#Rachel Frenkel

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I'm a Virgo (Serie 2023) #BrettGray #RachelThurow #VarshaChand #LindseyGSmith #AriFrenkel #RhondaJohnsonDents Mehr auf:

Serie Jahr: 2023- (Juni) Genre: Comedy / Drama / Fantasy Hauptrollen: Brett Gray, Rachel Thurow, Varsha Chand, Lindsey G. Smith, Ari Frenkel, Rhonda Johnson Dents, Diana Lovell, Carmen Ejogo, Mike Epps, Robert Longstreet, Olivia Washington, Allius Barnes, Craig Tate, Ginger Cressman, Kara Young … Serienbeschreibung: Cootie (Jharrel Jerome) ist 19, lebt im kalifornischen Oakland und ist ein…

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1914 - The Jewishgen listing and Marriage certificate between Munis Meer Frenkel and Hana Gluk. Note that this was the second marriage for Munis as his first wife, Rachel Nagelberg died in 1911. Also note that this certificate gives Finchel's maiden name as "Schnurling." If that is not jus something made up on the spot, it's my guess that the name would actually be "Shmerling."

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Las 211 peliculas que he visto en 2022 (parte 2)

En negrita las que os recomiendo:

106. Azul oscuro casi negro (Daniel Sanchez Arevalo, 2006).

107. Destino Final 3 (James Wong, 2006)

108. El territorio de la bestia (Greg McLean, 2007)

109. Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson, 2008)

110. Las Ruinas (Carter Smith, 2008)

111. Los limoneros (Eran Riklis, 2008)

112. Superagente 86 de película (Peter Segal, 2008)

113. Petit Indi (Marc Recha, 2009)

114. Edificio España (Víctor Moreno, 2010)

115. El hombre sin pasado (Lee Jeong-beom, 2010)

116. Tron: Legacy (Joseph Kosinski, 2010)

117. Beyond the black rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2011)

118. La bicicleta verde (Haifaa al-Mansour, 2012)

119. The Bay (Barry Levinson, 2012)

120. Ahora me ves (Louis Leterrier, 2013)

121. El gran simulador (Nestor Frenkel, 2013)

122. The Borderlands (Elliot Goldner, 2013)

123. Frank (Lenny Abrahamson, 2014)

124. The Big Men (Rachel Boynton, 2014)

125. The Guest (Adam Wingard, 2014)

126. Caza al asesino (Pierre Morel, 2015)

127. El despertar de los dragones (Soi Cheang, 2015)

128. La juventud (Paolo Sorrentino, 2015)

129. Perdiendo el Norte (Nacho G Velilla, 2015).

130. Una pastelería en Tokio (Naomi Kawase, 2015)

131. Ahora me ves 2 (Jon M. Chu, 2016)

132. Cien años de perdón (Daniel Calparsoro, 2016)

133. Doña Clara (Aquarius) (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2016)

134. El Caso Sloane (John Madden, 2016)

135. El Vacio (Jeremy Gillespie y Steven Kostanski, 2016)

136. La autopsia de Jane Doe (André Øvredal, 2016)

137. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, 2016)

138. Reina de Katwe (Mira Nair, 2016)

139. The eyes of my mother (Nicolas Pesce, 2016)

140. Un italiano en Noruega (Gennaro Nunziante, 2016)

141. Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer, 2017)

142. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)

