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Media Fail To Fact Check Romney's Solyndra Speech
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Mitt Romney's remarks at Solyndra were full of falsehoods that went unchecked by many major media outlets. The media also largely failed to point out that as governor of Massachusetts, Romney invested in several companies that subsequently went bankrupt or defaulted on state loans.
Media Perpetuate Falsehoods From Romney Speech
Media Fail To Note That There Is No Evidence Of Wrongdoing In Solyndra Loan
Media Uncritically Forward Romney's Claim That Obama Gave Loans To "Friends." The Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN and Fox News uncritically repeated Romney's claim that Solyndra is an example of "crony capitalism" and Obama "giving [taxpayer money] freely to his friends."[Los Angeles Times, 5/31/12] [Wall Street Journal, 5/31/12] [CNN, Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien, 6/1/12, via Nexis] [CNN, John King USA, 5/31/12, via Nexis] [CNN, The Situation Room, 5/31/12, via Nexis] [Fox News, Special Report, 5/31/12, via Nexis] [FoxNews.com, 6/1/12]
But After Long Investigation, There Is No Evidence Of Wrongdoing. Bloomberg Businessweek's Joshua Green reported:
A White House source passed along some information that gives a sense of just how much time, money, and effort has been spent pursuing this investigation: House Republicans have sent 32 congressional letters, compelled 187,000 pages of administration documents, 72,000 pages of documents from Solyndra investors, 9 committee staff briefings, 5 committee hearings, and a sworn committee interview with the Obama bundler who raised money from people involved in the company. Much (but not all) of the committee's $7 million budget has been devoted to funding this inquisition. And it's turned up no evidence of wrongdoing. [Bloomberg Businessweek, 2/17/12]
Solyndra Investors And Lobbyists Included Republican Supporters. As the Huffington Post reported, one of Solyndra's lobbyists was Bill Weld, a "semi-prominent supporter of Mitt Romney." And Solyndra's second largest investor was Madrone Captial Partners, which is linked to the Walton family, who are major Republican donors. [Huffington Post, 5/31/12] [Media Matters, 9/19/11]
Media Forward Romney's Misrepresentation Of Inspector General's Comments
Media Uncritically Repeat Claim That Inspector General "Concluded That The Administration Had Steered Money To Friends And Family." MSNBC.com, ABCNews.com, and FoxNews.com uncritically repeated Romney's claim that "an independent inspector general looked at this investment and concluded that the administration had steered money to friends and family, to campaign contributors." [MSNBC.com, 5/31/12] [FoxNews.com, 5/31/12] [ABCNews.com, 5/31/12]
Inspector General Did Not "Conclud[e]" Any Such Thing. As TIME's Michael Grunwald noted, the Inspector General's comment was actually about an open investigation, and the Inspector General "hasn't confirmed" that any contracts were "steered to friends and family":
It was a line near the end of Romney's ad that caught my attention: "The Inspector General said contracts were steered to 'friends and family.'" That sounded like news. I've spent two years in stimulus-world, and I had no idea an inspector general had said that. I asked the Romney campaign for documentation, and it produced a Newsweek article asserting that Energy Department inspector general Gregory Friedman "has testified that contracts have been steered to 'friends and family.'"
Except that Newsweek article was an excerpt from the book "Throw Them All Out," written by Peter Schweizer, a right-winger who has served as an adviser to Sarah Palin's PAC, edited one of Andrew Breitbart's websites, and written a slew of books portraying liberals as pond scum. Not exactly a disinterested source. And it turns out that the inspector general never testified that stimulus contracts were steered to friends and family. He said his office was investigating whether stimulus contracts were steered to friends and family. So far, it hasn't confirmed that any were. [TIME, 5/31/12]
CNN's Anderson Cooper: Romney Camp's Charge Is "Not Factually Correct." Anderson Cooper made a similar point in an interview with Newt Gingrich:
ANDERSON COOPER: I want to ask you about a charge in the latest Romney ad in talking about the stimulus. The ad says, and I'm quoting, the inspector general said contracts were steered to friends and family, talking about in the Solyndra deal.
That is not factually correct, though. He actually said his office was investigating whether contracts had been steered to friends and family, and so far there haven't been any confirmed cases at all. And independent investigators have only found evidence that one-one- thousandth of a percent point of stimulus money has been lost to fraud.
Darrell Issa himself has pointed out -- I just want to make sure I have the quote right -- he said: "Is there criminal activity? Perhaps not. Is there political influence and connections? Perhaps not." [CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, 5/31/12, via Nexis]
Rachel Maddow: "I'm Surprised This Is Not A Bigger Story." Rachel Maddow called Romney's charge a "lie," and asked why it is "not a bigger story":
An inspector general did not look into the investment in Solyndra and conclude that the administration had steered money to friends and family. That did not happen. That is a lie.
Michael Greenwald writes at "Time" magazine and he`s been writing a book about the stimulus. He wrote about this turn in the Mitt Romney campaign today. But it hasn`t really been picked up anywhere else. I`m surprised this is not a bigger story.
Even in this nuts day in American politics, don`t you think the candidate telling a big, blatant lie in the middle of the news cycle deserves a little follow up? [MSNBC, The Rachel Maddow Show, 5/31/12, via Nexis]
Media Repeat Romney's "Robots" Distortion
Media Uncritically Forward Claim That Solyndra Had Opulent "Disney" "Robots." The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, ABCNews.com, and Fox News repeated Romney's depiction of Solyndra as a "symbol of gross waste" because "the robots inside actually provide Disney music tunes." [Washington Post, 5/31/12] [Wall Street Journal, 5/31/12] [ABCNews.com, 5/31/12] [Fox News, On The Record, 5/31/12, via Nexis]
In Fact, Solyndra Used A Common Technology To Transport Materials. As PolitiFact reported, the "robots" Romney referred to were "automated guided vehicles" designed to transport materials -- a common technology used since the 1950's to reduce labor costs. Music was played to alert workers that the vehicles were nearby for safety reasons. [Media Matters, 11/29/11]
As Governor, Romney Made Failed Investments
Biotech Firm Shut Down After Receiving A Massachusetts-Backed Loan. Reuters reported in an article titled "As governor, Romney picked winners and losers of his own":
A $2.5 million state loan helped lure Rhode Island biotech firm Spherics Inc across the state line to Massachusetts in 2005. Romney's economic development secretary, Ranch Kimball, touted the move as "a tangible result of the combined and coordinated efforts of the public and private sectors to highlight the benefits of locating in Massachusetts."
The company shut down three years later, laying off all of its employees and defaulting on $1.5 million of the loan, according to MassDevelopment, the state development authority. [Reuters, 5/31/12]
Solar Firm Received $2.5 Million From Massachusetts, Later Went Bankrupt. The Washington Post's Greg Sargent reported that while Evergreen Solar was highlighted in an anti-Obama attack ad, it actually received assistance from the state of Massachusetts during Romney's tenure:
[T]hree weeks into Governor Mitt Romney's term, Evergreen Solar received $2.5 million from the Romney administration for a "major expansion and to cover operating losses as it tried to become profitable," according to a February article in Politico. The investment was part of a broader program in which the Romney administration gave millions in subsidies to multiple other companies, Politico reported.
Evergreen ultimately filed for bankruptcy last year, making this case very similar to Solyndra. [The Washington Post, 5/31/12]
- Evergreen Received No Federal Money. The New York Times reported in January 2011 that "Evergreen has received no federal money." [Media Matters, 8/18/11]
Romney Was Previously A Proponent Of Government Investment In Clean Energy. The Huffington Post reported:
[Romney's] 2008 energy policy platform called for a "dramatic increase" in "federal spending on research, development, and demonstration projects that hold promise for diversifying our energy supply." Among those projects were "bringing clean energy technology to market through commercialization of large-scale renewables." [Huffington Post, 5/31/12]
But Media Overlook Romney's Failed Investments
Major Outlets Largely Failed To Mention Romney's Failed Investments As Governor. Less than a quarter of print and television coverage of Romney's remarks at Solyndra mentioned his failed investments in Massachusetts. Fox News and all six major print outlets did not mention them at all.
