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Nachum Segal
Nachum Segal (born 1963) is an American radio host. He has hosted the program ''Jewish Moments in the Morning'' (commonly abbreviated as ''JM in the AM'') since September 1983. Every morning from 6-9 Segal runs his show. The show includes music, interviews, news reports and much more. Also throughout the day the Nachum Segal Network has a number of different programs. Segal also serves as the president of the Nachum Segal Network. Early career A graduate of Mesivta Ohr Torah in Riverdale and Yeshiva University's Yeshiva College, Segal began his radio career at the Yeshiva University campus radio station WYUR (Yeshiva University Radio), in 1981. At the university he acquired the initial skills and technical know-how to host a radio show. During his senior year at Yeshiva, Segal was approached by Norman Laster (Neshoma Show) through Mr. Larry Wachsman, the Director of Student Activities, and offered the opportunity to produce and host the Hebrew and Jewish Program at Upsala Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zev Segal
Zev Segal ( – ) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi. Biography Segal was born in Saratov, Russia and moved to Palestine as a toddler. He survived the 1929 Hebron massacre. He was the founding rabbi of the Young Israel of Newark, and served there for thirty-three years, from 1945 to 1978.The congregation moved to South Orange in 1970, seInventory to the Young Israel South Orange Jewish Center (South Orange, N.J.) Records During this period, Segal also served a three-year term as president of the Rabbinical Council of America, from 1968 to 1971. Segal was the father of radio broadcaster Nachum Segal, and Rabbi Nate Segal of Staten Island. Segal was found dead in his car at the bottom of the Hackensack River on March 6, 2008, after being reported missing a day earlier. He was traveling from an appearance on his son's radio show to an appointment in Livingston, New Jersey Livingston is a township (New Jersey), township in Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County, in the U.S. state o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University is a Private university, private Modern Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York City."About YU on the Yeshiva University website The university's undergraduate schools—Yeshiva College (Yeshiva University), Yeshiva College, Stern College for Women, Katz School of Science and Health, and Sy Syms School of Business—offer a dual curriculum inspired by Modern Orthodox Judaism, Modern–Centrist Orthodoxy, Centrist–Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Judaism's ''hashkafa'' (philosophy) of ''Torah Umadda'' ("Torah and secular knowledge"), which synthesizes a secular academic education with the study of the Torah. The majority of students at the university identify as Modern Orthodox Judaism, Modern Orthodox. The undergraduate body is entirely Jewish, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Personality
A radio personality is a person who has an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality who hosts a radio show is also known as a radio host (North American English), radio presenter (British English) or radio jockey. Radio personalities who introduce and play individual selections of recorded music are known as disc jockeys or "DJs" for short. Broadcast radio personalities may include talk radio hosts, AM/FM radio show hosts, and satellite radio program hosts, and non-host contributors to radio programs, such as reporter Description A radio personality can be someone who introduces and discusses genres of music; hosts a talk radio show that may take calls from listeners; interviews celebrities or guests; or gives news, weather, sports, or traffic information. The radio personality may broadcast live or use voice-tracking techniques. Increasingly in the 2010s, radio personalities are expected to supplement their on-air work by posting information online, such as on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverdale, Bronx
Riverdale is a residential neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of the Bronx. Riverdale, which had a population of 47,850 as of the 2000 United States Census, contains the city's northernmost point at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. Riverdale's boundaries are disputed, but it is commonly agreed to be bordered by Yonkers to the north, Van Cortlandt Park and Broadway to the east, the Kingsbridge neighborhood to the southeast, either the Harlem River or the Spuyten Duyvil neighborhood to the south, and the Hudson River to the west. Riverdale Avenue is the primary north–south thoroughfare through Riverdale. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community District 8, and its ZIP Codes include 10463 and 10471. The area is patrolled by the 50th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. History Legend states that in 1664, Anthony Van Corlaer (later determined to be a fictional character) died while attempting to swim across the Harlem Rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeshiva College (Yeshiva University)
Yeshiva College is located in New York City’s Washington Heights, Manhattan, Washington Heights neighborhood in Upper Manhattan. It is Yeshiva University’s undergraduate college of liberal arts and sciences for men. (Stern College for Women is Yeshiva College’s counterpart for women.) The architecture reflects a search for a distinctly Jewish style appropriate to American academia. Roughly 1,100 students from some two dozen countries, including students registered at Syms School of Business, attend Yeshiva College. On July 27, 2009, it was announced that Barry L. Eichler would succeed David J. Srolovitz as dean of Yeshiva College. Philosophy Students at Yeshiva College pursue a dual educational program that combines liberal arts and sciences and pre-professional studies with the study of Torah and Jewish heritage, reflecting Yeshiva’s educational philosophy of Torah Umadda, which translates loosely as "Torah and secular knowledge" (the interaction between Judaism and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upsala College
