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downtown Manhattan; lower than Atheists, god bless them.
research showed. That`s just the data. Them`s the numbers.
public policy at Harvard and one of the two authors of "American Grace."
ROBERT PUTNAM, "AMERICAN GRACE": Thanks. I`m very glad to be here.
Why don`t you just call me Bob the professor?
MADDOW: Bob the professor -- very good.
related to the revisions of our book on religion.
some relationship to the old religious right.
And I said, well, let`s ask and find out.
And David won that bet.
Republicans. And about 5 percent of them were five years ago independents.
their sort of Tea Party brand.
blacks and immigrants and so on.
active role in politics and encourage people to vote a particular way.
to say it`s a good idea if we mix religion and politics.
quite have so much religion in our politics.
how the Tea Party specifically is viewed by the rest of the country.
People may be sort of intuiting that.
those that ended up in the Tea Party are much more firmly anti-immigration.
Party people are the ones who are really anti-immigration.
you so much for your time tonight and for helping us to understand this.
PUTNAM: Thanks very much, Rachel.
shameless appeal for him to adjust one more stop to his tour!
Americans live in the path of the storm.
City, meet category 1 storm.
out to sea and away from all of the people.
itself is what is called the storm surge.
of flooding of any hurricane making landfall close to New York City.
orange or yellow potential flood zone. And that`s just New York City.
should not take this lightly.
Virginia, Maryland, and New York.
of a really big storm, make fun all you want. Don`t care.
traffic jams and mass transit limitations on Saturday.
or other forms of ID, and an extra set of car keys and house keys.
storm. Nobody yet knows what path, what exact path this storm will take.
seriously -- with good reason.
and the, "MORNING JOE" on Thursday.
very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very much hope so.
Now, it`s time for "THE ED SHOW." Good night.
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This is the second of two articles on the origins of the Yiddish language.
It’s a conflict that also exists—or originated, depending on your perspective—in the academy. The main debate among Yiddish linguists is about the origin of the language and coalesces around a single, unexpectedly loaded question: Is Yiddish an essentially Jewish language, one that contained a Semitic component from th...
Like Krogh’s overwrought metaphor, the field of Yiddish linguistics is filled with an intensity that often leaves the tourist astonished. In her article about the mysterious origins of the Yiddish language, the late Cherie Woodworth described the field’s dramatis personae as “a very small but committed cadre of scholar...
It’s gotten worse over time, but it’s almost always been thus. Take one example from nearly three decades ago, a mess that ensnared a large group of some of the field’s boldest names. At the center of it was Dovid Katz, a leading Yiddish linguist. Born in Brooklyn, Katz is the son of Menke Katz, a Yiddish poet who spok...
Dovid Katz, who had edited the book under review, was furious. “We all knew it was Wexler by the style and the argument,” Katz told me on the phone from Vilnius. He called Sarah Thomason, the longtime editor of Language and a professor of linguistics at University of Michigan, demanding a retraction. He insisted that P...
Thomason decided to do some sleuthing. The review had come postmarked Waltham, Mass., so she asked her daughter, who was studying at Harvard, to go to the address supplied and see if Pavlo Slobodjans’kyj existed. When her daughter knocked on the door, it was opened by Paul Wexler’s mother-in-law.
“Academic Yiddish is a very strange thing,” Dara Horn, a Yiddishist and novelist, told me. “There’s this self-consciousness to Yiddish. No one believes that it’s a language. The people who are speaking it don’t believe it’s a language. There was an inferiority complex attached to Yiddish,” Horn explained, because liter...
Enter Max Weinreich, the father of 20th-century Yiddish linguistics. Born in what is now Latvia, Weinreich was raised in a secular, German-speaking household. But he became enamored with the language spoken by the Jews around him at an early age, and after earning a doctorate in linguistics, Weinreich established the Y...
Weinreich was a deeply charismatic individual, whose interests were hardly limited to the Yiddish language. “I think he was a genius,” said Glasser, who was until recently the dean of YIVO and who edited Weinreich’s life’s work, a 700-page History of the Yiddish Language and a corresponding 700 pages of notes. “Certain...
But Weinreich was also motivated by ideology. Even some of Weinreich’s followers concede that his theory reflected the need to stake a claim for Yiddish, on the one hand separating it from German and on the other hand establishing it as more than just jargon, or a debased kind of dialect. “Underlying that for YIVO and ...
Though Weinreich died in 1969, by and large his ideas continued to reign supreme for decades—having become even a “kind of a linguistic sect,” in Beider’s words.
In the past two decades, the debate has shifted. One the one side of the debate are Weinreich’s inheritors, who believe that Yiddish originated in Western Germany in the Rhineland and spread east. On the other side of the debate are those who think that eastern Yiddish, with its heavy Slavic influence and Bohemian vowe...