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Outside of team sports and oft-dreaded physical education classes, exercise for kids has always been a catch-as-catch-can affair. And nowadays, drawing any youngster from ever-present computer screens can be a daunting challenge for parents.
Some of the latest success stories take a page from popular fitness trends favored by adults. Scaled to suit budding athletes, these activities are designed to engage a kid's mind and provide a good workout.
CrossFit Kids at CrossFit Hollywood
Fitness for kids: In the Aug. 31 Saturday section, an article about exercise classes for children misspelled the first name of the founder of Zooga Yoga in Culver City. It is Antonia King, not Antonio. —
You wouldn't immediately think of kids at this typical CrossFit "box" — a bare-bones gym replete with old-school pull-up bars, kettle bell weights and medicine balls — not to mention the program's tough-guy reputation as the workout behind the "300" movie army.
But here's kid's coach Amanda Douglas guiding four girls through their warm-up in the ages 10-to-14 class (usually classes are fairly equally split between boys and girls). Just like for adults, the hour includes instruction in a couple of exercises, then the signature Workout of the Day, a cool down and some feedback. Kids' classes, though, end on an up note with a brief game period (there's also a class for ages 5 to 9).
Douglas' attention seemingly darts everywhere at once to keep up with the room's nonstop energy and the girls' constant questions, mixing shouts of "Nice!" and "Keep it going!" with the occasional bit of tough love — "I need you to show me two perfect reps!" They work through six rounds of an impressive mix of assisted pull-ups, push-ups, lunges and wall-balls (a combo squat and throwing move), timing each completed round. Afterward they sit and talk about whether they did better in their early rounds or later, getting a takeaway lesson in stamina for the next time.
"By working more on form and technique, we allow their strength to build naturally," Douglas says. "It's so cool to see kids work on things and want to get better."
And sometimes a bit of the CrossFit signature swagger rubs off too. Owner Andy Thompson recalls hearing one little girl as she trailed off with her father: "You know, Dad, I'm stronger than you. And your friends."
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Zooga: Yoga for Kids
"Parents are amazed; they have no idea what their kids can do," says Antonio King, founder of Zooga Yoga in Culver City. "They think they can just kick a soccer ball around."
King — a mother of three, ages 3, 5 and 8 — has seen kids upend expectations again and again in the year since she opened Zooga, the only yoga studio in the Los Angeles area dedicated to the whole family, including babies, expectant moms, kids and teens. King opted out of a 20-year career in the entertainment industry that left precious little time "for really having a moment to be in touch with ourselves."
Zooga offers a full range of yoga-based sessions, such as Happy Babies, in which new parents bond with infants, and Dancing Doggies, where parents and toddlers alike bark during downward dog and hiss in cobra pose. For the big kids, there is a tween Warrior Class and beginning and intermediate Teen Yoga. Special activities include a monthly Kids Night of yoga, movie and pizza so that parents can steal away for a date night.
For kids, the importance of "learning how to just sit in one spot and breathe" is just as important to King as the yoga poses and the camaraderie. "You don't always have to be moving."
Zooga Yoga: (310) 839-6642, zoogayoga.com
Brain-Body 360
This Pasadena-based group fitness program devoted to kids with special needs or on the autism spectrum is the brainchild of professional trainers David Liston; his wife, Jodie Liston; and clinical psychologist Gwennyth Palafox.
The program serves about 25 youths ages 5 to 20. David Liston says that, even though society has good intentions to include them, most of the kids can't go to regular exercise classes or be in situations with children who don't have special needs.
"What has really blown me away is that when these kids get the opportunity to exercise, so many of them are very, very athletic. They have the balance, strength, the stability," Liston says.
The kids thrive on the consistency of the training and the coaches and lots of positive talk and high-fives that they all get points for. Though they think they're coming in just to exercise, he says, they're working on self-esteem, social skills and even leadership — as most of them can lead a set in class themselves after repeated visits.
"They don't get this anywhere else in their life. Nowhere else is anyone letting a child with Down syndrome or a kid on the spectrum lead anything, and that's where the power comes in," Liston says.
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ARCADIA – Upsets dominated three of the first five races on the second day of the Breeders' Cup, with Tapizar pulling off the biggest surprise at 15-1 odds in the $1 million Dirt Mile.
Rosie Napravnik joined Julie Krone as the only women jockeys to win a Breeders' Cup race when she guided 6-5 favorite Shanghai Bobby to a head victory over He's Had Enough in the $2 million Juvenile.
Shanghai Bobby dug in along the rail after it looked as if he was beaten in the stretch, setting himself up as the winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby.
Later Saturday, Game On Dude was the early favorite for the $5 million Classic, to be shown for the first time on prime-time TV as the highlight of the 15-race world championships at Santa Anita.
A day earlier, Royal Delta defended her title in the $2 million Ladies' Classic, the only favorite to win in six races on opening day.
Tapizar beat a talented field that included 5-2 favorite Emcee, Shackleford and Fed Biz. He won by 2? lengths and paid $32.60 to win for trainer Steve Asmussen. Rail Trip was second and Delegation third.
"This never gets old," said jockey Corey Nakatani, who earned his 10 th BC win. "Winning a race on Breeders' Cup day is special."
In the $1 million Juvenile Turf, 9-1 shot George Vancouver found a narrow opening in the lane and shot through to win by 1? lengths. He paid $20.60. Trainer Aidan O'Brien, jockey Ryan Moore and owner Coolmore Stud teamed to win for the second straight year.
Filly Mizdirection beat the boys by a half-length in the $1 million Turf Sprint off a six-month layoff, giving sports talk radio host and co-owner Jim Rome his first Breeders' Cup victory after several years of owning thoroughbreds.
"I'm numb," he said. "Having a hard time believing that that happened."
Sent off at 6-1 odds, Mizdirection paid $15.80, $7.40 and $5. She dropped back to 11 th before rallying over 6? furlongs in a mad scramble on the downhill turf course and was timed in 1:11.39. Hall of Famer Mike Smith won his 17 th Breeders' Cup race and second of the weekend, extending his record for wins among jockeys.
"She ran like a true champion to lose that much ground and still beat a field as talented as this," said trainer Mike Puype, who notched his first BC win. He gave Mizdirection a long rest to freshen her up.
Unbridled's Song, the 9-2 Turf Sprint favorite, returned $5.80 and $4.40. Reneesgotzip paid $7 to show.
Groupie Doll came through as the 3-5 favorite in the $1 million Filly & Mare Sprint, winning by 4? lengths. She ran 7 furlongs in 1:20.72 and paid $3.40 to win.
Jockey Rajiv Maragh won his second BC of the weekend, having taken the $500,000 Juvenile Sprint on 15-1 shot Hightail on Friday.
In the Juvenile, Shanghai Bobby ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:44.58 and paid $4.60, $3.40 and $2.60. He's Had Enough returned $12.60 and $7.40 for trainer Doug O'Neill, jockey Mario Gutierrez and owner J. Paul Reddam, the same connections behind Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I'll Have Another.
Capo Bastone paid $5 to show.
Shanghai Bobby raced for the first time without Lasix, a diuretic that was banned by the Breeders' Cup from all 2-year-old races. He didn't arrive at Santa Anita until Wednesday after being stuck in New York because of Superstorm Sandy and he couldn't train for two days there because Belmont's track was closed.