143. Tierra Firme (Carlos Marques-Marcet, 2017)

147. Verónica (Paco Plaza, 2017)

148. Default (Kook-Hee Choi, 2018)

149. El ombligo de Guie’dani (Xavi Sala, 2018)

150. Searching... (Aneesh Chaganty, 2018)

152. Silvio (y los otros) (Paolo Sorrentino, 2018).

153. Un pequeño favor (Paul Feig, 2018)

154. Upgrade (Leigh Whannell, 2018)

155. Así crecen los enanos (Raul Serrano, 2019)

156. Bliss (Joe Begos, 2019)

157. Brittany corre un maratón (Paul Downs Colaizzo, 2019)

158. Contagio en alta mar (Neasa Hardiman, 2019)

159. El bosque maldito (Lee Cronin, 2019)

160. First cow (Kelly Reichardt, 2019).

161. La cabaña siniestra (Veronika Franz y Severin Fiala, 2019)

162. La democracia en peligro (Petra Costa, 2019)

163. Los días que vendrán (Carlos Marques-Marcet, 2019)

164. Nación cautiva (Josh Wyatt, 2019)

165. Quien a hierro mata (Paco Plaza, 2019)

166. The Beach House (Jeffrey A Brown, 2019)

167. Vivarium (Lorcan Finnegan, 2019)

168. Aves de presa y la fantabulosa emancipación de Harley Quinn (Cathy Yan, 2020)

169. Casa Ajena (Remi Weekes, 2020)

170. Come true (Anthony Scott Burns, 2020)

171. El capital humano (Marc Meyers, 2020)

172. El hombre invisible (Leigh Whannell, 2020)

173. Hillbilly, una elegia rural (Ron Howard, 2020)

174. La boda de Rosa (Iciar Bollain, 2020)

175. Mandíbulas (Quentin Dupieux, 2020)

176. Mas allá de los dos minutos infinitos (Junta Yamaguchi, 2020)

177. Minari. Historia de mi familia (Lee Isaac Chung, 2020)

178. Murder Death Koreatown (anonimo, 2020)

179. Sputnik (Egor Abramenko, 2020)

180. Tenet (Christopher Nolan, 2020)

181. Underwater (William Eubank, 2020)

182. Un lugar tranquilo 2 (John Krasinski, 2020)

183. Black Widow (Cate Shortland, 2021)

184. Chavalas (Carol Rodríguez Colás, 2021)

185. El buen patrón (Fernando Leon de Aranoa, 2021)

186. Freaks Out (Gabrielle Mainetti, 2021)

187. Gaia (Jaco Bouwer, 2021)

188. Hombres lobo entre nosotros (Josh Ruben, 2021)

189. In the Earth (Ben Weathley, 2021)

190. Kate (Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, 2021)

191. La abuela (Paco Plaza, 2021).

192. La peor persona del mundo (Joachim Trier, 2021)

193. Los voyeurs (Michael Mohan, 2021)

194. No mires arriba (Adam McKay, 2021).

195. One Shot: Mision de Rescate (James Nunn, 2021)

196. Paris, distrito 13 (Jacques Audiard, 2021)

197. Petit Maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021)

198. Sin tiempo para morir (Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2021)

199. Spencer (Pablo Larrain, 2021).

200. Spiderman: No way home (Jon Watts, 2021)

201. Titane (Julia Ducornau, 2021).

202. Ultima noche en el Soho (Edgar Wright, 2021)

203. Un héroe (Asghar Farhadi, 2021)

204. Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched (Kier-La Janisse, 2021)

205. Alcarras (Carla Simón, 2022)

206. Bullet Train (David Leitch, 2022)

207. El agua (Elena López Riera, 2022)

208. Kimi (Steven Soderbergh, 2022)

209. Minions: El origen de Gru (Kyle Balda, 2022)

210. Thor: Love & Thunder (Taika Waititi, 2022)

211. Todo a la vez en todas partes (Dan Kwan y Daniel Scheinert, 2022)

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Lise Davidsen (Ariadne) Staatsoper de Viena

Davidsen i Gould a Ariadne auf Naxos Viena 2017

Maria Nazarova (Najade), Ulrike Helzel (Dryade), Olga Bezsmertna (Echo) i Lise Davidsen (Ariadne)

Rachel Frenkel (compositor) i Erin Morley (Zerbinetta)

Ariadne auf Naxos, producció de Sven-Eric Bechtolf Viena 2017

Mireu, hi ha ocasions que un cantant pot eclipsar-ho tot encara que aquest tot sigui de nivell, però és que la seva grandesa artística és tan imponent i el fenomen és tan excepcional que tot al seu voltant s’empetiteix. Aquest és el cas de la grandiosa, en tots els sentits, Lise Davidsen que no és la primera vegada que m’enlluerna, aclapara i enamora, però mai com en aquesta ocasió, en la interpretació que va tenir lloc abans d’ahir a la Staatsoper de Viena de l’Ariadne auf Naxos de Richard Strauss i que la direcció de l’òpera vienesa va tenir l’encert de programar en la seva programació dels streamings del seu canal de pagament.

Estem davant d’un veritable fenómen artístic, d’una veu i una artista prodigiosa, amb unes facultats vocals extraordinàries, amb una veu plena, bella, de registre homogeni, d’emissió nítida i fascinant i molt jove que poc a poc va assumint rols de plenitud, sense segurament deixar-se endur per temptadores ofertes dels més imprudents agents que estic segur que els hi agradaria que ja ho cantés tot, perquè la seva veu de soprano dramàtica és una temptació.

Quan molts diuen que estem davant de la nova Flagstad ni exageren, ni erren. Davidsen és la veu més important per la qualitat, que ha aparegut en les darreres dècades i si no s’espatlla i l’espatllen està destinada  a fer-ho trontollar tot.

La luxosa opulència de la veu, l’afinació, la facilitat en l’emissió, el color atractiu i càlid, el fraseig propi d’una gran liderista i el sentit dramàtic/tràgic del seu cant és d’una excel·lència inusual. Amics: Reclinatori, altar major i capella catedralícia per santa Lise Davidsen.

És clar, al voltant ja hi pot haver un equip sòlid, perquè serà difícil trobar cantants a la seva alçada.

Bé la Zerbinetta d’Erin Morley, sempre una mica per sota de la genialitat de les sopranos que han deixat petjada.

Magnífica la mezzosoprano israeliana Rachel Frenkel, una veu i una presència idònia per interpretar el rol. Expressiva, de cant expansiu i arrauxat que tan bé li va al personatge, però que al final li juga una mala passada.

