Governor Cuomo Holds Press Briefing Following Bomb Threat to Jewish Children's Museum in Brooklyn
New York - Brooklyn (Part.2)
Brooklyn has played a major role in various aspects of American culture including literature, cinema and theater. It has the world-renowned Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the second largest public art collection in the United States, housed in the Brooklyn Museum.
Two films of Spike Lee, She's Gotta Have It and Do The Right Thing were shot in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn Museum, opened in 1897, is the nation's second-largest public art museum. It has in its permanent collection more than 1.5 million objects, from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art. The Brooklyn Children's Museum, the world's first museum dedicated to children, opened in December 1899. The only such New York State institution accredited by the American Association of Museums, it is one of the few globally to have a permanent collection -- over 30,000 cultural objects and natural history specimens.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) includes a 2,109-seat opera house, a 874-seat theater, and the art house BAM Rose Cinemas. Bargemusic and St. Ann's Warehouse are located on the other side of Downtown Brooklyn in the DUMBO arts district. Brooklyn Technical High School has the second-largest auditorium in New York City (after Radio City Music Hall), with a seating capacity of over 3,000.
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Les Néerlandais sont les premiers Européens à coloniser la région occidentale de Long Island, qui était jusqu'alors habitée par la tribu amérindienne Carnasie. Ils y établissent en 1634 Midwout (Midwood). Ils achètent aux Mohawks le territoire qui s'étend sur les quartiers actuels de Gowanus, Red Hook, du Brooklyn Navy Yard et de Bushwick. Le Village de Breuckelen (du nom de la ville de Breukelen aux Pays-Bas) est autorisé par la Compagnie néerlandaise des Indes occidentales en 1646 et devient ainsi la première municipalité de la Nouvelle-Néerlande.
Les Néerlandais perdent le village lors de la conquête britannique de leur colonie en 1664. En 1683 les Britanniques réorganisent la Province de New York en douze comtés eux-mêmes subdivisés en villes; le nom de celui de Breuckelen évolue : de Brockland, Brocklin, puis Brookline, il finit par devenir Brooklyn. Brooklyn reprend le découpage administratif du comté de Kings. Ce nom avait été attribué en l'honneur du roi Charles II d'Angleterre.
Le 27 août 1776 s'y déroule la bataille de Brooklyn (dite aussi bataille de Long Island), lors de la guerre d'indépendance.
En 1883, le pont de Brooklyn est achevé, ce qui facilite le voyage entre la ville et Manhattan. La création de lignes de métro contribue également à la croissance de Brooklyn à la fin du XIXe siècle, qui annexe les autres bourgs et villages du Comté de Kings et finit par fusionner avec celui-ci.
En 1894, les résidents de Brooklyn votent à une faible majorité pour se joindre à Manhattan, au Bronx, au Queens et à Richmond (plus tard Staten Island) pour devenir un des cinq arrondissements de la ville moderne de New York. Ce référendum a pris effet en 1898. Le comté de Kings a conservé son statut comme l'un des comtés État de New York.
Ce quartier de la Big Apple connaît depuis le début du XXIe siècle un nouveau dynamisme qui se remarque notamment par l'essor des quartiers d'affaires de Greenpoint et Williamsburg. Plusieurs entreprises installent des bureaux de l'autre côté de l'East River.
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The Mitzvah to Love Orphans! Can You Foster or Adopt?
Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz ( President & Founder of YATOM: The Jewish Adoption Network, argues the importance of loving the orphan and the value of welcoming these vulnerable souls into your life.
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“Near Sacramento, Sacramento County, California. Shacktown children watching their neighbors' house b…”
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19 February 1940
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“Bangladesh street children”
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“Child in the Belovodski Preschool Orphanage in Kara-Balta”
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“Poor Boy - Poor people in the Balochistan”
4 October 2013
Sherbaz Jamaldini
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“The Prophet Isaiah”
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Gustave Doré (1832–1883)
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“Haitian orphans. The orphanage, constructed by U.N. workers, was the first building erected in Port-au-Prince after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.”
