WRAP Evacuations continue, adds comments of military, artefacts removed from synagogue
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New Orleans, Louisiana - 10 September 2005
1. Zoom in National Guard boat patrol
2. Various guardsmen checking houses
3. Guardsmen on boat
4. Closeup shot guardsman on boat
5. Dead body in water
6. Various soldiers on street
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Captain Damien San Miguel, Oregon National Guard:
The police are saying that there's still 9-1-1 calls. Some of those areas are inaccessible by foot and so we're not able to do that right now, because all the civilian law enforcement and civil service agencies are doing all the boat operations.
8. Tilt-up from soldiers to exterior synagogue
9. Touro Synagogue sign
10. Man carrying out Torah
11. Various of people carrying out relics, Police on guard:
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Adam Bronstone, Director of Community Relations, Jewish Federation of New Orleans:
It's our responsibility to the Jewish community to see that we keep our community intact - both its people and its artifacts. We wanted to make sure these were safe and because most of the community right now is in Houston we will have them there and people can celebrate with their own Judaic.
13. Workers marking silver pieces
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New Orleans, Louisiana - 09 September 2005
14. Flooded streets with downed trees
15. Fan boat with dogs
16. New Orleans resident and volunteer Bill Fricano crying
17. Close-up Fricano
18. Rescue worker giving Fricano crate with dogs
19. Fricano hugging dogs and crying
20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Fricano, dog owner
I've been praying for a week, and I don't think I gave up hope, no, I just kept on praying but it was getting dismal because we had been trying and trying. We went to the SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), we went to the Lamar Dixon centre and we tried everything, everything, and we finally got them.
21. Fricano with dogs
STORYLINE:
The first street-by-street sweep of New Orleans revealed far fewer corpses than originally feared, and the police chief said Saturday his hard-pressed force was regaining control despite a shortage of roughly 300 officers.
Mayor Ray Nagin and others had predicted up to 10,000 deaths in New Orleans, but that number appeared less likely after a count on Friday, said retired Marine Col. Terry Ebbert, the city's homeland security chief.
The news came as authorities shifted most of their attention to counting and removing the dead, after days spent cajoling the living to get out of a city beset by fetid floodwaters and scattered fires.
But soldiers on the ground said that there are still rescues going on, and calls coming to emergency responders for help.
Workers raced to clear artifacts and treasures from the oldest synagogue in New Orleans before they were damaged by the elements or looted as the city empties.
Touro synagogue near Tulane University is the sixth oldest in the entire United States, and members of the Jewish Federation persuaded authorities to let them in to clear out the building, including its Torah.
The building was untouched by the flooding, but caretakers worried that the lack of air conditioning and outbreaks of fires endangered the relics, so they were to be transported to Houston.
Spokesman Adam Bronstone said it was symbolically important for the diaspora to be able to be reunited with the relics.
But there are still some scattered rescues going on, including many pets that owners were forced to leave during the evacuation.
Bill Fricano had a tearful reunion with his four dogs on Friday.
The New Orleans resident had been volunteering to help in the city since the flood, but had also been holding out hope that his own pets could be saved.
In a shift, the military began providing cages to homeowners to allow them to evacuate with their pets.
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History of the Jews in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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The history of the Jews in the United States has been part of the American national fabric since colonial times. Until the 1830s, the Jewish community of Charleston, South Carolina, was the largest in North America. In the late 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s, many Jewish immigrants left from various nations to enter the U.S. as part of the general rise of immigration movements. For example, many German Jews arrived in the middle of the 19th century, established clothing stores in towns across the country, formed Reform synagogues, and were active in banking in New York. Immigration of Eastern Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews, in 1880–1914, brought a large, poor, traditional element to New York City. They were Orthodox or Conservative in religion. They founded the Zionist movement in the United States, and were active supporters of the Socialist party and labor unions. Economically, they concentrated in the garment industry.
Refugees arrived from diaspora communities in Europe after World War II and, after 1970, from the Soviet Union. Politically, American Jews have been especially active as part of the liberal New Deal coalition of the Democratic Party since the 1930s, although recently there is a conservative Republican element among the Orthodox. They have displayed high education levels, and high rates of upward social mobility. The Jewish communities in small towns have dwindled, as the population concentrated in large metropolitan areas.
In the 1940s, Jews comprised 3.7% of the national population. Today, at about 6.5 million, the population is 2% of the national total—and shrinking as a result of smaller family sizes and interfaith marriages resulting in nonobservance. The largest population centers are the metropolitan areas of New York (2.1 million in 2000), Los Angeles (668,000), Miami (331,000), Philadelphia (285,000), Chicago (265,000) and Boston (254,000).
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Separation of church and state is paraphrased from Thomas Jefferson and used by others in expressing an understanding of the intent and function of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution which reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
The phrase separation between church & state is generally traced to a January 1, 1802, letter by Thomas Jefferson, addressed to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, and published in a Massachusetts newspaper. Jefferson wrote,
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
Some argue that Jefferson echoes the language of the founder of the first Baptist church in America, Roger Williams who, in 1644, wrote of
[A] hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world.
However, when considered in context, the relationship appears questionable.
When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world, God hath ever broke down the wall itself, removed the Candlestick, etc., and made His Garden a wilderness as it is this day. And that therefore if He will ever please to restore His garden and Paradise again, it must of necessity be walled in peculiarly unto Himself from the world, and all that be saved out of the world are to be transplanted out of the wilderness of the World.
Article Six of the United States Constitution also specifies that no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Jefferson's metaphor of a wall of separation has been cited repeatedly by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Reynolds v. United States (1879) the Court wrote that Jefferson's comments may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the [First] Amendment. In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), Justice Hugo Black wrote: In the words of Thomas Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect a wall of separation between church and state.In contrast to separationism, the Supreme Court in Zorach v. Clauson upheld accommodationism, holding that the nation's institutions presuppose a Supreme Being and that government recognition of God does not constitute the establishment of a state church as the Constitution's authors intended to prohibit. As such, the Court has not always interpreted the constitutional principle as absolute, and the proper extent of separation between government and religion in the U.S. remains an ongoing subject of impassioned debate.
National Trust for Historic Preservation | Wikipedia audio article
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National Trust for Historic Preservation
00:00:26 1 Overview
00:02:04 2 History
00:08:17 3 Programs
00:08:26 3.1 National Treasures
00:09:29 3.2 11 Most Endangered Historic Places List
00:10:07 3.3 Preservation Leadership Forum and resources
00:10:27 3.4 Historic Hotels of America
00:11:18 4 Advocacy
00:11:35 4.1 Historic Tax Credit (HTC) and Creating American Prosperity through Preservation (CAPP) Act
00:12:23 4.2 Federal transportation legislation
00:13:00 4.3 Public lands
00:13:51 5 National Trust Historic Sites
00:14:15 5.1 Stewardships
00:14:43 5.2 Co-stewardships
00:15:39 5.3 Contracted affiliates
00:16:07 6 Subsidiaries and affiliated companies
00:16:17 6.1 Subsidiaries
00:16:32 6.2 Affiliated Companies of the National Trust
00:16:50 7 See also
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a privately funded, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that works in the field of historic preservation in the United States. The member-supported organization was founded in 1949 by congressional charter to support the preservation of America’s diverse historic buildings, neighborhoods, and heritage through its programs, resources, and advocacy.