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Edessa Ramos: She's Fierce
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If you're looking for someone who can share their knowledge about Filipino marnai arts, go to Edessa Ramos. A third-degree black belt in modern arnis (a weapons-based martial arts system developed by Filipinos through centuries of tradition), she's the founder of Modern Arnis Switzerland, an establishment she opened in 2000, which is now called the Swiss and European Commission of the International Modern Amis Federation Philippines (IMAFP). Edessa began her foray into modern arnis 16 years ago. "I was strolling through Quezon Memorial Circle (in the Philippines) when I saw a man performing a ...
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Hasidism on the Margin: Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism in Izbica/Radzin Hasidism.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Shofar
; Hasidism on the Margin: Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism in Izbica/Radzin Hasidism, by Shaul Magid. Madison: University...most important figure in Izbica/Radzin Hasidism after Mordecai Joseph. He was a prolific...
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Hasidism Reappraised.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies
; Ada Rapoport-Albert, ed. Hasidism Reappraised. London: The Littman...s Introduction to the volume, Hasidism is a movement of Jewish spiritual...secularization. Up to these days, Hasidism is still--in Israel, the US and...
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The Circle of the Baal Shem Tov: Studies in Hasidism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Shofar
; ...of the Baal Shem Tov: Studies in Hasidism, by Abraham Joshua Heschel, edited...the Kotzker Rebbe in the course on Hasidism in 1972. The Circle of the Baal...contains Heschel's four essays on Hasidism originally written in Hebrew in...
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Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Abraham, 44, may have broken away from Hasidism, but she insists she has not rejected...13th-century Spain upon which much of Hasidism is based.The book is set in Monsey...great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, Hasidism's founder. Nachman tried to rejuvenate...
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Wiesel's Boston U. lecture explores roots of Hasidism, hatred
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...Metcalf Hall, focusing on the origin of Hasidism and the plight of its founder. As part...Tuesday night's talk, entitled "In Hasidism: Rebbe Shneur-Zalman, the Founder...centered around the struggle to form Hasidism and how anti-Semitism still manifests...
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Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; THE RELIGIOUS THOUGHT OF HASIDISM. By NORMAN LAMM. KTAV. 624 pp. $49.50. Since Hasidism presents such a spiritually appealing form...attractive format. Unlike apologetic works about Hasidism, the book lets the hasidic thinkers speak...
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'Life' sheds some light on lives of Hasidic Jews; "A Life Apart: Hasidism in America." Not Rated. At the Coolidge Corner Theatre Two and a half stars.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...narrow perspective, "A Life Apart: Hasidism in America" is often an eye-opening...of the Orthodox-Jewish tradition of Hasidism and a peek at contemporary believers...interesting is in the relationship between Hasidism and America. Hasidim did not exist in...
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Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic
Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent
; Robert L. Wolkoff Jewish Exponent 10-13-1995 Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic. By Moshe Idel, State University...experience, in its most intense and extreme forms, as much as Hasidism." Idel argues that the immediate historical precedents...
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HASIDISM: THE SURPRISING UTOPIA.(Jewish sect)(Abstract)
Magazine article from: International Journal of Comparative Sociology
; ...Journal of Comparative Sociology Vol.29 (1988) pp. 76-92 Hasidism is presented as a movement which breaks the pattern of Jewish...contrast to the traditional focus on collective salvation, Hasidism attempts to reconstruct the social order on the basis of a...
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