The colt is owned by Starlight Racing and Ireland-based Coolmore Stud, which bought a half-interest in Shanghai Bobby before Monday's entry deadline.
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert's duo of Power Broker and Title Contender finished fifth and eighth, respectively.


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[THIS WEEK] Tom Lubbock helped his readers see the unexpected in art, writes James Pallister
One of the consequences of the introduction of broadband and the explosion of internet usage that followed has been the devaluing of the individual image. When an amusing, inspiring or useful image is just a click away, the compulsion to clip, collate and catalogue images diminishes.
When I was studying for my art A-level, there was still a premium on images. As a keen collagist and natural-born hoarder, good pictures were hard currency: to incorporate into work or as sources of inspiration. One of my favourites to clip out of the newspaper was Tom Lubbock's collages in the Independent. Their completeness meant they weren't much good as raw material, but they tended to be weirdly compulsive. Part of this was in their formal qualities, generally collages with moments of hyper-real illustration, and partly it was because of their incongruous position in the newspaper. Where you would normally expect to find an editorial cartoon, he used a seemingly fickle technique of directing his attention towards timely news stories one week and to oblique philosophical subjects another.
As well as being one of the Independent's illustrators, Lubbock was its chief art critic. I stopped reading the paper after I left home and so missed his weekly series, 'Great Works', which ran between 2005-10. Here, he wrote short essays on a particular painting, bringing it to life in myriad unexpected ways. His tastes were catholic and his references wide-ranging. He took on masters ancient and modern; Miró, Goya, Toulouse Lautrec (The Bed, right) and drew upon references high and low; Proust, Mickey Mouse, Hitchcock.
Lubbock died in January this year, aged 53. The new book, Great Works, collects 50 of his short essays together with reproductions of the paintings they discuss. There are no collages in it, but you'll still be richly rewarded with words, ones which that make you see anew.
Great Works: 50 Paintings Explored, Tom Lubbock, Frances Lincoln, £18.99
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Photo: Southwest Boulevard, leaving Kansas City.
No bus today. I mean, the bus was probably running. I probably could have taken it, but I did not. After talking to Eric from KCBike.Info and Jeff from Greased Melon, I decided to go for it. Props to them, as I probably wouldn't have had the courage to blindly hop on the road and go here without doing a reality check with fellow cyclists first. I took Broadway to Southwest Boulevard, which turns into Merriam lane, which lands me awfully close to the Trek store that hosts my usual Monday night group ride.
I'm here. I made it; by the time I get home, I'll have ridden all the way home from work without any help other than my lunch and my trusty steel steed.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Well, I did it (half way so far)
Photo: Southwest Boulevard, leaving Kansas City.
5 comments:
- Frogman said...
Did you relive (fond?) memories as you passed Net Standard?
- April 16, 2007 8:23 PM
- Noah said...
Actually, I missed NetStandard. I was just pushing the pedals and noticed AirParts and the little road (foxridge? Lamar?) that goes over I-35. Then I realized I was past NetStandard. I shrugged. No, really. Look, ma! No hands!
- April 16, 2007 9:36 PM
- A Midnight Rider said...
How far is home from work?
The post makes it sound like your first time doing it, but it also insinuates that it was easy.
Whatever the cause....reason... good for you. I'm thining milestone. Yes?
- April 17, 2007 8:23 AM
- Noah said...
Technically, I kind of cheated.
This is my homeward route if I were going to go straight home from my office:
I ended up going to where my wife works instead, which cut a few miles off of my trip. We had some things to do after she got off work, and they were on the way between where she works and where we live. No sense in her coming home, then going back out.
The Trek store (Where I posted this from) is pretty much halfway home, located DIRECTLY along the above route in the middle of the little eastbound jaunt away from the highway. It's a little more than 9 miles to the college, or about 14 miles to home.
I've ridden from the Trek store to both the college and home several times now. It's a pretty easy trip. I've just never left downtown under my own power.
I worked downtown back in 2000-2001 (11 months) and now I've been downtown again for 9 months. Of all those trips to and from downtown, I've always been in my car or a bus when I'm arriving or departing.
That said, this is a milestone - a psychological barrier has been broken. *I CAN DO THIS*
Will I make a regular habit of commuting only by bike? Not work-bound unless I find a solution to the showering problem. I may, however, make the return trip on occasion.
Was it hard? Kinda. I made it sound easy; partially because there was a time not long ago that I actually said I wouldn't do it. It seemed impossible. Now I know that it's not. Round trip, though, I'd be looking at probably four hours on the road, if not more. I'm not sure I'm ready to sacrifice all of my daily free time in the name of just getting to work on a bike every day.
- April 17, 2007 8:41 AM
- Sirrus Rider said...
Actually, I've discovered showering is not that critical depending on the weather. If your temps are under 70 and you shower the night before you probably can get away with not showering at work. At least once I even didn't bother with changing out of my cycling gear. I just pulled my work clothes on over the top of them. Of course, a sponge bath is another option if you get to work and feel like you absolutely need a cleaning..
- April 17, 2007 6:45 PM
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IUCN, in partnership with the Volta Basin Authority (VBA) and the GEF-Volta Project, visited the Orange-Senqu Commission to undertake a study and discuss areas of collaboration between the two basins.
The Orange-Senqu River Commission (ORASECOM) promotes the equitable and sustainable development of the Orange-Senqu River. This basin extends over 4 countries, including Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa, covering an area of 1million km².
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Various aspects on river basin management were addressed, with environmental issues and solutions high on the agenda. The process of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in the Orange-Senqu River basin was analysed, as well as the commission's mechanisms for coordination between the different countries of the Orange-Senqu basin.
Other important elements of the visit consisted in exploring the data-sharing systems and discussions with local actors on good practice and governance.
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Gilmer ISD will celebrate Texas Public Schools Week from March 18 to 22 with a variety of activities. As part of this celebration, parents and community members are invited to participate in campus events.
Gilmer Elementary will host "Bring Your Parents to School" according to the following schedule:
• PreK and Kindergarten— Tuesday, March 19, from 7:20 to 8:30 a.m.
• 1st and 2nd grade—Wednesday, March 20, from 7:20-8:30 a.m.
• 3rd and 4th grade—Thursday, March 21, from 7:20-8:30 a.m.
Gilmer Intermediate will have "Donuts with Dads" Friday, March 22, from 7:30 to 8 a.m.
On Monday, March 18, 6th graders will meet with the BJHS principal and counselor concerning course selection for the 2013-2014 school year.
Gilmer Bruce Junior High will celebrate with a STAAR Burst Party Thursday, March 21, from 4 to 5 p.m. Hot dogs will be served and the Art Department will showcase artwork done by BJHS students.
Parents will meet with high school counselors in the BJHS Cafeteria at 5:30 p.m. about the 2013-2014 school year.
Gilmer High School—Friday, March 22, baseball and softball games at 4:30 p.m.


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Note found amid NY Sandy debris helps grieving mom
PATCHOGUE, N.Y. (AP) — More than a dozen years ago, a 10-year-old girl scrawled a message on a piece of notebook paper, sealed it up in a green plastic bottle and tossed it into the ocean.
The note contained a line from the movie "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" that reflected the girl's personal philosophy: "Be excellent to yourself, dude!"
But that bottle was swept away and forgotten. The girl grew up, went away to school and died in an accident at age 18. Her family mourned and did its best to move on.
It took Superstorm Sandy to churn up the bottle and the memories of a little girl in the exuberance of her childhood.
A sharp-eyed worker cleaning up the beaches in the Long Island village of Patchogue just before Thanksgiving spotted the bottle amid piles of garbage washed ashore by the hurricane's powerful storm surge. The note inside was signed Sidonie Fery and contained a New York City phone number.
