to be told but it is rare. But these things have to wait. At the moment you are getting hammered with the realities of medical school.
On the matter of satisfaction. The daily examen is important. Ask yourself, when did I cooperate with God's grace in my daily work? Where did I resist that grace? What gave me the most satisfaction? What was too frustrating to tolerate? What do I need for tomorrow? And yes, making the examen while in bed (we called it the examen supine) is OK.
I am going to include a prayer here as a sign off. It was written by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ. He did not write it as a prayer but rather in a letter to a female cousin with whom he was very close, more akin to a sibling than a cousin. She was struggling with her vocational discernment. She did not feel as if she was making any progress with her life. Read this often.
Patient Trust
Above all, trust in the slow work of God
We are quite naturally impatient in everything
to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way to something
unknown, something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through
some stages of instability—
and that it may take a very long time.
And so I think it is with you.
your ideas mature gradually—let them grow,
let them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Don't try to force them on,
as though you could be today what time
(that is to say, grace and circumstances
acting on your own good will)
will make of you tomorrow.
Only God could say what this new spirit
gradually forming within you will be.
Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.
Some black and white photos from Ljubljana. Eager to go back.
+ Fr. Jack, SJ, MD


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timesofindiaInternationalization of the landmark Indo-Pak visa agreement will be delayed as India has asked Pakistan to postpone interior minister Rehman Malik's proposed visit here on November 22-23. "The dates proposed by the Pakistani side are not suitable to us, so the visit of Rehman Malik stands postponed. Fresh set of dates will be discussed later," home minister Sushilkumar Shinde told reporters here. During Malik's proposed visit, the two sides had planned to operationalise the new liberalised Indo-Pak visa pact replacing a 38-year-old restrictive visa agreement and paving the way for time-bound visa approval and greater people-to-people contact and trade. Though New Delhi has cited the coming winter session of Parliament as the reason for its inability to host Malik this week as Shinde would be busy being the leader of Lok Sabha, Islamabad's failure to punish those involved in 26/11 appears to be the key reason. Sources said since the fourth anniversary of the Mumbai terror attack falls three days after the proposed visit of the Pakistani leader, home ministry officials seem to have advised against hosting Malik. Malik has been accused of failing to keep his promises on acting against perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack which claimed 166 lives. Trial against LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other accused of 26/11 case at a Rawalpindi court has been very slow and New Delhi's request for voice samples of handlers of the terrorists is yet to be acceded by Islamabad and LeT founder Hafiz Saeed continues to roam freely in Pakistan, they said. "Under such a situation, it is not prudent to host the Pakistani interior minister on the eve of the fourth anniversary of 26/11 attack," the sources said. The message was conveyed to Pakistan through diplomatic channels. India has not yet suggested new dates for Rehman's visit.
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India asks Pakistan to defer interior minister Rehman Malik's visit
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Morphology of Karachi
by Tariq MahmudThe recurring violence in Karachi has raised some basic questions about the state and society of Pakistan. Like any burgeoning port city, Karachi has some distinct characteristics - a fast growing population and demographic diversity. It is because of this diversity that the problem of lawlessness is perceived to be ethnic. Irrespective of their ethnic origin, Karachiites have a distinct common identity like the people of any other region of Pakistan. A third generation Pashtun, Punjabi or Baloch has more in common with the people of his neighbourhood in the city than with his relatives living in Mardan, Gujranwala, or Khuzdar. Shahid Khan Afridi, for example, in essence is a brand of Karachi, rather than a manifest of Darra Adam Khel. His diction, mannerism, tastes and nuances have been nurtured by this city. There is seamless coexistence at the street and societal level. Even when ethnic communities are associated with distinct professions, they complement each other. When a thoughtless strike call brings a Pashtun's coaster to a halt, it denies an 'Urdu speaking' wage earner access to his workplace.So where lies the problem? There are thousands of acres of state land in and around Karachi that is neither measured nor mapped in accordance with the finer details of the 'land settlement manual'. These tracts are along the prime alignments of National Highway, Super Highway, towards the Northern bypass, Kemari and Hub. Survey numbers are attached to un-surveyed land which has not been properly classified and yet it is set out for the dole. This land is not delineated in accordance with the standard procedures. In the colony districts of Punjab, usable state land is diligently measured and subjected to precise 'Killabandi' mapped and made part of the permanent revenue record. It is effectively protected, manned and monitored through a multi-tiered revenue machinery. Records maintained by the Directorate of Land Survey in Karachi and the field Tapedar are at times different. Powerful groups, with