In the Weinreich camp is one of the most esteemed Yiddishists alive today by most accounts, Erika Timm, a professor at University of Trier in Germany. Unlike other German scholars, Timm believes that “Yiddish is one of the ‘Jewish languages,’ in the precise sense given to the term by Solomon Birnbaum and Max Weinreich,...
Dovid Katz disagrees with Timm on the question of where Yiddish originated within Germany. While he accepts that the Jews in the Rhineland spoke a “Germanic based Jewish language with a Semitic component,” he disputes that this language was Yiddish. Rather, according to Katz, the Semitic component of Yiddish goes back ...
Furthermore, the Semitic components in this eastern-born Yiddish can be traced back to ancient times. “I was rebelling against the theory that Jews once spoke a purely Germanic language that then over centuries acquired Hebrew and Aramaic purely through the study of Hebrew texts,” Katz told me over the phone from Vilni...
In Katz’s theory, the Jews arrived in what Katz calls “the cradle of Yiddish,” the city of Regensburg, speaking Aramaic. It is this spoken language that provided the source material for the Semitic component of Yiddish, spreading both further east as well as west, to the Rhineland, replacing whatever language the weste...
Despite disagreeing with Weinreich regarding the place of origin and language of the Jews immediately prior to Yiddish, Katz views himself as an inheritor of the great Yiddishist. “Ironically, by positing an inherited Semitic component, my own view is ‘more Weinreich than Weinreich’ in some sense,” he wrote to me in an...
On the other side of the spectrum are those, like Alexandre Beider, who has a doctorate in applied mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Beider believes that western and eastern Yiddish are simply too different to have a common origin. Rather, Jews spoke German dialects until the 14th century...
But Beider is not even the most far afield from Weinreich. For when fields are weak and orthodoxies reign, a fringe tends to develop; in Yiddish linguistics, that would be Paul Wexler.
The word Ashkenaz itself, he argues, only acquired its present referent—Jews of Germany—after the 11th century. It comes from a biblical word that signified the Scythians, in other words, the Iranians; for Wexler, this provides a crucial clue as to where the Jews came from and who they were prior to this date. Indeed, ...
For his part, Manaster Ramer has come to believe that Wexler and Weinreich—ostensibly two opposing poles on a spectrum—are in fact part and parcel of the same culture, one that puts the cart of ideological conclusion before the scientific horse.
Alexis Manaster Ramer was not easy to find. Now in his fifties, Manaster Ramer was born in Poland to Holocaust survivors and emigrated at a young age to the United States. He emerged onto the field of linguistics as a young prodigy in the 1980s when he got his doctorate at the University of Chicago. It is hard to imagi...
For instance, Manaster Ramer takes issue with Wexler’s claims that Yiddish is a Slavic language. Per Wexler, Yiddish’s lack of umlaut proves that it could not be descended from German. But Manaster Ramer argues that by that logic, neither English nor Dutch would be considered Germanic languages, and neither would many ...
But Manaster Ramer also thinks Katz is wrong. He points out that the Maharil, a 14th-century Talmudist from Mainz in the Rhineland, used the word yontif, too, in which case, this can’t be proof of the Danube thesis. Furthermore, the Kaufmann Haggadah, a Sephardic Haggadah from the 14th century, also has the vowel chang...
And what of the Bnei Ches and the Bnei Hes, which provided evidence for Katz’s claim that Yiddish originated in Regensburg and replaced the Rhineland dialect? These don’t necessarily lead to Katz’s conclusion, Manaster Ramer said. Katz assumes that because western Jews ultimately stopped being Bnei Hes and selected the...
Rather, Manaster Ramer believes that Roman Jews speaking a Romance dialect, not French but related to it, lived in both western and southern areas of what would become Germany. When the German tribes invaded the Roman territories, these Jews learned perfect German.
His evidence for this comes from the Romance words in Yiddish, as well as certain names that bear features that couldn’t possibly have come from French. For example, Beyle was a women’s name frequently found among the victims of the first crusade. The name is almost certainly not French, because if it were, the vowel w...
And those Old French words and names usually cited as evidence that the earliest German Jews spoke French probably entered the language centuries later than is claimed. Take for example the word most often cited to prove the French origin of the Ashkenazi Jews: cholent, the slow-cooked, slow-digested Sabbath food. Rece...
So, if the Jews who started speaking Yiddish originally spoke German, how and when did the Semitic component enter the language? The question itself is unscientific, said Manaster Ramer, ignoring as it does the historical context in which Yiddish came to be, which incidentally was a time in which German too underwent a...
In the end, what’s clear is that the field of Yiddish linguistics is certainly weakening. “There are no graduate studies in Yiddish in the United States anymore. And it’s almost gone in Israel. There’s a little in Germany and a little in Warsaw, which is very problematic if you think about the Jewish people,” said Rakh...