"I was just sobbing when I heard they had found it," said Mimi Fery, the girl's mother. "These are very, very kind people."
This weekend, Fery will return to the seaside village about 60 miles east of Manhattan where she will again thank the workers and attend a ceremony where a small plaque will be dedicated as a remembrance to Sidonie, who died in a 2010 fall from a cliff in Switzerland while attending boarding school.
Fery described her only child as a creative youngster who was always writing poetry. She knew instantly when told what the message contained that it had been written by Sidonie because ""Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" was her daughter's favorite movie.
Fery also takes a second meaning from the message, one not to worry about Sidonie.
"Be excellent to yourself, dude," Fery said, quoting the message. "It makes so much sense."
She said her daughter was a "very artistic and vivacious young woman" who was so independent that she traveled by herself to visit relatives in Iran every summer beginning when she was about 7.
Born on Sept. 11, 1991, the little girl was often teased and harassed after the terror attacks on her 10th birthday by people who didn't understand her Persian heritage, her mother said.
"She had to deal with a lot of things," Fery said. "But she stood her ground."
The bottle only traveled a mile or two westward from where it was likely deposited to the location where parks workers found it.
Brian Waldron, a Patchogue parks department employee who supervised the temporary worker who found the note, says he dialed the number and spoke with Sidoni's mother.
"I told her I felt like her daughter was looking down from heaven and wanted me to give her a call," Waldron said. "She was crying, everybody was crying."


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Ke$ha is calling her upcoming album "Warrior," so we can't be surprised to find the pop star busting up chairs and kicking down doors in the music video for the disc's lead single, "Die Young."
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Ke$ha co-wrote "Die Young," which is at No. 6 on the Hot 100, with fun. frontman Nate Ruess and the song's three co-producers: Dr. Luke, Benny Blanco and Cirkut. Due out Dec. 4, "Warrior" is set to include further contributions by will.iam, Max Martin, Patrick Carney of the Black Keys and Iggy Pop.
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Four legal centres have received Federal Government funding to connect regional and city lawyers through the National Broadband Network (NBN).
A total of $400,000 has been granted to North West Community Legal Centre (Devonport) in Tasmania; Hobart Community Legal Service; Welfare Rights Centre in South Australia; and Redfern Legal Centre in Sydney.
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North West Community Legal Centre will establish a remote legal assistance service in Smithton, Tasmania, in collaboration with Wyndarra Centre Inc and utilise the NBN to provide legal advice to far north west and west coast communities via Skype and other similar technologies.
Hobart Community Legal Service will use the NBN to facilitate lawyers providing pro bono advice to clients via video conferencing.
Welfare Rights Centre (SA) Inc will provide free legal services via NBN-enabled webcam communication. Meanwhile, Redfern Legal Centre will provide legal assistance for residents in Armidale by connecting lawyers in Sydney with community members via the NBN through video conferencing and the use of an NBN-ready case and file management system.
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Torah Under Wraps
by Yoav Sorek
translated by Daniel Tabak
Their publications are not allowed to get out. Their roiling Internet forums are blocked by filters. The articles they publish omit the names of professors considered verboten. A cohort of Haredi scholars [1] challenge the academy and their natural surroundings, unafraid to deal with subjects deemed taboo in the yeshiva world. Few Religious Zionists have penetrated this alternative ivory tower, but one of them—Eitam Henkin, may his blood be avenged—succeeded in breaking down barriers.
"One needs to strengthen oneself with faith; one should not entertain philosophical questions nor even glance at the books of philosophers," said Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav already at the end of the eighteenth century. This motto is particularly popular today, in the post-modern era of "religious strengthening," in which religiosity is perceived as synonymous with simplicity and unsophistication. Yet that very approach also runs counter to the Jewish mind, which is by its nature anything but naive. The legacy of Jewish erudition constitutes part of the DNA not only of the academy, but of even the most Haredi sectors of the yeshiva world, and it finds expression in the spirited Jewish Studies scholarship flourishing under the radar in circles that are presumed to recoil from it.
Israelis distant from the world of Jewish Studies were offered a glimpse of it in the amusing film "Footnote," but it portrayed only the nerve center of the field's academic milieu, when in reality a great deal more is out there. In the reading rooms of the National Library, and in many houses in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem, many scholars sit and study the same topics as academics but without academic degree, without traveling to conferences, without aspirations toward an academic appointment. The history of medieval and modern rabbinic authorities, the stories of their compositions, the manuscripts and their provenances, variant customs, disputes both ancient and alive—all of these preoccupy a non-negligible group of yeshiva graduates, Haredi in dress and behavior, who publish articles in "non-academic" journals of Torah scholarship and produce corrected editions of sacred texts, some of which can even be considered quasi-critical editions.
They number Hasidim and Mitnaggedim, the truly God-fearing and those trapped in the Haredi lifestyle who cut corners, those lacking any academic title and others who have earned one—sharp and knowledgeable one and all, still faithful to, and actively participating in, the intra-Haredi discourse. Some of them evidence a dual non-conformism in their lives: on the one hand, they have opted to put distance between themselves and the safe space of the yeshiva, pasturing in the treacherous fields of scholarship; on the other hand, they are Haredim who hail from circles thoroughly suspicious of academia and would not dream of lending credence to its guiding assumptions. Nearly every remarkable personality in the field originates in the circles of Ashkenazi religious zealots, yet the scholarly discussion—which takes place not only on journal pages but in the lively Internet forums of Be-Hadrei Haredim and Otzar HaHochma—is not private, and sometimes a handful of others participate. Rabbi Yoel Catane of Yeshivat Sha'alvim, editor of the journal HaMa'yan, is one of those others, as his home is in the Religious Zionist world, and his publication represents the enlightened German Zionist Orthodoxy of bygone years. The late Eitam Henkin also was one of them—a Torah scholar and brilliantly wide-ranging scholar who took prominent part in the back and forth of these torani scholars.
In National-Religious society, there are, to be sure, many others involved in Jewish Studies scholarship, but one would be hard-pressed to find the same kind of polemical verve that exists amongst Haredi scholars. According to K., a young Haredi scholar, the passion attests to the fact that the scholarly endeavor is for them an existential need:
"The Haredi does his research in order to mask his own crisis of faith in a world that forbids thinking. Those who try to identify the composer of a liturgical poem or the copyist of an unknown manuscript, and those who uncover a forgotten rabbinical position held by R. Joel Sirkes, and those who wade through tomes to reconstruct a partially extant word in an Akkadian inscription, are all really fleeing forbidden thoughts. They release the tension between the silent extinguishment of faith in the Haredi world and the soul aflame with newly forged ideas by running for the hills of manuscripts and book archives."
K.'s criticism begins with the Procrustean bed of Haredi yeshiva education:
"The Haredi kollel fellow is force-fed a diet of Torah study characteristic of the Lithuanian yeshivas of the previous century. Should he not be of a mind to rebel completely, the only somewhat legitimate pursuit open to him is Jewish Studies. In that way he can edit the novellae of the Rosh to tractate Nazir without raising too many eyebrows. For that reason Haredi scholars, at least initially, are more involved in editing and less with research or writing articles. And if they are open to producing scholarship, the closer the subject matter is to our time, the better: better on the modern rabbinic authorities than the medieval ones, better on the medievals than the Ge'onim, and God forbid not on the Talmud—don't even mention the Bible. Preference is given to writing biographical pieces and endless discussions of historical chronology, such as clarifying the years of rabbi X's rabbinic post in town Y, rather than anything deep about his method of study."
