The study of ancient Judaism has enjoyed a steep rise in interest and publications in recent decades, although the focus has often been on the ideas and beliefs represented in ancient Jewish texts rather than on the daily lives and the material culture of Jews/Judaeans and their communities. The nascent institution of the synagogue formed an increasingly important venue for communal gathering and daily or weekly practice. This collection of essays brings together a broad spectrum of new archaeological and textual data with various emergent theories and interpretative methods in order to address the need to understand the place of the synagogue in the daily and weekly procedures, community frameworks, and theological structures in which Judaeans, Galileans, and Jewish people in the Diaspora lived and gathered. The interdisciplinary studies will be of great significance for anyone studying ancient Jewish belief, practice, and community formation.
One of her moms is pregnant. How is a child prepared for the baby's arrival? And what is it like when the new baby arrives? The happy anticipation and the realities when the baby arrives are chronicled in this book which has been written for any family expecting a new baby.
Great Gramps almost comes to regret his decision when, after a bad fall, he allows Judge Benjamin and the O'Rileys to move in and run things on his farm.
Immigrants and Roma in Naples, Rome, and the southern Italian town of Rosarno are attacked by mobs. An Italian of Burkina Faso origin is bludgeoned to death on the street in Milan after a petty theft from a café. An Indian man outside Rome is beaten, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. A Chinese man in Rome is beaten as he waits for the bus. A Senegalese actor is stabbed in the stomach as he waits for a tram in Milan. These recent hate crimes in Italy did not occur in a vacuum. In a country that has seen a dramatic increase in immigration, a political discourse that links immigrants and Roma to crime has helped create an environment of intolerance. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said in 2009 that Italy should not become a multiethnic country. The reality is that Italy is already a mosaic of ethnicities, nationalities, and national origins. Without a more responsible approach from the Italian authorities, there is a real danger that Italy's growing diversity will be accompanied by rising intolerance and violence. Everyday Intolerance, based on dozens of interviews with victims of violence, government officials, and others, in cities across Italy, shows that the response of the Italian authorities to racist violence has been at best inadequate. Amendments to the criminal law should ensure that crimes motivated wholly or in part by hatred on grounds of race, or other protected grounds such as sexual orientation and gender identity, should be prosecuted and punished as such. Authorities should collect appropriate data, in order to analyze trends in racist and xenophobic violence and ensure an appropriate response. Officials at the highest levels should stop downplaying the problem, and instead consistently and forcefully condemn racist and xenophobic violence, including harassment and abuse by law enforcement officers against Roma and immigrants"--P. [4] of cover.
Key Recommendations -- To the Government of France -- To the Parliament -- To the Ministry of Interior -- Methodology -- Terminology -- I. Abuses of Identity Check Powers -- Ethnic Profiling -- Multiple Stops -- Intrusive Searches -- Insults and Physical Abuse during Stops -- Detention or Charge for "Insulting an Officer" -- Inadequate Safeguards against Abuse -- Too Much Discretion in Law -- No Recording of Stops -- Inadequate Accountability Mechanisms -- III. Impact on Community-Police Relations -- IV. Relevant National and International Standards -- Prohibition of Discrimination -- Right to Privacy -- Use of Force -- Duty to Respect -- Recommendations -- To the Government of France -- To the Parliament --To the Ministry of Interior -- To the Defender of Rights -- To the Council of the European Union, the European Commission and the European Parliament -- To the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) -- To the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights and European Commission against Racism and Intolerance -- To the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism -- To the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, and the UN Human Rights Committee -- Acknowledgments.
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