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Moskowitz Prize For Zionism Laureates
Moskowitz (also Moskovitz, Moskovits, Moscovitch, Moskovich, Moszkowicz, and other variants) is an Eastern Ashkenazic Jewish surname. A Germanized form of a Slavic patronymic of the Yiddish personal name Moshke, a pet form of Moshe. Moscovici is the Romanian form. People Moschcowitz * Eli Moschcowitz (1879–1964), Hungarian-born American doctor Moscovich * Ivan Moscovich (1926–2023), Yugoslav-Dutch designer of games, puzzles, toys, and educational aids * Maurice Moscovich (1871–1940), Russian-American actor Moscovitch * Dylan Moscovitch (born 1984), Canadian Olympic medalist pair skater * Hannah Moscovitch (born 1978), a Canadian female playwright * Morris Moscovitch, the Max & Gianna Glassman Chair in Neuropsychology and Aging and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Moscowitz * Jennie Moscowitz - (1867/1868 - 1953), American actress Moshkovich * Zelman Moshkovich Chernyavsky (russian: Зельман Мошкович Чернявский; 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashkenazic
Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singular: , Modern Hebrew: are a Jewish diaspora population who coalesced in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. Their traditional diaspora language is Yiddish (a West Germanic language with Jewish linguistic elements, including the Hebrew alphabet), which developed during the Middle Ages after they had moved from Germany and France into Northern Europe and Eastern Europe. For centuries, Ashkenazim in Europe used Hebrew only as a sacred language until the revival of Hebrew as a common language in 20th-century Israel. Throughout their numerous centuries living in Europe, Ashkenazim have made many important contributions to its philosophy, scholarship, literature, art, music, and science. The rabbinical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Moshkovitz
Dana Moshkovitz Aaronson ( he, דנה מושקוביץ) is an Israeli theoretical computer scientist whose research topics include approximation algorithms and probabilistically checkable proofs. She is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. Education and career Moshkovitz completed her Ph.D. in 2008 at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her dissertation, ''Two Query Probabilistic Checking of Proofs with Subconstant Error'', was supervised by Ran Raz, and won the 2009 Haim Nessyahu Prize of the Israel Mathematical Union for the best mathematics dissertation in Israel. After postdoctoral research at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, Moshkovitz became a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She moved to the University of Texas as an associate professor in 2016. Personal life Moshkovitz is married to American theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson Scott Joel Aaronson (born May 21, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Merriam
Eve Merriam (July 19, 1916 – April 11, 1992) was an American poet and writer. Writing career Merriam's first book was the 1946 '' Family Circle'', which won the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Her book, ''The Inner City Mother Goose'', was described as one of the most banned books of the time.Biography of Eve Merriam at the Academy of American Poets poets.org. Accessed November 6, 2022. It inspired a 1971 Broadway called ''Inner City'', later revived in 1982 under the title ''Street Dreams''. In 1956, she published ''Emma Lazarus: Woman wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Moskowitz
Eva Sarah Moskowitz (born March 4, 1964) is an American politician and education reform leader, who is the founder and CEO of the Success Academy Charter Schools. A member of the Democratic Party, Moskowitz served on the New York City Council, representing the 4th district on the Upper East Side, from 1999 to 2005.''ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I'', as accessed June 25, 2012, page for ''Naming the Problem: How Popular Culture and Experts Paved the Way for "personal politics"'', Md.: Johns Hopkins Univ., 1992 (ProQuest document ID 303994013) Moskowitz interviewed to be Donald Trump's Secretary of Education, but decided not to pursue the position. Moskowitz has advocated for the promotion of charter schools as a key component of education reform in the United States. She claims that they are instrumental in closing the educational disparity between disadvantaged and elite students. As one of the most prominent leaders for education reform, Moskowitz has clashed with the Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cobra Kai
''Cobra Kai'' is an American martial arts comedy-drama television series and a sequel to the original ''The Karate Kid'' films by Robert Mark Kamen. The series was created by Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg, and is distributed by Sony Pictures Television. The series was released on YouTube Red / YouTube Premium for the first two seasons, before moving to Netflix starting with the third. The series stars Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, who reprise their roles as Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence from the 1984 film ''The Karate Kid'' and its sequels, ''The Karate Kid Part II'' (1986) and '' The Karate Kid Part III'' (1989). The first season launched on YouTube Red on May 2, 2018, with a second season following on April 24, 2019. After production of season three was completed, YouTube decided to stop producing scripted original programming, leaving the show without a home. Netflix acquired the series in June 2020, and has helmed production and release of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehud Moskowitz