El Bacchus de Stephen Gould és feridor, sobretot en el duo final al costat de l’opulència de Davidsen, perquè tot allò que en ella és control, expressivitat, musicalitat i intel·ligència, en ell és aproximació, notes i emissions forçades, atemptant contra l’afinació i l’elegància heroica d’una part tan exigent com curta.

Magnífic el mestre de música de Markus Eiche al capdavant d’un magnífic conjunt de cantants de la casa,

El venerable Peter Schneider dirigeix amb classe i sapiència i la confosa i a estones estèticament agradable producció de Sven-Eric Bechtolf ja vista a Salzburg l’any 2012 (Magee, Kaufmann, Mosuc) i recuperada a Viena, té la virtuts i els defectes d’aquelles produccions que volen dir moltes coses però no saps ben bé el què. El que està clar és que el vestit de lleopard de Bacchus li esqueia millor a Kaufmann que a Gould, que s’ha de tapar amb una capa per evitar les comparacions sempre odioses.

Al goig d’escoltar una òpera tan inspirada i bella s’uneix la fascinant Davidsen, que corre el perill d’enfosquir-ho tot al seu voltant perquè ella és la llum.

No la perdeu de vista

Richard Strauss ARIADNNE AUF NAXOS òpera en un pròleg i un acte llibret de Hugo von Hofmannstha

Die Primadonna (Ariadne) Lise Davidsen Der Haushofmeister Peter Matić Ein Musiklehrer Markus Eiche Der Komponist Rachel Frenkel Der Tenor (Bacchus) Stephen Gould Zerbinetta Erin Morley Offizier Daniel Lökös Tanzmeister Thomas Ebenstein Perückenmacher Wolfram Igor Derntl Lakai Marcus Pelz Harlekin Manuel Walser Scaramuccio Peter Jelosits Truffaldin Ryan Speedo Green Brighella Pavel Kolgatin Najade Maria Nazarova Dryade Ulrike Helzel Echo Olga Bezsmertna

Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper Director musical: Peter Schneider

Director d’escena: Sven-Eric Bechtolf Escenografia: Rolf Glittenberg Disseny de vestuari: Marianne Glittenberg Disseny de llums: Jürgen Hoffmann

Staatsoper de Viena 29 de novembre de 2017

STAATSOPER DE VIENA 17/18: ARIADNE AUF NAXOS PER LA SENSACIONAL LISE DAVIDSEN Mireu, hi ha ocasions que un cantant pot eclipsar-ho tot encara que aquest tot sigui de nivell, però és que la seva grandesa artística és tan imponent i el fenomen és tan excepcional que tot al seu voltant s'empetiteix.

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Rachel with mystery boy, Huck & Atti (Halloween) | photo - Steve Frenkel