the collusion of state functionaries and political patronage, have stolen some of this land over the years. Beds of Malir and Lyari rivers are no exception. Vast available tracts of land were a boon when there was a need to set up large projects like the Pakistan Steel Mill and Port Qasim, but are a bane after the increase in population. I have been closely associated with the ambitious Lyari Expressway project, an important component of which was land acquisition and resettlement. A significant area required for the project included mosques, madrassas and shops. These were well guarded, but had no clear title of ownership. This problem of uncertainty of title in different parts of the city is compounded by the 'Paggari System' in which property changes hands based on who has street power. The history of the Italian Mafia was similar. The surrender of vast tracts of land by the church and in turn its poor management and poor protection resulted in the growing influence of the Sicilian Mafia in the later part of the 19th century. When the authorities failed to enforce law, criminals and armed gangs began to rule these streets and began to get involved in drug trafficking, extortion and serial killings. The phenomenon assumed a transnational character when it spilled over to New York and Chicago through the Italian diaspora. Karachi's conundrum is also in many ways a failure of governance over a long period of time. Various tiers of the state machinery have quite often had different objectives. Political leaders have failed to see the bigger picture because of short term political gains. The administration and law-enforcement agencies have acquired a culture of appeasement. The only way to resolve the problems is a return to proper governance. A depoliticized police will have to comb the narrow streets and enforce their writ. A detailed mapping and manning of land must be initiated. A permanent mechanism must be put in place to protect and retrieve state land from not just the land grabbers but also state organizations, autonomous bodies and housing societies. Above all, there is a need for soul searching by the major political stakeholders of the city. They must adopt an inclusive approach and understand that Karachi is larger than their expediencies. The writer is a public policy analyst and a former federal secretary
Zardari: Need to change mindset which attacked Malala
Malala most deserving of Nobel
By:Mahmood Elahi, OttawaTo bring hope to opressed women, Malala should be awarded Nobel Peace Prize. By risking her life for the love of education, 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai has shown courage of conviction and she deserves the prize for her efforts.
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Zardari: 'If you are not controversial, you haven't done anything substantial'
The Express TribuneIf you are not controversial, then you have not done anything substantial, said President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday. The president was addressing a youth conference held in the federal capital. Speaking about the burden of being a leader, the president said good leadership is a result of personal sacrifice. "This is the path my wife and I followed," he said. He also said that leader is not one who thinks he is a leader, but one who is considered so by others. Speaking about the role of youth in nation building, the president said that as the people of Pakistan, we are fighting a negative state of mind and the youth of this country is a challenge to that mindset. Commending each and every Pakistani for being patriotic, Zardari said the country is faced with life threatening challenges. Ushering the conference to a Q&A session, Zardari told his young audience that he, as the president of Pakistan, wants to be questioned by the future leaders as he is always open to criticism. Responding to a question regarding repatriation of Aafia Siddiqui, the president said the government has asked the lawyer to continue arguing the case. "We don't have any prisoners exchange treaty with the US and we cannot do anything in that regard but ask her lawyer to stick to her case," he explained. On a question about people committing suicide because of poverty, Zardari said his government introduced the Benazir Income Support Program through which deserving Pakistanis get a monthly stipend.
Pakistan, British army chiefs arrive in Kabul
http://www.pajhwok.comPakistan army chief, Gen. Pervez Kiyani, and his British counterpart Sir David Richard arrived in Kabul on Tuesday for talks with Afghan defence officials. A government official, who did not want to be named, confided to Pajhwok Afghan News the two sides would confer on the current security situation in Afghanistan and other issues of common interest. Earlier in the day, Ministry of Defence spokesman Gen. Zahir Azimi told reporters the Pakistan British army chiefs were due in Kabul. However, he stopped short of giving the date or agenda.
President Zardari takes notice of PIA emergency landings
Radi PakistanPresident Asif Ali Zardari has taken strong notice of recent reports about various emergency landings by PIA flights. He has directed the Chairman PIA and Civil Aviation Authority to conduct a thorough inquiry into these incidents and submit a comprehensive report within three days. He has also directed the concerned authorities to ensure that no such incident takes place in future. Spokesperson of the President Farhatullah Babar said that besides calling for a detailed report' the President has also called for a meeting to get a comprehensive briefing on the issue.
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This month's topic is 'Yoga, Mindfulness and Overthinking'- a multifaceted topic that allows for lateral cartoon connections. I know what I mean.
Next month's topic is Zebras and Giraffes.
