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Henrietta Szold
(1860 - 1945)

Hadassah was at one time the largest Jewish organization in the United States. It remains one of the largest with roughly 330,000 members.

Had Henrietta Szold been born in 1960 instead of 1860, she probably would have become a rabbi. Born on December 21, 1960, one of eight daughters of a Baltimore rabbi, Szold was a passionate and accomplished student of Judaism.

In 1877, Szold graduated from Western High School. For fifteen years she taught at Miss Adam’s School and Oheb Shalom religious school, and gave Bible and history courses for adults. Highly educated in Jewish studies, she edited Professor Marcus Jastrow’s Talmudic Dictionary. To further her own education, she attended public lectures at Johns Hopkins University and the Peabody Institute.

She was given permission to study Jewish texts at the then male-only Jewish Theological Seminary in 1902, on condition that she never agitate to be granted rabbinic ordination. Later, she translated Heinrich Graetz’s monumental multivolume History of the Jews from German into English

Szold established the first American night school to provide English language instruction and vocational skills for Russian Jewish immigrants in Baltimore. Beginning in 1893, she worked as the first editor for the Jewish Publication Society,...

In 1896, one month before Theodor Herzl published Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), Szold described her vision of a Jewish state in Palestine as a place to ingather Diaspora Jewry and revive Jewish culture. In 1898, the Federation of American Zionists elected Szold as the only female member of its executive committee. During World War I, she was the only woman on the Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs.

In 1899, she took on the lion’s share of producing the first American Jewish Year Book, of which she was sole editor from 1904 to 1908. She also collaborated in the compilation of the Jewish Encyclopedia.

In 1949, Hadassah inaugurated the Henrietta Szold prize, which was awarded that year to Eleanor Roosevelt.

In Israel, Mother’s Day is celebrated on the day that Szold died, on the 30th of Shevat.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/henrietta-szold

One member accused Jews of not protesting on behalf of deportees, and another called out Jews’ “economic power.” [JTA]

"The Anti-Defamation League has called on a local California school board to apologize after two of its members attacked the Jewish community in comments at a meeting last week.

The controversy is the latest front in the yearslong battle over ethnic studies classes at California schools. At the meeting on Wednesday, the Pajaro Valley Unified School District board unanimously approved an ethnic studies teacher training contract with an organization whose leader has ties to anti-Zionist activists.

The board previously let a contract with the organization, Community Responsive Education, lapse over antisemitism concerns but faced pushback from local students, educators and activists, as well as from the organization’s leader, who played a role in devising a draft ethnic studies curriculum for the state that many Jewish organizations denounced. Since then, the board’s composition has changed.

After Jewish activists urged the board to reject the new contract on Wednesday, worried that it would inject anti-Zionism into local ethnic studies, two school board members took aim at the Jewish community.

“I don’t see you people at protests against immigration,” said Gabriel Medina, who joined the board earlier this year and has since voiced support for the Palestinians and criticism of Israel in meetings. He then referred to Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador, and to Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian protester arrested by ICE at Columbia University.

“I don’t see you at protests when people are being taken away right now,” Medina said. “I don’t see you advocating to bring back Abrego Garcia or Mahmoud Khalil. I don’t see you guys doing that. You only show up to meetings when it’s beneficial for you, so you can tell brown people who they are.

Another board member, Joy Flynn, accused the Jewish community members of leveraging their wealth.

“I’ve been a little bit taken aback,” she said, “by the lack of acknowledgement of the economic power historically held by the Jewish community.”

ADL Central Pacific Regional Director Marc Levine condemned the comments and called on the board to apologize.

“The raw antisemitism that was on display at the Pajaro Valley USD board meeting is abhorrent and dangerous,” he said in a statement. “Most disturbing was that the rhetoric came from elected board members. What does that say about their willingness to allow ethnic studies to be used as a gateway for antisemitism to seep into their classrooms?”

He added, “The board owes the Jewish community an apology plus a commitment to engage in serious reflection, and education.”

On Tuesday, Pajaro Valley Unified School District Superintendent Heather Contreras told J. The Jewish News of Northern California that the district “stands firmly against all forms of racism, antisemitism, and hate.”

“PVUSD is committed to fostering a safe, inclusive, and respectful environment for all students, families, educators, and community members — regardless of background, race, religion, or identity,” her statement continued. “PVUSD will continue to work with our diverse communities to ensure our schools reflect the values we expect from our leaders and instill in our students.”

Debbie Israel, rabbi emerita of the nearby Congregation Emeth who was present at the meeting, also called out the board members’ comments and the proposed teacher training contract.

“I’ve heard some hateful and hurtful things this evening and I hope to address them,” Israel said. “Judaism is not just a religion but also a people who have lived in the land of Israel since the time of Abraham, the first Jew. Ethnic studies should respect the right of Indigenous people for self-determination. Yet CRE attempts to deny this right to the Jewish people.”

