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JetForm JetForm was the name of a Canadian software manufacturer that was based out of Ottawa, Ontario, and an electronic form software product of the same name. It once had major offices in the United States, various countries in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Jetha Lila Jetha Lila was a private bank established in Zanzibar that traced its origins to 1880. It was an anomaly in East Africa in that it was local in origin, all other banks being foreign with headquarters outside the region, primarily in the United Kingdom.
Jethoo Jethoo (IAST: , Devanagari: जेठू) is a gotra (clan) of Jats found in Nagaur district and Sikar district in Rajasthan, India. They are found in following Villages in Sikar district: Sihot Chhoti, Jethoo Ka Baas, Pardoli badi, Jethwan Ka Baas, Dantru.
Jethrene Bodine Jethrene Bodine was a fictional character in the first seasons of the classic situation comedy, The Beverly Hillbillies. The role was unusual since actor Max Baer played the character in Drag while her voice was provided by actress Linda Kaye Henning.
Jethro Bodine Jethro Bodine is a fictional character in the 1960s television sitcom, The Beverly Hillbillies and in the 1993 movie remake. In the more well-remembered television show, he was played by Max Baer, and in the subsequent movie, he was played by actor Diedrich Bader .
Jethro Tull (band) Jethro Tull (aka Tull) is a progressive rock band that formed in Luton, England in the 1960s. Their music is marked by the quirky vocal style and unique lead flute work of frontman Ian Anderson and by unusual and often complex song construction.
Jetki The first album by J-Rock group Jetki (ジェăăć©ź), appropriately titled First Jet, was also the first release from Indie label Bug Rock Records, formed by 175R vocalist Shogo. The rocking band is made up of Ex-Jun Skywalker(S) member Miyata Kazuya (AKA Miyata Jet), ex-Heart Bazaar guitarist Akihiko Suzuki (AKA Akkin Jet), Noda Jet from indies band Giant Step (ジăŁă‚¤ă‚˘ăłăă‚ąă†ăă—) and Kawanishi Yoichi (AKA Kawanishi Jet), originally from J-rockers Unicorn.
Jetliner position The jetliner position, also known as the captain's chair, is a form of physical torment used in cases where the tormentor is unable or unwilling to inflict corporal punishment on the subject. The recipient is made to put their back against a wall or pole and place their feet eighteen inches or so from the base of the object.
Jetpack (computer game) Jetpack is a platform game currently available as freeware, originally published as shareware by Software Creations in 1993. The object of all of the levels is to collect all of the treasure scattered around the level.
Jetpak Jetpak Group is a Scandinavian express logistics company offering door-to-door transports for customers with both sameday ad hoc transport and overnight distribution needs in Scandinavia. The Jetpak Group is based in Stockholm, Sweden and consists of subsidiaries in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with a total of 140 airport and city offices.
Jetplane Landing Jetplane Landing are a four piece band from Derry (Northern Ireland) and London (England). They comprise Andrew Ferris (Lead Vocals/Guitar), Jamie Burchell (Bass/Vocals), Cahir O’Doherty (Guitar/Vocals) and Raife Burchell (Drums).
Jetpod Jetpod is a design proposal for a very quiet aircraft that can take off and land in short distances (STOL), developed by Avcen Limited, a company formed in 1998 to promote development of the Jetpod. A number of applications have been proposed, including as a military transport, an executive transport, and as a short to medium-range air taxi.
Jetsgo Jetsgo was a Canadian low-cost carrier based in Montreal, which served 19 destinations across Canada, 10 destinations in the United States, and 12 scheduled weekend-charter destinations in the Caribbean. Jetsgo abruptly ended service and entered bankruptcy protection on March 11, 2005, leaving thousands of passengers stranded, right at the beginning of the busy March-break travel season.
Jetsons: The Movie Jetsons: The Movie (1990) is an animated film based on the cartoon series The Jetsons, where George Jetson becomes vice president of Spacely Sprockets and oversees the work at Spacely's Orbiting Ore Asteroid. It was directed by Iwao Takamoto (although officially billed "Produced and Directed by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera"), produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and released to theaters by Universal Pictures.
Jetstar Airways Jetstar Airways is an Australian domestic and international low-cost airline which launched in 2004. Jetstar is a subsidiary of Qantas Airways, created in response to the threat posed by low-cost airline Virgin Blue.
Jetstar Asia Airways Jetstar Asia Airways Private Limited (Chinese: 捷ćźäşšć´˛čŞç©şĺ…¬ĺŹ¸; Thai: เŕ¸ŕą‡ŕ¸—สตาร์เŕ¸ŕą€ŕ¸Šŕ¸µŕ¸˘) is an airline based in Singapore. It is the Asian offshoot of Qantas's Jetstar Airways, and the third Low-cost carrier in Singapore.
Jetstream (comics) Jetstream (Haroun ibn Sallah al-Rashid) is a fictional Moroccan mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe. He was created for the group known as the Hellions, and his first appearance was in New Mutants #16.
Jetsun Pema Jetsun Pema is the living sister of the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, born in the Tibetan village of Amdo. In the 1997 movie Seven Years in Tibet starring Brad Pitt and David Thewlis, a film based on the book by Heinrich Harrer, Jetsun portrayed her real-life mother in the film as the mother of the young Dalai Lama.
JetStream JetStream and Mobile JetStream are two brand names used by Telecom New Zealand to market its retail and resale ADSL-based fixed line and CDMA2000-based 3G wireless Internet access offerings respectively. The retail ADSL offering from its own Internet service provider (ISP), Xtra, is now more commonly referred to by the company as Xtra Broadband, though the JetStream brand is still in use.
Jetty The term jetty, derived from the French jetée, and therefore signifying something thrown out, is applied to a variety of structures employed in river, dock, and maritime works which are generally carried out in pairs from river banks, or in continuation of river channels at their outlets into deep water; or out into docks, and outside their entrances; or for forming basins along the sea-coast for ports in tideless seas. The forms and construction of these jetties are as varied as their uses; for though they invariably extend out into water, and serve either for directing a current or for accommodating vessels, they are sometimes formed of high open timber-work, sometimes of low solid projections, and occasionally only differ from breakwaters in their object.
Jettying Jettying is a building technique used in medieval timber frame buildings in which an upper floor projects beyond the dimensions of the floor below. This has the advantage of increasing the available space in the building without obstructing the street.
JetTrain The JetTrain is an experimental high-speed passenger train built by Bombardier Transportation in an attempt to make European-style high-speed service more financially appealing to passenger railways in North America. It uses the same LRC-derived tilting carriages as the Acela Express trains that Bombardier sold to Amtrak in the 1990s and a similar locomotive, but instead of being powered by overhead electric wires as are the Acela and most other high-speed trains, it uses a 3,750 kW (5,000 shp) Pratt & Whitney Canada PW150 gas turbine.
Jeune Afrique Jeune Afrique is a newsweekly published in Paris, founded by BĂ©chir Ben Yahmed in Tunis on the October 17th 1960. It covers the political, economic and cultural spheres of Africa, with an accent on Francophone Africa and the Maghreb.