Every month this website will feature twenty or so Horacek cartoons on a chosen topic. I chose them alphabetically. All cartoons are ©Judy Horacek. I'd rather you didn't use these cartoons without my permission, but if you must, I'd appreciate it if you acknowledge my authorship and the source. They are cartoons, not memes! Cartoons this month were first published in the newspapers The Age, The Australian, Overland, and an environmental cartoon project I was involved in in North Carlton many years ago, Curbin' the Urban.


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Hebrews (Program #66) – Living According to the Law of Life and Moving According to the Anointing
Today, we will see in the book of Hebrews the crucial need of Christians today is not more teaching from the Bible, neither is it more power in the miraculous realm. The crucial need of Christians today is to know Christ in an inward way, to live Him, and to become the sons of God.
Hebrews and Romans make clear that God's intention is to have genuine sons from among men. But, God is a divine being while we are merely human beings. This presents a major obstacle to the accomplishment of God's purpose. The inner working of the divine life within us is our focus of today's life study of the Bible.
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6,171,890 Americans Have Lost Health Care Because Of Obamacare – Fire Andrea Mitchell
Over six million Americans have now lost their health care coverage thanks to Obamacare. In fact, 6,171,890 Americans have already lost their health care coverage. This is just the foreshock as 80-100 million are expected to lose their employer based health care come next fall.
These numbers don't even include the state of Texas which likely has several hundred thousand to millions who will end up losing their health care coverage thanks to Obamacare.
Let's see if Americans wake up and wipe out the Democrats in the House and Senate who voted for and support Obamacare in 2014.


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August 17th, 2011
Digging In: A Workshop on Community Based Restoration
Wednesday, September 21st, 9am-3pm
Are you a habitat hero or backyard warrior?
Do you need tips and tools to engage motivated volunteers to make a dent in a restoration project?
How about a refresher on ecological restoration theory?
Digging In will feature development of coastal restoration projects and community engagement strategies. This free training, provided by California Coastal Commission's Community Based Restoration and Education Program, in partnership with TRNERR's Coastal Training and Community Outreach Programs, will present information and a field experience that can be incorporated into your own restoration work throughout the year, in addition to the upcoming National Public Lands Day.
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How do college-nonprofit partnerships develop, and what fosters them?
These critical questions were the focus of "Higher Education Institutions' Motivation to Form Relationships with College Access Organizations: Implications for Practice," an NCAN webinar hosted last fall featuring Dr. Cat McManus and her PhD dissertation topic at the University of Pennsylvania.
McManus offered the following advice to nonprofit organizations trying to develop partnerships with IHEs:
McManus's research explored how four-year, nonprofit IHEs partner with non-governmental nonprofit college access organizations. She conducted a quantitative and qualitative study with IHEs in Pennsylvania.
The qualitative piece of her dissertation included interviews with 25 IHEs as well as a document review of websites, materials, and memoranda of understanding. Of these, 72 percent had ties of some kind to nonprofit organizations. "Of some kind" is the key phrase because McManus found that "relationship" and "college access nonprofit" were both "fuzzy" terms. The higher education professionals McManus interviewed "didn't really have a firm understanding of what a relationship was. It could be once-yearly contact. It could be a contract. There really was an enormous range of variation and what they understood to be a relationship."
McManus was surprised to find that charter school networks, private schools, and scholarship providers were the partners most often identified by those she interviewed. Just 40 percent of schools interviewed had formal contracts with a nonprofit organization, and the average number of partnerships per IHE was approximately seven (though there was a large range).
McManus' research identified IHEs' general goals as wanting to:
Many of these goals are in line with those of NCAN member programs — a selling point for members trying to build a partnership with an IHE (remember: articulate a clear value proposition). IHEs hope that partnerships with nonprofits can help build trust in the college or university by association.
"If a community trusts an organization or nonprofit, then if that nonprofit is associated with a particular college or university, then that college or university can be trusted," McManus explained. IHEs also hope that nonprofit organizations can fill in gaps in knowledge and preparation that many students and families have.
But aspiration for a partnership and action toward one were not always connected, McManus found. Just having an interest in a partnership was not a good predictor of whether one would develop. One interviewee in McManus' presentation illuminated why colleges struggle to make relationships with community-based nonprofits.
"Colleges," the interviewee said, "are in a boat where we're being asked to do more with less. Recruit more students, higher quality, giving them less money to make a higher profit. It's unfortunate, but it's a fact. That leaves people in positions of leadership at these institutions to have to make difficult decisions about what they invest their time and resources into. Unfortunately, those type of feel-good things … take a back seat."
