#Los Angeles Kabbalah Center

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Oh, are you Satanic fuckers mad? Top goddamn bad.

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Exploring the Top Psychics and Mediums Near You in California: A Comprehensive Guide to Finding the Best in the Golden State

psychics and mediums near me

California, known for its diverse culture and scenic beauty, is also a hub for psychic and spiritual practices. From the bustling streets of Los Angeles to the serene landscapes of Northern California, the state offers a wide range of psychics, mediums, and astrologers ready to provide insights, guidance, and healing. If you're seeking a connection with the spiritual world or looking for astrological advice, this guide will help you navigate the best options available to you.

Understanding Psychics, Mediums, and Astrologers

Before diving into the specifics of where to find top psychics and mediums, it’s important to understand the differences between these spiritual practitioners:

Psychics: Psychics are individuals who claim to possess abilities to perceive information hidden from the normal senses. They often use intuition, clairvoyance, or other extrasensory perceptions to provide insights into various aspects of your life, such as relationships, career, and personal growth.

Mediums: Mediums are a subset of psychics who specialize in communicating with the spirits of those who have passed away. They act as intermediaries between the living and the deceased, providing messages and closure from the other side.

Astrologers: Astrologers interpret the positions and movements of celestial bodies to provide insights into personal traits, future events, and life paths. They use charts and horoscopes to offer predictions and advice based on astrological patterns.

Top Psychics and Mediums in California

California’s vast and varied landscape hosts numerous talented psychics and mediums. Whether you're in the heart of Los Angeles or exploring the coastal beauty of San Francisco, here are some top practitioners to consider:

1. Los Angeles

The Psychic Eye Bookshop: Located in Studio City, The Psychic Eye Bookshop is a renowned center for psychic readings and spiritual guidance. They offer a range of services, including tarot readings, astrology consultations, and mediumship sessions. The shop is known for its knowledgeable and compassionate practitioners.

Kabbalah Centre: Situated in Beverly Hills, the Kabbalah Centre provides a unique blend of ancient Kabbalistic wisdom and modern spiritual practices. Their psychics and astrologers offer deep insights into personal and spiritual development, using Kabbalah as a foundation.

Lana’s Psychic Readings: Lana, a well-regarded psychic in Los Angeles, offers intuitive readings and mediumship sessions. Known for her accuracy and empathetic approach, she helps clients gain clarity and connect with their spiritual guides.

2. San Francisco

The Crystal Way: This spiritual center in San Francisco offers a variety of psychic and astrological services. Their team includes experienced psychics, astrologers, and mediums who provide readings, energy healing, and spiritual counseling.

Mediumship with Joy: Joy is a renowned medium based in San Francisco who specializes in connecting with loved ones who have passed away. Her compassionate and insightful sessions are highly praised by clients seeking closure and comfort.

Astrology by Karen: Karen is a skilled astrologer who offers detailed birth chart readings and astrological forecasts. Her expertise in interpreting planetary movements helps clients understand their life paths and make informed decisions.

3. San Diego

San Diego Psychic: This well-established psychic practice offers a range of services, including tarot readings, mediumship, and spiritual coaching. Their team is known for providing accurate and insightful readings that help clients navigate life’s challenges.

The Healing Room: Located in downtown San Diego, The Healing Room offers both psychic readings and astrological consultations. Their practitioners are experienced in various spiritual modalities, including energy healing and intuitive guidance.

Rebecca’s Psychic Readings: Rebecca is a popular psychic in San Diego who provides detailed and insightful readings. Her services include tarot readings, mediumship, and spiritual counseling, helping clients find clarity and direction.

Choosing the Right Psychic or Medium for You

Finding the right psychic or medium can be a deeply personal experience. Here are some tips to help you choose the best practitioner for your needs:

Research and Reviews: Look for reviews and testimonials from previous clients. This can provide valuable insights into the practitioner’s accuracy, style, and professionalism.

Specializations: Consider what you’re seeking—whether it’s a psychic reading, mediumship session, or astrological consultation. Choose a practitioner who specializes in the area you’re interested in.

Personal Connection: It’s important to feel comfortable with your psychic or medium. Many practitioners offer initial consultations or introductory sessions, which can help you gauge your connection with them.

Recommendations: Ask friends or family for recommendations. Personal referrals can often lead you to trustworthy and reputable practitioners.

Spiritual and Astrological Resources in California

In addition to individual psychics and mediums, California is home to various spiritual and astrological resources that can enhance your spiritual journey:

Spiritual Retreats: California offers numerous spiritual retreats and workshops that focus on psychic development, mediumship training, and astrological education. These retreats provide opportunities to deepen your understanding and practice of spiritual and psychic arts.

Astrological Schools: There are several astrological schools and organizations in California that offer courses and certifications in astrology. These institutions provide in-depth training and resources for those interested in exploring astrology professionally or personally.

Metaphysical Shops: Many cities in California have metaphysical shops that sell spiritual tools, books, and supplies. These shops often host events, workshops, and readings, providing additional avenues for spiritual exploration.

Conclusion

California’s vibrant and diverse spiritual community offers a wealth of options for those seeking psychic readings, mediumship, and astrological guidance. Whether you’re looking for insights into your personal life, connections with loved ones who have passed, or a deeper understanding of your astrological chart, the Golden State has a range of talented practitioners ready to assist you. By exploring the top psychics, mediums, and astrologers in California, you can embark on a meaningful and enriching spiritual journey.

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4ME4YOU features designer “DZHUS” during Berlin Fashion Week AW25.

DESIGNER: DZHUS

DZHUS is a Ukrainian conceptual fashion brand renowned globally for its multi-functional outfits crafted from cruelty-free materials. The designer, Irina Dzhus, utilises innovative pattern-making techniques to minimise the need for extensive physical shopping, offering a versatile and sustainable wardrobe from a limited number of transformable garments. Since the onset of the war in Ukraine, DZHUS has relocated to the European Union and has committed to donating 30% of its profits to Ukrainian animal rights organisations.

DZHUS collections have graced prestigious platforms such as Paris Fashion Week, Berlin Fashion Week, Ukrainian Fashion Week, Milan Design Week, International Fashion Showcase London, Brussels Fashion Week, Helsinki Fashion Week, Vegan Fashion Week in Los Angeles, Milan Design Week, Vienna Design Week, Dutch Design Week, Designblok Prague, and Feeric Fashion Week in Romania.

ABOUT THE SHOW

Irina Dzhus' presentation at the Kabbalah Center was less a traditional fashion show and more an art performance, uniquely set against a backdrop inspired by the Last Supper. During the presentation of her collection “ANTICON,” the Berlin Contemporary award winner was actively involved, reading texts inscribed on the models' legs and arms, dancing, and transforming her versatile and emotionally charged designs live. One standout transformation featured a white bandeau top and slim-cut trousers morphing into a restructured halter dress adorned with rainbow colours and paw appliqués. Another highlight was the sculpting of a floor-length coat's brim into a halo-like face covering, showcasing Dzhus' signature blend of creativity and innovation.

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WEBSITE: DZHUS

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Rabbi Yehuda Berg at LA Kabbalah center 'molested student then threatened to kill her'

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(December 21, 2020 / JNS) It’s one of the few rap videos around that features a lead singer in frockcoat, tallis and shtreimel—paired with a cascade of gold chains (one bearing a Magen David) and leopard-skin scarf—dancing with guys from the ‘hood facing off against others in Chassidic garb.

As such, “Mothaland Bounce,” where our hero proudly calls himself “Hitler’s worst nightmare,” reveals much about the man behind it and what it means to be a passionate and deeply committed Jew of color.

Because for Nissim Black—successful rapper, father of six and Orthodox Jew—the video makes a strong statement about how Jews of color merge their very disparate identities into a (nearly) seamless whole.

(Fans may want to check out Black’s newest rap video “Hava”—a thoroughly Nissim spin on the traditional “Hava Nagila”—its release timed for the first night of Hanukkah).

Black is perhaps the most famous of today’s Jews of color. (Readers of a certain age will recall when singer Sammy Davis Jr. could claim that honor).

Though the term itself has gained traction in the last decade, there have always been Jews of different races. Scan the globe today, and you’ll find Ethiopian Jews and the African Lemba tribe whose men test positive for the Kohen gene, a marker of the Jewish priests.

What’s more, many Sephardic, Cuban, Mexican and Yemenite Jews consider themselves Jews of color. Not to mention the murky waters surrounding pockets of the Black Hebrews found in Israel (largely in Dimona and Arad in the Negev Desert) and around the Diaspora, many of whom claim descent from the ancient Israelites.

The numbers are equally murky. Estimates range from 6 percent to 12 percent—or even as much as 15 percent—of today’s Jewish population being Jews of color. But there is little in the way of standardized definition of who is a Jew; some studies count all the members of a household as Jewish household when only one member actually is. But when researchers Arnold Dashefsky and Ira M. Sheskin held the disparate estimates of Jews of color up to the light of demographic standards earlier this year, they concluded that the percentage of Jews of color “is almost certainly closer to 6 percent nationally [from the 2013 Pew study] than 12 to 15 percent. And this percentage has not increased significantly since 1990, although it is likely to do so in the future.”

It stands to reason that this year of painful racial tensions across North America could trigger an internal debate in African-American Jews, especially those who came to the faith not through birth or adoption, but who, like Black, embraced Judaism as adults.

And embrace it many of them do—with passion, perseverance and a deep appreciation—often overcoming raised eyebrows, insensitivity and even downright racism in the process. With a surprising number of them finding their spiritual home in Orthodox Judaism.

