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Jewish Maritime Historical Society: Yitzchak Rabin's Legacy, The Altalena
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Sunday, November 1, 2009. Yitzchak Rabin's Legacy, The Altalena. The Israeli media is now full of 1984-style programs and statements in memory of their idol, Yitzchak Rabin. In contrast, many of us remember a different Rabin and a different Israeli History. That brings us to the Altalena, a tragedy caused by vile hatred of Jew against Jew. It dwarfs the despicable sezon, when Ben Gurion's followers gave names of fellow Jews to the British to have them arrested and worse. In 1948, Menachem Begin's Irgun h...
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Jewish Maritime Historical Society: The first hero of the Portuguese discoveries!
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009. The first hero of the Portuguese discoveries! Who was João Gonçalves Zarco? He was a Portuguese Jew converted to Catholicism, and member of the House of Prince Henry the Navigator, when this Prince became the Administrator of the Order of Christ in Tomar, in the center of Portugal . They named it first Devine Spirit but then changed its name of Porto Santo, meaning Salvation Port because it saved their lives. After examining the island that had no human inhabitants they returne...
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Jewish Maritime Historical Society: Aaron Lopez's Struggle for Citizenship
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Monday, October 12, 2009. Aaron Lopez's Struggle for Citizenship. The Lopez family left Portugal for New York in 1740. They had been living as conversos in Portugal. Once in America, the Lopez’s reclaimed their Jewish identity. The family moved to Newport in the 1750s and became active in shipping, whaling and the manufacture of candles. After living in Newport for nine years, Aaron Lopez applied to become a naturalized citizen. The court reasoned that Parliament had authorized naturalization in the colo...
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Jewish Maritime Historical Society: Jews and Navigation
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009. These merchants speak Arabic, Persian, Roman, Frankish, Spanish, and Slavonic," wrote Ibn Khurdadhih in the ninth century CE, "They travel from East to West and from West to East by land as well as by sea."3. Judaic savants were largely responsible for the invention and development of the instruments and astronomical tables which thereafter facilitated world-girdling sea voyages. In the thirteenth century, the King of Castile, Alfonso the Wise, instructed Judah ben Moses Cohen,...
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Jewish Maritime Historical Society: October 2009
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009. These merchants speak Arabic, Persian, Roman, Frankish, Spanish, and Slavonic," wrote Ibn Khurdadhih in the ninth century CE, "They travel from East to West and from West to East by land as well as by sea."3. Judaic savants were largely responsible for the invention and development of the instruments and astronomical tables which thereafter facilitated world-girdling sea voyages. In the thirteenth century, the King of Castile, Alfonso the Wise, instructed Judah ben Moses Cohen,...
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Jewish Maritime Historical Society: November 2009
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Sunday, November 1, 2009. Yitzchak Rabin's Legacy, The Altalena. The Israeli media is now full of 1984-style programs and statements in memory of their idol, Yitzchak Rabin. In contrast, many of us remember a different Rabin and a different Israeli History. That brings us to the Altalena, a tragedy caused by vile hatred of Jew against Jew. It dwarfs the despicable sezon, when Ben Gurion's followers gave names of fellow Jews to the British to have them arrested and worse. In 1948, Menachem Begin's Irgun h...
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Jewish Maritime Historical Society: Rear Admiral to address Indiana Jewish Historical Society
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009. Rear Admiral to address Indiana Jewish Historical Society. In 2000 he was assigned to the Chief of Naval Chaplains Office as Special Assistant for Reserve Manpower. His Flag assignment is: Deputy Chief of Chaplains for Reserve Matters and Director of Religious Programs, Marine Force Reserve. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; And he shall be for a haven of ships; And his border shall be upon Sidon. - Genesis 49:13. Illegal Immigrant...
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Jewish Maritime Historical Society: Jewish war vets receive monument
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Jewish war vets receive monument. In honoring Jewish military veterans with a stone monument at Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly Township, local vets were sending a message. Jewish people have served in every war this country has fought," Gerald Order, 65, commander of the Department of Michigan Jewish War Veterans, said at the unveiling Sunday. The monument stands knee-high along a paved path with other memorials near a quiet, tree-lined waterfront. We come together to o...
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Jewish Maritime Historical Society: September 2009
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Saturday, September 5, 2009. Yossi Harel, who renamed the rickety ship he commanded Exodus 1947 and sailed it to legend as a symbol of the righteousness of the mission by Jews to settle Palestine in the face of British opposition, died Saturday at his home in Tel Aviv. He was 90. His death of a heart attack and burial were widely reported in the Israeli news media. The Exodus never made it to the Palestinian shore. But it made a dazzling sight as it approached the port of Haifa. Loudspeakers blar...It wa...
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Jewish Maritime Historical Society: Jewish Traders of the Diaspora
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Jewish Traders of the Diaspora. Jewish Dispersion, a Bane and a Boon. The Jews enjoyed a commercial advantage by virtue of familial ties and ability to communicate. Having a common interest, they established commercial liaisons of mutual benefit, and were, often uniquely, able to issue letters of credit that were certain to be honored months later from distant lands. Click on the link to read the whole article. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Old S...