Not everyone agrees with K.'s psychological diagnosis. "Some have ventured into the academic world not out of frustration with the kollel world, but because they were introduced to scholarship in minute doses and became enchanted by it," says R. Yosef Mordechai Dubovick, a Boyaner Hasid who recently completed his doctorate on Rabbenu Hananel. He says that this field presents something the young prodigy would find difficult to resist.
"We have been taught and trained to question, explore, plumb the depths and not be satisfied with a superficial reading or understanding. When the intellectual yeshiva student is exposed to new tools and unfamiliar hermeneutical lenses and modes of understanding, his natural curiosity—nurtured so well—gobbles them up."
"It's 'spontaneous academia,'" says Rabbi J., who would prefer to avoid equating it with academia. "It develops independently, without institutional bodies to dictate rules and regulations. It is anarchic, autodidactic, and exhilarating. It is a breathtaking demonstration of unfettered intellectual ability."
A Scholar is Born
Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem, Director of the Gershom Scholem Library at the National Library of Israel, has occasionally bumped into scholars from the very heart of the Haredi world. "They are not the typical kollel fellow because the scholarly approach is not that of yeshiva students," he says. He continues:
"Look, when I began working here I met a senior rosh yeshiva from a respected hesder yeshiva, and I told him about those who come from the yeshiva world to do research here. He was at a loss. "What sort of thing do they research?" he asked me, and I responded in turn with the example of Hemdat Yamim.[2] "Why would they research Hemdat Yamim," the Torah scholar asked me, "when they can buy it in any seforim store?" That is the mainstream approach. Those who embark on scholarship are atypical."
They may be exceptional and individualist, but one unmistakable quality binds them all together: they are autodidacts. This is evident in how they handle material in a foreign language. Some of these scholars have never studied English or German systematically yet refer to non-Hebrew sources in their articles. Each apparently bridged the gap in his own way.
Anyone interested in this phenomenon is invited to open, for example, a volume of Yerushaseinu, an annual tome published by the Institute for German Jewish Heritage (Machon Moreshet Ashkenaz). Some of the articles published therein would be perfectly suitable for any standard academic journal; among the numerous footnotes adorning the pages one finds references to scholarly literature in Hebrew and other languages. Other publications include Yeshurun, Moriah (published by Machon Yerushalayim, which for decades already has been involved in the professional editing of medieval and modern rabbinic literature), the Chabad journal Heikhal Ha-Besht, and others. Torani scholars fondly remember the journal Tzfunot, which met its demise over a decade ago, and in the meantime they publish in Torah supplements to Haredi newspapers, primarily in Kulmos of the newspaper Mishpacha. Likewise, the new scholarly journal Chitzei Gibborim - Pleitas Soferim, published in Lakewood, NJ, is at the moment taking its first steps.
Prominent names in the field include Mordechai Honig, a Hasid from Monsey who is extremely knowledgeable in medieval rabbinic literature; Yaakov Yisrael Stahl, a scholar of Franco-German Jewry forced to lower his profile in connection with academia; Moshe Dovid Chechik, a historian who until recently co-edited Yerushaseinu and currently co-edits Chitzei Gibborim; Yehudah Zeivald, a Boyaner Hasid who is quite busy with philosophy and Hasidism; Yitzchak Rosenblum, who had to move from Kiryat Sefer to Bet Shemesh on account of the library he opened, and currently teaches at the Haredi yeshiva high school Nehora; Yaakov Laufer, a scholar who focuses on linguistics and on the conceptual mode of Torah study; Betzalel Deblitsky, a prodigious zealot from Bnei Brak who runs the forum associated with Otzar HaHochma (the monumental digitization project of the Jewish library); Nachum Grunwald of Lakewood, NJ, a Chabadnik who grew up a Satmar-Pupa Hasid and serves as editor of Heikhal Ha-Besht; Aharon Gabbai, a rising star from Bnei Brak who graduated from a Lithuanian yeshiva, of course; Yechiel Goldhaber, slightly older than the rest, a historian and bibliographer whose scholarship is famous, and for whom the National Library is a second home; and Avraham Shmuel Taflinsky, who has toiled for the past few years in uncovering the sources of the aforementioned Hemdat Yamim.
Once we are mentioning the denizens of the National Library, mention must be made of the all-important tool in their scholarly work—the Internet. The global web of knowledge enables Haredi men from conservative yeshivas, whose library holdings are what you would expect, to come in contact with Jewish Studies scholarship and its historical-critical mindset. Most Haredi scholars have a home Internet connection, but not all. Zvi Leshem relates that some come to the library not to peruse ancient manuscripts or converse with the university's scholars who use it as their place of study, but simply to work at a place that provides Internet access.
"In the digital age, Jewish Studies scholarship has successfully managed to wiggle its way, however constrainedly, into Haredi and yeshiva circles via databases such as Otzar HaHochma," Mordechai Honig relates. "Until recently, it was the books. The birth of a Haredi scholar was generally triggered by incidental exposure to academic scholarship that invitingly charmed him. For me, it was Ephraim Urbach's The Tosaphists, which I purchased at age fifteen."
No one can deny the love story between digital media and the world of Haredi scholarship, with the latter exercising its acumen also in its use of technology. Along those lines, a weekly Internet journal popped up several years ago which, in the course of a couple years, became an especially favored forum for the group of torani scholars. It bore the name Datshe (ДАЧА), a Russian word that made its way into yeshivish slang, which evokes a leisurely space in which people enjoy life, a kind of rare legitimation of self-indulgence and letting loose a bit. The journal, founded and edited by Yitzchak Baruch Rosenblum, was, according to its subtitle, "where sages of Israel come to relax." The publication insisted upon respectable discussion and high-caliber argumentation, but one also could find among the directives to its readers and writers the following note of caution, which furnishes an additional explanation to the choice of digital format: "Please preserve the low profile of this publication. One can print it for ease of reading but should not show it to just anyone. Wisdom belongs to the discreet."[3]
Instead of Polemic, Shock
Along with Internet databases and online journals, forums also have an important place in the discourse of these scholars. After many long years in which the forum Soferim u-Sefarim on the site Be-Hadrei Haredim served as the water cooler for torani scholars, the baton was passed to the forums of Otzar HaHochma. A lengthy, fascinating thread recently began there, for example, whose purpose is to generate a list of "dissenting opinions [made by lone rabbinic scholars]," that is, halakhic positions taken by well-known decisors over the generations when their colleagues were of a different mind. The thread reveals the foundational analytic-halakhic erudition of the discussants, expert not only in bibliography and history but also in a wide range of positions expressed by medieval and modern rabbinic authorities on scores of issues.
The administrator of the Otzar HaHochma forums is, as was said above, Betzalel Deblitsky (under the username "Ish Sefer"). What had been permissible on Be-Hadrei Haredim the fearless zealot Deblitsky bans, censoring discussions and silencing voices he deems unworthy of being heard. But even those who miss the great openness that marked the forum of yore understand that the change is permanent—discussions of relevance within the scholarly community take place principally on the new forum.
Zeal, parenthetically, is a relative matter: the strict filter Netiv, which runs according to the guidance of a confidential rabbinic board, blocks the Otzar HaHochma forum on account of its content being deemed subversive and problematic. To take but one example, the forum has an intense, politically-charged discussion surrounding one of the veteran decisors of the Edah Haredit in Jerusalem—R. Yitzhak Isaac Kahana. A broadside that circulated in Jerusalem against R. Kahana's book Orhot Tohorah and his lenient rulings on questions regarding menstruation inflamed not only the physical Haredi street but the virtual one as well, engendering scathing posts on the forum in support of each side. A symptom of one of the forum's pathologies is partially manifest in this case: the deletion of threads by the moderator, who perceived them as deviating from the Haredi party line. Over three pages of posts inexplicably disappeared from the site, only to return the next day, redacted.
