In the late 1930s, when almost all countries closed their doors to Jewish refugees from Germany, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) was one of the few countries which retained an open door policy for refugees. The few Jewish refugees lucky enough to learn of the existence of this haven were granted entry without any hardship. However, all the mass settlement projects to accommodate Jewish refugees, from the Mwinilunga Plan (July 1938) to the 440 Families Plan (summer 1939), were rejected by the colonial authorities. Although they provided economic reasons for their refusal to support the settlement plans, one of the main reasons was the existence of anti-alien and antisemitic sentiments among some of the Rhodesian settlers. Only 250 Jewish immigrants entered the country on an individual basis in 1938-39. The Anglo-Jewish leadership, in particular the Emigration (Planning) Committee in Great Britain, failed to inform Jews in Germany and elsewhere in Europe of the possible refuge in Northern Rhodesia and did not support the 440 Families Plan. During the war, Rhodesia accommodated tens of thousands of Polish non-Jewish refugees.
The first pope could have been a woman. Why isn’t Teresa lll or Catherine V waving at us from the Vatican window in St. Peter’s Square? After all, Jesus made no bones about gender issues. And Mary Magdalene was certainly most fitting to be the first bishop of Rome. So what when wrong? As is often the case, the issue is the bending of truth. Eve and Mary: The Search for Lost Beauty and Sensuality is an exciting voyage of historical and cultural discovery that steps into the stream of familiar legends and myths as well as other unusual and surprising events, seeking, exploring and making sense of the stigmatization of sexual pleasure and the vanishing of beauty in the Early Middle Ages in Europe.
When most of the Western leadership is assassinated in a mega-terrorist attack perpetrated by radical Moslems, a chain of breathtaking events is unleashed. Against this backdrop, the True Templers, a clandestine Protestant sect, hatch an extraordinary plot to realize their apocalyptical belief in the Second Coming of Christ. As the plot thickens, the existence of ancient Jewish Temple treasures, hidden in the Vatican cellars for over two thousand years, is revealed. The return of these treasures to the State of Israel would have an earth shattering impact on the state of the world. With the possibility of an excruciating war of civilizations heightening, the new Pope, Urban IX, calls for a modern Crusade. During seven tense days the fate of the world hinges on crucial decisions being made at the Vatican in Rome, at Israel's defense ministry and at the presidential palace in Shiraz, Iran. God's Elect depicts a thrilling drama, where fact and fiction merge, and a number of contemporary and critical geo-political conditions clash head on with religious fanaticism.
The roots of a huge maple tree buckle the sidewalk on a quiet city street, causing serious injury to a passing boy. A mother crow nests in the branches high above, hiding from the hawk which killed her mate. A city attorney and a city inspector begin action to destroy the tree. An old man who has lived beside this growing tree for 70 years discovers something beyond himself and acts to connect with neighbors to save the tree in a story of life, loss, regret and hope.
Unusual past dating experiences constantly haunt and interchange with the inner web of convoluted intrigue and personal conflicts of the now. Mark Zuskind, a retired historian, meets up with the beautiful Helena, a professor from Russia, after being manipulated by an invitation to attend an international conference in Budapest. Targeted by the Vatican for his alleged blasphemous writings and lectures, Mark now finds himself at the center of a complex plot. An organization for women's empowerment takes up Mark's predicament to fight for academic freedom and equality for women in the Church. At every stage the present clashes with the past evoking Mark's denouement of dating trysts.
You have a bit of education and you have ambition, you want to be great at something, be great as a person, but where do you go with that? Right here. This book gives you what you need to better understand and then apply greatness to your own life. Over the past several years, I have explored, gathered, and assembled knowledge I thought would be useful to ambitious young people, knowledge that is not typically taught in the high school classroom. Some of this was included in my 2011 book A Call To Greatness and some in the BE GREAT Daily Email. In this book, psychotherapist and teen expert Frank Shapiro leads you through an education like no other - certainly unlike anything you'll get in a typical high school. Drawing on motivational, psychological, and self-development experts like Anthony Robbins, Abraham Maslow, Daniel Goleman, Milhaly Czinkszentmihali, Daniel Pink, Malcolm Gladwell, and others, and exploring life-changing innovations and successful businesses ranging from In-N-Out to Play-Doh to the pencil, How To BE GREAT explores and illuminates greatness as no other book ever has. Further, How To BE GREAT provides you with exercises and forms to apply the material to your own life and future and chase greatness for yourself.