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Hope and Homes for Children in Ukraine
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“Through Bible lands : notes of travel in Egypt, the desert, and Palestine”
1878
Philip Schaff
New York : American Tract Society
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“The Voice in the Desert (La voix dans le désert)”
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Brooklyn Museum
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“Moses Receiving the Law”
William Blake (1757–1827)
Yale Center for British Art
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“Esther Talking To Mordecai”
Aert de Gelder
1675
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“Portrait of an Old Jew”
Antoine Pesne (1683–1757)
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New York, New York - Skyscraper Museum HD (2016)
The Skyscraper Museum is an architecture museum located in Battery Park City, Manhattan, New York City and founded in 1996. As the name suggests, the museum focuses on high-rise buildings as products of technology, objects of design, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence. The Skyscraper Museum also celebrates the architectural heritage of New York and the forces and people who created New York's skyline. Before moving to the current and permanent location in Battery Park City in 2004, the museum was a nomadic institution, holding pop-up exhibitions in four temporary donated spaces around Lower Manhattan since 1996.
The Skyscraper Museum was founded and is directed by Carol Willis, a professor of architectural history and urban studies at Columbia University. It includes two exhibition spaces for both permanent and temporary exhibitions, a bookstore, and a mezzanine with its office, situated above the bookstore. The museum can be reached by a ramp starting in the basement.
Senator Jesse Hamilton
Senator Jesse Hamilton speaking at Operation Survival's opioid awareness event at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.
Attendees from both the Jewish Hassidic and the African American communities teamed up with elected officials to learn how to help fight the opioid crisis that has taken over America.
The event also brought together leading medical and legal experts to address strategies for preventing the misuse of opioids, root causes and cures, and resources available to the community.
The Sidewalks of New York: The Documentary (CC)
This film is a documentary that begins with the tale of the famous tune and builds every moment toward the fascinating story behind Governor Al Smith, the most forgotten historical figure in American history. The elections of 1924 and 1928 are featured prominently in the story's second half, and along the way a handful of songs from the same time period are played to portray that, while this film is somewhat about the tune 'The Sidewalks of New York', the other songs do their part to lift up and bring the story home, all joining together to complete one of the most inspiring tales in New York history.
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Corrections and updates:
- Joshua Beal (not Joseph) is the proper credit for the panoramic photograph
- Angel Guastaferro performed Pretty Jennie Slattery on piano
- Al Smith's wife Catherine, known as Katie, died several months before Al did, not just one week
- William Wordsworth originally coined the Happy Warrior words
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Young Jews and the Torah
In this video, Jewish children ages 5-17 are asked their opinions on the Torah.
Measles Outbreak in Brooklyn, NY is Affecting the Hasidic Jews!!! Is this a Government Conspiracy
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Mayor de Blasio Announces NYC Municipal ID to Give Access to 33 City Cultural Institutions
Announces NYC Municipal ID to Give Access to 1-Year Free Memberships at 33 of the City's Most Acclaimed Cultural Institutions
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With the Municipal ID card, thousands of residents will be able to receive free benefits at members of the Cultural Institutions Group throughout 2015
Today, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the City’s Municipal ID, which will launch in January 2015, will give all ID card holders access to one-year free membership packages at 33 of the City’s leading cultural institutions, including world class museums, performing arts centers, concert halls, botanical gardens, and zoos in all five boroughs. The Municipal ID/CIG one-year membership will be comparable to each institution’s standard one-year individual or family membership package, depending on the institution, and will give ID card holders a range of benefits including free admission, and access to special events, and discounts to museum shops.
The 33 institutions belong to the Cultural Institutions Group (CIG) which is comprised of private nonprofit cultural organizations located on City owned property. The first member of the CIG, the American Museum of Natural History, was created in 1869 and the group has grown to include a diverse cross section of institutions in each of the boroughs. The City provides capital, operating and energy support to CIG members and in turn each institution is charged with providing access to cultural services and programming to all New Yorkers.
The offer will be available to all Municipal ID holders from the day the program is launched in January 2015 through December 31, 2015. The membership term will be for one-year from the date the individual signs up with a participating cultural institution. The framework for the CIG membership deal came together with the support of City Council after Cultural Affairs Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl was appointed earlier this year. As a former director of a CIG institution, Commissioner Finkelpearl was able work closely with CIG chair Arnold Lehman and the organizations’ leadership in finding a creative and compelling strategy for CIG member institutions to open their doors even further to all New Yorkers. The package of benefits the CIG has developed demonstrates the central role these institutions play in New York’s civic life.