Nissim Black

Damian Jamohl Black, whom the world knows now as rapper Nissim Black, was born into a family of Seattle drug dealers in 1986. His childhood was pockmarked by FBI raids on his home, his dad was taken away in handcuffs, and he was accustomed to assorted incidents of street violence and crime. By 9, he was smoking marijuana, and plants were growing in his room. By 12, he’d joined the family business.

The only faith Black was exposed to back then was his grandfather’s Islam. His first religious service? A mosque, which he attended until his grandfather went to prison.

But at 13, Black was pulled into Christianity by missionaries. He now says it was the best thing that could have happened to him. “This was the first time I was around people who had normal healthy relationships. No one sold drugs, they had a heart for kids from the inner city, and their summer camp was the most fun I’d had in my life,” he recalls. “Becoming religious saved me from the world of street gangs.”

By high school, he was “the poster child of the missionary center.” That’s when he met the woman who would become his wife. As a Seventh-Day Adventist, Jamie (now Adina) went to church on Saturdays. They wed in 2008 but remarried in an Orthodox ceremony after their conversion five years later.

By 19, Black was making rap music professionally, and his mother died of an overdose. But by 20, Christianity was beginning to feel foreign to him, and he began wondering what the Jews walking in his neighborhood on Saturday mornings were up to. “I went to Rabbi Google and found Chabad.org. And it all began to make sense,” he says. “I told my wife [they were newlyweds] that I didn’t want to celebrate Christmas and Easter anymore. Pretty soon, she was doing her own digging into Judaism.”

The couple’s conversion followed in 2013 and aliyah to Israel three years later. The Blacks now make their home in Ramat Beit Shemesh with their six children, ages 1 to 12. “I wanted my kids to grow up here,” he says, “where they’d see Jews of different shades all praying the same prayers.”

“I’ve checked every box, right?” he says with a laugh. “One rabbi at my yeshivah told me, ‘You have a lot of strikes against you: You’re black, you’re a convert and you’re a Breslov Chassid. And in all these things is your greatness.”

Maayan Zik

Maayan Zik was 13 when her soul woke her up. Growing up in Washington, D.C., with her mom and sister—her parents divorced when she was in first grade, and she didn’t see her dad for another 10 years—she attended Catholic schools and was close with her maternal grandparents, Jamaican immigrants who took her to museums and taught her the value of hard work and education.

Accompanying her Jamaican-born grandmother to church every Sunday, by 13, Zik had “begun to wonder if what my family believes is right for me.” She explored a number of world religions, but when she saw a photo of her light-skinned Jamaican great-grandmother Lilla Abrams, whom family lore says was Jewish, “I realized I had to go way back to find out who I am.”

When she moved to an apartment in 2005 in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., she noticed the previous tenant had a left up a poster of a white-bearded man. “I said to myself, ‘I’m going to find out who you are.’ The man turned out to be the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Two years later, after courses and a summer seminary program, she converted. Thirteen years later, now 36, Zik remains there—with her Israeli-born husband and four children. “This somewhat awkward coexistence that lives inside me” fades into the background when she begins to pray, she says. “Having a personal conversation with God as part of the Jewish people, it’s who I’ve always been; I just didn’t know it.”

Mordechai Ben Avraham

Black and Mordechai Ben Avraham are both African-Americans from the West Coast (Seattle and Los Angeles, respectively), and both found Judaism in their 20s. But their early environment could hardly have been more different.

Growing up in an affluent neighborhood with a successful businessman father and a professor mother, “my focus was on how someday I could make more money than my dad.”

Ben Avraham’s spiritual journey took him from Sufism to the Kabbalah until at 22 he experienced Shabbat in a Carlebach-style minyan. “It was like I was floating in outer space. This is what Jews do? This is amazing! The Torah, the prayers, this beautiful spiritual system God gave to the Jews for people to transform themselves—they literally grabbed my heart.” His conversion was complete in 2013 with his move to Israel three years later.

Now 39, the former TV producer is living in the heart of Jerusalem’s religious Mea Shearim neighborhood, working towards his rabbinical degree and publishing a book on the joys of Torah as a black Jew.

But why would anyone who’s already making a huge leap religiously and culturally choose to embrace Orthodoxy with its full menu of mitzvot, accepting the Torah as Divine and committing to living within halachah (Jewish law)?

“If someone is going to make this big of a change completely based on their need to go beyond, there’s a very real tendency to go what many would consider ‘all the way,’ ” says Henry Abramson, dean of Brooklyn’s Touro College and author of The Kabbalah of Forgiveness: The Thirteen Levels of Mercy in Rabbi Moshe Cordovero’s Date Palm of Devorah (2014), among other titles.

A shared history

Much of this tendency to search spiritually can be traced to African-Americans’ religious experience in America, adds Abramson. “Since the 1960s, we’ve seen the phenomenon of questioning the Christianity foisted on their slave ancestors.”

And though Islam has attracted many of these disenfranchised souls—in part, he says, because the black Muslim culture permeated prisons beginning in the 1960s—Judaism offers another option.

Ben Avraham maintains that, in a spiritual sense, Judaism may feel familiar to those raised in the black church. “Like Judaism, gospel Christianity is an intense personal relationship with God without any intermediaries,” he says.

This is a connection Ben Avraham experiences every day of his life. “Living in Mea Shearim, in a fundamental way, I’m around people who are just like me. I just connect with my Chassidic neighbors.”

A growing fissure

But after the 1960s and ’70s, when Jews fought alongside blacks for civil rights in the United States and in South Africa, “there’s been a growing fissure between blacks and Jews,” says Rabbi Maury Kelman who, as director of Route 613, a New York City conversion program, has welcomed many students of different races into his classes.

And, with last summer’s rise in violence between the African-American community and the religious Jewish community, primarily in New York,” says Black, “lately, it’s gotten uglier.”

‘I cried all the way home’

Not everyone in the Jewish community rolls out the proverbial red carpet for someone of color.

After working up the courage to walk into synagogue on Shabbat, Zik couldn’t miss the two women glaring at her, eventually yelling at her to get out and threatening to call the police before giving chase.

“I cried all the way home, but my friends would not let me give up,” she says. “I also knew from everything I’d read about the Rebbe, with his emphasis on love and kindness, that eventually this would be the right place for me.”

“Unfortunately, like in all communities, you’ll find the occasional ignorant Jew or racist,” allows Kelman, who offers programs on the importance of accepting the convert.

A time of racial tensions

With this year’s heated racial debates and demonstrations following the May 25 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, where does that put Jews of color, with feet in both the African-American and Jewish worlds?

Zik, for one, helped lead a rally in Crown Heights this summer where black neighbors shared their experiences with racism. “It was a reminder,” she says, “that the Torah teaches us to protect the rights of all God’s children.”

And the learning goes both ways, she adds. “When black friends ask me if now that I’m Jewish, do I have money? I tell them about the Jews I know who struggle to pay for rent, food and their kids’ yeshivah tuitions. I tell them that, when I’ve had my babies, neighbors bring us meals and help furnish the nursery. People here always want to do another mitzvah.”

Ben Avraham also says he better appreciates African-American history because he is a Jew. “We can see our own story reflected in the Torah,” he says. “Our two peoples had so many struggles just to survive.”

Adds Black: “Just knowing there are black religious Jews can help the two communities see they aren’t completely separate after all—not to judge each other so quickly.”

Kelman agrees. “Black Jews can be a terrific bridge chiefly because they have credibility on both sides. It’s increasingly important to teach our fellow Jews that we’re a family that comes in different colors, that Judaism is colorblind,” he says. “Once they convert, they’re just as Jewish as any of us—and our diversity only strengthens us.”

‘Something bigger than myself’

By the end of “Mothaland Bounce,” the guys from the ’hood and the Chassids are dancing together with Black as ringmaster.

But it may be “A Million Years” that’s Black’s love letter to Judaism.

In this 2016 music video (with singer Yisroel Laub), Black takes a journey proudly carrying a Torah throughout Israel—archeological digs, mountain caves, a busy shuk (marketplace) and Jerusalem’s Old City—turning heads as he goes. (Don’t miss the moment when Black stops to let some haredi kids lovingly kiss the Torah), finally nestling it inside a synagogue’s ark.

“Since I was a kid, I was looking to be part of something bigger than myself,” says Black. “I prayed and prayed, and finally, I knew who I needed to be, a Jew, and where I needed to be, the Holy Land. It took time but now God’s answered my prayers. And one thing I know is that to God there is no such thing as color. He sees us for who we are inside.”

As he raps:

“I came from a distance Where everything was different … I called out to You And You showed me that You listened … I gave my all to You And You showed me who I am.”

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Ritual magic: What is it?

Ritual magic is a pertinent topic today For most of the masses are unknowingly participating in a worldwide initiation ritual. This ritual is intended to bring in the NewWorld Order. Ritual gathers energy. It is hard to tell everything the energy of the masses is currently being directed toward. One can guarantee it isn’t for the good of humanity.

Ceremonial magic, also known as ritual magic or learned magic, is a highly disciplined form of magic in which ceremony and ritual become the central tools used in the magical operation. Ceremonial magic centers upon the art of the invocation and control of spirits. In more contemporary versions, ceremonial magic involves the discipline of the self and the art of controlling and directing personal and cosmic power, which may or may not be personified in a demonic or deity form.