Rabbi Eitam Henkin was among those disappointed by the limits set on the forum's discourse as compared with past fora, but he nevertheless realized that this was the place to be. Under the username "Tokh Kedei Dibbur," Henkin took part in discussions on the forum, and at the same time carried on extensive personal e-mail correspondence with scholars who were active on it. This became the gateway through which Israeli reality penetrated the Haredi ivory tower—users discovered that the man murdered together with his wife, in front of his children, in the middle of Sukkot, was none other than "their very own" Rabbi Eitam. The forum was filled with emotional threads of eulogy and anguish, memorial initiatives and activities to be done in his merit, and the revelation of the many connections that Henkin had weaved amongst his Internet friends.
It is difficult not to resort to superlatives when speaking about Eitam Henkin. Anyone who had followed his abundant Torah publications — which were marked by eloquent prose, intellectual honesty, and the self-confidence of someone on home turf — had trouble believing the subject of conversation was so young. Even the conversation about him on the forums sketches a fascinating profile. The user known as "Meholat Ha-Mahanayim" wrote:
"The distinguished victim, may God avenge his blood, was wondrously knowledgeable about the entire history of our people, and specifically the history of Lithuanian Torah scholars and their writings. I merited corresponding with him a bit here, and as much as he was honest, fair, and truth-seeking, he was also intensely and diligently exacting […] None of his responses contained any triviality; his prose was shot through with words of Torah and wisdom, brimming with old wine […] One could discern his constant drive for the truth from his responses. He was never too flustered for a retort, and he always based what he said on the most solid of foundations. Even when he argued for an alternative position, he was a fair and honest opponent, unafraid to admit he was wrong when necessary."
None other than Deblitsky ("Ish Sofer"), who is so distant from Henkin's worldview and rarely treats anything with a velvet glove, eulogized Henkin at length. The forum's moderator wrote:
"His statements stood out in their richness, sharpness, and precision—they have no equal. The wide range of people who corresponded with him is astounding. Despite their working in various fields, his correspondents unanimously attested to the immense benefit they gained from him and to the rich sources with which he magnanimously and pleasantly inundated them. Many a time in answering some inconsequential question, he would—as soon as you could say Jack Robinson[4]— whip out one of his many lists, chock-full and cornucopian, while noting that he was collecting additional material on the matter and it would have to wait until a future opportunity […]
Many have mentioned honesty and artlessness among his noble qualities. I would like to emphasize one thing that no one like me realized until they fell prey to it: his sharp and resolute style tended to invite polemic, but anyone who responded harshly as a tit-for-tat comeback found himself embarrassed and pathetic upon discovering the affable and unpretentious man behind those words."
Further on, Deblitsky touched on Henkin's transcendence of the entire sectoral framework. According to him, Henkin noted in a personal communication "that his unique pedigree as a son and grandson of American rabbis who did not fit in with any of the specific groups of Torah-observant Jews enables him to view himself as free of the shackles of sometimes artificial classification and group affiliation. One could say that this feeling largely allowed him to cast a critical eye upon and evaluate phenomena from all sectors without bias." Deblitsky claimed this to be evident in the independent stance Henkin took in a slew of polemics, in which his misgivings and speculations were spelled out numerous times in private messages, as he took pains to publish in the forum only those things that he could wholeheartedly stand behind.
"I, for one, find exaggeration on both sides," wrote Henkin to Deblitsky regarding the polemic within the forum surrounding the figure of the late Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein. "Be it the disparaging vitriol about him […] or, on the other side, those feigning innocence, as if he was just another link in the chain of Torah sages throughout the ages, some of whom have always engaged to some degree in general culture." Henkin conceded to Deblitsky that even within the National-Religious community opposition to Rabbi Lichtenstein had existed: "It was undoubtedly quite grating for a regular yeshiva student (excluding those from Har Etzion and to "the left") to see citations from non-Jewish culture and the like in a Torah article. In this case (of criticism within the National-Religious community—Yoav Sorek), however, opposition to that approach was disjoined from ad hominem attacks."
"We should be very sad that 'sectoral' boundaries make no exceptions for Torah giants," wrote Henkin in another e-mail to Deblitsky.
"The definitive assignment of each person into specifically this community or that one is often artificial. It is absurd that the public considers many comedians, musicians, and low-brow entertainers (for purposes of this example) as "Haredi" because they attended heder and wear a hat in the synagogue, while thousands of families who give their all for Torah and are punctilious about every jot and tittle (not to mention that for them television, secular newspapers, and the like are not even up for discussion) are "not Haredi" because they wear a colored shirt and also rejoice on Yom Ha-'Atzma'ut. Although people can only see externals, they can ascertain what they will have to account for in the Heavenly court, whether they will be asked about Torah study, honesty in business, and hoping for the redemption,[5] or whom they cast their vote for in national elections."
Henkin wrote the following when describing Rabbi Dov Lior's Torah greatness. "I can say unhesitatingly that we are talking about a serious heavyweight in Torah erudition and jurisprudence who has the entire Talmud and Shulhan Arukh in his head—incredible!" Still, he noted that the Haredim do not respect him simply because his stance on Zionist matters "meant he was to be associated with only one camp and perforce rendered off-limits for the other camp, even if for him the only thing in his world is Torah, pure and simple. (Elements of Western culture or academia, which are accepted in large segments of his camp, he derides at every turn.)"
In these citations of Henkin one can hear the Haredi lilt. As Deblitsky and others in the forum pointed out multiple times, Henkin had the ability to converse with various people in language they were comfortable with. In private communication with another user in the forum, Henkin disclosed that when he would write on Otzar HaHochma, he would adopt the appropriate style and cautiously promote topics close to his heart.
What motive could there be for entering this lion's den? Henkin had faith that every place has its bright spots, and he was happy to become acquainted with people he would not have otherwise met. He described himself as "attempting to pursue peace, even in a place where they pursue the likes of me." As he wrote another time under the username "Tekhelet Domah" in the somewhat-calmer forum of Be-Hadrei Haredim: "I try my utmost not to hate anyone and not to write off any community that believes itself to be doing God's will, even those which, in accord with their own aforementioned belief, would write me off and disparage my Rebbe in an unacceptable way."
Professor in All But Name
After Henkin's murder, a debate arose between his acquaintances and family over the the respective value he assigned to the two antipodes of academic study and religious study. Not surprisingly, the tension between the two constantly taxes many torani scholars. In the Otzar HaHochma forum and others, it is not uncommon to find a venomous and disparaging treatment of classic academics, who are caricatured as wasting their time on the trivial or unnecessary because they do not know how to study Torah, plain and simple. In the acerbic language of one forum contributor: "they are incapable of studying a page of Talmud without Schottenstein and a dictionary."
In this way, the methodology of the elderly professor David Halivni, for example, has been pilloried and subject to sharp ridicule, perhaps also on account of his past affiliation with the Conservative movement. Along the lines of the approach with which he is associated (which presumes that most Talmudic passages were edited by a generation of anonymous sages, termed stamma'im, during the Savoraic period), the user "Afarqasta De-'Anya" writes that he read Halivni's introductions to two tractates and concluded: "Halivni did not write them himself; rather, he composed specific passages in which even he did not fully understand what he was writing or what he intended. His editor and publisher added stammaitic passages, thereby integrating the scattered pieces into what appears to be a single, unified text."
This derision may, of course, result from an inferiority complex afflicting those with no proper academic training, or from the ignorance of those whose intellectual horizons do not extend beyond the narrative in which they were raised. In any case, it is far from being the consensus of the community of torani scholars: some have integrated into academia in recent years, others recognize that the yeshiva world's disdain toward Jewish Studies is outdated. As Dubovick notes, Jewish Studies of this past generation is not what it had been previously, when scholars had no connection to the traditional study hall, and their scholarship at times revealed their ignorance and at other times could not sort the wheat from the chaff. In this generation, the preeminent scholars in the field are also serious Torah scholars.