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MBTI Typing Index: ENFP

Other types: INFP INFJ ENFP ENFJ INTP INTJ ENTP ENTJ ISTJ ISFJ ESTJ ESFJ ISTP ISFP ESTP ESFP

Chantal AKERMAN

Isabel ALLENDE

Pedro ALONSO

Billie Joe ARMSTRONG

Daniel BALAVOINE

Aisling BEA

Kate BECKINSALE

Samantha BEE

Juliette BINOCHE

Emma BLACKERY

Rachel BLOOM

Helena BONHAM CARTER

Danny BOYLE

Russell BRAND

Brittany BROSKI

Bo BURNHAM

Jim CARREY

Elizabeth Jean CARROLL

Margaret CHO

Dodie CLARK

Michaela COEL

Coeur de Pirate / Béatrice MARTIN

Daniel COHN-BENDIT

Stephen COLBERT

Michelle COLLINS

Olivia COOKE

Alan CUMMING

Jamie Lee CURTIS

Salvador DALI

Geena DAVIS

Mackenzie DAVIS

Pierre DE MAERE

Cara DELEVINGNE

Julie DELPY

Lou DOILLON

Xavier DOLAN

Rain DOVE

Lena DUNHAM

Giancarlo ESPOSITO

Rupert EVERETT

Colin FARRELL

Negin FARSAD

Craig FERGUSON

Noel FIELDING

Carrie FISHER

Anne FRANK

Edward FRENKEL

Guillaume GALLIENNE

Greta GERWIG

Emma GONZÁLEZ

Matthew GOODE

Emily GORDON

Lauren GRAHAM

Laci GREEN

Grimes / Claire BOUCHER

Lauren GROFF

Matthew Gray GUBLER

Ernesto GUEVARA

Jake GYLLENHAAL

Adèle HAENEL

Daniel HANDLER

Neil HANNON

David HARBOUR

Mamrie HART

Salma HAYEK

Todd HAYNES

Lena HEADEY

Matty HEALY

Conleth HILL

Bell HOOKS

Jason ISAACS

Samantha IRBY

Gillian JACOBS

Abbi JACOBSON

Avan JOGIA

Camélia JORDANA

Zoe KAZAN

Diane KEATON

Ellie KEMPER

Chris KENDALL

Liza KOSHY

Lisa KUDROW

Anne LAMOTT

Nathan LANE

Jennifer LAWRENCE

Jared LETO

Fabrice LUCHINI

Baz LUHRMANN

Patti LUPONE

Miriam MARGOLYES

Pio MARMAÏ

Ian MCKELLEN

Freddie MERCURY

Ezra MILLER

Lin-Manuel MIRANDA

Caitlin MORAN

Tom MORELLO

Graham NORTON

Samin NOSRAT

Mallory ORTBERG

Amanda PALMER

Sara PASCOE

Mandy PATINKIN

Sarah PAULSON

Laurie PENNY

Pablo PICASSO

Amy POEHLER

Benoît POELVOORDE

Barbara PRAVI

Daniel RADCLIFFE

Arden ROSE

Tracee Ellis ROSS

Kristen ROUPENIAN

RuPaul / RuPaul CHARLES

Thomas SANDERS

Susan SARANDON

Marjane SATRAPI

Amy SCHUMER

Amy SEDARIS

Jason SEGEL

Tupac SHAKUR

Robert SHEEHAN

Michael SHEEN

Amy SHERMAN-PALLADINO

SIA / Sia FURLER

Jason SILVA

Sarah SILVERMAN

Lily SINGH

Tarsem SINGH

Jenny SLATE

Soko / Stéphanie SOKOLINSKI

Emma STONE

Amber TAMBLYN

David TENNANT

Louis TOMLINSON

Marie ULVEN / Girl in red

Brandon URIE

Jonathan VAN NESS

Agnès VARDA

Phoebe WALLER-BRIDGE

John WATERS

Ruby WAX

Gerard WAY

Cornel WEST

Vivienne WESTWOOD

Mae WHITMAN

Oscar WILDE

Hayley WILLIAMS

Jessica WILLIAMS

Robin WILLIAMS

Katya ZAMOLODCHIKOVA

Slavoj ZIZEK

Other types: INFP INFJ ENFP ENFJ INTP INTJ ENTP ENTJ ISTJ ISFJ ESTJ ESFJ ISTP ISFP ESTP ESFP

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Accepting God’s Will Credit:IFCJ Moses then said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD spoke of when he said: ‘“Among those who approach me|               I will be proved holy;           in the sight of all the people                I will be honored.’” Aaron remained silent. — Leviticus 10:3 Each week in synagogue, Jews read through the Torah from Genesis to Deuteronomy. The Torah portion for this week is Shemini, which means “eighth,” from Leviticus 9:1–11:47. One of my greatest heroes is a woman of whom you have probably never heard. Her name is Rachelle Frenkel, and in the summer of 2014, her son was one of three Jewish Israeli teens kidnapped on their way home from school. For 18 days, the entire country of Israel and many around the world rallied around the families and prayed that the boys would be found unharmed and returned to their families. During this time of unprecedented unity and crying out to God, Rachelle said something amazing to the Israeli media. She said, “God does not work for us.” She wanted the world to know that prayer is always appropriate and appreciated, but that she accepted God’s will no matter what happened. When it became clear that the boys had

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The Week in Tech: New Decade, Same Old Trouble in Washington

Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry.WASHINGTON — Big Tech did not get the fresh start it had hoped for in the first full week of the new decade. Debate over political ads, privacy and the market power of the biggest companies were again front and center. And Facebook, the biggest target of criticism, picked up where it left off at the end of last year.Hi, I’m Cecilia Kang. I write for The New York Times about the tech industry’s often fraught relationship with the regulators and lawmakers of Washington.Facebook’s tough week kicked off with a Times report on an internal company post by Andrew Bosworth, a senior executive of Facebook and a self-described liberal, who warned against actions that could thwart President Trump in the 2020 election. The post, obtained by Kevin Roose, Sheera Frenkel and Mike Isaac, was a winding, 2,500-word essay in defense of the social network and Mark Zuckerberg’s stance on free expression — including misinformation — in political speech.The post from Mr. Bosworth, known as Boz and one of Mr. Zuckerberg’s closest lieutenants, didn’t sit well with many employees who had grown uncomfortable with the company’s hands-off approach. Other big social media companies, notably Twitter and Google, have set limits or outrightly banned political ads. Mr. Bosworth admitted Facebook probably helped elect Mr. Trump. But he said it was not for the reasons critics say. It wasn’t Facebook’s reckless handling of data, which allowed Cambridge Analytica to create psychographic profiles of voters, that did it. It was Facebook’s platform for targeted advertising that was so influential in the 2016 election. Mr. Trump, he said, used that platform better than anyone.Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic explained why Mr. Bosworth’s internal post was so divisive in “Why Facebook’s Id is showing.” Mr. Bosworth argued that Facebook did not really need to change. After all, it’s not tobacco, he said. It’s more like sugar — not so bad if you don’t consume too much of it.The next day, Facebook was caught up on in an odd kerfuffle over a glowing article about five Facebook managers charged with defeating disinformation ahead of the 2020 election. The article, oddly, appeared in Teen Vogue without a byline. Why was Teen Vogue publishing an uncritical look at Facebook’s election integrity efforts?It got weirder. A label was added that tagged the story as “sponsored” editorial. Then the label disappeared. Then the story disappeared. I dug into the mystery with my colleague Rachel Abrams. The article was, in fact, a piece of paid content. Teen Vogue and Facebook both said the labeling fracas was all a big misunderstanding.On Thursday, Facebook was back to serious news: It released its policy on political ads, cementing a decision to allow lies by politicians to go unchecked and for campaigns to micro-target those ads to specific audiences.The reaction was swift and partisan. The Trump campaign lauded the policy and other Republicans said it was an affirmation of free speech. Democrats, including the leading member of the Federal Election Commission, were angry, and said the decision was nothing short of a threat to democracy.