Ceremonial magic differs from natural magic, or low magic. Natural magic is the practice of magic in accordance with the natural world, while ceremonial magic involves the invoking and control of spirits and other entities. Although there is much more to it than this–ceremonial magic in and of itself being fairly complex–these are the surface differences. Ceremonial magic is also known as high magic. Ultimately, the main purpose of performing high magic is to bring the practitioner closer to the Divine itself, whether that is in the form of a deity or another spiritual being. It is believed by many that secret societies work with energies such as Lucifer and Moloch.

Aleister Crowley defined Magick as the science and art of causing changes to occur in conformity with will. Very much unlike science, ritual magic cannot be guaranteed to produce the same experiences; even though the ritual is the same. The  laws of ritual magic are not bound to the laws of cause and effect as scientific laws are. Ritual magic typically uses all of five physical senses and many inner senses.

During a ritual the senses may be used in the following ways:

Vision is stimulated by symbols and sigils that the magician uses. Altar candles of suitable colors also stimulate the visual field. The use of a specially dedicated vessel or chalice in a ritual creates a necessary and powerful point of focus. The ritual magician can use the chalice as a focal point for the magical will in order to manifest the outcome they desire.
 

Taste is stimulated by wine and bread, if you are having a communion. One may use a pinch of salt. Every magical altar has a chalice for sacred drink and liquid used in ritual.

Hearing is stimulated by the chants and the words of the ritual and/or spellcasting, as well as any music that you might be including in the ritual.

Scent is stimulated by oils, sage, herbs, and incense. 
 

Touch is stimulated by the physical movements of the ritual, by contact with others if your working is a group working. The entire setting should stimulate the emotions as well as the senses.

Some ritual magicians perform the ritual solely in their own head. No props. No altar. An onlooker might just see a person sitting in a chair or lying on the floor. A ritual can be all mental, it can be physical and mental, but it cannot be all physical with no mental. The mind is what makes magic work. The intention and energy behind and generated by the ritual is what sets magic and energy into motion.

Any ritual has an intention or a reason for doing it. That intention should be crystal clear and able to be easily put into words. You can't mush over the intention. It isn't the worst idea to write down the intention and put the paper on the altar, then burn it as part of the ritual, burning so that it is purified. An alternative to burning is to keep the paper under your pillow until the intention is achieved.

The foundation of practical magic was the belief in the power of divine words to compel the obedience of all spirits to those who could pronounce them. Such words and names were supposed to invoke or dismiss the denizens of the spirit world, and they, with suitable prayers, were used in all magical ceremonies. Again it was thought that it was easier to control evil spirits than to enlist the sympathies of angels.

Like many ceremonial magic groups, membership includes a series of initiations and rituals. Builders of the Adytum-BOTA is a Los Angeles- is based on ceremonial magic tradition that carries influence from both the Golden Dawn and the Freemasons. In addition to group ritual work, B.O.T.A. offers correspondence classes on Kabbalah, astrology, divination, and many other aspects of occult studies. 

Although information on ceremonial magic often seems to be limited, this is due in part to the need for secrecy within the community. Author Dion Fortune once said of the teachings of ceremonial magic, “Secrecy concerning practical formulae of ceremonial magic is also advisable, for if they are used indiscriminately, the virtue goes out of them.”

Many large organized gatherings of the masses are participating in ceremonial magic. Look at the Olympic ceremonies, a Super Bowl halftime show, or The Gotthard Tunnel opening ceremony if you want to see an example of ritual. If you can look at these events and tell me that ceremonial magic isn’t involved, I cannot help you.

This is the reason why we cannot “just wear the mask.” Participating in this ritual is so much more than “just a mask.” I will not willingly participate in an initiation ritual. I do not consent. And you shouldn’t either.

The ritual being performed is a pagan ritual of transformation. The world is actively being changed. We will not be going back to “normal.” Everyone wearing the masks is helping to ensure that we never go back to normal. Doing a ritual intensifies a change. The elites are felt to be battling amongst themselves for who controls the people. Both sides want control but one side doesn’t want to control us in nearly as terrible a manner. I would much prefer a society that is not under totalitarian rule. I cannot and will not engage in this ritual; I will not wear a mask. (I also have a valid health reason not to wear one but that’s beside the point.)

Ritual initiation introduces one into the “way.” The new way of life, or worldview. Initiation is a program guiding beliefs and actions that enables the initiate to become a member of the new society. Ritual is not always a conscious action.

An initiation ritual typically involves three stages. Isolation and/or purification, transition, and integration.

The first stage is isolation and/or purification. Initiate is separated from the mundane world. Mundane actually means “of the world.” The Initiate is largely removed from the persons, places, and things that he is used to. Detached and insulated so that one can be purged of the old ways and old world. Purified if you will. An essential element is the suspension of the normal rules and what one is used to, the normal way. Much of the initiates sense at this time will be deliberately controlled.

With nowhere else to go the isolated initiate may be forced to confront his own reflection. Things that have been ignored or buried beneath the average day today routines suddenly become unavoidable. This is yet another part of purge and purification.

Does that sound familiar? Let’s think lockdown. Which oddly was called quarantine. One doesn’t quarantine healthy people. Unless the word was used as part of this ritual. We were tainted with the ways of the old world and needed to be quarantined to be purified.

Another thing I’m reminded of is the earth was actually purified. Many bodies of water and rivers that have been filthy in recent years very quickly became crystal clear during the lockdown; once the people disappeared. Animals reappeared places that they haven’t been seen in years or ever before. Dolphins were swimming in the canals in Venice. Several rivers that were previously full of debris and garbage are now clear enough one can see to the bottom. This part isn’t necessarily a bad thing I guess. The rest of it is!!

Initiation rituals also require surrender and may require sacrifice. For something to be given, something must also be taken. You can guarantee the people will be sacrificing some of their existing civil liberties in order to adopt the “new way.”

Hard to tell what else one will ultimately end up sacrificing. If you end up getting a microchip; your sacrifice is your eternal soul. There is no coming back from mixing with machinery. That is the full assimilation of humanity into an AI race. If you implant your body you are stuck in this artificial reality: forever.

Repetition is another part of the ritual. This is done in order to hammer points home, reprogram they initiate, and to increase the spell. Does “The new normal” or “alone together” ring a bell??!?

The wearing of masks may be required. Masking has traditionally played an important role in initiation rituals. Masking enables the suppression of ego to help facilitate a death of the old identity. Before the identification and manifestation of a new one. Disguised under a mask and hidden away the initiate is more able to transcend the self.

The reason ritual magic is used in situations that could go either way is because ritual increases the likelihood that one’s intentions will happen. Everyone participating is directing their energy towards whomever is conducting this ritual. It is hard to tell what unseen energies are being used too.

Trauma is also an aspect of this kind of initiation. Especially to personalize the fear of death. Sometimes the act of dying will be ceremonially role played. Only after death is confronted can the initiate be resurrected, started anew. Programming may be executed in a purposefully confusing manner with polarizing changes in narratives to keep initiate confused and on unstable mental ground. Phrases like #alonetogether is a paradox and an example of confusion in the narrative.

Disorientation is key. The uncertainty generates a general anxiety and fear which further removes the initiate from reality and allows for better receptiveness to a type of Pavlovian conditioning. Anxiety and fear weakens individual just as a virus would; fear and anxiety actually have the potential to break down the whole individual much more so than a virus would. Regardless of the details the previous way of life is shed, like an old skin.

After the isolation and purification comes transition, the second phase in the initiation ritual. As the old ways pass away the initiate finds himself in a void, feeling as if he belongs nowhere. Thus the old self has died and the initiate has been purified. The initiate is like a blank canvas primed and desperate for new paint. Initiate is gradually being reprogrammed and incorporated into his new environment. The new methods are being implemented. They’re moving towards a cashless and trackable monetary system and a totalitarian social control system. China has already implemented the social credit system and is set to to be the headquarters of the NWO should it successfully be implemented as planned.

Tell me why China has recently built several cities that are being called “ghost cities.” These cities are all new construction yet no one lives there. Are they constructed for? I think they’re for the surviving Americans. I feel the plan is to destroy the United States completely with a war to end all wars and those that survive will end up moved into the ghost cities. This is a civilization reset and most likely this is what’s been done in the past. I suggest everyone of you reading this look into mudfossil theory, Tartaria, and the mudflood.

The final stage of the initiation ritual is integration. Integration is when you start seeing the “new” ways appearing widespread. At this time I feel we are still in the transition stage and at the early stages of integration. The events currently taking place around the world are clearly a ritual to those of us aware of these processes.

The ritual is to implement the New World order. We the people have got to wish for the most positive outcome there is. We need to hope that the more peaceful side win the battle going on. I am not excited about control of any kind but I am realistic. I overstand that while in this matrix we will be in some ways under a control system. I try to escape the system in every way I can but some participation is unavoidable. In light of this I would much prefer peaceful rulers. What the majority of the collective heart centered consciousness wishes for is ultimately what we will end up with. This is why it is so very important not to envision doomsday. Instead try to keep a positive outlook. That means envisioning the best possible future given the situation at hand.

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Is Yoga Kosher?

How a Modern Orthodox Jew struggled to reconcile her yogic practice with her Judaism by TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER, JANUARY 05, 2010

“A few years ago, freshly moved to Los Angeles, I started practicing yoga. I was feeling anxious and worried, and if I were still a New Yorker, I’d have gone on anti-depressants. But I’m a big believer in doing what the Romans do, and, as it turned out, yoga helped a lot. Now, in class, as I take my first bow—a stretch upward, followed by an open-armed dive to my toes—I am no longer thinking about survival. Instead, with room to breathe and think, I instead wonder about the implications of bowing, of doing yoga in the first place. Yoga, with its meditation, with its mysterious secrets and ties to Hinduism and Buddhism, isn’t just a physiological practice; it’s a spiritual one. And I am a Modern Orthodox Jew. By practicing yoga, I’m now forced to wonder, am I practicing a religion outside my own? Am I sinning before God?