Jeune École The Jeune École ("Young School") was a French naval school of thought developed during the 19th century. The concept, born from the naval rivalry between Britain and France (respectively the first and second navies of their time), advocated for the use of small, powerfully equipped units to combat larger battleship fleet, and commerce raiders capable of suffocating the trade of the rival power ("Poussière navale", "naval dust").
Jeune Europe Jeune Europe (Young Europe) was a neo-Nazi Europeanist movement formed by Jean-François Thiriart in Belgium. Nicolas Tandler also had a leading role in it, and Emile Lecerf, a later editor of the Nouvel Europe Magazine, was one of Thiriart's associates.
Jeunes Européens Fédéralistes Jeunes Européens Fédéralistes (JEF, English Young European Federalists, German Junge Europäische Föderalisten) is a youth organization active in most European countries with over 25,000 members, seeking to promote European integration and cooperation through strengthening and democratization of the European Union. JEF is a member organization of the World Federalist Movement, and has close ties to the European Movement.
Jeunesses Musicales Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI) is a largest youth and music network. JMI is an international non-profit, non-governmental federation that enables young people to develop through music across all boundaries.
Jeunesses Patriotes The Jeunesses Patriotes (Patriotic Youths, JP) were a far right league founded in 1924. A Fascist-inspired street brawlers group of France, recruited mostly from university students and financed by industrialists, founded by Pierre Taittinger in 1924.
Jeung San Do Jeung San Do is a spiritual movement from Korea dedicated to the well-being of all people. This new religious movement has a universal message and a method of healing meditation based on the teachings of Jeung San Sangjenim, a nineteenth century religious leader described by Jeung San Do's practitioners as the governing spirit of the universe, personified and embodied.
Jeux Jeux ("Games") is the last work for orchestra written by Claude Debussy. Described as a "poème dansé" (literally a "danced poem"), it was originally intended to accompany a ballet, and was written for the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev to choreography by Nijinsky.
Jeux d'eau Jeux d'eau (Italian giochi d'aqua) or "water games", is an umbrella term in the history of gardens for the "water features" that were introduced into mid-16th century Mannerist Italian gardens. Pools and fountains had been a feature from Roman times, but hydraulic engineers first took full advantage of characteristic sloping sites of villas in the hills surrounding Lazio, where there was copious available water.
Jeux d'eau (music) Jeux d’eau is a piece for solo piano by the French Impressionistic composer, Maurice Ravel. The title often translates to “Fountains”, “Water Games”, and “Playing water” (See Jeux d'eau, water features in gardens.
Jeux de la communication Les Jeux de la communication ( Communication Games) are an annual meeting between several Canadian Universities' communication department. Such as Law Games or Business Games, the Jeux de la com lasts on several days where the numerous delegation of students compete in events related to their field of studies, such as media studies, journalism, advertising, public relations and communications.
Jeux de la Francophonie The Jeux de la Francophonie (Francophone Games) are a combination of artistic and sporting events for French speaking nations, held every four years since 1989, partly as a counterweight to the Commonwealth Games. They are open to athletes and artists of the 56 member nations of the Francophonie.
Jeux Descartes Jeux Descartes was a French publisher of roleplaying games and board games. Their most popular lines included: Eurogames, a set of serious board games, previously published by Duccio Vitale's independent company; Blue Games, small card games for larger groups; and Games for Two.
Jeux Sans Frontieres Jeux Sans Frontieres (English: Games Without Frontiers) is the European version of It's a Knockout. It ran from 1965 to 1999 and featured teams from different European countries in outlandish costumes (often large latex (foam rubber) suits) competing to complete bizarre tasks in absurd games.
Jeveros Jeveros (Jeberos, Jibaros, Jivaros, or Givalws), a tribe of South American Indians on the upper Maraflon, Peru, where they wander in the forests. The tribe has many branches and there are frequent tribal wars, but they have always united against a common enemy.
Jevetta Steele Jevetta Steele is an African American gospel music singer originally from Gary, Indiana, though she has lived in Minneapolis now for many years. Her most famous song is "Calling You" from the movie Bagdad Café and in AT&T commercials.
Jevons paradox In economics, the Jevons Paradox is an observation made by William Stanley Jevons who stated that as technological improvements increase the efficiency with which a resource is used, total consumption of that resource may increase, rather than decrease. It is historically called the Jevons Paradox since it ran counter to Jevons's intuition, but it is well understood by modern economic theory which shows that improved resource efficiency may trigger a change in the overall consumption of that resource.
Jevrem Brković Jevrem Brković (born 29 December 1933) is a Montenegrin writer (poet, novelist, journalist), historian and a cultural activist. He is known for his vivid criticism of his political opponents, as well as figures from Montenegrin public life.
Jevremovac Jevremovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Đевремовац) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia and the city's only arboretum (botanical garden). It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad and officially is a section of the Biology Faculty of the University of Belgrade.
Jew Bill of 1753 During the Jacobite rising of 1745 the Jews had shown particular loyalty to the government. Their chief financier, Samson Gideon, had strengthened the stock market, and several of the younger members had volunteered in the corps raised to defend London.
Jew Count The Jew Count, or "Jewish Census" (German: Judenzählung) was a measure instituted by the German Military High Command in 1916, during the upheaval of World War I. As the course of events began to turn against Germany, many in the military were eager to find a scapegoat; as had long been the case, the Jews provided an easy target.
Jew Watch Jew Watch is a website that claims to "report accurate information regarding Jewish ownership and control over mass media and politics," and which describes its objective as "Keeping a Close Watch on Jewish Communities & Organizations Worldwide." It is owned and maintained by Frank Weltner.
Jew's harp The Jew's harp, jaw harp, or mouth harp is thought to be one of the oldest musical instruments in the world; a musician apparently playing it can be seen in a Chinese drawing from the 3rd century BCE It is also sometimes called a Jew's trump or juice harp, among other names, and has no particular connection with Judaism].
Jewel (song) Jewel is an album track on Ayumi Hamasaki's eighth studio album Secret, released November 29, 2006. "Jewel", which was originally rumoured to be the album's 3rd single with "1 Love" as its b-side, was self-written by Hamasaki herself, arranged by Shingo Kobayashi and was composed by Tetsuya Yukumi.
Jewel beetle The jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles are a family (Buprestidae) of beetles known for their glossy iridescent colors. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,000 species known in 450 genera.
Jewel Ball The Jewel Ball is the main annual debutante ball held in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. It occurs every year on the Saturday evening following Father's Day, and is organized by the Jewel Ball Foundation, which appoints a prominent Kansas City socialite to be the chairwoman.
Jewel Basin Jewel Basin is an area of the Flathead National Forest, Montana, USA, known for its hiking. The Basin is located east of Kalispell, Montana and west of the Hungry Horse Reservoir at the north end of the Swan Mountain Range.
Jewel Carmen Jewel Carmen (13 July, 1897 - March 4, 1984) was an American actress. Her film career was relatively short but her private life kept her name in the news long after her film career ended, and yet she was long forgotten by the film world when death came.
