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Hillel International Building
Hillel ( he, links=no, הלל, lit=praise) is a Jewish masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to: Given name * Hillel the Elder (110 BC–10 AD), Babylonian sage, scholar, and Jewish leader * Hillel, son of Gamaliel III (3rd century), Jewish scholar * Hillel II, Jewish communal and religious authority and Nasi of the Jewish Sanhedrin, 320–385 * Hillel ben Eliakim (11th–12th century), Greek rabbi and Talmud scholar * Hillel ben Samuel (c. 1220–1295), Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist * Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (1615–1690), Lithuanian rabbi * Hillel Rivlin (1758–1838), Lithuanian rabbi * Hillel Paritcher (1795–1864), Russian Chabad rabbi * Hillel Lichtenstein (1814–1891), Hungarian rabbi and writer * Hillel Noah Maggid (1829–1903), Russian-Jewish genealogist and historian * Hillel Yaffe (1864–1936), Russian Jewish physician and Zionist leader * Hillel Zeitlin (1871–1942), Russian writer in Yiddish and Hebrew * Hillel Poisic (1881–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillel The Elder
Hillel ( he, הִלֵּל ''Hīllēl''; variously called ''Hillel HaGadol'', ''Hillel HaZaken'', ''Hillel HaBavli'' or ''HaBavli'', was born according to tradition in Babylon c. 110 BCE, died 10 CE in Jerusalem) was a Jewish religious leader, sage and scholar associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud and the founder of the House of Hillel school of tannaim. He is popularly known as the author of two sayings: (1) "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And being for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?" and (2) the expression of the ethic of reciprocity, or " Golden Rule": "That which is hateful to you, do not do unto your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary; now go and learn." Biography Hillel was born in Babylon. According to the Talmud, he descended from the Tribe of Benjamin on his father's side, and from the family of David on his mother's side. When Josephus speaks of Hillel's great-grandson, Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilly Kristal
Hillel Kristal (September 23, 1931August 28, 2007) was an American club owner, manager and musician who was the owner of the iconic New York City club CBGB, which opened in 1973 and closed in 2006 over a rent dispute. Early years Kristal was born in New York City in 1931, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. His father, Shamai Kristal, was a Russian pogrom survivor. Shamai whose namesake was Shammai, named his son after Shammai's contemporary, Hillel the Elder. His family moved to Hightstown, New Jersey when he was an infant. He studied music from a young age and eventually attended the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia. Kristal also spent a period of time in the Marines. Venturing into music He moved back to New York City, where he worked as a singer, appearing on stage in the men's choral group at Radio City Music Hall. He later became the manager of the Village Vanguard, a jazz club in Greenwich Village, where he booked Miles Davis and other musicians. He marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillel Neuer
Hillel C. Neuer (born 1969/1970) is a Canadian-born international lawyer, writer, and the executive director of UN Watch, a human rights NGO and UN watchdog group based in Geneva, Switzerland. Neuer is the founding chairman of Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, a coalition of 25 NGOs from around the world. He has written on law, politics and international affairs for the '' International Herald Tribune'', '' Juriste International'', ''Commentary'', ''The New Republic'', ''Christian Science Monitor'', and the Jerusalem Center For Public Affairs. Neuer was selected as one of the "top 100 most influential Jewish people in the world" by Israeli newspaper ''Maariv'', and by the ''Algemeiner Journal'' in 2017. He is an outspoken defender of Israel and critic of the UN's human rights councils' actions. Early life Neuer is from Montreal, Canada. He holds a BA in intellectual history and political science from Concordia University, a Bachelor of Civil Law and a Bachelor o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillel Frisch
Hillel Frisch is an Israeli political scientist and professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern History at Bar Ilan University. His work focuses on Israeli-Palestinian interactions and military strategies, the political impact of Islam, institutions and the military, the political dynamics of the Israeli Arab community, the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, the Jordanian-Palestinian relationship, and Islamism. Frish earned a BA from Tel Aviv University (1974), an MA in International Relations from Columbia University (1977) and a PhD in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990. He is also a senior researcher at the Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies The Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA Center) is an Israeli think tank affiliated with Bar-Ilan University and supported by the NATO ''Mediterranean Initiative'', conducting policy-relevant research on Middle Eastern and global st .... Books * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillel Fendel
Hillel Fendel ( he, הלל פנדל) was, for 16 years, senior editor and co-founder of Arutz Sheva's "Israel National News" and also works as an author and editor. He worked as a teacher and rabbi in the past. Fendel has authored both news articles and op-eds on IsraelNationalNews.com. He currently co-authors a biweekly column in the Jewish Press on Jerusalem affairs. Fendel authored a book on Jewish prayer entitled ''One Thing I Ask'' (Feldheim, June 1998). The book was published in both Hebrew and English. He co-authored a book with Yitzchak Herskovitz (both Hebrew and English), and edited three books: ''Nine Men Wanted for a Minyan'' by his father Rabbi Meyer Fendel, a biography of Rabbi She'ar Yashuv Cohen, and a book by Professor Mordechai Rothenberg. He translated several Hebrew books into English, including the six-volume "Borne Upon a Spirit" series by Rabbi Shabtai Sabato, a work by Prof. Hagi Ben-Artzi, a Torah/science work on locusts by Rabbi Yoel Shvartz and Netane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillel Roman