When I first took up yoga, this question never occurred to me. I was dealing with a difficult time, but I had also abandoned my religious upbringing. I was at peace with a secular life that included some high-holiday observance and crippling guilt when I didn’t observe Passover. Now, married to a man who converted so that we could be together, I find myself running an Orthodox home. (You know the old joke: don’t date a non-Jew unless you want to end up really religious.) I’m surprisingly happy in my lifestyle, but I’m also realizing that a true immersion in yogic practice may very well be a violation of my Jewish one.

There is a statue of Ganesh, the Hindu diety, in the yoga studio I attend. At the end of the class, my instructor says, “Namaste,” and bows toward the class. In turn, we bow back. I am bowing toward the teacher, but also toward the statue. Namaste means, “The Divine in me salutes the Divine in you.” During many of the meditation sessions, we are asked to put our hands in “prayer position,” which is what it sounds like: hands joined together at the heart. The more I thought about it, the more I worried that yoga might be its own religion, and that I might be committing a sin—worshipping an idol, even—by practicing it.

This might seem like a niggling question of minutia, but Judaism, especially Orthodox Judaism, is a religion filled with niggling questions of minutiae—how an animal is slaughtered, at what angle, exactly, a mezuzah should be affixed to a door post. There are serious implications to committing idolatry, whether you do so accidentally or not. In the Talmud (Sanhedrin 74), it states that there are only three sins in which a person is commanded to die rather than commit the sin: the second and third are incest and murder. The first is idolatry.

That was the Lubavitch rebbe’s rationale when, in 1977, he forbade his followers from practicing yoga, transcendental meditation, and the like. “In as much as these movements involve certain rites and rituals, they have been rightly regarded by Rabbinic authorities as cults bordering on, and in some respects actual, avodah zarah,” he wrote, using the Hebrew term for idolatry. “Accordingly Rabbinic authorities everywhere…ruled that these cults come under all the strictures associated with avodah zarah, so that also their appurtenances come under strict prohibition.”

But, of course, I’m not a Lubavitcher. So I asked my yoga teacher at City Yoga in West Hollywood, Linda Eifer, a Conservative Jew, what she thought. “Yoga is not a religion,” she said, emphatically. “It’s a spiritual practice that combines the body, the mind, and the spirit. It’s based on an ancient Indian tradition that includes inspiration from statues, which are a mythology that combine human and divine characteristics.” But, aside from the statues, that’s pretty much what my religion is to me.

David Adelson, a Reform rabbi in New York who is enrolled at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, a two-year program that includes yoga retreats and text study, offered a distinction. “If I’m in a church around Christmastime, I sing and even say ‘Jesus’ in the hymns. I know that I am just singing because I like singing, and in no way praying, so it doesn’t worry me,” he said. “Yoga feels just a bit dicier because I am a full participant in the experience, not an observer. But I believe in general that to constitute avodah zarah, you probably need some kavana,” or intention.

Kavana is an interesting thing. Intuitively, it would seem that a religion demanding absolute morality would be concerned with intention. But, actually, that’s not really the case. If you eat bread on Passover, even accidentally, you have sinned. If you give charity but grudgingly, the charity still counts for the good. On Yom Kippur, we repent for sins we didn’t even know we did. And then there are Hannah’s sons—seven Jews who chose to die rather than bow to Antiochus, the Greek ruler who tried to forcibly convert Jews in 167 BCE. Bowing but not meaning it wasn’t an option. Judaism is concerned not just with your actions but also very much with how your actions appear to others. Bowing is the physical manifestation of idolatry, whatever your intention. “Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves,” says Leviticus 26:1, “and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it.”

But let’s ignore that for a second, and accept Adelson’s argument that intention does matter. Even so, don’t I intentionally practice yoga? And while Eifer, my yoga teacher, had said she doesn’t find yoga incompatible with Judaism because her status as a Jew isn’t compromised by her practice of yoga, I have a more literal view of Judaism and what it expects from me. I believe that I’m supposed to practice only Judaism. I don’t believe the practice of another religion makes me an adherent of that religion, but I do believe that I choose to only practice Judaism. The rituals and chanting that was expected of me in yoga seem like another religion to me—and practicing another religion is practicing another religion.

But Srinivasan, the senior teacher at the worldwide Shivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers, says I have it backwards. “Yoga is not a religion, but a science of religion,” he explained. “It applies to all religions. It’s not that yoga comes from Hinduism. Hinduism originates in yoga. Buddhism comes from yoga, too.” Srinivasan doesn’t see how spiritual yoga practice and Judaism are incompatible. “Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach used to come to our Ashrams,” he said. “He understood we were talking about the same thing. Hasidic mysticism and Kabbalah are very much in line with yogic thought.”

I explain to Srinivasan that the approach may be similar—even some of the text and ideas may be similar—but that only proves my point that yoga is a religion. “There is yoga in every religion,” he responded. “Yoga means ‘union’ or ‘absolute consciousness’ with God. Don’t look at the differences; look at the similarities. Yoga is beyond words or institution. When you use the word ‘religion,’ people want to know what books you read, what language you speak.” He also says that though some sects of yoga won’t even use the word God, the tradition is similar to monotheism. “We’re all talking about the same God,” he said. To him, the statue of Ganesh at the front of many yoga studios is the same God to whom Jews pray. “Don’t confuse the map for the actual place,” he said. “God is everywhere. There is no conflict here. There is respect for that diversity. To explain God is to limit God.”

So could I just be bowing in front of this statue without bowing to the statue? I asked Pinchas Giller, an Orthodox rabbi who practices yoga at the same studio I do. “Many Hindus argue these days that their deities are just archetypal principles,” says Giller. “But any third-grader in Hebrew school will tell you that those are idols. Veneration and offerings are unacceptable. I avoid classes where the teacher is too into the mythos. It’s hard to escape the impression that if you take some of the practices too seriously then it could be avodah zarah.” Giller practices yoga for the exercise and only for the exercise, he’s careful to say.

Chanah Forster, a Hasid and yoga teacher in Brooklyn, may have found a solution. “Yoga absolutely is a religion,” she says. Before she became religious, Forster lived on an ashram, where she became certified to teach yoga. She still teaches it, but with an approach tailored to her current audience. There is no chanting in her class—not even Om, the vibrational sound recited at the start of most yoga classes. She describes poses, but won’t use their traditional Sanskrit names. She also won’t say their English translations, like Downward-Facing Dog. “Instead, I’ll say to raise your hips to the ceiling,” she explained to me. “The Sanskrit names have a spiritual meaning. If you don’t call these poses by their Sanskrit names, it’s just exercise.” Forster believes that when you do any of these things—chant, say Om, speak in Sanskrit—you are opening yourself up spiritually to outside influences. “These aren’t just words,” she said. “They have meanings and repercussions to your neshama”—your soul—“and they are at odds with Jewish spirituality.”

But despite all these things at odds with Judaism, yoga seems to have a strong pull on Jews. In the past few years, several yoga minyans, prayer services in which yoga stretches accompany liturgy, have gotten underway. At least half of the people who frequent my yoga studio, as well as many of its teachers, are Jewish. India is a hotbed of Israeli tourism and the great Hindu leader Ram Dass was born Richard Alpert, a nice Jewish boy. (The author Rodger Kamenetz wrote a whole book, The Jew in the Lotus, about Jews struggling to understand and relate to Eastern spirituality.) But though unresolved, it’s a debate that’s new to me and that has new urgency for me as I’ve returned to religious observance.) The Kabbalistic viewpoint asserts that we are born with a pintele yid, a Jewish spark always searching for spirituality. If you live in America in 2010, your pintele yid may be a little malnourished, and whether because of assimilation or a lack of Jewish practice, some Jews seek to feed this hunger outside of the synagogue.

And the question of yoga’s compatibility with Judaism might just be an unanswerable one. In Adelson’s Reform world, it’s the Jew’s intention that matters. But in the Judaism I know, the one I have chosen to participate in, intentions, or even wishes, are not the only things to consider. My Judaism is a Judaism that is preoccupied with my physical life as much as my spiritual one. It has laws for when I eat, what wear, how I wash my hands. The problem isn’t what yoga might ask me to think or believe; it’s what it asks me to do. And despite my physical flexibility—you should see my frog pose—I don’t have the same spiritual agility.

Further practice of Judaism has not, historically, helped me become more open-minded. But perhaps that is where yoga can be an asset, not a detriment, to my religious practice. Yes, yoga walks a fine line (verboten to some; certainly not to all). But maybe my uptight approach to religion requires yoga and its nuances of illicit practice to help me remain flexible in my spirit, as well as my body. Maybe having something that isn’t so easy to reconcile, a gray area, is good for me.”

Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a correspondent for GQ and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine.

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African American Republican Congressional Candidate Turned Yeshiva Student

By

Mordechai Ben Avraham Hazzan

For some people, fitting into the status quo is soothing, comforting, peaceful. Not for me. For me, seeking a life of truth, has brought me peace. Knowing truth exists is comforting, and experiencing virtues of truth has been soothing to my soul.

Today I am a yeshiva student studying Torah full time. Before this, I was a Republican candidate for Congress. Before that, I was an entertainment executive. And before that, I was a Christian who was born in a small farm town, raised by thoughtful, hard working spiritual seekers.