Jewel Cave National Monument Jewel Cave National Monument contains Jewel Cave, currently the second longest cave in the world, with about 135 miles (217 km) of mapped passageways. It is located approximately 13 miles west of the town of Custer in South Dakota's Black Hills.
Jewel in the Crown (album) Jewel In The Crown is a 1995 folk-rock album by Fairport Convention which is viewed by many as the best record produced by the line up which had been formed in 1985 for the one off project, Gladys' Leap. While none of the tracks were self-penned, it featured tracks from many of the band's favourite writers including Huw Williams, Ralph McTell and Julie Matthews.
Jewel Isle Jewel Isle is an alcoholic beverages company run by Jamaican born entrepreneur Anita Witter and her husband Carlton. The development of their three flavour product range, the Jewel Isle Rum Punch Flavoured Alcoholic Beverage, has been notified with a number of awards including:
Jewel of Kiss Jewel of Kiss is the fifteenth single from Japanese singer Hitomi Shimatani, and the second single from her 2004 album, Tsuioku+LOVE LETTER. Released in mid-June, it managed to take the #21 spot on the Oricon charts and has since sold roughly 17,000 copies.
Jewel scarab The scarab beetle genus Chrysina, or jewel scarabs (not to be confused with jewel beetles, which is a different family), is a large genus of brightly colored, often metallic iridescent species, ranging from the southwestern edge of the United States as far south as Ecuador. The genus includes all the species formerly known as Plusiotis.
Jewel Tower The Jewel Tower in London is one of only two surviving sections of the medieval royal Palace of Westminster, the other being Westminster Hall. It was built in approximately 1365 to house the treasures of Edward III and its alternative name was the "King's Privy Wardrobe".
Jeweled Shillelagh The Jeweled Shillelagh (shuh-LAY-lee) is passed between the annual winner of the college football game between the University of Southern California Trojans and the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and is perhaps the finest intersectional rivalry in college football.
Jewell Towne Vineyards Jewell Towne Vineyards is the oldest of two wineries in the state of New Hampshire, USA. Located on the hills overlooking the Powwow River just a few miles from the Atlantic Ocean, the winery and vineyard produce more than 20 varieties of wine.
Jewelled Antler Jewelled Antler is a music group created in 1999 by Loren Chasse and Glenn Donaldson as an extension of their work in the organic drone folk-noise group Thuja. The idea was to release handmade CD-R's of various solo and collaborative projects and one-off bands, encompassing drones, folk songs, noise, straight field sound recordings and fractured pop music.
Jewelled bookbinding Jewelled bookbindings were known in the Middle Ages, covering important liturgical and devotional works for Popes and Kings. The vast majority of these were later destroyed as their jewels were removed by vandals.
Jewellery Box Jewellery Box is the first hindi movie directed by acclaimed director Aparna Sen. It is the first time she will be working with Govinda, Sharmila Tagore who plays a ghost, Paresh Rawal and Soha Ali Khan who will be seen in a double role.
Jewellery in the Pacific Jewellery making in the Pacific started later than in other areas, due to relatively recent human settlement. Early Polynesian jewellery, which was made of bone, wood and other natural materials, has not survived.
Jewellery Quarter station Jewellery Quarter station is a railway station and tram stop, situated in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham, England. The station is served by the Central Trains (who operate the station), Chiltern Railways, and the Midland Metro.
Jewelry (group) Jewelry(쥬얼리) is a popular Korean girl group that has recorded songs in both Korean and Japanese. Their Korean debut was in 2001 with their first album Discovery. After a less-than-stellar first album, two of the singers were replaced. A year later, their second album Again was released, with better results. Full of strong ballads (as opposed to the sexy dance songs that were popular at the time), the album quickly yielded two high-charting singles -- "Tonight" and "Again" -- which started the group's rise to popularity. This was quickly followed by their third album Beloved, which saw a continuation of their cute image. However, this image was heightened to the point of exaggeration. Their first single "ë‹ę°€ ě°¸ 좋아" (I Really Like You) was very poppy and had Jewelry adopt a cutesy concept to match the song, with colorful outfits and perky dances. This single was popular, but their followup single failed to chart as strongly as their previous ones.
Jewelry design Jewelry design is the art or profession of creating, crafting, fabricating, or rendering designs for jewelry. This is an ancient practice of the goldsmith or metalworker that evolved to a billion dollar industry with the odyssey from ancient cultures into the machine age.
Jewelry District, Los Angeles, California The Jewelry District is a section of Downtown Los Angeles where a variety of jeweled products are sold and is the largest jewelry district in the United States (according to the Los Angeles Convention Center and Visitor's Bureau). The annual reported sales from the Jewelry District is just under $3 billion.
JewFro The term has its roots in the 1960s and 1970s when many prominent figures were described as sporting the hairstyle. The Los Angeles Times called college football star Scott Marcus a flower child with “golden brown hair...
Jewgrass Boys The Jewgrass Boys are a contemporary bluegrass band from the San Francisco Bay Area. They have been mentioned in the New York Times, in an article about the wedding of the founder and editor of the magazine Ready Made, and have performed in the San Francisco Bluegrass and Old Time Festival.
Jewish apocrypha This article on Jewish apocrypha includes a survey of books written in the Jewish religious tradition either in the late pre-Christian era or in the early Christian era, but outside the Christian tradition. It does not include books in the canonical Jewish Bible, nor those accepted into the canon of some or all Christian faiths.
Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit The Frankel Jewish Academy (FJA) (undecided if "of Metropolitan Detroit" is deleted from the name or not), formerly The Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit (JAMD), is located in West Bloomfield, Michigan on the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus. It will be relocated at the start of the 2007-2008 school year, to the Jean And Samuel Frankel (hence the new "Frankel" name) building in the D.
Jewish Agency for Israel The Jewish Agency for Israel also known as The Jewish Agency (×”×ˇ×•×›× ×•×Ş היהודית ל×רץ ישר×ל or sochnut in Hebrew), refers to two bodies that operated in Israel in different eras and served different functions.
Jewish American literature Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States. It encompasses traditions of writing in English, primarily, as well as in other languages, the most important of which has been Yiddish.
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC, Russian language: ЕврейŃкий антифаŃиŃŃ‚Ńкий комитет, Đ•ĐĐš) was formed in Kuibyshev in April 1942 with the official support of the Soviet authorities. It was designed to influence international public opinion and organize political and material support for the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany, particularly from the West.
Jewish Bolshevism Jewish Bolshevism (also Judeo-Bolshevism or Judeo-Communism, a related term in Polish language is Żydokomuna) is an antisemitic political epithet and a label for a conspiracy theory which blames Jews for Bolshevism. The term "Jewish Bolshevism" may also be used in the neutral meaning of "Bolshevism among the Jews", see "Jews and Bolshevism".
Jewish Book Council The Jewish Book Council, founded in 1944, is an organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature. The goal of the council, as stated on its website, is "to promote the reading, writing and publishing of quality English language books of Jewish content in North America".