The 33 participating institutions are listed below by borough:
Bronx
1. Bronx County Historical Society
2. Bronx Museum of the Arts
3. New York Botanical Garden
4. Wave Hill
5. Wildlife Conservation Society (includes Bronx Zoo, New York Aquarium, Central Park Zoo, Queens Zoo, and Prospect Park Zoo)
Brooklyn
6. Brooklyn Academy of Music
7. Brooklyn Botanic Garden
8. Brooklyn Children's Museum
9. Brooklyn Museum
Manhattan
10. American Museum of Natural History
11. Carnegie Hall
12. New York City Ballet
13. El Museo del Barrio
14. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
15. Metropolitan Museum of Art
16. Museum of Jewish Heritage
17. Museum of the City of New York
18. New York City Center
19. Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival
20. Studio Museum in Harlem
Queens
21. Flushing Town Hall
22. Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
23. Museum of the Moving Image
24. New York Hall of Science
25. MoMA PS1
26. Queens Botanical Garden
27. Queens Museum
28. Queens Theatre
Staten Island
29. Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
30. Staten Island Children's Museum
31. Staten Island Historical Society
32. Staten Island Museum
33. Staten Island Zoological Society
Bronx Botanical Garden
September 18, 2014
Attorney General Mukasey on Waterboarding
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U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey explains his position on the legality of waterboarding as an interrogation technique.
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Public Corruption and Public Confidence with U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
Mukasey took over leadership of the Department of Justice after a time of great turmoil and controversy. Coming in with support from both sides of the aisle, Mukasey has made it a priority to address issues of public corruption and the integrity of our government institutions. - The Commonwealth Club of California
Michael Mukasey was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1941 and graduated from Columbia College and Yale Law School, where he was on the Board of Editors of the Yale Law Journal. Prior to becoming Attorney General, he had a lengthy career as an attorney, including service as an Assistant United States Attorney from 1972 to 1976 in New York. From 1975 to 1976 he also served as chief of his district's Official Corruption Unit. From 1976 to 1987 he was an associate, and then member, of the firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler.
Mukasey was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 and served until 2006, the last six years as chief judge. During that time, Judge Mukasey presided over hundreds of cases, including the trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 co-defendants charged with conspiring to blow up numerous sites in New York. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he was widely praised for the speed with which the federal courthouse, located just blocks from the site of the World Trade Center, returned to normal operation.
Upon his retirement from the bench, Mukasey returned to Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, in the firm's litigation group.
Judge Mukasey has received numerous awards over the years, including the Learned Hand Medal for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence from the Federal Bar Council, the William Tendy Award from the Fiske Association, awards from the Seymour Association, the Respect for Law Alliance, and the Ari Halberstam Award from the Jewish Children's Museum. He also received an honorary degree from the Brooklyn Law School.
Mukasey's professional and civic activities have included service as a director of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation and as a director of the Jewish Children's Museum. He has also been a lecturer in law at the Columbia Law School. He was a member of the Automation and Technology Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States; was chairman of the Committee on Public Access to Information and Proceedings of the New York State Bar Association; was a member of the Federal Courts Committee and the Communications Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and was a member of the American Bar Association.
Judge Mukasey was nominated to be Attorney General by President George W. Bush on September 17, 2007, and confirmed by the United States Senate on November 8. He entered duty on November 9.
NWO Depopulation & Eugenics - Their Evil Playbook Exposed
Agenda 21 - Agenda 21 is a non-binding action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. It is a product of the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992.
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Agenda 2030 - The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (or Global Goals for Sustainable Development) are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations in 2015. The formal name for the SDGs is: Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. That has been shortened to 2030 Agenda.
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The Georgia Guidestones is a granite monument erected in 1980 in Elbert County, Georgia, in the United States. Address: 1031 Guide Stones Road, Elberton, GA 30635 - Opened: March 22, 1980 (322 Skull & Bones)
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Number of Abortions Since 1973 - US since 1973: Roe vs Wade: 60,711,544 - Worldwide since 1980 - 1,507,708,134 -
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., or Planned Parenthood, is a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care in the United States and globally. Founded: October 16, 1916, Brooklyn, New York City, NY - Founders: Margaret Sanger, Fania Mindell, Ethel Bryne
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According to Matthew White’s estimate on the page Worldwide Statistics of Casualties, Massacres, Disasters and Atrocities., a total of about 123 million people died in all wars of the 20th Century, thereof 37 million military deaths, 27 million collateral civilian deaths, 41 million victims of democide (genocide and other mass murder) and 18 million victims of non-democidal famine.