Will the encryption fight get rebooted?

The F.B.I. and Apple have reignited their battle over encryption. As reported by Jack Nicas and Katie Benner, the F.B.I. asked Apple for the data on two iPhones that belonged to the gunman in the shooting last month at a naval base in Pensacola, Fla., possibly setting up another showdown over law enforcement’s access to smartphones.This is an old battle, covered almost three years ago by Katie and Matt Apuzzo, now a European investigative reporter for The Times. At the heart of the dispute is a disagreement over user privacy and national security, and we’ll be watching closely how this plays out.

Sonos take Google to court

Antitrust enforcement of Big Tech will be a central focus for Washington regulators. And competitors are taking notice. Sonos filed a lawsuit against Google in two federal courts. As reported by Jack Nicas and Daisuke Wakabayashi, the speaker company claims Google stole its secrets and used its market dominance to develop lower-priced speakers to squash competition. The case has the attention of a congressional committee investigating competition violations by Big Tech. On Jan. 17, the antitrust subcommittee of the House plans to take a road trip to Boulder, Colo, where Patrick Spence, the chief executive of Sonos, is expected testify.

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Benjamin Godard: DANTE acte I (1/4)  

Benjamin Godard (1849-1895) DANTE  Opéra en quatre actes sur un livret d’Édouard Blau créé à l’Opéra-Comique de Paris le 7 mai 1890 Dante     Edgaras Montvidas Béatrice     Véronique Gens Gemma     Rachel Frenkel Bardi     Jean-François Lapointe L’Ombre de Virgile   Andrew Foster-Williams L’Écolier     Diana Axentii Le Hérault     Andrew Lepri Meyer CHŒUR DE LA RADIO BAVAROISE   (Chef de Chœur  Stellario Fagone) ORCHESTRE DE LA RADIO DE MUNICH direction Ulf Schirme Version de concert Prinzregententheater, Munich Alemagne,  31 janvier 2016 Production Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française

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The 55 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in July 2020

Here is the list of the 55 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in July 2020. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site” links to the book’s page on this site.

The Age of Questions: Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and … by Professor Holly Case (on this site)

As Needed for Pain: A Memoir of Addiction by Dan Peres (on this site)

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (on this site)

Bitter Herbs: Based on a true story of a Jewish girl in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands by Marga Minco (on this site)

The Blue Guide to Grey Living by Lionel Blue (on this site)

A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Francoise Frenkel (on this site)

The Cave 3 Copper Scroll: A Symbolic Journey by Jesper Hagenhaven (on this site)

Children of the Stars by Mario Escobar (on this site)

Chutzpah, Wisdom and Wine: The Journey of an Unstoppable Woman by Jodi Samuels (on this site)

Crossings by Alex Landragin (on this site)

The Drive by Yair Assulin (on this site)

Exile: Portraits of the Jewish Diaspora by Annika Hernroth-Rothstein (on this site)

Four Girls From Berlin by Marianne Meyerhoff (on this site)

From Infinity to Man: The Fundamental Ideas of Kabbalah Within the Framework of Information Theory and Quantum Physics by Eduard Shyfrin (on this site)

Gabriel Bach: Attorney, Judge and Gentleman: The Child Who Escaped from Nazi Germany and Became the Prosecutor of Adolf Eichmann by Yael Roseman, Gabriel Bach (on this site)

Halakhic Positions of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (Volume 8) by Rabbi Aharon Ziegler (on this site)

The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku (on this site)

Hello Darkness, My Old Friend by Sanford D. Greenberg (on this site)

Hope Comes Knocking by Col. Micky Seiffe (on this site)

I Am the Tree of Life: My Jewish Yoga Book by Rabbi Mychal Copeland (on this site)

Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period by Alison Salvesen, Sarah Pearce, and Miriam Frenkel (on this site)

Jewish Cuisine in Hungary: A Cultural History with 83 Authentic Recipes by Andras Koerner (on this site)