Jewish cuisine Unlike most other cuisines, Jewish cuisine - because of the sheer age of the worldwide Jewish diaspora - isn't one unified cuisine, but a collection of worldwide cookery traditions loosely linked by the rules of kashrut, the Jewish dietary laws. Different ideologies among Jewish groups, as well as personal preferences, play a role in any one Jewish cook's conformity to these rules, but they have shaped the cuisine.
Jewish Care Jewish Care is a British charity, working mainly in London and South East England, providing health and social welfare support services for vulnerable members of the Jewish community. The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has said of the charity: "Jewish Care is not just Jewish values in action; it is actually the best of British values in action.
Jewish Colonization Association The Jewish Colonization Association (JCA, in Yiddish ICA) was created on September 11, 1891 by the Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Its aim was to facilitate the mass emigration of Jews from Russia and other Eastern European countries, by settling them in agricultural colonies on lands purchased by the committee, particularly in North and South America.
Jewish Communal Service Association The Jewish Communal Service Association (JCSA) is the unique association bringing together the multiple professions working on behalf of the community, providing valuable collaborative and advancement opportunities.
Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion) Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion) (, EvreÄskaia kommunisticheskaia partiia (PoaleÄ-Tsion), abbreviated EKP) was a political party in Russia 1919-1922. The party was formed at a conference of communist dissident fractions of the Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party (Poalei Zion), held in Gomel August 10-15, 1919.
Jewish Communist Union (Poalei Zion) Jewish Communist Union (Poalei Zion), Komverband was the name taken by the Left World Union of Poalei Zion in 1921. In 1922 Komverband shifted its headquarters from Vienna to Danzig, in preparation for a party conference.
Jewish Communist Youth Union Jewish Communist Youth Union (, EvreÄskiÄ kommunisticheskiÄ soiuz rabocheÄ, abbreviated EKSM or Евкоммол, Evkommol) was the youth wing of the Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion) in Russia. The first All-Russian convention of the organisation took plavce 23-27 January 1920 in Moscow.
Jewish Community of Trieste The Jewish Community of Trieste represents the organizational structure of the association of Jewish people living in Trieste. The organization was established in order to provide for the needs of the Jewish community, and to etablish a statute and appropriate guidelines.
Jewish Council for Public Affairs Jewish Council for Public Affairs, JCPA, is described as "the representative voice of the organized American Jewish community". It shapes consensus on a broad range of concerns and develops strategic responses to emerging situations.
Jewish Cuban Jewish Cubans, Cuban Jews, or Cubans of Jewish heritage, have lived on the island of Cuba for centuries. Some Cubans trace Jewish ancestry to Marranos who fled the Spanish Inquisition, though few of these practice Judaism today.
Jewish Culture Festival in KrakĂłw The Jewish Culture Festival in KrakĂłw (Polish: Festiwal Kultury Ĺ»ydowskiej w Krakowie, Yiddish: יירשער קול×ור – פעס×יוו×ל ×ין קר×ָקע) is an annual cultural event organized since 1988 in the once Jewish district of Kazimierz (part of KrakĂłw) by the Jewish Culture Festival Society headed by Janusz Makuch. The main goal of the festival is to educate people about Jewish culture, history and faith (Judaism), which flourished in Poland before the Holocaust, as well as to familiarize them with modern Jewish culture developing mostly in the United States and Israel, and finally, to provide entertainment.
Jewish Currents (magazine) Jewish Currents is a progressive, secular Jewish bimonthly magazine that carries on the insurgent tradition of the Jewish left through independent journalism, political commentary, and a "countercultural" approach to Jewish arts and literature. Now in its 60th year of publication, J.
Jewish day school A Jewish day school is a modern Jewish educational institution that is designed to provide Jewish children with both a Jewish and a secular education in one school on a full time basis, hence its name of "day school" meaning a school that the students attend for an entire day and not on a part time basis. The substance of the "Jewish" component varies from school to school, community to community, and usually depends on the Jewish denominations of the schools' founders.
Jewish denominations Many denominations exist within Judaism; the Jewish community is divided into a number of religious denominations as well as "branches" or "movements." Each denomination accepts the certain Jewish principles of faith but differ in their various views on issues such as level of religious observance (adherence to Jewish law), methodology of Halakhic interpretation and understanding of specific Halakhic issues, biblical authorship, textual criticism, the nature of Moshiach and the Messianic age, and Jewish services (especially the languages in which services are conducted).
Jewish diaspora The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: Tefutzah, "scattered", or Galut גלות, "exile") is the dispersion of the Jewish people throughout Babylonia and the Roman Empire. They later spread throughout the world by either migration or conversion.
Jewish Defense League The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a militant Jewish organization whose purported goal is to protect Jewish people and property from anti-Semitism. The FBI considers the organization to be a "right-wing terrorist group.
Jewish Defense Organization The Jewish Defense Organization is a militant Jewish organization in the United States. It is right-wing in its stance on Israeli defense and foreign policy issues (see editorial statements exemplifying its stance), but its positions on issues of Jewish concern in the United States are more nuanced and it has criticized both right-wing and left-wing manifestations of what it sees as anti-Semitism and racism with equal rhetorical fervor (see [http://jdo.
Jewish education Jewish education (Hebrew: ×—×™× ×•×š, Chinuch) is the transmission of the tenets, principles and religious laws of Judaism. Due to its emphasis on Torah study, many have commented that Judaism is characterised by "lifelong learning" that extends to adults as much as it does to children.
Jewish ethics Jewish ethics stands at the intersection of Judaism and the Western philosophical tradition of ethics. Like other types of religious ethics, the diverse literature of Jewish ethics primarily aims to answer a broad range of moral questions and, hence, may be classified as a normative ethics.
Jewish exodus from Arab lands The Jewish exodus from Arab lands refers to the 20th century emigration of Jews, primarily of Sephardi and Mizrahi background, from majority Arab lands. Typically, this emigration followed discrimination, harassment, persecution, and financial confiscation on the part of the majority population and/or government agencies.
Jewish Eindhoven Eindhoven is a municipality and a city located in the province of Noord-Brabant in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender brooks. The Gender has been dammed off in the post-war years, but the Dommel still runs through it.
Jewish Encyclopedia The Jewish Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia originally published between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls. It contained over 15,000 articles in 12 volumes on the history and then-current state of Judaism and the Jews as of 1901.
Jewish English Bible translations Jewish English Bible translations are modern English Bible translations that include the books of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) according to the masoretic text, and according to the traditional division and order of Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim.
Jewish English languages Jewish English languages are varieties of English that include significant amounts of vocabulary and syntax taken from Yiddish, and both classical and modern Hebrew. They are typified by Yeshivish and Yinglish, as well as more flexible mixtures of English and other Jewish languages, which may contain elements from languages other than those already mentioned.
Jewish feminism Jewish feminism is a movement that seeks to improve the religious, legal, and social status of women within Judaism and to open up new opportunities for religious experience and leadership for Jewish women. Feminist movements, with varying approaches and successes, have opened up within all major branches of Judiasm.