Indeed, McManus found that some IHEs reported feeling "overwhelmed" by nonprofits asking for what they felt was a "handout" in terms of providing service either directly to the organization or to the community (e.g., for providing a bus for campus visits for students). This is the piece where giving rather than asking to receive is particularly relevant.
Once partnerships form, McManus recommend the following steps for helping them endure:
Institutions of higher education (IHEs) clearly play a critical role in the college access and success field; they are the conduit through which our students reach for and achieve their postsecondary aspirations. NCAN is fortunate to have colleges and universities among our membership, and we hope that segment will grow in the near future. Among our far more numerous members that are community-based organizations, some but not all have great partnerships with colleges and universities in their area, and each CBO that would like a partnership with a college or university does not have one. McManus' incredible insight into and work toward better understanding these partnerships offers something for NCAN members at all stages of developing partnerships with college and universities.
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AppleInsider podcast reviews Apple's iPhone X with Face ID
This week on the AppleInsider podcast, Victor and Dan talk about the best things he's found using the iPhone X, its edge-to-edge OLED display, Face ID unlock system, and more.
AppleInsider editors Daniel Eran Dilger and Victor Marks discuss:
- Dan's iPhone X review
- Commentary on supply chain bottleneck rumors (we suspect they aren't as bad as they were reported)
- The people still lining up for an iPhone
- How Apple's media approach has changed for this release.
- A bit of a sidetrack on screen orientation.
- A mention of the sales numbers of iPhone from the earnings call (It's a lot. Quite a lot. It makes "bottleneck supply chain rumors" look silly.)
- Reiterating that app developers do not have access to Face ID data.
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- Apple revenue surges 12% to $52.6B on sales of 46.7M iPhones, 5.4M Macs
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Windows 8 faces an uphill battle to become a standard corporate operating system because many businesses are in the midst of or have recently completed the move from Windows XP to Windows 7 and don't have the stomach for another transition anytime soon.
That's the bottom line from a Forrester Research report that also says businesses need to prepare for a grassroots push from employees who want to use the operating system for work.
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The report "IT will skip Windows 8 as the enterprise standard" says that 48% of commercial PCs run Windows 7, and 76% say they are deploying new PCs running Windows 7. These figures are based on a survey of 1,282 PC decision-makers in North America and Europe last fall. Projecting ahead to this fall 26% of that group say new PCs issued by their companies will run Windows 8.
Last fall 46% of those surveyed hadn't looked at Windows 8 and 4% had plans to deploy by this fall, the report says, and 24% said their organizations had no specific plans for Windows 8 deployment although they expected to at some point.
"IT decision-makers see Windows 8 as a significant change from Windows 7, but not yet a positive one from the enterprise IT perspective," according to the report.
Part of IT's reluctance stems from "confusing behavior between applications running in the touch interface and those running in the traditional desktop environment" in Windows 8, Forrester says. "Accordingly, interviews with (infrastructure and operations) professionals reveal that their top concerns are the potential for significant end user training and support and the need for application redesign to take advantage of the new interface."
Similarly the version of Windows 8 that runs on ARM processors called Windows RT has drawbacks for businesses. "Windows RT will not run legacy Windows apps, cannot join a Windows domain, and there can be licensing considerations for business use. This will confuse consumers and enterprise buyers alike," Forrester says.
While IT departments are slow to embrace Windows 8, employees like it. A Forrester survey done in the fourth quarter of last year says 38% of employees would prefer to use Windows 8 on their work computers vs. 35% for Windows 7.
Interest is strong for Windows 8 tablets (20%) as well, but not as strong as it is for iPads (26%). "These numbers suggest that IT organizations should prepare for a strong initial push to formally support Windows 8 or permit employee-owned Windows 8 devices," Forrester says, but, "iOS is still preferred by employees in tablets, at least for now."
Forrester found that 60% of employees say they have better technology at home than at work, and that last year 36% were willing to pay part or all of the cost to get the devices of their choice to use at work. That's up from 21% in 2010.Windows 8 is preferred by about 20% of those surveyed across all income brackets. IPads are preferred by 25% of those making less than $50,000, and that percentage rises as income rises peaking at 41% for those making more than $150,000. "Our research with Apple device adoption, for example, reveals that Apple buyers typically make more money and have higher positions in the organization, which we anticipate will continue." Holding higher positions in businesses means those who are influential making decisions within the organization, the report says.