My life can be broken up into chapters. Every page written through Life’s Experiences becomes more authentic, more vulnerable, more transparent, more empowered. The current chapter of my life could be titled “as the Torah takes him to a place beyond his imagination, while everyone watches.” Five months ago, I started learning at a yeshiva in Jerusalem called Ohr Somayach.  Yeshiva life is really intense, it consists of learning 10 or more hours a day. Six of those hours are spent learning Gemara and Mishnah, ancient Jewish collections of laws, wisdom and commentary. The other four hours are spent learning the five books of Moses (the Torah) and its commentaries in depth.

The biggest challenge for me so far has been language acquisition. At Ohr Somayach there’s a big focus on learning directly from the text. Only using Hebrew and ancient Aramaic, no English allowed. The rabbis speak English in the classes, but the reading is all in Hebrew/Aramaic. The goal is to give students the intellectual tools to go directly into the Torah, Gemara, Mishnah etc in the original language themselves to find answers without having to go through an intermediary or translation.. And that is the very reason why I became Jewish in the first place — to find answers about life, about God, my place in His creation, through his Torah.

Learning in yeshiva and living in Israel has probably been the most exciting series of experiences I’ve ever had in my life. The beauty of Jerusalem is unexplainable, the culture, the history, the innovation is something that can only be understood through experience.

Prior to coming to Israel, I worked pretty much my whole life as an entertainment executive partnering with companies like Warner Brothers, Sprite and Myspace; just to name a few.

In 2014, I decided to get involved in politics and became the chairman of Jewish outreach for the California Republican Assembly. In 2016, I was the Republican nominee for US Congress in the 37th District (As Shariff Hazan) Running for US Congress was challenging. Unfortunately, I lost in the Los Angeles primary by 0.9 percentage points.  

Growing up my mom was a social justice professor in education at UCLA. Through her experiences I was able to see many of the challenges faced specifically in the African-American and Latino communities, even though I grew up in what would be considered the upper-middle-class suburbs.

My family was successful because I had two hard working loving parents, my father was an entrepreneur and my mother a social justice educator. I see many of these values are exemplified in Republican ideology. I would consider my parents Conservative Democrats — even though they voted for Reagan during the ’80s. I embraced the Republican value system because of the party’s belief in: family values, less dependency on government programs, smaller government — which are virtues needed in the African-American and Latino communities across America.

Running for Congress as the Republican nominee in Los Angeles was a prime opportunity to bring new ideas into communities in desperate need of social innovation. I believe in the power of human potential, and I believe that the potential can only be expressed in environments supporting individuality within a collective, entrepreneurship & strong family values. These are the very principles I was raised by.

I was born on a small farm in Springfield Ohio, close by to the university my father was attending. When I was 2, my mother’s father passed away, so my parents decided to move to Los Angeles where my mother was from and had grown up.

My path to Judaism was greatly inspired by my non-Jewish parents, both of whom dedicated their lives to seeking spiritual truths and reaching their potential as individuals. Both of my parents grew up with strong Christian background but in their early years of marriage they practice Sufism. Eventually, progressing to the teachings of Kabbalah, studying  at the Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles.

My personal path to Orthodox Judaism started while attending the Kabbalah Centre about to 12 years ago. For me and my family, the Kabbalah Centre was an amazing place. Teaching us how to connect, personal development to the law and practices of Torah Judaism without having to convert to Judaism.

Before the Kabbalah Centre, my parents believed greatly in personal development, seeking mentorship and even therapy. For us the teachings of Kabbalah brought everything full circle, putting God, on the top of the pendulum.

Although, I loved being at the Kabbalah Centre. My desire to want to learn more about Torah and the practices of Judaism independently inspired me to leave the Kabbalah Centre to forge my own path. This was the beginning of my journey to Orthodox Judaism. The teachers at the Kabbalah Center supported my decision to journey on my own path.

After meeting with many different rabbis in Los Angeles. I found my home at Daat Torah with Rabbi Moshe Hafuta. The conversion process to Orthodox Judaism was very difficult taking close to two years to complete. The process of conversion was more than just learning about Judaism, as it was more about transforming the way I lived, the way I saw the world, the way I saw myself in the world.

What will the next chapters bring? Although dating is extremely difficult in the frum world (Orthodox world) in comparison to the non-Jewish world, I have total confidence eventually I will meet the right person, get married and start a Jewish family.

My political career is just getting started. I see myself eventually winning the congressional seat in the 37th district Los Angeles as a Republican. My long-term political aspiration is to play a major role in the decision-making of America, possibly even running for American president.Currently my focus is continue learning in Jerusalem at Ohr Somayach. Towards the end of this year, I’m going to enter Ohr Somayach

Smicha/rabbinical program where I will obtain the credentials to be an Orthodox rabbi.

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How Tiffany Trump’s World Diverged From Her Famous Family