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Toxic Vaccine Adjuvants & Ingredients:
#1: Mercury (Thimerosal or Thiomersal)
Ingredients #2: Aluminum
Ingredients #3: Human Diploid Cells (Aborted Fetuses)
Ingredients #4: Animal Cells
Ingredients #5: MSG (Monosodium Glutamate)
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The Georgia Guidestones is a granite monument erected in 1980 in Elbert County, Georgia, in the United States. Address: 1031 Guide Stones Road, Elberton, GA 30635 - Opened: March 22, 1980 (322 Skull & Bones)
THE MESSAGE OF THE GEORGIA GUIDESTONES
The Georgia Guidestones:
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
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68 Monsanto-Owned Companies:
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Transhumanism: the belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology.
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Eugenics: Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of a human population. The exact definition of eugenics has been a matter of debate since the term was coined by Francis Galton in 1883.
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- For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:12
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10
Jesus Saves! Follow Him! God bless you and your families.
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The Women Who Made New York
Hillary Clinton’s historic run for the presidency of the United States offers an excellent opportunity to celebrate the women politicians who helped pave the way. Join Julie Scelfo, author of The Women Who Made New York, as she discusses three political trailblazers: Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman in the US Congress, Bella Abzug, the second Jewish woman elected to Congress, and Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman from a major party to run for vice president. Liz Abzug, Bella’s daughter, Donna Zaccaro, Geraldine’s daughter, and Zinga Fraser, PhD, the Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project will join the conversation.
Eldridge Street Museum : New York Historic Landmark
Famous for Kiki's revolutionary stainless and more, the inside of the yesteryear’s Synagogue is an example of historic , aesthetic and emotional story of the immigrant Jews. My vlog on my visit to Eldridge Street Museum, a national historic landmark of New York!
Discover NEW YORK Tour | Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island | Travel Big Apple NYC
Explore New York City's five boroughs and visit the Big Apple's famous attractions: Empire State Building, Times Square, Broadway, Central Park, Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty, Harlem, Carnegie Hall, Yankee Stadium, Coney Island, Shea Stadium, Brooklyn Bridge, Staten Island Ferry, Bronx Zoo, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Columbia University, NYU, Fordham, Yeshiva University, Julliard School, Flatiron Building, National Tennis Center, 42nd Street, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Wall Street Stock Exchange, Federal Hall, Grant's Tomb, Chrysler Building, NYC Opera, Metropolitan Opera, American Ballet Theatre, NYC Ballet, New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center, Freedom Tower, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Greenwich Village, NYC Public Library Historical Society, TriBeCa, Soho, Newtown Creek, Brooklyn Museum/Academy of Music/Botanical Gardens, Aqueduct Racetrack, United Nations, Apollo Theater, Museum of the City of New York, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Williamsburgh, Crown Heights, Borough Park, Hudson River, East River, Long Island Sound, Astoria, Woodside, Forest Hills, Flushing, Elmhurst, Calvary Cemetery, 1939/1964 World's Fair, New York Harbor Upper Bay Lower Bay, Queen Catherine & King Charles II, NYC Islands: Governors Randalls Wards Roosevelt U Thant, Marble Hill, NYC Subway/Harbor, LaGuardia & JFK Airports, etc. In this Edition of Timeline: Discover NEW YORK CITY and it's five boroughs: Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island. Timeline also presents a simple map of the metropolis that is easy to comprehend, and fun to replicate for educational school projects.
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9 Of New York's Most INSANE Unsolved Mysteries
9 Of New York's Most INSANE Unsolved Mysteries.
1. The Murder of Arnold Rothstein at the Park Central Hotel.
Known by many names – A. R., Mr. Big, The Fixer, The Big Bankroll, The Man Uptown, and The Brain - Arnold Rothstein seemed more myth than man....
2. The Wall Street Bombing.
At the stroke of noon on Sept. 16, 1920, a bomb exploded along Wall Street, killing 38 people and maiming hundreds more. It was the worst terrorist bombing in the United States until the Oklahoma City attack in 1995, the worst in New York until the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center....
3. The 1964 World’s Fair's Buried Underground Home
It's a spacious, secure home that could probably fetch a pretty penny on today's NYC real estate market - the only problem is that no one knows if it still exists. The mystery centers around The Underground World Home....