Yet, anyone who publishes in Haredi journals or seeks legitimacy from the Haredi street cannot write without inhibition. "They must be careful about how they write, whom they cite, and even what titles they bestow," explains Zvi Leshem. "I recall someone here who wanted to cite Rabbi Saul Lieberman's Tosefta Ki-Feshutah, but he could not figure out which was the worse option—writing Rabbi Lieberman or Professor Lieberman. In the end he simply omitted his name."
Though many of them already bear the title Dr., generally the torani scholars are not in the academic race for positions and recognition, and that fact profoundly impacts their lives. "The disconnect from the academic world and all its rivalry makes it easy for a scholar to share his wisdom with his colleagues, without having to worry about material or future scholarship being stolen, as well as to partake of his colleagues' wisdom," says R. Yoel Catane. "At the same time, the pressure to publish quality articles in the academic world, and the need to subject one's research to peer review, occasionally yields excellent results that cannot be achieved in torani scholarship."
"The fact that we are not part of that competition," explains G. to me, "grants us peace of mind, intellectual freedom, the freedom to choose our areas of research without the need for prerequisite courses that are not entirely necessary, and the freedom to develop our ideas as we see fit. I see Haredi scholars benefitting from the sort of freedom enjoyed by the first generation of scholars in the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement."
Between Seclusion and Entrenchment
The heightened awareness of Jewish sages to the development of their tradition preceded by centuries the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement, which set the critical modern gaze upon the Jewish library. Across the generations there were Ge'onim, medievals, and moderns engaging in textual criticism, historicizing customs, unearthing deep-rooted errors, and looking askance at what the ignorant perceived as a "Judaism" that could not be questioned.
Even from the narrower, more modern perspective of relations between the academy and Haredim, the group that forms the subject of this article certainly cannot claim originality. The "Bibliography of the Hebrew Book," a superb academic project that catalogs all titles printed in Hebrew and other Jewish languages through the ages, is currently led by Yitzchok Yudlov, an erudite Haredi with no academic schooling. Among the founders of the project Rabbi Shmuel Ashkenazy (Deutsch), raised in Batei Ungarin, stands out. Ashkenazi, one of the most famous Haredi scholars of the book, serves today as an honorary member of the Mekize Nirdamim Society, a venerable publisher identified with the Wissenschaft movement. Two Haredi scholars also stand out among the employees of the National Library: Yehoshua Mondshine, an independently-minded Habadnik known for his scholarship on Hasidism, who passed away this past Hanukkah[6] after a terrible illness; and Meir Wunder, may he live a long life, a bibliophile and historian who wrote, among other things, his monumental project Meorei Galitziya (Luminaries of Galicia). A similar undertaking for Hungarian sages was brought into being by the late Haredi scholar Yitzchak Yosef Cohen, who worked within the framework of Machon Yerushalayim, the most famous of the Haredi publishers with a scholarly inclination. Also worthy of note are Yitzchak Yeshaya Weiss and Moshe Alexander Zusha Kinstlicher, both prolific scholars in the field of rabbinic history, who edited the now-defunct Tzfunot.
What, then, distinguishes the members of this young group from all their predecessors? Perhaps it is the fact that the integration that had once seemed so organic has become more complicated as a result of two parallel processes: the seclusion of Haredi society, and the entrenchment of the academy's formality. The world of the learned, from all walks of life, for whom knowledge and curiosity are essential, has been replaced by the reality of evaluative categories within the halls of the academy, and an inflexible, censorial "hashkafah" within the Haredi camp. Few are those who seek to restore the former glory of scholarship, back when its throne did not have to be an academic chair nor its crown a black hat.
The doctoral advisor of Eitam Henkin, may God avenge his blood, was convinced that his student had chosen academia over the halakhic discourse of the yeshiva. Others attest that Henkin viewed halakhic discourse, in fact, as paramount.
Although his world was built upon foundations quite different from those of his Haredi interlocutors, Eitam Henkin had no difficulty finding a shared language with torani scholars. An autodidact to the core, he also held fast to the truth, was intellectually curious, loved profound discussion, and was prepared to swim against the tide. And as can be expected from anyone who has an independent love for knowledge, it turns out that he also wrote for—or at least corrected and made changes to—the Hebrew Wikipedia. On his user page, under the username "Shim'on Ha-Eitan" (which he used in other contexts, such as on the site Mida), he opted for a pithy self-description that speaks volumes: "a Jerusalemite with diasporic roots, whose world is Torah and whose occupation is writing and research."
Henkin began his doctoral research under Prof. David Assaf of Tel-Aviv University. He dedicated it to the biography of R. Israel Meir Ha-Kohen of Radun, the Hafetz Hayyim (1839-1933), one of the mythic personalities who have exercised incredible influence on contemporary Orthodoxy. Assaf, who deeply admired Henkin, published a eulogy on his blog Oneg Shabbat that aroused immediate contention. He wrote:
"Eitam was a wunderkind. I first met him in 2007. At the time he was an avrekh meshi (by his own definition), a fine young yeshiva fellow, all of twenty-three years old. He was a student at Yeshivat Nir in Kiryat Arba, with a long list of publications in Torah journals already trailing him. He contacted me via e-mail, and after a few exchanges I invited him to meet. […] We spoke at length, and I have cared about him ever since. From his articles and our many conversations I discerned right away that he had that certain je ne sais quoi. He had those qualities, the personality, and the capability—elusive, unquantifiable, and indefinable—of someone meant to be a historian, and a good historian at that.
I did not have to press especially hard to convince him that his place—his destiny—did not lie between the walls of the yeshiva, and that he should not squander his talents on the niceties of halakha. He needed to enroll in university and train himself professionally for what truly interested him, for what he truly loved: critical historical scholarship. […]
Eitam, hailing from a world of traditional yeshiva study that is poles apart from the academic world, slid into his university studies effortlessly. He rapidly internalized academic discourse, with its patterns of thinking and writing, and began to taste the distinct savors of that world."
In the continuation, Assaf heaps praise upon his young student. The sharp opposition that he posed between "the niceties of halakha" and critical scholarship, however, engendered grievances on the part of several Oneg Shabbat readers, particularly those familiar with Henkin's other side. His brother Dr. Yagil Henkin criticized Assaf's piece relatively delicately. "He believes Eitam saw himself primarily as a scholar, not a rabbi with plans to fill a rabbinic post," he told Yosef Ehrenfeld in the newspaper Shevi'i. "I have a different take on the matter […] His first and foremost desire was to be a Torah scholar, but he also wanted to be an academic scholar. In everything that interested him and everything he engaged in, he strove to do his best, to go the extra mile."
Rabbi Dr. Michael Avraham protested Assaf's denigration of Torah discourse, leading with the following cynical preface:
"I am unable to restrain myself from making the objective academic comparison (apparently the product of systematic methodology and critical-historical scholarship) between "squandering one's time on the niceties of halakha" and "entering the precincts (heikhalot) of the academy." I won't lie: a quiver of holiness washed over me upon reading those words, but I nevertheless summon my courage and dare to murmur something in the heart of the sanctuary (heikhal). May its priests, Levites, and prophets forgive me after kissing their sacred, perfumed feet."
Offended, Assaf responded with a stinging riposte of his own, explaining that he was not deriding the yeshiva's methods of study; rather, he was convinced that Eitam, as a young man who had needed to choose his intellectual path, was inclined more towards academic methods of study and writing. This assertion would seem to fit the activity of Eitam's final years, but it somewhat contradicts the testimony of Deblitsky, according to which Henkin viewed his thoroughly halakhic composition about Sabbath law—a book that has yet to be published[7]—as his most important work.