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Asked in October 2016 if she was interested in joining the family business one day, Tiffany Trump replied, “Of course I’m interested…but I’m applying to law school, though, so I like to bring a different kind of skill set to the company.” At this point, it certainly can’t hurt to have a lawyer in the family. If Tiffany is still interested in the family business at all. Raised by a single mom in California and then all of a sudden thrust into the he-has-five-kids spotlight when her father ran for president of the United States, Tiffany ended up the unwitting poster girl for privileged paternal neglect, the forgotten daughter next to favored princess Ivanka Trump. Two and a half years in, she remains a go-to punchline—not because of anything she has done, but mainly when comedians want to reiterate just how little they think of Donald Trump‘s family values. But Tiffany isn’t asking for anyone’s pity. The 25-year-old Georgetown Law student and businessman boyfriend Michael Boulos were in the south of France where the 72nd Cannes Film Festival is taking place this week, photographed at the 5-star Hôtel Barrière Le Majestic, one of the spots frequented by celebs during the reliably decadent affair. Pierre Suu/GC Images While Ivanka can now only dream of the widely admired, relatively uncontroversial life she led before the 2016 election, Tiffany has managed to avoid that level of scrutiny precisely because, famous last name aside, she didn’t grow up with her half-siblings in a gilded penthouse in Trump Tower. (For the brief period she did live there, the other kids were elsewhere with their mom.) “Since I have grown up on the West Coast, I’m definitely different from all of them growing up on the East Coast,” Tiffany told Oprah Winfrey in 2013. “It was great for me getting to grow up as a normal kid just out of the spotlight, versus all of them growing up in New York. They always had that intense media and spotlight on them.” Trump “would say that it’s really a miracle that [Tiffany] is as well-adjusted as she is, and that she’s accomplished anything,” a Trump friend told Vanity Fair‘s Emily Jane Fox, author of the 2017 book Born Trump. “He gets that he screwed it up when it came to Tiffany, and this is a man who doesn’t admit that he got it wrong on anything.” Trump himself has acknowledged that he was always working throughout his kids’ childhoods, and wasn’t a particularly hands-on dad—for the older Trump kids or for now 13-year-old Barron Trump, his son with first lady Melania Trump. But true to form, Ivanka even quibbled with his modest estimation, telling ABC News’ Barbara Walters in November 2015, “He was very available to us.” “Our times together,” added Tiffany, by then posing as a full-time member of the fold, “we’re learning, you know, playing in his office. He would always sneak me down to get a candy bar in the lobby.” (Her mother’s a health nut, so that would have been a very real treat.) John Barrett/Photolink/Mediapunch/Shutterstock Her mom, Marla Maples, married Trump in December 1993, when Tiffany was 2 months old. Howard Stern, O.J. Simpson and Rosie O’Donnell were among the 1,100 people who attended their wedding at the Plaza in New York. The real estate tycoon had been through an impressively messy split with first wife Ivana Trump, the parents of three waging a tabloid war against each other via the New York Post (his) and New York Daily News (hers) before finally reaching a divorce settlement in 1990, in which Ivana got custody of Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump. Trump hadn’t been planning to get married again, or have more children, at least not so soon. Davidoff Studios/Getty Images “I’m glad it happened,” he said on The Howard Stern Show in 2004, per old tapes acquired by Newsweek. “I have a great little daughter, Tiffany. But, you know, at the time it was like, ‘Excuse me, what happened?’ And then I said, ‘Well, what are we going to do about this?’ [Marla] said, ‘Are you serious? It’s the most beautiful day of our lives.’ I said, ‘Oh, great.'” Still, Trump called the New York Times 20 minutes after his fourth child was born at St. Mary’s Hospital in Palm Beach, Fla., telling the reporter, “We have a perfect little girl, a combination in looks of both of us, to go with my three other wonderful children.” Tiffany, incidentally, is what he wanted to name his firstborn daughter, but Ivana wouldn’t hear of it. “Everything involved with Trump Tower has been successful, and Trump Tower was built with Tiffany’s air rights,” he told the Times, referring to jeweler Tiffany & Co., which was next door on 5th Avenue. “But I’ve also always loved the name.” For her husband’s 50th birthday, Marla commissioned an oil painting of Trump with all four of his children to replace one he had of just him with Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric that hung in his office. The new one featured little Tiffany sitting in Ivanka’s lap. Trump and Maples separated in 1997 but were still technically married when Trump met future first lady Melania Knauss at a nightclub in 1998, the divorce taking years to figure out because Maples was contesting their prenuptial agreement (as Ivana did before her), which had promised her between $1 million and $5 million if they split up before reaching five years of marriage. “It’s a hard, painful, ugly tool,” Trump later reflected to New York Magazine about prenups. “Believe me, there’s nothing fun about it. But there comes a time when you have to say, ‘Darling, I think you’re magnificent, and I care for you deeply, but if things don’t work out, this is what you’re going to get.'” (He and Melania did sign one as well.) Before the divorce was finalized in 1999 (reportedly for about $2 million plus child support), Maples, an actress, model and former beauty queen, relocated with Tiffany to California, where she scored the occasional acting job, but mainly juggled hosting gigs and embraced wellness and spirituality, eventually having her own radio show, Awakening With Marla. “We settled into a really beautiful life in Los Angeles where we went to church, the Kabbalah Center, school, soccer, basketball and everything for her to be able to live in a world where she would not necessarily be recognized as the daughter of Donald Trump and Marla Maples,” Maples told Healthy Wealthy nWise. “My goal for her was to let her do as I was longing to do; to find her own identity and her own self. We pulled away from that world in a big way and moved out to a suburb in Los Angeles. I cooked dinner five nights out of the week. The other two nights we loved sushi, so we’d be out having sushi. It was really all about getting that little girl to school every morning. I would get to the gym and do my workouts, and then my work would begin.” Davidoff Studios/Getty Images Tiffany mainly visited with her dad (and future stepmom Melania) at Mar-a-Lago on her spring breaks, and occasionally in New York, while Trump would fly out to Los Angeles for important school events, or see her when he was in town on business. “She’d like to get to know her father better and spend time with him like his other children did,” Maples told the New York Times in 2016, “by going to his office and watching him work. Only now, he’s not in the office anymore. He’s on the campaign trail.” She added, “I had the blessing of raising her pretty much on my own.” (Ivana Trump, too, has commented to that effect, that she raised the kids till they were 21 and then handed them off to their father and his business, the two inextricably linked.) Tiffany has always been exceptionally close to her mom, telling Winfrey in 2013, “My friends are always like, ‘Wow, you guys have a really good relationship.’ She’s with me a lot of the time and people find that kind of shocking.” On this past Mother’s Day, Tiffany wrote on Instagram, which boasts numerous photos of her and Maples, “Thank you @itsmarlamaples for being there for me always and guiding me throughout my life! I wouldn’t be where I am today without your unconditional love!” “She’s a great girl. She is full of a lot of love,” Maples told Healthy Wealthy nWise about her then-15-year-old daughter in 2009. “Now she wants to start on her career path, so we’re working on her music. She’s starred in a couple of plays. She did a fantastic job. It’s my career and it’s her career, with a lot of loving times in between. She knows that’s the core.” In her 2009 book The Trump Card (dedicated in part to Tiffany and Barron, “the next generation”), in an anecdote about how none of them took their family’s wealth for granted, Ivanka recalled Tiffany coming to her for advice the previous Christmas about how to talk to their dad about acquiring some extra spending money—nothing too outrageous, Ivanka noted, just a raise in her allowance. Because she hadn’t spent nearly as much time around their father as her other siblings had, Tiffany understandably hadn’t benefited from Trump’s largess as much, “just by virtue of lack of proximity.” Knowing Tiffany was nervous about asking, “Big Sis did an end-around to save Tiffany the trouble,” Ivanka wrote. “I didn’t tell her, of course, but I went to our father and suggested he think about surprising Tiffany with a credit card for Christmas, with a small monthly allowance on it. Sure enough, he did just that. Tiffany was thrilled and relieved. And appreciative.” MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images Though not seeing her dad all that much meant she probably saw her siblings less, Tiffany was one of Ivanka’s bridesmaids, along with Don Jr.’s then-wife Vanessa, when she married Jared Kushner in 2009. Ivanka also helped Tiffany get a summer internship at Vogue in 2015.  “We would see each other on all of the holidays and talk to each other frequently,” Ivanka told People in 2016. “She’s my little sister! I’ve been close to Tiffany her whole life, and I really love her.” But she paid Tiffany the ultimate Trump compliment while talking to the New York Times: “Tiffany has always been a very special person, very confident, very driven, always the hardest worker and not bashful about it. A lot of people are happy to get by without doing a lot of work, or work hard and pretend they don’t. She is proud of her work.” For Big Sis’ birthday last fall, Tiffany wrote on Instagram (a few days later), “Wishing my big sister and best friend a happy birthday (sorry for the late post, but you know my law school life haha) I love you so much!” Tiffany may have inherited the performance gene from her mom—she recorded a dance-pop tune in 2011 called “Like a Bird” with rapper Logiq and once told Oprah she was considering pursuing music as a career—but after graduation from the private Viewpoint School in Calabasas, Calif., she chose to attend her father’s alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. She started college in 2012, just as her father, who had become more famous than ever as host of The Apprentice, started publicly questioning whether or not President Barack Obama was really born in the United States. Dad becoming what’s known as a “birther” didn’t do anything to help the Trump name on the Ivy League campus, but Tiffany’s spot in her privileged social circle—her group of friends was nicknamed the “Snap Pack” for all the chronicling they did of their highbrow exploits on social media—was not threatened. She never appeared on her dad’s reality show, but she and her friends were approached about doing their own. “It’s easy money…” Tiffany commented to DuJour in explaining why they never accepted the offer. “But,” interjected her pal Gaïa Jacquet-Marisse (great-great granddaughter of artist Henri Matisse), “it conflicts so much with all of our different personal goals. Besides, it’s not about money or fame. It’s about our friendships. It’s about us being f–king amazing people and loving each other.” Tiffany graduated from Penn in 2016 with degrees in Sociology, concentrating in Law & Society, and Urban Studies. By then, the ducklings had fallen into line. Richard Drew/AP/REX/Shutterstock “He’s true to himself and he speaks in a way that the average person can understand,” Tiffany told Barbara Walters in 2015 when Walters asked Trump’s four adult children if their dad had said—during what was then only five months on the campaign trail—anything that had made them cringe. “I think that’s refreshing for everyone.” (Eric Trump had immediately answered, “Truthfully, no.”)  The least talked-about Trump child told Walters, “It’s all I know. I’m so happy to be Tiffany Trump. I’m so happy to be, you know, in the family I’m in, with my siblings and my father and my mother.” Melania gave only a handful of interviews before (and since) the election. As the campaign got increasingly ugly, it was left largely to Ivanka, Don Jr. and Eric to talk to the press, much of which involved defending whatever their father had said or tweeted on any given day. But Tiffany did join all of them in giving a solo speech at the Republican National Convention in July 2016 in Cleveland. She didn’t have all that many applicable warm and fuzzy anecdotes to share, but she said her father used to write “sweet notes” on her report cards, and she had kept them all. In an email to the New York Times in October 2016, when asked about his younger daughter, Trump wrote, “Tiffany is a tremendous young woman with a big and beautiful heart. She was always a great student and a very popular person no matter where she went. I am incredibly proud of Tiffany and how well she has done.” In the meantime, Tiffany’s mom praised her daughter for the way in which she was handling being in the public eye. Michael Bocchieri/Getty Images “She is able to step in there and be her true self who loves her mother and her father and her family,” Maples told People in the spring of 2016, while she was competing on Dancing With the Stars. “Having raised her, I knew she would ultimately have a public life. But watching her sit there in that arena [during a recent Trump Town Hall] with that much pressure on her and see how the love we have shared through the years has shaped her. She has become a woman. I could not have been more proud of her.” And then, unexpectedly for most, Trump won the election, and Tiffany became a first daughter—just like Ivanka, only without the heavy expectations and, therefore, without all the blowback from Trump critics. Win McNamee/Getty Images Marla, who also attended the nominating convention in the summer of 2016, was in Washington D.C. to support Tiffany during all the inauguration festivities, the surprise culmination of the interminable presidential race, and where she shared spotlight after spotlight with her siblings. Tiffany, perhaps because she was with a boyfriend and not a spouse, stayed the night after the Jan. 20 inauguration ball at Trump International Hotel in D.C., rather than at the White House with everybody else. The inauguration was on a Friday, and by Sunday everyone except for Ivanka and Jared, who had already moved to Washington, went back to New York. That included Melania, who stayed with Barron at Trump Tower until his school year ended before moving into the White House full-time. Meanwhile, like her siblings, Tiffany has had a Secret Service detail since before the election, albeit a smaller one than father of five Don Jr. and mother of three Ivanka. A patron of trendy East Hampton café the Golden Pear told Born Trump author Emily Jane Fox that, compared to how customers reacted when Chelsea Clinton walked in one day with her detail in the 1990s, Tiffany showing up with her boyfriend in May 2017 was a nonevent. “The world basically stopped” when Chelsea was there, the customer said. “For Tiffany, no one really noticed, and the people who did were intentionally looking the opposite direction.” Someone approached to ask if he could use an extra chair at her table, and not even her security blinked.  To this day, Tiffany and Barron’s code names remain unreported, while Ivanka, Don Jr. and Eric are, respectively, Marvel, Mountaineer and Marksman. Melania is Muse. But since it’s impossible for the first lady or other first daughter to do anything normal out in public, shouldn’t Tiffany be relieved that she can more or less do as she pleases? Last summer, for instance, she went to London and then hung out with Lindsay Lohan in Mykonos, where the Mean Girls star was getting her MTV reality show Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club off the ground. (Lohan, incidentally, has been more complimentary toward Tiffany’s father than some, tweeting in July 2017, “THIS IS our president. Stop #bullying him & start trusting him. Thank you personally for supporting #THEUSthat people should support their president.”) Tiffany and Boulos, whom she reportedly met in Greece, also vacationed earlier this year in Phuket and, this week, she looked to be living her best life in Cannes. “Tiffany is happy she has so far been able to keep things with Michael under the radar,” a source told Page Six in November about her relationship with Boulos, who is of Lebanese descent and grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, where his wealthy family does business. “But she introduced him to her family at Thanksgiving, and he comes across as a very intelligent young man from a great family. There was no mention of the president’s unfortunate comment about African nations.” As a student at Georgetown Law, one who longingly posts throwback pics from her summer vacation while hunkered down at the library, just like anybody else would, Tiffany once again lives near her dad and certainly seems to be making the most of the proximity. On Instagram she posted photos of herself and Boulos in front of the Christmas tree in the White House’s Red Room and visiting Mar-a-Lago for Easter. Jean-Paul Aussenard/WireImage Tiffany told People in 2017, “I think regardless of distance, I don’t think that dictates any relationship strains. I really have an emotional bond with him and he was always just the funniest, most loving father.” But in April 2018, insiders told People that Tiffany, after growing closer to her father on the campaign trail, once again felt like a second-tier Trump kid. “Since the inauguration, Tiffany and her father have sometimes gone for months without speaking and she went a very long time without seeing him,” a source close to her said. “The last time she was at a family function with him, it was awkward for her and she didn’t feel totally welcome.” (The White House didn’t comment.) Another source said that their relationship wasn’t bad, it was just different than his connection with the other kids, due mainly to her growing up on the opposite side of the country. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images And just as people have wondered about Melania and Ivanka’s true political leanings—not as much lately, but a lot at first—Tiffany has been the subject of the same sort of speculation. Her date to Trump’s inauguration was then-boyfriend Ross Mechanic, a registered Democrat who she met at Penn—and whose real-estate attorney father donated thousands to Hillary Clinton‘s presidential campaign, according to the New York Daily News. They dated for two years before breaking up toward the end of 2017, when she moved to D.C. for law school. A source insisted to Page Six that it was a geographical, rather than a political, issue, noting that Mechanic lived in New York. Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post via Getty Images And though she can buy an iced coffee without causing a stir, it did not go unnoticed when Tiffany “liked” an Instagram post featuring several photos from the March for Our Lives rally for gun control in D.C. last year, with the caption, “Next massacre will be the GOP in the midterm elections.” And at the State of the Union in February, her all-white ensemble prompted speculation that she was dressed in solidarity with the sea of Democratic congresswomen also wearing white. But Tiffany wears white a lot, and she has been careful to not actually say or tweet anything that contradicts what her family seems to stand for these days. Her “I just voted” post in 2016 included the hashtag “#TrumpTrain” as one might expect, but even in 2014 she tagged a voting post with “@pennvotered,” seemingly a nod to voting Republican.  Late last year, she shared a photo on Instagram Story of herself and a friend checking out the game Trumped Up Cards—a Cards Against Humanity-style word-association game “For People With Big Hands”—at a Georgetown bar. And while that raised some eyebrows among those hoping for a sign of anti-Trump life in the universe, she may as well have been wearing a jacket that said, “I really don’t care, do u?”  https://www.eonline.com/news/1043254/how-tiffany-trump-s-world-diverged-from-her-famous-family?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories The post How Tiffany Trump’s World Diverged From Her Famous Family appeared first on Top Of The World. https://kartiavelino.com/how-tiffany-trumps-world-diverged-from-her-famous-family/