But it may also have to do with the desire some had to distance themselves from the mamaloshen. Professor Yosef Haim Yerushalmi, the Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society at Columbia University from 1980 to 2008, used to tell a story about giving an academic lecture that his mother atten...
Manaster Ramer—like many of the other prominent Yiddish linguists—certainly has reason to be emotional about Yiddish. His mother survived the war partially due to the fact that she was a native speaker of Polish and didn’t have the distinctive Yiddish accent, which is precisely what sent many Jews to their graves as th...
But, as people like Manaster Ramer might argue, allowing personal connections to morph into ideological motivations is the opposite of science—and the tendency to do so on the part of so many in Yiddish linguistics is what’s dooming the field. Steffen Krogh—who defined Manaster Ramer’s approach to Yiddish as “completel...
Counselor Nicole Burdette said the Kindness Club started as a spinoff of the school’s anti-bullying efforts. Members meet every Friday before school to organize or perform good deeds.
Since the start of the year, the students have posted “high-five” handprints with positive comments around the school, decorated lockers with candy and led a week-long school-wide kindness challenge. Students performed more than 3,000 acts of kindness that week – things like holding the door open for someone else, than...
Last Halloween, when she and other Kindness Club members attached lollipops and positive messages to all 430 lockers in the building, her classmates’ enthusiasm was contagious, Katrina said.
“People were really happy and overjoyed, and that made me so happy that I just wanted to jump up and down,” she said.
Participating in the Valley Center school’s challenge is simple: Later this month, March 23-27, pledge to perform at least 50 acts of kindness. They can be simple things: Leaving a nice note for someone, giving a compliment to the grocery-store cashier, letting someone go ahead of you in line, donating books to a libra...
Then share your experiences, photos or videos and spread the word on social media by using the hashtag #VCISbethechangechallenge. You also can e-mail nicole.burdette@usd262.net, or send an old-fashioned letter to Valley Center Intermediate School, 737 N. Meridian, Valley Center, KS 67147.
“These are quiet kids who just want to make a difference, and this is a nice avenue for them to do it,” said Burdette, the counselor.
Quality Foods Canadian Open Sand Sculpting Competition and Exhibition \| media!
The Parksville Beach Festival Society presents the Quality Foods Sand Sculpting Competition and Exhibition, a world class event for master sand sculptors and official qualifying event for the World Championship of Sand Sculpting. Master sand sculptors travel from all corners of the globe to participate in our remarkabl...
Parksville’s Sand Sculpting Competition history dates back to 1982, when it hosted its first “B.C. Open”. A total of 100 people attended the first event, and it was reviewed as a “great success”. From the BC Open to its present day title which welcomed 133,430 people, our largest attendance ever in 2016 “The Quality Fo...
Known to locals as “Beach Fest”, this 5-week long family-oriented festival runs July 14 to August 20, 2017 and includes the Quality Foods Sand Sculpting Competition & Exhibition, weekend concerts, buskers and an artisan market.
As this is Canada’s 150th birthday it only makes sense that this year’s theme should celebrate all things Canadian! Join in the celebration and see how our master sculptors from around the world work their magic with sand and show us what Canada means to them!
Known to locals as “Beach Fest”, this 5-week long family-oriented festival runs July 14 to August 20, 2017 and includes the Quality Foods Sand Sculpting Competition & Exhibition, weekend concerts, buskers and an artisan market. Come celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday and see how our master sculptors from around the worl...
Audiences can expect a whimsical and vibrant performance when two contemporary companies – Ottawa’s Tara Luz Danse and Mocean Dance of Halifax – join together for an all-ages double-bill at Shenkman Arts Centre’s Richcraft Theatre.
JOSE MOURINHO admits he was really happy to see star striker Romelu Lukaku back among the goals for Manchester United.
Summer signing Lukaku had gone eight games without a goal before he scored the final goal in the 4-1 win over Newcastle yesterday.
It was his eighth in the Premier League this season and helped United back up to second.
Mourinho had defended Lukaku during his barren run but was pleased for Lukaku to get back on the scoresheet.
"He is a striker and strikers like to score goals,” Mourinho said.
“It is not a problem for me if he works like he always does and he doesn't score goals but for their self-esteem, their confidence, strikers like to score goals.
Lukaku's effort capped a fine comeback from Manchester United that kept Manchester City's lead at the top of the table to eight points.
Israelis increasingly focus their disappointment not on Obama, but rather on his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
As the Obama administration presses Israel to cease settlement expansion as part of a renewed push for a Middle East peace deal — a course of action that many Israelis have interpreted as evidence of the president’s favoritism towards Palestinians — Israelis have increasingly focused their disappointment not on Obama, ...
An observant Jew with deep ties to Israel, Emanuel is viewed as something of a native son, his rise through the ranks of American politics celebrated by Israelis who reveled in details such as his childhood summers spent in Israel and his volunteer stint during the first Gulf War in an Israeli military program for civi...

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