Jetha Lila Jetha Lila was a private bank established in Zanzibar that traced its origins to 1880. It was an anomaly in East Africa in that it was local in origin, all other banks being foreign with headquarters outside the region, primarily in the United Kingdom.
Jethoo Jethoo (IAST: , Devanagari: जेठू) is a gotra (clan) of Jats found in Nagaur district and Sikar district in Rajasthan, India. They are found in following Villages in Sikar district: Sihot Chhoti, Jethoo Ka Baas, Pardoli badi, Jethwan Ka Baas, Dantru.
Jethrene Bodine Jethrene Bodine was a fictional character in the first seasons of the classic situation comedy, The Beverly Hillbillies. The role was unusual since actor Max Baer played the character in Drag while her voice was provided by actress Linda Kaye Henning.
Jethro Bodine Jethro Bodine is a fictional character in the 1960s television sitcom, The Beverly Hillbillies and in the 1993 movie remake. In the more well-remembered television show, he was played by Max Baer, and in the subsequent movie, he was played by actor Diedrich Bader .
Jethro Tull (band) Jethro Tull (aka Tull) is a progressive rock band that formed in Luton, England in the 1960s. Their music is marked by the quirky vocal style and unique lead flute work of frontman Ian Anderson and by unusual and often complex song construction.
Jetki The first album by J-Rock group Jetki (ジェăăć©ź), appropriately titled First Jet, was also the first release from Indie label Bug Rock Records, formed by 175R vocalist Shogo. The rocking band is made up of Ex-Jun Skywalker(S) member Miyata Kazuya (AKA Miyata Jet), ex-Heart Bazaar guitarist Akihiko Suzuki (AKA Akkin Jet), Noda Jet from indies band Giant Step (ジăŁă‚¤ă‚˘ăłăă‚ąă†ăă—) and Kawanishi Yoichi (AKA Kawanishi Jet), originally from J-rockers Unicorn.
Jetliner position The jetliner position, also known as the captain's chair, is a form of physical torment used in cases where the tormentor is unable or unwilling to inflict corporal punishment on the subject. The recipient is made to put their back against a wall or pole and place their feet eighteen inches or so from the base of the object.
Jetpack (computer game) Jetpack is a platform game currently available as freeware, originally published as shareware by Software Creations in 1993. The object of all of the levels is to collect all of the treasure scattered around the level.
Jetpak Jetpak Group is a Scandinavian express logistics company offering door-to-door transports for customers with both sameday ad hoc transport and overnight distribution needs in Scandinavia. The Jetpak Group is based in Stockholm, Sweden and consists of subsidiaries in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with a total of 140 airport and city offices.
Jetplane Landing Jetplane Landing are a four piece band from Derry (Northern Ireland) and London (England). They comprise Andrew Ferris (Lead Vocals/Guitar), Jamie Burchell (Bass/Vocals), Cahir O’Doherty (Guitar/Vocals) and Raife Burchell (Drums).
Jetpod Jetpod is a design proposal for a very quiet aircraft that can take off and land in short distances (STOL), developed by Avcen Limited, a company formed in 1998 to promote development of the Jetpod. A number of applications have been proposed, including as a military transport, an executive transport, and as a short to medium-range air taxi.
Jetsgo Jetsgo was a Canadian low-cost carrier based in Montreal, which served 19 destinations across Canada, 10 destinations in the United States, and 12 scheduled weekend-charter destinations in the Caribbean. Jetsgo abruptly ended service and entered bankruptcy protection on March 11, 2005, leaving thousands of passengers stranded, right at the beginning of the busy March-break travel season.
Jetsons: The Movie Jetsons: The Movie (1990) is an animated film based on the cartoon series The Jetsons, where George Jetson becomes vice president of Spacely Sprockets and oversees the work at Spacely's Orbiting Ore Asteroid. It was directed by Iwao Takamoto (although officially billed "Produced and Directed by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera"), produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and released to theaters by Universal Pictures.
Jetstar Airways Jetstar Airways is an Australian domestic and international low-cost airline which launched in 2004. Jetstar is a subsidiary of Qantas Airways, created in response to the threat posed by low-cost airline Virgin Blue.
Jetstar Asia Airways Jetstar Asia Airways Private Limited (Chinese: 捷ćźäşšć´˛čŞç©şĺ…¬ĺŹ¸; Thai: เŕ¸ŕą‡ŕ¸—สตาร์เŕ¸ŕą€ŕ¸Šŕ¸µŕ¸˘) is an airline based in Singapore. It is the Asian offshoot of Qantas's Jetstar Airways, and the third Low-cost carrier in Singapore.
Jetstream (comics) Jetstream (Haroun ibn Sallah al-Rashid) is a fictional Moroccan mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe. He was created for the group known as the Hellions, and his first appearance was in New Mutants #16.
Jetsun Pema Jetsun Pema is the living sister of the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, born in the Tibetan village of Amdo. In the 1997 movie Seven Years in Tibet starring Brad Pitt and David Thewlis, a film based on the book by Heinrich Harrer, Jetsun portrayed her real-life mother in the film as the mother of the young Dalai Lama.
JetStream JetStream and Mobile JetStream are two brand names used by Telecom New Zealand to market its retail and resale ADSL-based fixed line and CDMA2000-based 3G wireless Internet access offerings respectively. The retail ADSL offering from its own Internet service provider (ISP), Xtra, is now more commonly referred to by the company as Xtra Broadband, though the JetStream brand is still in use.
Jetty The term jetty, derived from the French jetée, and therefore signifying something thrown out, is applied to a variety of structures employed in river, dock, and maritime works which are generally carried out in pairs from river banks, or in continuation of river channels at their outlets into deep water; or out into docks, and outside their entrances; or for forming basins along the sea-coast for ports in tideless seas. The forms and construction of these jetties are as varied as their uses; for though they invariably extend out into water, and serve either for directing a current or for accommodating vessels, they are sometimes formed of high open timber-work, sometimes of low solid projections, and occasionally only differ from breakwaters in their object.
Jettying Jettying is a building technique used in medieval timber frame buildings in which an upper floor projects beyond the dimensions of the floor below. This has the advantage of increasing the available space in the building without obstructing the street.
JetTrain The JetTrain is an experimental high-speed passenger train built by Bombardier Transportation in an attempt to make European-style high-speed service more financially appealing to passenger railways in North America. It uses the same LRC-derived tilting carriages as the Acela Express trains that Bombardier sold to Amtrak in the 1990s and a similar locomotive, but instead of being powered by overhead electric wires as are the Acela and most other high-speed trains, it uses a 3,750 kW (5,000 shp) Pratt & Whitney Canada PW150 gas turbine.
Jeune Afrique Jeune Afrique is a newsweekly published in Paris, founded by BĂ©chir Ben Yahmed in Tunis on the October 17th 1960. It covers the political, economic and cultural spheres of Africa, with an accent on Francophone Africa and the Maghreb.