A Must-Read For Parents With Teenagers In this concise and unique program, psychotherapist and teen expert Frank Shapiro leads you past behavior management into the realm of character development - but it's not your teenager who has to change. It's you, the parent. The changes you make in yourself influence change in your teenager, and the power struggles that typify the parent-teen relationship are transcended. Parenting Outside The Box is designed to develop your way of being. Once you understand and practice how to be, what you do in specific situations naturally follows. To reach this higher level of being, the author outlines seven essential strategies: Take Responsibility For The Relationship; Parent With Purpose; Earn Respect; Role-Model Happiness; Understand Psychodynamics; Encourage Thinking; and Manage Leverage. Parenting Outside The Box is not based on trends nor is it tied to a specific philosophy. As the author states in the Introduction: "The strategies I present here are timeless. This program would have worked two thousand years ago and will work two thousand years in the future." Written in an accessible, conversational style, Parenting Outside The Box is filled with surprising ideas and insights that will change the way you think about parenting.
Each of us has one life and 24 hours a day to make the most of it. Each of us chooses what we think and what we do every moment of every day. Every little thing we do matters, because the little things add up. You can treat life as a gift or you can take it for granted. You can make the most of time or you can waste it. You can accept what life offers or take what you want from it. You decide who you will be and what you will do with the life youve been given. What will you do? Who will you be? Combining philosophy and psychology with practical insight, psychotherapist and teen expert Frank Shapiro takes readers on a guided tour of Reality and the paths necessary for those seeking more than the ordinary in Lifefor those few seeking Greatness.
The theory of holomorphic functions of several complex variables emerged from the attempt to generalize the theory in one variable to the multidimensional situation. Research in this area has led to the discovery of many sophisticated facts, structures, ideas, relations, and applications. This deepening of knowledge, however, has also revealed more
This work represents the definitive account of the Jewish community in central Africa. It tells the story of the coming of the first Jews to the area in the late 19th century, the heyday of the Jewish community in the mid-20th century, and its decline since Zambian independence. Dealing primarily with the Jewish traders in Zambia who flourished in the face of both anti-semitism and their own acute social dislocation, Macmillan explores a number of interrelated topics: the colonial office discussions about Jewish immigration in the 1930s, the attempts to settle refugees in Africa by both pro-and anti-semites, Jewish religious life in the region, and the remarkable cultural and professional role played by the Jewish settlers. Setting these issues in the context of a general history of southern and central Africa, this book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the economic history of the entire region. It will be of interest to both historians of Africa and anyone concerned with economic development, identity and immigrant communities.
Nightwalker is the epic tale of Kukele and Awndu, lovers separated by treachery, deception, witchcraft, slavery and time. Kukele, a fearsome warrior cursed by a jealous sorceress with an unquenchable bloodlust, embarks on an endless search for his bride; Awndu, a revolutionary priestess whose bloodline ends in the 20th Century personage of Mawndi, the beautiful, virgin High Priestess of the J'wewe clan in modern-day Atlanta, GA. Kukele must convince Mawndi of his un-dying love, remind her of her legacy and lure her away from an obsessed suitor in order to find peace at last. Nightwalker is a gripping story of the undeniable power of love. Love that has no limit, that is not bound by time, place or space. It is a testimony that there is nothing that love cannot endure. There is no limit to its faith. It hopes all things and endures all things. Everlasting. Eternal. Love never dies
The Basketball Novels includes three stories - written over the course of 30 years - in which the sport of basketball plays a significant role. All first-person accounts, Even The Losers tracks the journey of a high school senior as he navigates life in a group home, academics in a special education class of "losers," and his relationship with an old teacher who sees his potential; Animal Behavior follows a psychologically-damaged struggling artist coming to terms with his mistakes and himself, and his twisted (and yet beautiful) relationship with a female counselor; and The Winners is an autobiographical story of a therapist working to understand his own life as he helps others do the same and strives to emerge victorious in a basketball tournament against unbeatable foes.
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