Jews and Protestants: From the Reformation to the Present by Irene Aue-Ben David , Aya Elyada, Moshe Sluhovsky, Christian Wiese (on this site)

The Jews and the Reformation by Kenneth Austin (on this site)

Jews on the Move: Modern Cosmopolitanist Thought and its Others by Cathy Gelbin, Sander L Gilman (on this site)

Judenrein by Harold Benjamin (on this site)

Kabbalah for Beginners: Understanding and Applying Kabbalistic History, Concepts, and Practices by Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks (on this site)

Kabbalah in America; Ancient Lore in the New World by Brian Ogren (on this site)

The Last Visit to Berlin by Ruvik Rosenthal (on this site)

Lethal Scripture by Yoram Katz (on this site)

Maimonides the Universalist: The Ethical Horizons of the Mishneh Torah by Menachem Kellner, David Gillis (on this site)

Memory Identity Encounter: Ukrainian Jewish Journey by Risa Levitt Kohn (on this site)

My Sister Is Sleeping by Devora Busheri (on this site)

The Nesting Dolls by Alina Adams (on this site)

The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli (on this site)

No Fixed Abode: A Jewish Odyssey to Africa by Peter Fraenkel (on this site)

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story by Bess Kalb (on this site)

The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion through the Lens of Divinity by Theodore J. Lewis (on this site)

Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last by Rabbi Israel Meir Lau (on this site)

Quest for Life: A Study in Aharon David Gordon’s Philosophy of Man in Nature by Yossi Turner (on this site)

Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust by Heidi Fried (on this site)

Rachel’s Roses by Ferida Wolff (on this site)

Ruth: An Earth Bible Commentary by Alice M. Sinnott (on this site)

They Called Him a Gangster by Zali de Toledo (on this site)

They Went Left by Monica Hesse (on this site)

A Ticking Bomb by Izhar David (on this site)

Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon (on this site)

Too Far From Home by Naomi Shmuel (on this site)

Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination by David E. Lowe (on this site)

The Tree and the Vine by Dola de Jong (on this site)

Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra Popoff (on this site)

Violence in the Hebrew Bible; Between Text and Reception by Jacques van Ruiten and Koert van Bekkum (on this site)

Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South by Sue Eisenfeld (on this site)

With Us More Than Ever: Making the Absent Rebbe Present in Messianic Chabad by Yoram Bilu (on this site)

Zionism and the Melting Pot by Matthew Mark Silver (on this site)

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The Week in Tech: New Decade, Same Old Trouble in Washington

Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry.

WASHINGTON — Big Tech did not get the fresh start it had hoped for in the first full week of the new decade. Debate over political ads, privacy and the market power of the biggest companies were again front and center. And Facebook, the biggest target of criticism, picked up where it left off at the end of last year.

Hi, I’m Cecilia Kang. I write for The New York Times about the tech industry’s often fraught relationship with the regulators and lawmakers of Washington.

Facebook’s tough week kicked off with a Times report on an internal company post by Andrew Bosworth, a senior executive of Facebook and a self-described liberal, who warned against actions that could thwart President Trump in the 2020 election.

The post, obtained by Kevin Roose, Sheera Frenkel and Mike Isaac, was a winding, 2,500-word essay in defense of the social network and Mark Zuckerberg’s stance on free expression — including misinformation — in political speech.

The post from Mr. Bosworth, known as Boz and one of Mr. Zuckerberg’s closest lieutenants, didn’t sit well with many employees who had grown uncomfortable with the company’s hands-off approach. Other big social media companies, notably Twitter and Google, have set limits or banned political ads outright.

Mr. Bosworth admitted Facebook probably helped elect Mr. Trump. But he said it was not for the reasons critics said. It wasn’t Facebook’s reckless handling of data, which allowed Cambridge Analytica to create psychographic profiles of voters, that did it. It was Facebook’s platform for targeted advertising that was so influential in the 2016 election. Mr. Trump, he said, used that platform better than anyone.

Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic explained why Mr. Bosworth’s internal post was so divisive in “Why Facebook’s Id is showing.” Mr. Bosworth argued that Facebook did not really need to change. After all, it’s not tobacco, he said. It’s more like sugar — not so bad if you don’t consume too much of it.

The next day, Facebook was caught up in an odd kerfuffle over a glowing article about five Facebook managers charged with defeating disinformation ahead of the 2020 election. The article, oddly, appeared in Teen Vogue without a byline. Why was Teen Vogue publishing an uncritical look at Facebook’s election integrity efforts?

It got weirder. A label was added that tagged the story as “sponsored” editorial. Then the label disappeared. Then the story disappeared.

I dug into the mystery with my colleague Rachel Abrams. The article was, in fact, a piece of paid content. Teen Vogue and Facebook both said the labeling fracas was all a big misunderstanding.

On Thursday, Facebook was back to serious news: It released its policy on political ads, cementing a decision to allow lies by politicians to go unchecked and for campaigns to micro-target those ads to specific audiences.