Jeune École The Jeune École ("Young School") was a French naval school of thought developed during the 19th century. The concept, born from the naval rivalry between Britain and France (respectively the first and second navies of their time), advocated for the use of small, powerfully equipped units to combat larger battleship fleet, and commerce raiders capable of suffocating the trade of the rival power ("Poussière navale", "naval dust").
Jeune Europe Jeune Europe (Young Europe) was a neo-Nazi Europeanist movement formed by Jean-François Thiriart in Belgium. Nicolas Tandler also had a leading role in it, and Emile Lecerf, a later editor of the Nouvel Europe Magazine, was one of Thiriart's associates.
Jeunes Européens Fédéralistes Jeunes Européens Fédéralistes (JEF, English Young European Federalists, German Junge Europäische Föderalisten) is a youth organization active in most European countries with over 25,000 members, seeking to promote European integration and cooperation through strengthening and democratization of the European Union. JEF is a member organization of the World Federalist Movement, and has close ties to the European Movement.
Jeunesses Musicales Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI) is a largest youth and music network. JMI is an international non-profit, non-governmental federation that enables young people to develop through music across all boundaries.
Jeunesses Patriotes The Jeunesses Patriotes (Patriotic Youths, JP) were a far right league founded in 1924. A Fascist-inspired street brawlers group of France, recruited mostly from university students and financed by industrialists, founded by Pierre Taittinger in 1924.
Jeung San Do Jeung San Do is a spiritual movement from Korea dedicated to the well-being of all people. This new religious movement has a universal message and a method of healing meditation based on the teachings of Jeung San Sangjenim, a nineteenth century religious leader described by Jeung San Do's practitioners as the governing spirit of the universe, personified and embodied.
Jeux Jeux ("Games") is the last work for orchestra written by Claude Debussy. Described as a "poème dansé" (literally a "danced poem"), it was originally intended to accompany a ballet, and was written for the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev to choreography by Nijinsky.
Jeux d'eau Jeux d'eau (Italian giochi d'aqua) or "water games", is an umbrella term in the history of gardens for the "water features" that were introduced into mid-16th century Mannerist Italian gardens. Pools and fountains had been a feature from Roman times, but hydraulic engineers first took full advantage of characteristic sloping sites of villas in the hills surrounding Lazio, where there was copious available water.
Jeux d'eau (music) Jeux d’eau is a piece for solo piano by the French Impressionistic composer, Maurice Ravel. The title often translates to “Fountains”, “Water Games”, and “Playing water” (See Jeux d'eau, water features in gardens.
Jeux de la communication Les Jeux de la communication ( Communication Games) are an annual meeting between several Canadian Universities' communication department. Such as Law Games or Business Games, the Jeux de la com lasts on several days where the numerous delegation of students compete in events related to their field of studies, such as media studies, journalism, advertising, public relations and communications.
Jeux de la Francophonie The Jeux de la Francophonie (Francophone Games) are a combination of artistic and sporting events for French speaking nations, held every four years since 1989, partly as a counterweight to the Commonwealth Games. They are open to athletes and artists of the 56 member nations of the Francophonie.
Jeux Descartes Jeux Descartes was a French publisher of roleplaying games and board games. Their most popular lines included: Eurogames, a set of serious board games, previously published by Duccio Vitale's independent company; Blue Games, small card games for larger groups; and Games for Two.
Jeux Sans Frontieres Jeux Sans Frontieres (English: Games Without Frontiers) is the European version of It's a Knockout. It ran from 1965 to 1999 and featured teams from different European countries in outlandish costumes (often large latex (foam rubber) suits) competing to complete bizarre tasks in absurd games.
Jeveros Jeveros (Jeberos, Jibaros, Jivaros, or Givalws), a tribe of South American Indians on the upper Maraflon, Peru, where they wander in the forests. The tribe has many branches and there are frequent tribal wars, but they have always united against a common enemy.
Jevetta Steele Jevetta Steele is an African American gospel music singer originally from Gary, Indiana, though she has lived in Minneapolis now for many years. Her most famous song is "Calling You" from the movie Bagdad Café and in AT&T commercials.
Jevons paradox In economics, the Jevons Paradox is an observation made by William Stanley Jevons who stated that as technological improvements increase the efficiency with which a resource is used, total consumption of that resource may increase, rather than decrease. It is historically called the Jevons Paradox since it ran counter to Jevons's intuition, but it is well understood by modern economic theory which shows that improved resource efficiency may trigger a change in the overall consumption of that resource.
Jevrem Brković Jevrem Brković (born 29 December 1933) is a Montenegrin writer (poet, novelist, journalist), historian and a cultural activist. He is known for his vivid criticism of his political opponents, as well as figures from Montenegrin public life.
Jevremovac Jevremovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Đевремовац) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia and the city's only arboretum (botanical garden). It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad and officially is a section of the Biology Faculty of the University of Belgrade.
Jew Bill of 1753 During the Jacobite rising of 1745 the Jews had shown particular loyalty to the government. Their chief financier, Samson Gideon, had strengthened the stock market, and several of the younger members had volunteered in the corps raised to defend London.
Jew Count The Jew Count, or "Jewish Census" (German: Judenzählung) was a measure instituted by the German Military High Command in 1916, during the upheaval of World War I. As the course of events began to turn against Germany, many in the military were eager to find a scapegoat; as had long been the case, the Jews provided an easy target.
Jew Watch Jew Watch is a website that claims to "report accurate information regarding Jewish ownership and control over mass media and politics," and which describes its objective as "Keeping a Close Watch on Jewish Communities & Organizations Worldwide." It is owned and maintained by Frank Weltner.
Jew's harp The Jew's harp, jaw harp, or mouth harp is thought to be one of the oldest musical instruments in the world; a musician apparently playing it can be seen in a Chinese drawing from the 3rd century BCE It is also sometimes called a Jew's trump or juice harp, among other names, and has no particular connection with Judaism].
Jewel (song) Jewel is an album track on Ayumi Hamasaki's eighth studio album Secret, released November 29, 2006. "Jewel", which was originally rumoured to be the album's 3rd single with "1 Love" as its b-side, was self-written by Hamasaki herself, arranged by Shingo Kobayashi and was composed by Tetsuya Yukumi.
Jewel beetle The jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles are a family (Buprestidae) of beetles known for their glossy iridescent colors. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,000 species known in 450 genera.
Jewel Ball The Jewel Ball is the main annual debutante ball held in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. It occurs every year on the Saturday evening following Father's Day, and is organized by the Jewel Ball Foundation, which appoints a prominent Kansas City socialite to be the chairwoman.
Jewel Basin Jewel Basin is an area of the Flathead National Forest, Montana, USA, known for its hiking. The Basin is located east of Kalispell, Montana and west of the Hungry Horse Reservoir at the north end of the Swan Mountain Range.
Jewel Carmen Jewel Carmen (13 July, 1897 - March 4, 1984) was an American actress. Her film career was relatively short but her private life kept her name in the news long after her film career ended, and yet she was long forgotten by the film world when death came.