Most of the people who spoke at the board meeting lobbied in favor of the proposed contract with CRE, including at least one who wore a sweatshirt that said “Jews for a Free Palestine.”

California Jewish groups said a 2019 ethnic studies model curriculum draft included antisemitic language, and have since been on the lookout for efforts to implement that curriculum across the state.

Earlier this month, California’s Department of Education ruled that a San Jose school’s ethnic studies curriculum had discriminated against Jewish students. In February, the Santa Ana Unified School District was required in a settlement to stop teaching ethnic studies courses altogether until they are revised.”

https://www.jta.org/2025/04/22/united-states/california-school-board-members-accused-of-antisemitism-during-contentious-meeting

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Why are both of these non-people on top of the news? At least everyone has finally figured out what a cunt loomer is. Are both of them jewish?


I searched: "who is Sam E. Antar?"

"Sam E. Antar is a former chief financial officer (CFO) of Crazy Eddie, a notorious electronics retailer from the 1980s known for its fraudulent business practices. He was involved in one of the largest securities frauds uncovered during that decade, alongside his cousin Eddie Antar and other family members. After the fraud was uncovered, Sam cooperated with law enforcement agencies to provide information about the crimes, which helped in the prosecution of the case.

Since then, Sam has become an advocate for white-collar crime awareness and prevention. He advises federal and state law enforcement agencies about white-collar crime and trains them to identify and catch criminals. He also refers cases to law enforcement as an independent whistleblower and teaches about white-collar crime for professional organizations, businesses, and educational institutions.

In recent years, Sam has been involved in independent investigations, such as his work into New York Attorney General Letitia James, which has led to media scrutiny and false claims about his recent criminal activity and alleged connections to Donald Trump."

I don't have any patience with or confidence in drives that start to slow down, start making noises, or start showing I/O errors. I try to prevent that by replacing them before they start to show signs of age and, much worse, possible failure. I've gone to too much trouble to maintain my files, not all of which is my media server, although that's a large part of it, without losing it due to carelessness.

For example, a 2TB drive that was my dad's, one he bought in 2010, started showing problems reading files. I disconnected that thing immediately, ordered a new 8TB drive, reconnected the 2TB, and copied everything to the new drive. Two files didn't copy, and I easily replaced them, so there was no loss.

All drives fail eventually, and some sooner than others. I'd be interested in hearing your experience and learning from it. I'd also be interested in your reasons for having or not having a RAID array.

"To understand Wal-Mart, you have to have a handle on Arkansas. And to figure out Arkansas, you have to be knowledgeable about the Rockefellers. And to fathom the Red Chinese Secret Police, you have to know a lot about the richest family in the world.

To begin. The Rockefellers like to own and operate entire states with a sizeable geography, good natural assets, and a relatively small population. That way, if need be, to win a so-called "election", they could more or less find it cheap to buy all the votes they may need to install their people. West Virginia is such a state. Like an ancient Colossus of Rhodes, astride the entrance to a harbor, the Rockefellers have a foot on both sides. On occasion, they pretend to be Democrats. Other times, as Republicans....
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Another Rockefeller owned and operated state is Arkansas. Sizeable land, small population. You cannot be so much as a successful dog-catcher there without the blessings of the Rockefellers. Several terms before Clinton, Winthrop Rockefeller was Governor. Our interviews with middle-level members of the Rockefeller Family convinces us his proper name should be WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER CLINTON. We feel certain, from all we know, that Sludge Willy is the illegitimate great grandson of the unsmiling Rockefeller patriarch.

The Rockefellers are not naive plutocrats. If there ever were ANY documents proving that Winthrop Rockefeller fathered five illegitimate children around the nation including the person who calls himself "Bill Clinton", those records, if any, have long since been destroyed.

So please, like some ninny, do not heckle us with "Where are your documents?" Until the Rockefellers are ready to throw away Bill and Hillary as no longer useful, they are untouchable. At the Senate Clinton Impeachment trial, the U.S. Senators certainly understood all this. [As an example, is it necessary for us to point out that the so-called "Watergate Affair" was touched off without a single document?]

It is surprising how some people look at a backward state like Arkansas, and yet do not wonder about the so-called great fortunes headquartered there. Tyson Chickens. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and all their subsidiaries, and J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, reportedly has undercover agent reports how Tyson, in the past, has been partly financed by dope trafficking. [Of course, their major user, McDonald's, having their own problems, obviously is not interested to know. Visit our website story about McDonald's, "Coca-Cola, the CIA, and the Courts, Part 8".] [CONTINUES, and links to Parts 2 and 3.]:

https://rense.com/general13/walmart.htm

Edit to add links to Part 2 and Part 3, since this one doesn't seem to have those links:

https://rense.com/general13/walmartpart2.htm

https://rense.com/general13/red.htm

Then I think the eschaton will be immanentized.