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Greenwald Family Foundation
Greenwald is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alex Greenwald (born 1979), American musician and actor * Andy Greenwald (born 1977), social commentator, specifically about popular music * Bruce Greenwald (born 1946), American economist * Douglas Greenwald (1913–1997), American economist * Glenn Greenwald (born 1967), attorney, journalist, blogger, author of books, NSA critic * Hank Greenwald (born 1935), former baseball announcer * Herbert Greenwald (1915–1959), real estate developer associated with Mies van der Rohe * Jeff Greenwald (born 1954), author, performer, and Executive Director of Ethical Traveler * Joseph Greenwald (actor) (circa 1878–1938), American actor * Louis Greenwald (born 1967), New Jersey, USA politician * Maggie Greenwald (born 1955), American film director and writer * Michael Greenwald, birth name of Michael Kidd (1915–2007), American film and stage choreographer * Nora Greenwald (born 1977), also known as Molly Holly, American p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Greenwald
Alexander Greenwald (born October 9, 1979) is an American musician, actor, and record producer. He is the lead vocalist of the California rock band Phantom Planet. Life and career Greenwald was born in Los Angeles, California, to a family of Jewish descent. In 1994, Greenwald formed Phantom Planet in his teens with four friends – guitarist Darren Robinson, bassist Sam Farrar, guitarist Jacques Brautbar, and drummer Jason Schwartzman. The band is best known for producing the song "California", which was used as the theme song of the teen drama ''The O.C.'', which lasted four seasons. Phantom Planet announced their hiatus on November 25, 2008. In 2006, he collaborated with DJ Mark Ronson, to cover the Radiohead song, "Just". The cover appears on the compilation album '' Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads'', as well as the Mark Ronson album, ''Version''. He appeared with Ronson at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival where he climbed up on to the lighting rig of the John Peel stage du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Greenwald
Robert Greenwald (born August 28, 1945) is an American filmmaker, and the founder of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film and advocacy organization whose work is distributed for free in concert with nonprofit partners and movements in order to educate and mobilize for progressive causes. With Brave New Films, Greenwald has made investigative documentaries such as '' Uncovered: The War on Iraq'' (2004), '' Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism'' (2004), '' Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price'' (2005), '' Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers'' (2006), '' Rethink Afghanistan'' (2009), ''Koch Brothers Exposed'' (2012), and '' War on Whistleblowers'' (2013), Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote' (2020), Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote' (2022), Beyond Bars: A Son's Fight for Justice' (2022) as well as many short investigative films and internet videos. Before launching Brave Films in 2000, Greenwald produced and/or directed more than 65 TV movies, miniseries and films as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grunwald (other)
Grunwald may refer to: Places Administrative * Grunwald, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, a village in northern Poland ** Gmina Grunwald, a municipality containing the village of Grunwald * Grunwald, Poznań, a district of the city of Poznań in western Poland * Grunwald, Łódź Voivodeship, a village in central Poland Non-administrative * Grunwald Monument (''Pomnik Grunwaldzki''), erected in 1910 in Kraków, Poland * ''Grunwald'', a sanatorium in Sokołowsko, Poland * Grunwaldzka street in Bydgoszcz Sports * Grunwald Poznań (sports club), a sports club with many different sections including: ** Grunwald Poznań (field hockey) ** Grunwald Poznań (football) ** Grunwald Poznań (handball) * Grunwald Wilno, the Polish name for a Lithuanian football club Other uses * Grunwald (surname) * Battle of Grunwald, a decisive battle fought in 1410 in what is now northern Poland See also * Greenwald, a surname * Žalgiris (other) * Grunewald (other) * Grünwald (disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grunewald (other)
Grunewald is the name of both a locality and a forest in Germany: * Grunewald (forest) * Grunewald (locality) Grünewald may refer to: * Grünewald (surname) * Grünewald, Germany, a municipality in Brandenburg, Germany * Grünewald (Luxembourg), a forest in Luxembourg * Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag is a German Roman Catholic publishing house founded in Mainz, see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz. Mainz was famous for its culture of Catholic publishing houses, where the catholic intelligence was able to publ ..., a publishing house in Mainz See also * * Greenwald * Grindelwald (other) * Grünwald (other) * Grunwald (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwald, Pennsylvania
Greenwald is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community and coal town in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. References Unincorporated communities in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Coal towns in Pennsylvania Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania {{WestmorelandCountyPA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwald, Minnesota
Greenwald is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 222 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. It is part of the St. Cloud, Minnesota, St. Cloud St. Cloud metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. Minnesota State Highway 4 serves as a main route in the community and Interstate 94 in Minnesota, Interstate 94 passes nearby. History A post office called Greenwald has been in operation since 1910. Greenwald is a name partially derived from German, ''wald'' meaning "forest". Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. The city of Greenwald is located within Grove Township, Stearns County, Minnesota, Grove Township geographically but is a separate entity. Demographics 2010 census At the 2010 census, there were 222 people, 98 households and 66 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 104 housing units at an average density of . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaakov Yechezkia Greenwald II