Tim Greene covers Microsoft and unified communications for Network World and writes the Mostly Microsoft blog. Reach him at email@example.com and follow him on Twitter@Tim_Greene.
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By Bill Sledzik
"You're wonderful, sweetie. Just keep working hard and you can be anything you want to be. Great job!" (soccer mom, 1992)
I've spent the past 15 years teaching and coaching the kids known as Millennials. Some call them GenY. I call them the "self esteem generation." Millennials were raised by parents who showered them with praise and awarded them athletic trophies for just showing up. Their lives were over-programmed, their parents hovering.
Then they went to college.
How's it working out? Pretty well in my classrooms. Millennials, those born between '78 and '95, are bright and inquisitive. And most work their butts off. They respect their parents and listen to Led Zeppelin. What's not to love?
According to a presentation by some PR pros from CRT/Tanaka, the Millennials' lives were defined by tragedies like 9-11 and Colombine and profoundly influenced by the Internet, MTV and those well-intentioned "helicopter parents."
The presentation tells us that Millennials are the largest group entering the workforce today -- and the most impatient. They don't believe in "dues paying," thus the presentation's title, "I'll Take the Corner Office." Many in this group were latch-key kids, so they've had adult responsibilities since their early teens.
They'll feel ready to take on the world.
A few more tidbits from the CRT/Tanaka presentation (see link below):
- define loyalty by what's challenging and interesting, rather than job security.
- expect reward and recognition on a regular basis.
- believe they are all "above average."
- If you work with or manage Millennials, you're nodding your head about now. I learned back in the late 90s that praise goes a long way with this group. Pointed criticism does not. Millennials can be a sensitive lot. But that's no surprise. All their lives they've been rewarded for effort more so than results.
hard on it." (Kent State PR major, 1998-2010)
Tearful moments.
Just last week, three senior PR majors told me they cried after I returned their first assignment a few semesters back. They're all veterans now, accustomed to my semi-gruff coaching style. In a few years, they might actually appreciate it.
But what's most important to me -- and to the PR profession -- is producing students who can do the work and manage the stresses of our business.
My grading style is heavy-handed, and that's not gonna change. I typically spend 30-minutes evaluating a 6-7-page paper, circling every technical error and filling every margin with comments and suggestions. I may bruise a few egos, but students never have to guess what they've done wrong or how they can improve their work.
For some, it's the first time anyone has told them "this isn't good enough." Some rise to the challenge, others fold.
The knock-out punch.
In PR Case Studies, about 30% drop the class or fail it. Why? Mostly because of poor writing quality. (ed.bold) Case Studies is the "knock out" class for PR majors at Kent State, and unless you're a real star, you gotta learn to take a punch (figuratively speaking).
Some learn quickly that they're not "above average," at least in terms of writing or critical-thinking skills. But that's why you take the class, isn't it? These skills and aptitudes can be developed.
Those who accept coaching generally make it; those who don't find other communication-related majors that don't require complex writing or problem-solving. And yeah, such majors do exist. Don't get me started!
OK, maybe I'm not the most sensitive person.
I expect a lot from students, and I don't coddle them. But even the old grizzly bear has made concessions to the Millennial ego. For instance, I no longer use the label "trainwreck" to describe the worst papers. I did with the GenXers, and they responded.
"I don't understand. I got As all my life -- especially in writing. Now you're telling me I don't write well?" (tearful sophomore Millennial)
What can I tell ya, kid?
Your parents loved you, and they did their best. But they created a false reality. Everyone isn't above average in all they do. And in real life, only the winner gets the trophy.
It's important you understand this before we award that diploma, as there's a good chance your boss will be just like me. Scary thought, huh?
Bill Sledzik, a self-described "husband, father, educator, outdoorsman, and incurable smartass. On the job, I'm associate professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at Kent State University where I teach courses in public relations, writing and ethics. Before KSU, I spent 16 years as a PR professional, most of it with counseling firms."
Link to his blog, Tough Sledding, is here. You may want to check out his recent interview with The Daily Dog where he talks more about his students' writing skills and reference points.
Also on this post, Sledzik shares a presentation about the Millennials from the PR firm CRT/Tanaka entitiled "I'll Take TheCornerOffice" from the PRSA (Public Relations Society Of America) San Diego Conference. Of special note are slides 27 through 36, which show the best way to communicate to and with Millennials - ages 14-31, whether they are one of your students, co-workers, or teachers. A comforting note to teachers: students like face-to-face communication best, so take notice.