Upsala College (UC) was a private college affiliated with the Swedish-American Augustana Synod (later the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) and located in East Orange in Essex County, New Jersey in the United States, with an additional campus in Wantage Township in Sussex County. Upsala was founded in 1893 in Brooklyn, New York City, and moved to Kenilworth, and finally to East Orange in 1924. Despite a turnaround strategy that involved recruiting minority and international students, declining enrollment and financial difficulties forced the school to close in 1995. History Upsala College was founded at the 1893 annual meeting of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod in North America, known as the Augustana Synod—a Lutheran church body with roots in the Swedish immigrant community.Arden, G. Everett. ''Half a Million Swedes'' from Bonderud, Omar and Lutz, Charles. ''America's Lutherans'' (series). (Columbus Ohio: Wartburg Press, 1958).Johnston, Lawren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFMU
WFMU (91.1 MHz) is a non-commercial educational station, non-commercial, listener-supported, independent radio, independent community radio station city of license, licensed to East Orange, New Jersey, with studios in Jersey City. It is owned by Auricle Communications, broadcasting a free form radio, free-form radio format. The station holds periodic on-air fundraisers and seeks donation on its website. WFMU is a list of broadcast station classes, Class A station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 1,250 watts. The station's transmitter is on Prospect Avenue and Mount Pleasant Avenue in West Orange, New Jersey, West Orange. Programming is also heard on 10-watt FM translator W220EJ at 91.9 FM in Weehawken. The lower Catskill Mountains, Catskills, parts of Northern New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania can receive sister station WMFU's simulcast on 90.1 MHz, licensed to Mount Hope, New York, with its transmitter in Otisville, New York, Otisville. That station also has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HASC Concert
The HASC Concert, also known as A Time for Music, is an annual concert benefiting Camp HASC, a summer camp for children with special needs. Established in 1988, the concert is a prominent event within the Jewish music community. History Camp HASC was established in 1963 by Rabbi Max and Blanche Kahn. It offers therapeutic, medical, and educational services to its campers. It offers a combination of academic and recreational activities, supported by a team of staff and medical professionals. The inaugural HASC concert took place on January 17, 1988. Sheya Mendlowitz conceived the concert after visiting Camp HASC in the 1980s and learning about the camp's financial difficulties. The first concert was held at the Lincoln Center. The concert has been held annually since and has become a significant fundraising event for the camp. Format The concert takes place in January and features a lineup of Jewish musical artists. Past performers have included Avraham Fried, Mordechai Ben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City is the List of municipalities in New Jersey, second-most populousTable1. New Jersey Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships: 2020 and 2010 Censuses New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed December 1, 2022. city (New Jersey), city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark, New Jersey, Newark.The Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships in 2010 in New Jersey: 2000 and 2010 , United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Pillar Of Defense
In November 2012, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched Operation Pillar of Defense (, ''ʿAmúd ʿAnán'', literally: "Pillar of Cloud"), which was an eight-day campaign in the Governance of the Gaza Strip, Hamas-governed Gaza Strip, beginning on 14 November 2012 with the killing of Ahmed Jabari, chief of the Gaza military wing of Hamas, by an Israeli airstrike. The operation was preceded by a period with a number of mutual Israeli–Palestinian responsive attacks. According to the Israeli government, the operation began in response to the launch of over 100 rockets at Israel during a 24-hour period, an attack by Gaza militants on an Israeli military patrol jeep within Israeli borders, and an explosion caused by improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which occurred near Israeli soldiers, on the Israeli side of a tunnel passing under the Israeli West Bank barrier. The Israeli government stated that the aims of the operation were to halt rocket attacks against civilian targets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as Superstorm Sandy) was an extremely large and devastating tropical cyclone which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in late October 2012. It was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning . The storm inflicted nearly US$70 billion in damage (equivalent to $ billion in ), and killed 254 people in eight countries, from the Caribbean to Canada. The eighteenth Tropical cyclone naming, named storm, tenth Atlantic hurricane, hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy was a List of Category 3 Atlantic hurricanes, Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba, though most of the damage it caused was after it became a Category 1-equivalent extratropical cyclone off the coast of the Northeastern United States. Sandy developed from a tro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