Rabbi Yaakov Yehezkiya Grunwald (born April 17, 1948) is an American rebbe, the current leader of the Pupa Hasidic group in the United States. Biography He was born in Antwerp, the second son of Yosef Greenwald (the last rabbi of Papa, Hungary before the Holocaust) and his second wife, Miriam. When he was a child the family emigrated to the United States, where his father founded the Pupa hasidic dynasty. He was married to Bracha Frieda. He served as a dayan (rabbinic judge) and posek In Jewish law, a ''Posek'' ( he, פוסק , pl. ''poskim'', ) is a legal scholar who determines the position of ''halakha'', the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities a ... of the Pupa hasidim, and on his father's death 1984 succeeded him as the Pupa rebbe. Most of his followers live in the United States (mainly the state of New York) and Canada, and a few in Israel and London. {{DEFAULTSORT:Greenwald, Yaakov Yech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yosef Greenwald
Yosef Greenwald ( he, יוסף גרינוואלד 1903 – Brooklyn 1984) was the second Rebbe of the Pupa Hasidic dynasty, and the charismatic leader of all the Pupa Hasidim. Prior to World War II, he was a rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Pápa, Hungary. Greenwald was the son of Rabbi Yaakov Yechezkiah Greenwald of Pupa - author of ''Vayaged Yaakov'' (1882-1941), son of Rabbi Moshe Greenwald of Chust - author of ''Arugas HaBosem''. Greenwald was a devoted Belzer Hasid. After the war, he settled in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and established the contemporary Pupa Hasidic movement. He travelled to Belz many times before World War II, and after the war, he made the trip from the United States to Israel to visit Aharon Rokeach, the fourth Rebbe of Belz. Biography Early life Greenwald was born on Wednesday, the 24th of Elul 5663 (16 September 1903), in Brezovica, Hungary. In his youth, he studied Torah in his father's yeshiva in Pápa, Hungary. In 1925, he married Chana, the daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopold Greenwald
Leopold Greenwald (1888–1955), also known as "Yekuthiel Yehuda" Greenwald, was an Orthodox rabbi. Born in Transylvania, he emigrated with his family to the United States in 1924. For nearly thirty years he was the rabbi at Beth Jacob Congregation of Columbus, Ohio. He wrote some forty works, most notably ''Kol Bo Al Aveilut'', a halachic compendium and digest on laws of death and mourning. See also * Bereavement in Judaism Bereavement in Judaism () is a combination of ''minhag'' and ''mitzvah'' derived from the Torah and Judaism's classical rabbinic texts. The details of observance and practice vary according to each Jewish community. Mourners In Judaism, the p ... References 1888 births 1955 deaths American Orthodox rabbis Romanian emigrants to the United States {{US-rabbi-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaakov Yechezkiya Greenwald
Ya'akov Yechezkiya Greenwald (Hebrew: יעקב יחזקי' גרינוואלד. Legal name: Jakab Grünwald. Also called the "Vayaged Ya'akov", 1882 – c. 1 March 1941 (2 Adar 5701)) was the rabbi of the Etz Chaim community in Pápa, Hungary, and the ''rosh yeshiva'' there. He was the predecessor of the Pupa Hasidic dynasty. Early life Greenwald was born in Csorna to Moshe Grunwald, rabbi and ''rosh yeshiva'' of Khust, and studied under his father until his marriage in 1900 to his cousin Sara Rivkah Brown. Career In 1906 Greenwald was appointed rabbi of Likov. In 1912 he was appointed rabbi of Deutschkreutz, replacing his uncle Eliezer David Greenwald. In 1924 he became rabbi of Hunyad and headed a yeshiva in the city. In 1929, he became rabbi of Pápa, Hungary. He established a yeshiva there which soon numbered 300 students, and became one of the largest and most important Hungarian yeshivas. Greenwald was a Belz hasid and sent many of his disciples to Belz. Death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliezer David Greenwald
Rabbi Eliezer David Greenwald (1867-1928) was a rabbi and head of a yeshiva in the cities of Tzehlim (today Deutschkreutz in Austria), Oberwischau (Upper Vishuvah) and Satu Mare, Satmar in Transylvania. He is known for his book Keren L'David. Brother of Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, author of "Arugat HaBosem". Life He was born in Csorna, Hungary, to Rabbi Amram Greenwald, son of Rabbi Yosef Greenwald, Av Beit Din of Sečovce, Tchechowitz. In his youth, he studied with his brother, the author of Arugat HaBosem. He also studied briefly with Rabbi Shmuel Ehrenfeld, author of "Chatan Sofer". In 1889 he married the daughter of Yaakov Rapaport of Bardejov, Bardeyov. After his marriage, he spent five years in Bardeyov, where he founded and chaired a yeshiva throughout his stay in the city. At the beginning of 1907 he was elected rabbi of the Jewish community of Tzehlim, where he also headed a large yeshiva. In 1912 he moved to serve as Rabbi of Oberwischau, and headed a yeshiva that numbered hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Greenwald
Moshe Greenwald (1853–1910), also spelled Grunwald, a rabbi in Hungary at the end of the 19th century. He was the rabbi of Chust, Hungary and progenitor of the Pupa Hasidic dynasty through his son Yaakov Yechezkiya. He was also the author of ''Arugas Habosem'', a book of responsa covering halakhic issues. Biography He was the eldest son of Amram Greenwald He studied at the yeshiva of Menachem Katz, a disciple of Hatam Sofer, in Deutschkreutz, now in Austria, with his grandfather Yosef Greenwald, and at the Pressburg Yeshiva under the Ketav Sofer His father died when he was twenty and he worked in timber trading, while continuing his studies. At that time, he married his relative Zissel Gestetner. At the age of twenty-six he began working as a rabbi in the city of Humenné in Hungary (today in Slovakia). In 1887, he became rabbi of the city of Kisvárda in Hungary. Greenwald was originally from a non-hasidic family but as a young man he became a hasid and traveled t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