Jewel Cave National Monument Jewel Cave National Monument contains Jewel Cave, currently the second longest cave in the world, with about 135 miles (217 km) of mapped passageways. It is located approximately 13 miles west of the town of Custer in South Dakota's Black Hills.
Jewel in the Crown (album) Jewel In The Crown is a 1995 folk-rock album by Fairport Convention which is viewed by many as the best record produced by the line up which had been formed in 1985 for the one off project, Gladys' Leap. While none of the tracks were self-penned, it featured tracks from many of the band's favourite writers including Huw Williams, Ralph McTell and Julie Matthews.
Jewel Isle Jewel Isle is an alcoholic beverages company run by Jamaican born entrepreneur Anita Witter and her husband Carlton. The development of their three flavour product range, the Jewel Isle Rum Punch Flavoured Alcoholic Beverage, has been notified with a number of awards including:
Jewel of Kiss Jewel of Kiss is the fifteenth single from Japanese singer Hitomi Shimatani, and the second single from her 2004 album, Tsuioku+LOVE LETTER. Released in mid-June, it managed to take the #21 spot on the Oricon charts and has since sold roughly 17,000 copies.
Jewel scarab The scarab beetle genus Chrysina, or jewel scarabs (not to be confused with jewel beetles, which is a different family), is a large genus of brightly colored, often metallic iridescent species, ranging from the southwestern edge of the United States as far south as Ecuador. The genus includes all the species formerly known as Plusiotis.
Jewel Tower The Jewel Tower in London is one of only two surviving sections of the medieval royal Palace of Westminster, the other being Westminster Hall. It was built in approximately 1365 to house the treasures of Edward III and its alternative name was the "King's Privy Wardrobe".
Jeweled Shillelagh The Jeweled Shillelagh (shuh-LAY-lee) is passed between the annual winner of the college football game between the University of Southern California Trojans and the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and is perhaps the finest intersectional rivalry in college football.
Jewell Towne Vineyards Jewell Towne Vineyards is the oldest of two wineries in the state of New Hampshire, USA. Located on the hills overlooking the Powwow River just a few miles from the Atlantic Ocean, the winery and vineyard produce more than 20 varieties of wine.
Jewelled Antler Jewelled Antler is a music group created in 1999 by Loren Chasse and Glenn Donaldson as an extension of their work in the organic drone folk-noise group Thuja. The idea was to release handmade CD-R's of various solo and collaborative projects and one-off bands, encompassing drones, folk songs, noise, straight field sound recordings and fractured pop music.
Jewelled bookbinding Jewelled bookbindings were known in the Middle Ages, covering important liturgical and devotional works for Popes and Kings. The vast majority of these were later destroyed as their jewels were removed by vandals.
Jewellery Box Jewellery Box is the first hindi movie directed by acclaimed director Aparna Sen. It is the first time she will be working with Govinda, Sharmila Tagore who plays a ghost, Paresh Rawal and Soha Ali Khan who will be seen in a double role.
Jewellery in the Pacific Jewellery making in the Pacific started later than in other areas, due to relatively recent human settlement. Early Polynesian jewellery, which was made of bone, wood and other natural materials, has not survived.
Jewellery Quarter station Jewellery Quarter station is a railway station and tram stop, situated in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham, England. The station is served by the Central Trains (who operate the station), Chiltern Railways, and the Midland Metro.
Jewelry (group) Jewelry(쥬얼리) is a popular Korean girl group that has recorded songs in both Korean and Japanese. Their Korean debut was in 2001 with their first album Discovery. After a less-than-stellar first album, two of the singers were replaced. A year later, their second album Again was released, with better results. Full of strong ballads (as opposed to the sexy dance songs that were popular at the time), the album quickly yielded two high-charting singles -- "Tonight" and "Again" -- which started the group's rise to popularity. This was quickly followed by their third album Beloved, which saw a continuation of their cute image. However, this image was heightened to the point of exaggeration. Their first single "ë‹ę°€ ě°¸ 좋아" (I Really Like You) was very poppy and had Jewelry adopt a cutesy concept to match the song, with colorful outfits and perky dances. This single was popular, but their followup single failed to chart as strongly as their previous ones.
Jewelry design Jewelry design is the art or profession of creating, crafting, fabricating, or rendering designs for jewelry. This is an ancient practice of the goldsmith or metalworker that evolved to a billion dollar industry with the odyssey from ancient cultures into the machine age.
Jewelry District, Los Angeles, California The Jewelry District is a section of Downtown Los Angeles where a variety of jeweled products are sold and is the largest jewelry district in the United States (according to the Los Angeles Convention Center and Visitor's Bureau). The annual reported sales from the Jewelry District is just under $3 billion.
JewFro The term has its roots in the 1960s and 1970s when many prominent figures were described as sporting the hairstyle. The Los Angeles Times called college football star Scott Marcus a flower child with “golden brown hair...
Jewgrass Boys The Jewgrass Boys are a contemporary bluegrass band from the San Francisco Bay Area. They have been mentioned in the New York Times, in an article about the wedding of the founder and editor of the magazine Ready Made, and have performed in the San Francisco Bluegrass and Old Time Festival.
Jewish apocrypha This article on Jewish apocrypha includes a survey of books written in the Jewish religious tradition either in the late pre-Christian era or in the early Christian era, but outside the Christian tradition. It does not include books in the canonical Jewish Bible, nor those accepted into the canon of some or all Christian faiths.
Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit The Frankel Jewish Academy (FJA) (undecided if "of Metropolitan Detroit" is deleted from the name or not), formerly The Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit (JAMD), is located in West Bloomfield, Michigan on the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus. It will be relocated at the start of the 2007-2008 school year, to the Jean And Samuel Frankel (hence the new "Frankel" name) building in the D.
Jewish Agency for Israel The Jewish Agency for Israel also known as The Jewish Agency (×”×ˇ×•×›× ×•×Ş היהודית ל×רץ ישר×ל or sochnut in Hebrew), refers to two bodies that operated in Israel in different eras and served different functions.
Jewish American literature Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States. It encompasses traditions of writing in English, primarily, as well as in other languages, the most important of which has been Yiddish.
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC, Russian language: ЕврейŃкий антифаŃиŃŃ‚Ńкий комитет, Đ•ĐĐš) was formed in Kuibyshev in April 1942 with the official support of the Soviet authorities. It was designed to influence international public opinion and organize political and material support for the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany, particularly from the West.
Jewish Bolshevism Jewish Bolshevism (also Judeo-Bolshevism or Judeo-Communism, a related term in Polish language is Żydokomuna) is an antisemitic political epithet and a label for a conspiracy theory which blames Jews for Bolshevism. The term "Jewish Bolshevism" may also be used in the neutral meaning of "Bolshevism among the Jews", see "Jews and Bolshevism".
Jewish Book Council The Jewish Book Council, founded in 1944, is an organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature. The goal of the council, as stated on its website, is "to promote the reading, writing and publishing of quality English language books of Jewish content in North America".