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Episode One: Ross and Carrie Try Kabbalah: Did You Know the Sun is Green?

Episode Blurb: Ross and Carrie attend a lecture at the Kabbalah Center of Los Angeles, ask probing questions, and learn some curious things about the universe.

Drinking Game:

So, every episode, I’ll write most of the drinking game “drinks” that I can catch. If you catch one that isn’t listed, message me and I’ll add it AND give you recognition! I’ll also give it drinks ratings, with the average 12 fluid ounce can of beer having approximately 30 drinks in it. Kabbalah is worth just over 1/3rd of a beer.

-Gollum – Word you might have to look up.

-Carrie impersonates someone: 2:19-2:24, Susie from the Kabballah Center

-Coffee and Tea are mentioned: 2:33 (This could count as Carrie mentions hot drinks)

-Carrie insults Ross: 2:41-2:45

-Monotheistic – Word you might have to look up.

-Carrie yells into the microphone “FOUR DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS!”: 6:25-6:27

-Carrie talks about free coffee and tea: 11:24-11:26

-Carrie yells into the microphone “THERE WAS NO HOT WATER”: 11:28 – 11:30

-Goat – 33:01

-Goat – 33:26

-Carrie mentions coffee: 37:05

-Carrie insults Ross: 37:30

Ratings

Pseudoscience Rating:

               Ross: 6

               Carrie: Between a 5 and a 6

Creepy Rating

               Carrie: 2

               Ross: 3 to 4, somewhere in that range

Pocket Drainer Value

               Ross: 7 or 8, ends up going down to 7

               Carrie: 6.1

Danger Rating

               Carrie: Doesn’t give it a number rating, but she does state that it is a low rating.

               Ross: 2 or 3

Favorite Moment:

               Carrie: Giving the woman the evil eye

               Ross: Times with Rhoda, the first mentor.

Books:

- “The Zohar” – 24 Volumes of Kabbalah, the “Bible” of the Kabbalah, Carrie wondered if there was a Kindle edition. There is a 99-cent version on Amazon, a shortened version, but 99 cents is quite low on the pocket drainer rating, unlike the Kabbalah water, which is FOUR DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS! Or $24 for a red string to ward off the evil eye.

- “The Secret” is available on Amazon, written by Rhonda Byrne. There is also a movie that was released in 2006.

Hint of the Week:

“I Hopi I don’t lose my hearing”

And remember…

“You can think outside the box”, “But don’t leave the evidence inside it.”

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Is Kabbalah for Everyone, or Just for Jewish People?

You may have wondered if, in our post-modern era, we might find a truly universal faith that would include anyone and everyone. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to find a faith that included every tradition while transcending the limitations of each of them? Other than the New Age movement, you would most likely look to India with its native Hinduism and Buddhism. You might possibly look to Islam, which inspired the Baha’i faith, or to such a Christian group as Unity, or the Unitarian-Universalist Association. The last place you might think to look is to Judaism, which traditionally has been limited to ethnic Jews directly descended from Abraham. You typically didn’t choose to be Jewish, but were rather born into it. How, then, could Judaism even hope to offer a universal outlook for all people? Have you considered the Kabbalists?

What Brought the Stars to Kabbalah?

In recent years, some of the most prominent celebrities in Hollywood, such as Madonna, Demi Moore, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, not to mention Ashton Kutcher, have flocked to the Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles. They are not all Jewish, and they have more money than they know what to do with. Why then would luminaries like these engage in spiritual studies of what was once a very arcane field? Actors and actresses are human. They work in an extremely competitive field. Hollywood is notorious for sucking up and spitting out talent. Precious few of them actually make it to the top. The fortunate few who do, the ones who have the means to do anything they want, soon find that there is more to life than conspicuous consumption. The more creative among them are hungry for something real.

What Is the Kabbalah?

Kabbalah is a mystical form of Judaism drawn from the second century after Christ in the very region where He lived and breathed, Galilee, started by Rav Shimon bar Yochai, who spoke Aramaic. It came to life as a major discipline in Andalusian Spain, where Islamic, Christian and Jewish scholars all studied together in somewhat of a golden age. Isaac Luria, in Safed, Israel made the Zohar, or Book of Splendor, famous among Jewish people. It focused on interpreting the five books of Moses, the Torah, from a higher perspective, focusing on the Creation Story of the first chapter of Genesis, as well as the Burning Bush and the Parting of the Red Sea in the book of Exodus. Kabbalah introduced four levels of interpretation, which brought great depth to the sacred texts: 1.  Literal translation. 2.  Allegoric translation. 3.  Moral translation. 4.  Inner translation. Gone was an angry god on a throne high above the clouds throwing thunderbolts down on all of us. Enter a God of Infinite Light, which equates to Life, as well as Love. It sees the entire Universe in terms of Light.

Beyond Judaism: Kabbalah Goes Global

The 20th Century witnessed the rebirth of the nation of Israel. It had been nearly 2,000 years since the Romans tore down Jerusalem, the Sacred City, and the Temple of King Herod. The language of Hebrew was revived, and many ancient texts were translated into Modern Hebrew, including the Aramaic texts of Kabbalah. With the paperback revolution and online publishing, thanks to the World Wide Web, it was vastly easier to disseminate all kinds of knowledge, including the most sophisticated wisdom of Judaism. Traditionally, you had to be a married, male Jew over 40, who would privately go to a Rav, or Kabbalist teacher, either individually or in small groups for study.

After the cultural and social revolution of the 1960’s, and the emergence of the Baby Boomers, it no longer made sense to restrict the Kabbalah. Philip and Karen Berg started a center in Los Angeles that eventually went round the world. Under Karen’s influence, Philip opened up Kabbalah to women and children, as well as people of any race, nation or religion. You could be a Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu or Humanist. They didn’t care. All were welcome to join them in studying Kabbalah.

Kabbalah’s Message: Mastering the Mystery of Life

Kabbalah explains the nature of creation, the Universe and humanity. Ultimately, there is only the Light, another word for Being, Consciousness and Bliss. Our Source poured Itself into human vessels, which got shattered. Although every one of us has an original spark of the divine, we all must find ourselves. We are only fulfilled when we share that Light with others, and give of what we have. Greed is inherently self-defeating, as our greatest joy is to make others happy. We can beautify ourselves by bringing out the spark of divinity. Every time we resist the temptation to be petty and mean, we generate more light, which makes it easier for all the rest of us. We each consciously chose to enter the game of life under a specific set of conditions. We even chose our parents, our bodies and our community. We each have a thorn in the flesh, a perceived limitation that can curtail our lives if we are unconscious. It is in overcoming our negative predispositions that we become truly great.