4. The American Museum of Natural History Jewel Heist
On the night of October 29, 1964, three young Americans from Miami, Florida, made the national headlines in what America called the 'jewel heist of the century'. The target was a jewel collection taken from the American Museum of Natural History in New York...
5. The Lost Eagles of Pennsylvania Station.
The obliteration of the McKim, Mead & White-designed Pennsylvania Station in 1963, just a half-century after its completion, helped galvanize grassroots preservation efforts that eventually led to New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner signing the Landmarks Law on April 19, 1965....
6. The Lost Locomotive in the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel.
With continued silence from the DOT, we are dead in the water, with the potential of a major historical find right under our feet in Brooklyn.
Earlier this month, Bob Diamond....
7. The Cow Tunnels of New York City
In the late 19th century, there were some two million cows being herded in the streets of New York City. It’s long been rumored that underground “cow tunnels” were created to ease the congestion, but evidence (archeological or otherwise) has been hard to come by and exact locations have not been verified...
8. The Lost Bogardus Building
A building that once stood in downtown New York City in the Washington Market area was stolen not once, but twice in its history. The area was targeted for urban renewal in the 1960s, but because the Bogardus Building....
9. The Cornerstone of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Much is known about the cornerstone of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. As the Archdiocese of New York embarks on a five-year, $175 million renovation of what has been described as the nation’s largest Roman Catholic Gothic sanctuary, architects and historians have meticulously reviewed every detail of James Renwick Jr.’s original blueprints.....
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Attorney General Mukasey on Telecom Immunity
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U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey explains why he supports legal immunity for telecommunications companies who disclosed customer information to the federal government following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
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Public Corruption and Public Confidence with U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
Mukasey took over leadership of the Department of Justice after a time of great turmoil and controversy. Coming in with support from both sides of the aisle, Mukasey has made it a priority to address issues of public corruption and the integrity of our government institutions. - The Commonwealth Club of California
Michael Mukasey was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1941 and graduated from Columbia College and Yale Law School, where he was on the Board of Editors of the Yale Law Journal. Prior to becoming Attorney General, he had a lengthy career as an attorney, including service as an Assistant United States Attorney from 1972 to 1976 in New York. From 1975 to 1976 he also served as chief of his district's Official Corruption Unit. From 1976 to 1987 he was an associate, and then member, of the firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler.
Mukasey was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 and served until 2006, the last six years as chief judge. During that time, Judge Mukasey presided over hundreds of cases, including the trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 co-defendants charged with conspiring to blow up numerous sites in New York. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he was widely praised for the speed with which the federal courthouse, located just blocks from the site of the World Trade Center, returned to normal operation.
Upon his retirement from the bench, Mukasey returned to Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, in the firm's litigation group.
Judge Mukasey has received numerous awards over the years, including the Learned Hand Medal for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence from the Federal Bar Council, the William Tendy Award from the Fiske Association, awards from the Seymour Association, the Respect for Law Alliance, and the Ari Halberstam Award from the Jewish Children's Museum. He also received an honorary degree from the Brooklyn Law School.
Mukasey's professional and civic activities have included service as a director of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation and as a director of the Jewish Children's Museum. He has also been a lecturer in law at the Columbia Law School. He was a member of the Automation and Technology Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States; was chairman of the Committee on Public Access to Information and Proceedings of the New York State Bar Association; was a member of the Federal Courts Committee and the Communications Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and was a member of the American Bar Association.
Judge Mukasey was nominated to be Attorney General by President George W. Bush on September 17, 2007, and confirmed by the United States Senate on November 8. He entered duty on November 9.
Edna Nahshon “From Dybbuk to Ghetto: Major Plays from the Jewish Dramatic Canon” (Lecture 1)
The course will expose students to Jewish dramatic literature. The plays selected come from pre-revolutionary Russia, the United States, and Israel, and were originally written in Yiddish, English, and Hebrew. They represent different styles and genres, including folkloristic mysticism, family melodrama, and thesis plays, and engage with themes that are relevant to this day: mystic yearnings, inter-generational tensions, moral quandaries, sexual mores, trauma and memory. They offer a vista of traditional Jewish life in the late 19th century, engage with the Jewish mass immigration to America and the many dilemmas triggered by it, and finally, confront the horrible ethical ambiguities presented by the Holocaust.
