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Eshel Meir
Eshel ( he, אֵשֶׁל) may refer to: Organizations * Eshel (organization), Orthodox LGBTQ support organization Places ;Israel * Eshel HaNasi, Israel * Beit Eshel, Mandatory Palestine ;United States * Eshel, California People with the surname * Hanan Eshel Hanan Eshel (Born at Rehovot on July 25, 1958, died April 8, 2010) was an Israeli archaeologist and historian, well known in the field of Dead Sea Scrolls studies, although he did research in the Hasmonean and Bar Kokhba periods as well. With Mag ... * Tamar Eshel (1920–2022), Israeli diplomat and politician {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eshel (organization)
Eshel ( he, אשל) is a nonprofit organization in the United States and Canada that creates community and acceptance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ+) Jews and their families in Orthodox Jewish communities. Eshel provides education and advocacy, a speaker's bureau, community gatherings, and a social network for individuals and institutions. It was founded in 2010 to provide hope and a future for LGBTQ+ Jews excluded from Orthodox and Torah observant communities. Organization The Manhattan-based organization was founded in June 2010 when Nehirim, an organization serving LGBTQ+ Jews of all religious backgrounds, received funding to serve Orthodox LGBTQ+ Jews. This initiative grew into Eshel. ''Eshel'' is Hebrew for the biblical shrub with bright red flowers planted by Abraham to signal to parched travelers that a welcoming tent was nearby, often thought to be a tamarisk. Miryam Kabakov is Eshel’s executive director, and co-founded the organization with Steve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eshel HaNasi
Eshel HaNasi ( he, אֵשֶׁל הַנָּשִׂיא, ''lit.'' Tamarisk of the President) is a youth village in southern Israel. Located between Beersheba and Ofakim, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merhavim Regional Council. In it had a population of . History A school was established on the site in 1951, and took its name from the tamarisk trees that grow in the region, and from the title of the President of Israel, in honor of Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann Chaim Azriel Weizmann ( he, חיים עזריאל ויצמן ', russian: Хаим Евзорович Вейцман, ''Khaim Evzorovich Veytsman''; 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Russian-born biochemist, Zionist leader and Israe .... Taken together, the name means "Tamarisk of the President." The following year an agricultural school and youth village were founded on the site, taking the name of the original school. Today it contains a boarding school and a high school teaching around 1, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beit Eshel
Beit Eshel ( he, בֵּית אֵשֶׁל) was a Jewish settlement established in the Negev desert in Mandate Palestine in 1943 as one of the three lookouts, alongside Revivim and Gvulot. It was located two kilometres southeast of Beersheba. According to the Jewish National Fund, the name means ''"House of the Tamarisk"'' and refers to the tamarisks planted by the patriarch Abraham at Beersheba. The pioneers of Beit Eshel were Holocaust survivors from Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. As one of three outposts, the residents of Beit Eshel were tasked with checking the viability of agriculture in the area based on climate analysis, availability of water, etc. In 1947 the village had a population of over 100. In May 1948, when Egypt invaded Israel in the early stages of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Beit Eshel was cut off from Jewish territory and was shelled heavily by the Egyptians. According to the Haganah, this attack was repulsed. After 8 men and women were killed, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanan Eshel
Hanan Eshel (Born at Rehovot on July 25, 1958, died April 8, 2010) was an Israeli archaeologist and historian, well known in the field of Dead Sea Scrolls studies, although he did research in the Hasmonean and Bar Kokhba periods as well. With Magen Broshi he discovered a number of residential caves in the near vicinity of Qumran and co-published a number of historically significant documents from Qumran. Academic progress Eshel received his academic training at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, completing his B.A. at the Institute of Archaeology in 1984, his M.A. 1985–1988 and his Ph.D. in 1993, both in the Jewish History Department. His PhD was on the origins of Samaritanism. While working on his PhD he started teaching in the department of Land of Israel Studies and Archeology at Bar-Ilan University. That was in 1990. He would remain at Bar-Ilan for the next twenty years, receiving an appointment as an associate professor in 1999 and serving as head of the department betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