Translator's Notes:
This article was first published in Hebrew in Mekor Rishon (30 October 2015), and is translated here with permission of Mekor Rishon and the author. The translator would like to thank Shaul Seidler-Feller for his invaluable assistance. A groysn shkoyekh!
[1] A preliminary terminological distinction in order to forestall confusion:
● A hoker is someone with the skills to conduct sustained research on a topic of interest and produce noteworthy scholarship. Such a person may have academic training and credentials, but the subjects of this article, for the most part, do not. I translate 'hoker' as 'scholar.'
● A hoker torani is such a scholar who happens to be firmly ensconced in the world of Torah, and whose research interests center around topics related to that world. Owing to the lack of suitable English adjective, I will leave the adjective in the Hebrew, yielding "torani scholar."
● A talmid hakham is someone with measurably significant Torah erudition, but that knowledge does not necessarily have any bearing on his ability to produce scholarship. I will retain the standard translation of 'Torah scholar.'
[2] A compilation of customs, prayers, and kabbalistic practices printed about 300 years ago that has had tremendous influence ever since. It nevertheless generated controversy regarding its author's identity and its content due to suspicions of Sabbateanism.
[3] Cf. Prov 11:2.
[4] The closest idiomatic equivalent of tokh kedei dibbur, Henkin's username.
[5] cf. Shabbat 31a.
[6] Hanukkah 5775 (24 December 2014). A tribute has been published on these pages by Eli Rubin, "Toil of the Mind and Heart: A Meditation in Memory of Rabbi Yehoshua Mondshine," the Seforim blog (13 December 2015), available here.
[7] The book, Zeh Sefer Esh Tamid, has since been published by Mossad HaRav Kook in April 2016.


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Diary of Adrian Mole, Catcher in the rye, The Famous Five...
Diary of Adrian Mole, Catcher in the rye, The Famous Five...
London, UK - Schoolchildren in the UK who express support for Palestine face being questioned by police and referred to a counter-radicalisation programme for youngsters deemed at risk of being drawn into terrorism under new laws requiring teachers to monitor students for extremism.
One schoolboy told Al Jazeera he was accused of holding "terrorist-like" views by a police officer who questioned him for taking leaflets into school promoting a boycott of Israel.
The case reflects concerns raised about the expansion of the government's Preventcounter-extremism strategy into schools, with critics complaining that teachers are being expected to act as the "eyes and ears of the state".
What I was getting at is that if you want democracy you must have an educated electorate that take their responsibilities as citizens seriously. The problem is that the world is now so complicated no one understands it. Nevertheless I think education should be geared towards making citizens, not scientists, doctors, footballers etc
I always thought it'd be good (in democratic terms at least) to have compulsory 'Reasoning' (for want of a better phrase) lessons.
Nothing too difficult, but combining very rudimentary logic, philosophy of science and statistics.
Students would be taught common logical fallacies, how statistics can be skewered/taken out of context and the principles of evidence-based, rational thought.
Of course this is all pie in the sky, but you can always dream.
Martin Robinson's Trivium in the 21st C is being heavily praised as a way of delivering some of the above:
Other methods/models which are currently be tried are the Michaela school and School 21, both free schools with wildly differing ideas. I'm not endorsing either but there are plenty of people out there trying to grapple with the idea of what school/education is for.
they should teach -
emotional intelligence
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Doesn't matter what's in the curriculum, main thing is, throw smart phones and tablets at the kids, the sooner the better.
This is particularly boring suggestion, but after watching this, it dawned on me how much easier things would be for the left if people were taught about how government debt works:


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I spent the better part of 3 hrs. playing in Google Maps creating a timeline for my great grandfather, David Fenton Marshall. It took awhile to do because 1) he was a travelling salesman so he moved around alot and 2) a lot of the places no longer exist (or they've been renamed). I was also using the street view (which I love), to get a closer look at the houses, which I've saved to post at a later date.
I wanted to embed the link in this post but it kept causing problems and shutting blogger down. Besides, it wouldn't show all the locations at once. So I saved two screen shots to show.
This first one shows just the map of all the locations where my great grandfather lived.
This second shot shows both the map and a list of the locations (minus the last one as it got cut off!)
Saturday, February 13, 2010
A Mapped Timeline for David Fenton Marshall (1847 - 1922)
Posted by Alana at 9:31 PM
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what a neat idea. I never thought of google maps to do a time line. I love maps and timelines -- the old historian in me, I guess.
Thangs for such a visual overview of your g-grandfather's life.
Thanks Joan. It was fun (although long) to do. I've used google maps before, but never to do a timeline. He's the only I'll probably do it for as he travelled so much whereas most of my other anscestors tended to stay in one place.ReplyDelete
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Soured cream cinnamon cake
My nephew and trusty sidekick, The Boy Wonder, made this cake for part of the CakeFest celebration. It's one of those reasonably plain looking but deliciously tasty cakes. The topping of sugar, cinnamon and hazelnuts also runs through the middle of the cake packing it full of spicy goodness but whereas the top stays dry and crumblike, the middle turns sticky and rich.
The smell of the cake whilst baking was tempting. There's something about the smell of warm cinnamon (and vanilla...and chocolate...and coconut etc) that speaks to my very soul!
The nuts added a nice bit of texture to the cake. The original recipe used pecans, and while I love pecans, the Caked Crusader's Ma (CCM) doesn't get on with them, so in order not to poison a CakeFest guest (think of the bad PR) we switched to hazelnuts.
For the cake:
210ml soured cream
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
125g unsalted butter
100g caster sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
250g plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
For the topping:
50g brown sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
25g chopped hazelnuts or pecans
How to make:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan oven 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4.
- Line a 20cm springform tin.
- Mix the soured cream and bicarbonate of soda in a bowl and put to one side.
- Start by making the topping: mix all the ingredients together and put to one side.
- Now make the cake: Cream together the butter and sugar until pale, light and fluffy. Don't skimp as this is an important stage.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time and then the vanilla.
- Add the flour, baking powder and soured cream mix to the bowl and stir until well combined.
- Spoon half the batter into the prepared cake tin and level.
- Sprinkle half the topping mix over the batter.
- Spoon the remaining batter over the topping and scatter the remaining topping on top.
- Bake for approximately 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the cake comes out clean. Mine took 45 minutes.
- Leave to cool on a wire rack
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
- Eat.
6 comments:
- Premyscakes said...
How soft and yummy the cake looks. Felt like having a piece of it.
- 25 February 2009 at 15:06
- Elizabeth said...
This is exactly my kind of cake (nuts or fruit); it's going on my "have to be baked" list. Thanks for mentioning the pecans; I have plenty of those, but they're not my favorites either, so I will have to scare up some hazelnuts. Or maybe some almonds...
- 25 February 2009 at 22:29
- Mike of Mike's Table said...
I suppose not poisoning the company is a noble goal. I love both pecans and hazelnuts, but I'd probably lean more towards hazelnuts anyways (probably because there not as easy to come by here compared to pecans). That cake looks awesome though! That with my morning coffee and nobody to see that I'm eating dessert for breakfast, and I'd be all set, lol
- 27 February 2009 at 18:41
- Katie said...
Oh my this cake looks divine! I'm definitely going to give it a go. It sounds amazing
- 28 February 2009 at 09:08
- Dee said...
It's three in the morning, and now I'll never get to sleep. Very nice, this!
- 28 February 2009 at 19:02
- Emily said...
This looks incredible! Do you have any idea how much I'd enjoy this?
- 1 March 2009 at 05:27