Hillel Roman (הלל רומן) is a visual artist living and working in Tel Aviv, Israel. Biography Roman was born on April 16, 1975 in Los Angeles, California. At age 24 he joined Hamidrasha Art School, Beit Berl College, Israel. In 2004 Roman graduated from Tel-Aviv University, the Department for Poetics and Comparative Literature ( magna cum laude), and in 2007 he received his Masters of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Roman employs a wide range of techniques, from drawing, painting and conceptual art, through sculpting and etching, to building fully functional astronomical observatories. After his graduation from Beit Berl college, he assumed a teaching position there, and in the years 2004-2006 he lectured at Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. After having returned from his studies in London, he resumed his position at Beit Berl, and also accepted a teaching role at Thelma Yellin school of Fine Arts. In 2007, Roman received a residenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillel Horowitz
Rabbi Hillel Ilan Horowitz ( he, הלל אילן הורוביץ, born 31 March 1964) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician. He briefly served as a member of the Knesset for the Jewish Home in 2015. Biography Horowitz grew up in Merkaz Shapira, and attended Yeshivat Or Etzion, the Beit El yeshiva, and Mercaz HaRav Kook. He graduated from the Military Rabbi course in 1987, and joined the Military Rabbinate, becoming rabbi of the Givati Brigade. He later gained an MBA from Ono Academic College, and in 1990, he became head of a yeshiva in Kiryat Arba. In 2010, he was appointed Adviser on Settlement Affairs by Nazareth Illit mayor Shimon Gapso. Prior to the 2013 Knesset elections, he was placed 13th on the Jewish Home list. Although the party won 12 seats, Horowitz entered the Knesset on 16 February 2015 as a replacement for Uri Orbach Uri Shraga Orbach ( he, אורי שרגא אורבך; 28 March 1960 – 16 February 2015) was an Israeli Religious Zionist writer, journalist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillel Slovak
Hillel Slovak ( he, הלל סלובק; April 13, 1962 – June 25, 1988) was an Israeli-American musician best known as the founding guitarist of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he recorded two albums. His guitar work was rooted in funk and hard rock, and he often experimented with other genres, including reggae and speed metal. He is considered to have been a major influence on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' early sound. Born in Haifa, Israel, he moved to Nahariya and later to a kibbutz, before emigrating to the United States with his family in 1967. Slovak met future bandmates Anthony Kiedis, Flea, and Jack Irons while attending Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. There, he formed the group What Is This? with Irons, Alain Johannes, and Todd Strassman; Flea later replaced Strassman. Slovak, Flea, Kiedis, and Irons founded Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1983, gaining popularity in Los Angeles through their energetic stage presence and spirited performances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillel Cohen
Hillel Cohen-Bar (born in Jerusalem, 5 October 1961) is an Israeli scholar who studies and writes about Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine/Israel. He is an associated professor at the Department of Islam and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the head of the Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism and the State of Israel at that university. Journalism and academic career Cohen is familiar with East Jerusalem, the topic of his book, ''Kikar Hashuk Reka'' (The Marketplace is Empty or: The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem), because of the years he spent as a correspondent for East Jerusalem affairs for the Israeli weekly '' Kol Ha'ir''. He published extensively on the Palestinian internal refugees and on the 1948 war. Two of his books deal with Palestinian collaborators and the Israeli security agencies using methodology that can be described as history-from-below. The Jerusalem Post calls his books "an accessible mixture of academic research and vivid j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillel Weiss
Hillel Weiss ( he, הלל ויס; born 1945) is a professor emeritus of literature at Bar Ilan University in Israel. Academic career Hillel Weiss is a tenured professor at the Joseph & Norman Berman Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-llan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. As head of the Department of Hebrew Literature, he changed its name to the Department of Literature of the Jewish People. He is the editor of “Bikoret U’parshanut,” a journal of literary criticism. As a literary researcher, he specializes in the work of Shmuel Yosef Agnon, about whom he has published five books. He developed a computerized database for the author's complete works, with 2,500,000 words that can be accessed online through a retrieval system. The access is through three main frames: - Frame A: Poetics. General typology, genres; motifs sources, poetic functions. - Frame B: index of subjects, philosophy, history; society; psychology. - Frame C: indice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillel Halkin
Hillel Halkin ( he, הלל הלקין; born 1939) is an American-born Israeli translator, biographer, literary critic, and novelist, who has lived in Israel since 1970. Biography Hillel Halkin was born in New York City two months before the outbreak of World War II. He was the son of Abraham S. Halkin, then a professor of Jewish literature, history, and culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and his wife Shulamit, a daughter of Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan. In 1970 he made '' aliyah'' to Israel, settling in Zikhron Ya'akov. He studied English literature at Columbia University."Anglo translators [first in a series]: Like being the dance partner of the grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillel Ticktin
Hillel H. Ticktin is a Marxist theorist and economist. He was born in South Africa in 1937, but had to leave to avoid arrest for political activism. He then lived and studied in the Soviet Union, where his PhD thesis, which was critical of official Communist Parties, was rejected. In 1965 he began teaching at Glasgow University , image = UofG Coat of Arms.png , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms Flag , latin_name = Universitas Glasguensis , motto = la, Via, Veritas, Vita , ..., which in 2000 appointed him professor of Marxist studies. He retired in 2002. In 1973, he co-founded ''Critique, a Journal of Socialist Theory.'' He is an honorary senior research fellow in social sciences administration, and an honorary professorial research fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at Glasgow University. References External links Hillel Ticktin's 'Commentary on Crisis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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