The reaction was swift and partisan. The Trump campaign lauded the policy and other Republicans said it was an affirmation of free speech. Democrats, including the leading member of the Federal Election Commission, were angry, and said the decision was nothing short of a threat to democracy.

Will the encryption fight be rebooted?

The F.B.I. and Apple have reignited their battle over encryption. As reported by Jack Nicas and Katie Benner, the F.B.I. asked Apple for the data on two iPhones that belonged to the gunman in the shooting last month at a naval base in Pensacola, Fla., possibly setting up another showdown over law enforcement’s access to smartphones.

This is an old battle, covered almost three years ago by Katie and Matt Apuzzo, now a European investigative reporter for The Times. At the heart of the dispute is a disagreement over user privacy and national security, and we’ll be watching closely how this plays out.

Sonos takes Google to court

Antitrust enforcement of Big Tech will be a central focus for Washington regulators. And competitors are taking notice. Sonos sued Google in two federal courts. As reported by Jack Nicas and Daisuke Wakabayashi, the speaker company claims Google stole its secrets and used its market dominance to develop lower-priced speakers to squash competition.

The case has the attention of a congressional committee investigating competition violations by Big Tech. Next Friday, the antitrust subcommittee of the House plans to take a road trip to Boulder, Colo., where Patrick Spence, the chief executive of Sonos, is expected testify.

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My Book List

Today I’m starting quite an ambitious project. Throughout the past 5 or 6 years, I have purchased so many books from Barnes & Noble with a fervor for learning things that I didn’t get to learn during my time in college. However, I realize that although I had a passion about learning things, I did not have the discipline to carry it out. However, beginning this new year, I hope to be more productive with my time and complete this goal and actually making use of my money by reading those books I purchased throughout these recent years.

I’m going to make a list of the books I need to read and then see if I can come up with a plan of action. The following books (in alphabetical order by title) are either unread or are being currently read, piled in the corner of my room:

A Tale of 7 Elements by Eric Scerri (@p. 49 of 208)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (@p. 98 of 293)

Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics by Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins (@p. 93 of 235, or more)

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (@p. 31 of 527)

Grey by EL James (@p. 102 of 559)

Love & Math by Edward Frenkel (@p. 126 of 243)

Moore’s Law by Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones

Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham

Orwell’s Nose: A Pathological Biography by John Sutherland

Pleasures of the Night by Sylvia Day (@p. 74 of 289)

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

The Circle by Dave Eggers (@p. 253 of 497)

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (@p. 186 of 443)

The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene

The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku

The Generals by Winston Groom

The Martian by Andy Weir

The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani (@p. 18 of 488)

The Star Wars Trilogy

Thinkin, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (@p. 112 of 418)

We Should Hang Out Sometime by Josh Sundquist

Well, that’s 21 books listed. I pledge to read all of these before I purchase a new book. I will first finish the 11 books I have began reading before working on the others. I will update this blog at least once a week (by Sunday at Midnight), and I will read at least 20 pages of each book. Good luck self!

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Sembla com si el Met de Nova York i la Staatsoper de Viena s’haguéssin posat d’acord en fer-se la competència programant els mateixos títols en les transmissions cinematogràfiques o per streaming de les respectives temporades, per tal de que nosaltres poguéssim anar comparant les diferents propostes, ja que aquesta temporada de moment hi ha coincidències amb Don Giovanni (compartint protagonista) ara li toca el torn a la bellíssima Roméo et Juliette que acabem de veure fins i tot de manera insistent, al MET i que en la versió vienesa ens presenta el Roméo de Juan Diego Flórez ui la Juliette de la soprano russa Aida Garifullina (19877) guanyadora de l’edició del 2013 del concurs dominguista, Operalia.

Plácido Domingo es reserva la direcció musical de la representació, és a dir, no espereu gaires coses en aquesta vessant, on hi ha una lectura gruixuda, no sempre ben quadrada i on hi ha d’aspectes d’equilibri no del tot ben atesos, res greu pensareu  molts, però tampoc res remarcable, ni digne, segurament hi deuen haver molts directors, joves i no tan joves que desitjarien aquesta oportunitat en un teatre rellevant com l’òpera de Viena, però el món és injust,, i l’artístic a més a més és capritxós. L’orquestra vienesa sona desconeguda en molts moments i no precisament ho dic com una lloança.

La producció és la de Jürgen Flimm, ja coneguda des de fa 15 anys a la capital austríaca i també a IFL, ja que quasi fa un any ja va protagonitzar un apunt també  amb Flórez de protagonista si bé aleshores va ser una altra russa (Marina Rebeka) la Juliette. És una producció farragosa i estrafolària tot i les intencions de modernitat i refrescant que pretén. No insistiré.