Edna Nahshon is Professor of Jewish Theater and Drama at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. Dr. Nahshon’s specialty is the intersection of Jewishness, theater, and performance, a topic on which she has written extensively. In 2016, she curated a major exhibition titled “New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway” at the Museum of the City of New York. Her most recent book is Wrestling with Shylock: Jewish Responses to the Merchant of Venice (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Other books include Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context (2012), Jewish Theatre: A Global View (2009), Jews and Shoes (2008), From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill’s Jewish Plays (2005), and Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef, 1925–1940 (1998).
Two Tragedies: American and Israeli injustice
A look at the parallels between Native-Americans under Manifest Destiny and Palestinians under Zionism, making the case against American support for Israel as a Jewish state. CORRECTIONS - my U.S. senator is Catholic, not Jewish and Jewish holidays are not state holidays. Something not mentioned in the video is that in Illinois the law says the holocaust must be taught in the public schools by grade 8. There is no requirement to mention the Nakba (the eviction of Palestinians with the formation of Israel)
1212 Fifth Avenue Condo | Museum Mile | Jacky Teplitzky | Douglas Elliman
1212 Fifth Avenue, 4A - Upper East Side, New York
1212 Fifth Avenue Condominium is located along Carnegie Hill's prestigious Museum Mile, where you can enjoy world renowned museums such as The Guggenheim, The Cooper Hewitt, El Museo Del Barrio, Museum of The City of New York, The Jewish Museum, and last but not least, The MET. Walk past the beautiful Vanderbilt Gate and into Central Park's Conservatory Gardens admiring the peaceful gardens and the Burnett and Untermyer Fountains. This truly expansive, 3 Bedroom, 3.5 Bath Pre-War Condo with direct Central Park Views combines the best of both worlds by offering interiors that are a blend of pre-war elegance and contemporary style.
Welcomed by a beautiful foyer, you are led into a gracefully designed large living and dining room with views of Central Park directly from the perch of oversized windows augmenting the scenery and lighting the apartment.
The Master Bedroom Suite, located to the northwest corner of the apartment, offers privacy along with great views of Central Park to the west and north on 5th Avenue. It also features an en-suite 4-fixture bathroom with a large walk-in shower and outfitted with the finest fixtures and finishes to include: Bianco Dolomite Marble finishes, NuHeat Radiant Flooring, heated towel warmers, Dornbracht hardware, Duravit commode, Kohler cast iron soaking tub and Lacava lavatory. Four customized closets abound the master including a walk-in closet.
Two additional chambers with en-suite bathrooms complete this abode including one bedroom on the north wing and one bedroom split to the south of the apartment. Residence 4A boasts a high-end kitchen perfectly suited for both at-home cooking and entertaining. Outfitted with top of the line appliances - Miele and Bertazzonni appliance package, and Dornbracht fixtures. The kitchen is ample enough to accommodate a breakfast table along with built-in benches for seating and entertaining.
Additional details of this magnificent pre-war, triple mint, condominium include 9-foot beamed ceilings, handsome oak wood flooring throughout, custom high-end millwork including lacquered built-ins, book shelves, heating and air conditioning enclosures, solid core doors with customized hardware, individually controlled thermostats in each room, tastefully finished powder room, customized laundry room which includes Miele washer & dryer, and a large pantry for storage.
1212 Fifth, was designed in 1925 by George and Edward Blum, exemplifying the craftsmanship and attention to detail of the pre-war architecture at the time. It was converted in 2011 into a boutique condominium with 55 residential apartments. Amenities include: 24 hour attended lobby, in-house resident's manager, over 2,500 square feet of state of the art fitness gym, both a resident's lounge and children's playroom, storage and additional laundry facilities. An additional suite of amenities, including pool access and parking are available for a fee, from a partnership that 1212 Fifth Ave Condominium has contracted with the adjacent Related Luxury Tower at 1214 Fifth Avenue.
Fine dining abounds at Carnegie Hill to include dinner at the famed Paola's, Ristorante Morini, and Pascalou. Prefer to cook at home, look no further than the notable Kitchen Arts and Letters to find the perfect recipe or Dean & Deluca for the finest ingredients. In the mood for some literary works, you can find a wide array of books at The Corner Book Store. Countless boutiques adorn this fabulous neighborhood of Carnegie Hill making 1212 Fifth Avenue a true pre-war gem