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The authorized agencies to recoup Nazi confiscation and 'Fire sale" transactions received fewer than 20 percent of the value of Jewish assets stolen by Nazis. Of the $220 billion confiscated by the Nazi's, $115-175 billion (at 2005 prices) remains unreturned. Even the highly publicized resurgence of restitution in the 1990s (when grandchildren sought restitution) resulted in the return of only three percent of assets. This book explores the remedies of retrieval of stolen property. Case law is a Byzantine labyrinth. The courts (both local and foreign) have different laws, different standards of provenance and different statutes of limitation. In addition, after 75 years ago is difficult to trace provenance if sold many times over. Can this massive tragedy, unequaled in human history, seek adequate restitution?

The authorized agencies to recoup Nazi confiscation and 'Fire sale" transactions received fewer than 20 percent of the value of Jewish assets stolen by Nazis. Of the $220 billion confiscated by the Nazi's, $115-175 billion (at 2005 prices) remains unreturned. Even the highly publicized resurgence of restitution in the 1990s (when grandchildren sought restitution) resulted in the return of only three percent of assets. This book explores the remedies of retrieval of stolen property. Case law is a Byzantine labyrinth. The courts (both local and foreign) have different laws, different standards of provenance and different statutes of limitation. In addition, after 75 years ago is difficult to trace provenance if sold many times over. Can this massive tragedy, unequaled in human history, seek adequate restitution?

¿[T]he protagonist of ¿Trying to Recover¿ has autobiographical elements and other elements that are based on the fact that I¿m still trying to recover what I began to recover in 2008 (I began doing genealogy research in the prior year, and I figured out that I¿m Jewish just months before I was able to confirm it.). I might take at least another 15 years to fully recover it¿and that includes that I¿m still working to recover what past generations almost took to the grave¿¿

Maimonides, a seminal Jewish commentator, based his philosophical findings on Aristotle¿s logic as the exemplar of reason. Maimonides¿ views on creation, revelation, and redemption depart from Aristotle¿s views, even though he used Aristotelian methods. Creation, revelation, and redemption were the core of Maimonides¿ reality. In The Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides argued that the eternity of the world is not demonstrable. He found that God is the First Cause as Creator, which providentially governs the world with concern for the human beings created in its image. Through study of the created order enlarges our understanding of God. Revelation is important because human beings receive help through divine graciousness. Torah enables human beings with a direction to perfection. Some even call him the forefather of the Jewish Enlightenment of the latter 18th and early 19th centuries. Maimonides remained a strictly observant Jew to his last day. In many respects, he defined normative Judaism, both in his own Sephardi (Spanish) world and in the rabbinical Ashkenazi academies.

In Commentary in April 2007, Charles Murray, the coauthor of The Bell Curve (1994), again claimed that "Jews are smarter" than everyone else (Murray, 2007). In The Bell Curve, he and his late (and Jewish) coauthor, Richard Herrnstein, presented the argument "Ashkenazic Jews of European origins," test higher than any other ethnic group (Murray and Herrnstein, 1994). Jews in America and Britain have an overall IQ mean somewhere between a half and a full standard deviation above the mean, with the source of the difference concentrated in the verbal component. Murray again makes the argument of an unmistakable "Jewish Genius," in Commentary, but now with an explanation. The book analyzes reason for such a favorable attribute: the genetic, the environmental, and the divine. The weights apportioned to each remain indeterminate.

This book examines the Harmony And Resonance Of Qur'an And Torah, the Three Unique Abrahamic Religions, Why Jesus Was A Rabbi, A Prophet, A Messiah, But Not The Son Of God, Divine Names In Torah, Gospel and Qur¿an: Past and Future, Jewish Views of Prophet Muhammad As An Abrahamic Prophet, Prophets in Judaism and Islam and How Allah Chooses Them, Why Jewish Views Of Heaven And Hell Are So Different, and the Two Sacred Sites Powered By Brotherly Love.

This eloquent collection of short stories and Jewish proverbs, folktales and essays reminds readers that a single life is fleeting and small, and yet each individual is connected to something larger and more constant than themselves. With simplicity and clarity, these stories ¿ many of them centuries old ¿ manage to bridge the distance between past and present, between individual virtues and the strength of a community. Like any good book, Hakak¿s does not provide answers. Instead, it asks the right questions ¿ the same questions our ancestors asked themselves, and the ones our children¿s children will ask themselves, too. (Alizah Salario)

Would you believe that Mati and Ahmed, two thumb-sized kids, have found a new friend? Her name is Amal, and she is their same size! Together these three continue with adventure after zany adventure in Jerusalem. While they plant trees, ride on a cat¿s tale, fly on a pelican¿s back, enjoy ice cream while helping a poor woman, and even rescue a baby monkey at the zoo, they learn about each other. They learn how much they share, and they are curious about their differences. These stories are the fourth in a series beginning with Mini Adventures in Jerusalem. Three little people show the way to creating a better world.

In recent years, there has been an increase in the public¿s awareness regarding the use and significance of polygraph machines as a reliable means of validating data and discerning truth from falsehood. We saw it prudent, therefore, to provide our opinion, through this study, with regards to a single fundamental question: Under what conditions would it be appropriate to allow for the admissibility of the findings of polygraph tests as evidence in criminal court, assuming such tests are conducted in accordance with the Concealed Information method, and not the Comparative Questions method? Our conclusions suggest that the day has come for us to begin employing this method as a legitimate means of obtaining admissible evidence in criminal proceedings. This book was edited by the very talented Guy Itzhak Sender, Adv.

"They were the unwanted - the ones whom did not exactly fit into either the Jewish or the gentile communities, although they were in fact Jewish and should have fit in as Jews...."Andrew Adam Andrulewicz and his brother-sons of a second-generation Holocaust survivor with relatives whom were Anusim and are B'nei Anusim, and a Black-Native American Creole woman whose faith they practice-navigate what that means for them as their and some of their relatives' unique and shared families are discovered and rediscovered.

Few people know about the Jewish organization in Sweden that saved hundreds of thousands Jewish lives from the Holocaust. Fritz Hollander is the unknown Swedish businessman who stood in the center of it all. His son, Per Hollander, describes the events in this biography about his parents. Per Hollander has been encouraged by the thought of writing for his grandchildren. He wants them to know everything that wasn't covered in the archives. He believes that if it's not written now, no one will know. He hopes the book will lead to future generations understanding more about what happened during the war.