Flórez canta divinament i això és tan evident i innegable que millor no buscar-li les pessigolles per aquesta banda. “Krausseja” molt i els seus finals en agut ja es comencen a assemblar massa als finals del recordat tenor canari en la darrera part de la seva longeva carrera, però la classe, l’elegància i la cura per fer-ho bell hi és, i més enllà que em costa creure que la seva veu pugui arribar bé al públic quan a Domingo se li desboca l’orquestra, el seu Roméo és juvenil, passional i allunyat dels verismes mal entesos, però el rol el sobrepassa en alguns moments i enn el duo final fa patir bastant, en algun moment molt, perquè la veu es trenca i òbviament nio és un accident casual, és la conseqüència d’aquesta tossudesa en portar la seva veu cap a on ell voldria, contra natura i a punt estar de fer una trencadissa notable, jo desitjaria que anés més amb compte perquè sabeu com m’agrada i com m’ha fet fruir, però els divins també són humans i espero que no tant com per arribar a ser estúpids i arruïnar una carrera en quest afany de voler ser Kraus sense tenir la veu adequada.

Garifullina és una cantant deliciosa, li manquen més anys de rodatge per veure com evolucionarà vocalment, ara és una mica feble. Com a companya de Flórez és ideal en molts moments, però Rebeka l’any passat crec que va ser més idònia al rol i va fer més ombra al tenor peruà. La veu és molt eslava, és a dir amb un excés de metall i molt timbrada, però aquests per a mi no són mai retrets si al darrera hi ha un bon treball tècnic i expressiu. Ella segurament evolucionarà abraçant un registre més ampli ja que ara queda una mica curta de centre i greu, mentre que certs aspectes d’emissió en alguns aguts són massa dubtosos, assolint el crit en més d’una ocasió, però a la seva Juliette “stricto sensu”, no sé li poden fer gaires retrets, algun sí i potser no són responsabilitat seva, ja que diria que està massa verda per fer aquest rol a Viena. Damrau m’agrada més en tot, malgrat no tenir un aspecte tan idealment jovenívol com ella.

I com succeïa l’any passat, la resta del cast és dolentot, alguns repeteixen com Bermúdez, incomprensible l’evolució negativa que ha fet aquest baríton amb un deteriorament vocal prematur notori, el seu Mercutio no és digne d’un primer teatre. Tampoc em sembla que el Stéphano de Rachel Frankel tingui gaire bé res d’aprofitable, mentre que el Frére Laurent de Dan Paul Dumitrescu només voreja certa notorietat amb la contundència vocal. L’equip del Metropilitan és molt més curós i distingit malgrat que tampoc era res de l’altre dijous. Fàcil d’entendre doncs, oi?

Charles Gounod ROMÉO ET JULIETTE

Juliette: Aida Garifullina Roméo: Juan Diego Flórez Mercutio: Gabriel Bermúdez Frère Laurent: Dan Paul Dumitrescu Stéphano: Rachel Frenkel Gertrude: Rosie Aldridge Tybalt: Carlos Osuna Paris: Igor Onishchenko Grégorio: Ayk Martirossian Capulet: Wolfgang Bankl Le Duc: Alexandru Moisiuc

Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper Director musical: Plácido Domingo

Director escènic: Jürgen Flimm

Staatsoper de Viena 1 de febrer de 2017

Continuo pensant que la sensació de rutina i que tantes vegades he denunciat aquí, que em transmeten moltes representacions de l’òpera de Viena, no s’ajusten a la categoria que tots els aficionats atorguem a la casa. Curiós Ah! m’oblidava i per què en els streamings de Viena se sent tant a l’apuntador?

STAATSOPER DE VIENA 2016/2017: ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Flórez-Garigullina-Bermúdez-Dumitrescu-Frenkel;Flimm-Domingo) Sembla com si el Met de Nova York i la Staatsoper de Viena s'haguéssin posat d'acord en fer-se la competència programant els mateixos títols en les transmissions cinematogràfiques o per streaming de les respectives temporades, per tal de que nosaltres poguéssim anar comparant les diferents propostes, ja que aquesta temporada de moment hi ha coincidències amb Don Giovanni (compartint protagonista) ara li toca el torn a la bellíssima Roméo et Juliette que acabem de veure fins i tot de manera insistent, al MET i que en la versió vienesa ens presenta el Roméo de Juan Diego Flórez ui la Juliette de la soprano russa Aida Garifullina (19877) guanyadora de l'edició del 2013 del concurs dominguista, Operalia.

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From Wiener Staatsoper’s premiere of Johannes Maria Staub’s Die Weiden

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Bereaved Families on Both Sides Hold Joint Conversation

Bereaved Families on Both Sides Hold Joint Conversation

Jerusalem’s Mayor Nir Barkat held a joint phone call yesterday (Jul. 6) between the uncle of Naftali Frenkel, who was murdered last month by Hamas terrorists,  and the father of Mohammed Abu Khdier, who was murdered last week by Israelis. The phone call was conducted during Barkat’s visit of condolence to the Frenkel Family in Nof Ayalon. Barkat further visited the homes of the Yifrach and Sha’ar…