Ehud ben‑Gera ( he, אֵהוּד בֶּן־גֵּרָא, Tiberian ''ʾĒhūḏ ben‑Gērāʾ'') is described in the biblical Book of Judges chapter 3 as a judge who was sent by God to deliver the Israelites from Moabite domination. He is described as being left-handed and a member of the Tribe of Benjamin. Biblical narrative According to , Ehud was sent by the Israelites to the Moabite King Eglon on the pretext of delivering the Israelites' annual tribute. He made a double-edged shortsword about a cubit (eighteen inches) long, useful for a stabbing thrust. Being left-handed, he could conceal the sword on his right thigh, where it was not expected. Left handedness is significant because the left side of the body is often associated with deception or darkness, it is a tactical advantage in war against the majority who are often right-handed, and is symbolic for being outside of the culturally accepted social norm of leadership in ancient Israel. Once they met, Ehud told Eg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl is a food and wine writer, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Personal life Dara Moskowitz was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1988. She got her start in the world of food as a dishwasher. She graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1992. She lives with her family in Minneapolis and is a senior writer for ''Mpls.St.Paul Magazine''. Writing Originally focusing on fiction writing, she won two Minnesota State Arts Board grants, a fellowship from the Loft McKnight foundation, and the Tamarack Award in 1994. She was chosen by Joyce Carol Oates for the anthology ''American Fiction, Volume Nine: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Authors''. Her primary outlet for food writing from 1995 to 2008 was in the '' City Pages'', a Minneapolis-St. Paul alternative weekly owned by Village Voice Media. Currently, she works for MSP Communications, where she writes for both ''Delta Sky Magazine'' as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bezalel Joshua Moskowitz
In Exodus 31:1-6 and chapters 36 to 39, Bezalel, Bezaleel, or Betzalel ( he, בְּצַלְאֵל, ''Bəṣalʼēl''), was the chief artisan of the Tabernacle and was in charge of building the Ark of the Covenant, assisted by Oholiab. The section in chapter 31 describes his selection as chief artisan, in the context of Moses' vision of how God wanted the tabernacle to be constructed, and chapters 36 to 39 recount the construction process undertaken by Bezalel, Oholiab and every gifted artisan and willing worker, in accordance with the vision. Elsewhere in the Bible the name occurs only in the genealogical lists of the Book of Chronicles, but according to cuneiform inscriptions a variant form of the same, " Ṣil-Bēl," was borne by a king of Gaza who was a contemporary of Hezekiah and Manasseh. The name "Bezalel" means "in the shadow rotectionof God." Bezalel is described in the genealogical lists as the son of Uri (Exodus 31:1), the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah (I Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belle Moskowitz
Belle Moskowitz (October 5, 1877 – January 2, 1933) was an important Progressive reformer political influencer in the early 20th century. In her obituary, the ''New York Times'' referred to her as the most powerful woman in United States politics. She worked as a political advisor and publicist to New York Governor and 1928 Democratic presidential candidate Al Smith. Early life Belle Lindner was born in 1877 in Harlem in New York City, to watchmaker Isidor Lindner and Esther Freyer. Both parents were immigrants from East Prussia in Germany. She attended the Horace Mann School, a laboratory school of Teachers College, and in 1894 she attended Teachers College, Columbia University, but stayed for only one year. Early in her life, Belle worked as an actress. She studied Oral Interpretation of Literature in school and performed for private events. She later taught acting and elocution to children and considered work as a professional actress before going into politics. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Ted Moskowitz
Barry Ted Moskowitz (born August 17, 1950) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Education and career Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Moskowitz received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers College in 1972 and a Juris Doctor from Rutgers School of Law–Newark in 1975. He was a law clerk for Judge Leonard I. Garth on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1975 to 1976. He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1976 to 1982. He was in private practice in Wayne, New Jersey from 1982 to 1985, and was then again an Assistant United States Attorney, this time in the Southern District of California, from 1985 to 1988. Federal judicial service From 1986 to 1995, Moskowitz was a United States magistrate judge of the Southern District of California. On June 30, 1995, Moskowitz was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a new seat on the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