Tithing: The Secret of the Jews

Most Christians have been taught to give to their church, and a few practice giving a tenth of their income to God. It is counterintuitive that John D. Rockefeller, who built the oil industry, was a scrupulous tither, or that Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, memorized the Sermon on the Mount and made a pledge with his wife, Melinda, to give away all his money.

The concept of the Tithe, meaning tenth, came from ancient Israel before there were income and state taxes. Hebrews supported a class of religious leaders, the Levites, who would keep their faith forever alive. The idea was to support those who enlighten you. Jewish civilization has always placed a high value on education, which may partially explain the spectacular success of many Jewish people. Counter to many stereotypes, Jewish people are often amazing philanthropists who accumulate money primarily so that they can give it away to worthy causes. If you doubt this, just go to New York. Particularly noteworthy are the endless contributions to education and the arts. Liberalism in America would be meaningless were it not for the hundreds of thousands of Jewish people who lived out its values over the decades. 

Tikkun Olam: Healing the World

With climate change, religious terrorism and nuclear proliferation, the world, more than ever before, needs healing. Kabbalah gives a clear explanation as to how things got this way, as well as offering a positive direction forward. Karen Berg, for example, has been extremely active in the interfaith movement. Even though Jewish, she has spent much time with Muslim leaders. For example, Karen has spoken with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority and Dr. Jehan Sadat, President Anwar Sadat’s widow. Many Kabbalists have intractable faith in the power of truth and love. It is deeply moving to see Jews, who, after the Holocaust, chose to share their faith with the entire world and love the very people who destroyed their ancestors. These people are, indeed, paving the way to a universal faith.

Kabbalah the Easy Way

In the U.S., you will find many Jewish Community Centers that can be helpful in referring you to a study group. Many videos are freely available on YouTube, including Secrets of Kabbalah.

The Kabbalah Centre offers many online and offline resources, including both books and videos. The most useful resource to get started would be to read cover to cover, Yehuda Berg’s The Power of Kabbalah. Yehuda, as well as his brother, Michael, are extremely gifted at making the most abstruse concepts in this tradition instantly accessible and applicable to people’s personal lives. Encountering his work really opened me up. Strangely enough, cutting-edge physicists brilliantly illustrate many concepts of Kabbalah. You might try Fred Alan Wolf, Amit Goswami or Brian Greene. You won’t be disappointed with Brian Greene’s exquisite video, Elegant Universe. You will find that Light is the perfect metaphor for Who we all are and What this is all about.

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4ME4YOU features designer “DZHUS” during Berlin Fashion Week AW25.

DESIGNER: DZHUS

DZHUS is a Ukrainian conceptual fashion brand renowned globally for its multi-functional outfits crafted from cruelty-free materials. The designer, Irina Dzhus, utilises innovative pattern-making techniques to minimise the need for extensive physical shopping, offering a versatile and sustainable wardrobe from a limited number of transformable garments. Since the onset of the war in Ukraine, DZHUS has relocated to the European Union and has committed to donating 30% of its profits to Ukrainian animal rights organisations.

DZHUS collections have graced prestigious platforms such as Paris Fashion Week, Berlin Fashion Week, Ukrainian Fashion Week, Milan Design Week, International Fashion Showcase London, Brussels Fashion Week, Helsinki Fashion Week, Vegan Fashion Week in Los Angeles, Milan Design Week, Vienna Design Week, Dutch Design Week, Designblok Prague, and Feeric Fashion Week in Romania.

ABOUT THE SHOW

Irina Dzhus' presentation at the Kabbalah Center was less a traditional fashion show and more an art performance, uniquely set against a backdrop inspired by the Last Supper. During the presentation of her collection “ANTICON,” the Berlin Contemporary award winner was actively involved, reading texts inscribed on the models' legs and arms, dancing, and transforming her versatile and emotionally charged designs live. One standout transformation featured a white bandeau top and slim-cut trousers morphing into a restructured halter dress adorned with rainbow colours and paw appliqués. Another highlight was the sculpting of a floor-length coat's brim into a halo-like face covering, showcasing Dzhus' signature blend of creativity and innovation.

SEE MORE:

WEBSITE: DZHUS

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4ME4YOU features designer “DZHUS” during Berlin Fashion Week AW25.

DESIGNER: DZHUS

DZHUS is a Ukrainian conceptual fashion brand renowned globally for its multi-functional outfits crafted from cruelty-free materials. The designer, Irina Dzhus, utilises innovative pattern-making techniques to minimise the need for extensive physical shopping, offering a versatile and sustainable wardrobe from a limited number of transformable garments. Since the onset of the war in Ukraine, DZHUS has relocated to the European Union and has committed to donating 30% of its profits to Ukrainian animal rights organisations.

DZHUS collections have graced prestigious platforms such as Paris Fashion Week, Berlin Fashion Week, Ukrainian Fashion Week, Milan Design Week, International Fashion Showcase London, Brussels Fashion Week, Helsinki Fashion Week, Vegan Fashion Week in Los Angeles, Milan Design Week, Vienna Design Week, Dutch Design Week, Designblok Prague, and Feeric Fashion Week in Romania.

ABOUT THE SHOW

Irina Dzhus' presentation at the Kabbalah Center was less a traditional fashion show and more an art performance, uniquely set against a backdrop inspired by the Last Supper. During the presentation of her collection “ANTICON,” the Berlin Contemporary award winner was actively involved, reading texts inscribed on the models' legs and arms, dancing, and transforming her versatile and emotionally charged designs live. One standout transformation featured a white bandeau top and slim-cut trousers morphing into a restructured halter dress adorned with rainbow colours and paw appliqués. Another highlight was the sculpting of a floor-length coat's brim into a halo-like face covering, showcasing Dzhus' signature blend of creativity and innovation.

SEE MORE:

WEBSITE: DZHUS

[4me4you]

4ME4YOU features designer “DZHUS” during Berlin Fashion Week AW25.

DESIGNER: DZHUS

DZHUS is a Ukrainian conceptual fashion brand renowned globally for its multi-functional outfits crafted from cruelty-free materials. The designer, Irina Dzhus, utilises innovative pattern-making techniques to minimise the need for extensive physical shopping, offering a versatile and sustainable wardrobe from a limited number of transformable garments. Since the onset of the war in Ukraine, DZHUS has relocated to the European Union and has committed to donating 30% of its profits to Ukrainian animal rights organisations.

DZHUS collections have graced prestigious platforms such as Paris Fashion Week, Berlin Fashion Week, Ukrainian Fashion Week, Milan Design Week, International Fashion Showcase London, Brussels Fashion Week, Helsinki Fashion Week, Vegan Fashion Week in Los Angeles, Milan Design Week, Vienna Design Week, Dutch Design Week, Designblok Prague, and Feeric Fashion Week in Romania.

ABOUT THE SHOW

Irina Dzhus' presentation at the Kabbalah Center was less a traditional fashion show and more an art performance, uniquely set against a backdrop inspired by the Last Supper. During the presentation of her collection “ANTICON,” the Berlin Contemporary award winner was actively involved, reading texts inscribed on the models' legs and arms, dancing, and transforming her versatile and emotionally charged designs live. One standout transformation featured a white bandeau top and slim-cut trousers morphing into a restructured halter dress adorned with rainbow colours and paw appliqués. Another highlight was the sculpting of a floor-length coat's brim into a halo-like face covering, showcasing Dzhus' signature blend of creativity and innovation.

SEE MORE:

WEBSITE: DZHUS

[4me4you]

4ME4YOU features designer “DZHUS” during Berlin Fashion Week AW25.

DESIGNER: DZHUS

DZHUS is a Ukrainian conceptual fashion brand renowned globally for its multi-functional outfits crafted from cruelty-free materials. The designer, Irina Dzhus, utilises innovative pattern-making techniques to minimise the need for extensive physical shopping, offering a versatile and sustainable wardrobe from a limited number of transformable garments. Since the onset of the war in Ukraine, DZHUS has relocated to the European Union and has committed to donating 30% of its profits to Ukrainian animal rights organisations.

DZHUS collections have graced prestigious platforms such as Paris Fashion Week, Berlin Fashion Week, Ukrainian Fashion Week, Milan Design Week, International Fashion Showcase London, Brussels Fashion Week, Helsinki Fashion Week, Vegan Fashion Week in Los Angeles, Milan Design Week, Vienna Design Week, Dutch Design Week, Designblok Prague, and Feeric Fashion Week in Romania.

ABOUT THE SHOW

Irina Dzhus' presentation at the Kabbalah Center was less a traditional fashion show and more an art performance, uniquely set against a backdrop inspired by the Last Supper. During the presentation of her collection “ANTICON,” the Berlin Contemporary award winner was actively involved, reading texts inscribed on the models' legs and arms, dancing, and transforming her versatile and emotionally charged designs live. One standout transformation featured a white bandeau top and slim-cut trousers morphing into a restructured halter dress adorned with rainbow colours and paw appliqués. Another highlight was the sculpting of a floor-length coat's brim into a halo-like face covering, showcasing Dzhus' signature blend of creativity and innovation.

SEE MORE:

WEBSITE: DZHUS