Jewish cuisine Unlike most other cuisines, Jewish cuisine - because of the sheer age of the worldwide Jewish diaspora - isn't one unified cuisine, but a collection of worldwide cookery traditions loosely linked by the rules of kashrut, the Jewish dietary laws. Different ideologies among Jewish groups, as well as personal preferences, play a role in any one Jewish cook's conformity to these rules, but they have shaped the cuisine.
Jewish Care Jewish Care is a British charity, working mainly in London and South East England, providing health and social welfare support services for vulnerable members of the Jewish community. The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has said of the charity: "Jewish Care is not just Jewish values in action; it is actually the best of British values in action.
Jewish Colonization Association The Jewish Colonization Association (JCA, in Yiddish ICA) was created on September 11, 1891 by the Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Its aim was to facilitate the mass emigration of Jews from Russia and other Eastern European countries, by settling them in agricultural colonies on lands purchased by the committee, particularly in North and South America.
Jewish Communal Service Association The Jewish Communal Service Association (JCSA) is the unique association bringing together the multiple professions working on behalf of the community, providing valuable collaborative and advancement opportunities.
Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion) Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion) (, EvreÄskaia kommunisticheskaia partiia (PoaleÄ-Tsion), abbreviated EKP) was a political party in Russia 1919-1922. The party was formed at a conference of communist dissident fractions of the Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party (Poalei Zion), held in Gomel August 10-15, 1919.
Jewish Communist Union (Poalei Zion) Jewish Communist Union (Poalei Zion), Komverband was the name taken by the Left World Union of Poalei Zion in 1921. In 1922 Komverband shifted its headquarters from Vienna to Danzig, in preparation for a party conference.
Jewish Communist Youth Union Jewish Communist Youth Union (, EvreÄskiÄ kommunisticheskiÄ soiuz rabocheÄ, abbreviated EKSM or Евкоммол, Evkommol) was the youth wing of the Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion) in Russia. The first All-Russian convention of the organisation took plavce 23-27 January 1920 in Moscow.
Jewish Community of Trieste The Jewish Community of Trieste represents the organizational structure of the association of Jewish people living in Trieste. The organization was established in order to provide for the needs of the Jewish community, and to etablish a statute and appropriate guidelines.
Jewish Council for Public Affairs Jewish Council for Public Affairs, JCPA, is described as "the representative voice of the organized American Jewish community". It shapes consensus on a broad range of concerns and develops strategic responses to emerging situations.
Jewish Cuban Jewish Cubans, Cuban Jews, or Cubans of Jewish heritage, have lived on the island of Cuba for centuries. Some Cubans trace Jewish ancestry to Marranos who fled the Spanish Inquisition, though few of these practice Judaism today.
Jewish Culture Festival in KrakĂłw The Jewish Culture Festival in KrakĂłw (Polish: Festiwal Kultury Ĺ»ydowskiej w Krakowie, Yiddish: יירשער קול×ור – פעס×יוו×ל ×ין קר×ָקע) is an annual cultural event organized since 1988 in the once Jewish district of Kazimierz (part of KrakĂłw) by the Jewish Culture Festival Society headed by Janusz Makuch. The main goal of the festival is to educate people about Jewish culture, history and faith (Judaism), which flourished in Poland before the Holocaust, as well as to familiarize them with modern Jewish culture developing mostly in the United States and Israel, and finally, to provide entertainment.
Jewish Currents (magazine) Jewish Currents is a progressive, secular Jewish bimonthly magazine that carries on the insurgent tradition of the Jewish left through independent journalism, political commentary, and a "countercultural" approach to Jewish arts and literature. Now in its 60th year of publication, J.
Jewish day school A Jewish day school is a modern Jewish educational institution that is designed to provide Jewish children with both a Jewish and a secular education in one school on a full time basis, hence its name of "day school" meaning a school that the students attend for an entire day and not on a part time basis. The substance of the "Jewish" component varies from school to school, community to community, and usually depends on the Jewish denominations of the schools' founders.
Jewish denominations Many denominations exist within Judaism; the Jewish community is divided into a number of religious denominations as well as "branches" or "movements." Each denomination accepts the certain Jewish principles of faith but differ in their various views on issues such as level of religious observance (adherence to Jewish law), methodology of Halakhic interpretation and understanding of specific Halakhic issues, biblical authorship, textual criticism, the nature of Moshiach and the Messianic age, and Jewish services (especially the languages in which services are conducted).
Jewish diaspora The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: Tefutzah, "scattered", or Galut גלות, "exile") is the dispersion of the Jewish people throughout Babylonia and the Roman Empire. They later spread throughout the world by either migration or conversion.
Jewish Defense League The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a militant Jewish organization whose purported goal is to protect Jewish people and property from anti-Semitism. The FBI considers the organization to be a "right-wing terrorist group.
Jewish Defense Organization The Jewish Defense Organization is a militant Jewish organization in the United States. It is right-wing in its stance on Israeli defense and foreign policy issues (see editorial statements exemplifying its stance), but its positions on issues of Jewish concern in the United States are more nuanced and it has criticized both right-wing and left-wing manifestations of what it sees as anti-Semitism and racism with equal rhetorical fervor (see [http://jdo.
Jewish education Jewish education (Hebrew: ×—×™× ×•×š, Chinuch) is the transmission of the tenets, principles and religious laws of Judaism. Due to its emphasis on Torah study, many have commented that Judaism is characterised by "lifelong learning" that extends to adults as much as it does to children.
Jewish ethics Jewish ethics stands at the intersection of Judaism and the Western philosophical tradition of ethics. Like other types of religious ethics, the diverse literature of Jewish ethics primarily aims to answer a broad range of moral questions and, hence, may be classified as a normative ethics.
Jewish exodus from Arab lands The Jewish exodus from Arab lands refers to the 20th century emigration of Jews, primarily of Sephardi and Mizrahi background, from majority Arab lands. Typically, this emigration followed discrimination, harassment, persecution, and financial confiscation on the part of the majority population and/or government agencies.
Jewish Eindhoven Eindhoven is a municipality and a city located in the province of Noord-Brabant in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender brooks. The Gender has been dammed off in the post-war years, but the Dommel still runs through it.
Jewish Encyclopedia The Jewish Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia originally published between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls. It contained over 15,000 articles in 12 volumes on the history and then-current state of Judaism and the Jews as of 1901.
Jewish English Bible translations Jewish English Bible translations are modern English Bible translations that include the books of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) according to the masoretic text, and according to the traditional division and order of Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim.
Jewish English languages Jewish English languages are varieties of English that include significant amounts of vocabulary and syntax taken from Yiddish, and both classical and modern Hebrew. They are typified by Yeshivish and Yinglish, as well as more flexible mixtures of English and other Jewish languages, which may contain elements from languages other than those already mentioned.
Jewish feminism Jewish feminism is a movement that seeks to improve the religious, legal, and social status of women within Judaism and to open up new opportunities for religious experience and leadership for Jewish women. Feminist movements, with varying approaches and successes, have opened up within all major branches of Judiasm.
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