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Bulletin 1. 9th January 2. Get involved! STEM tutor group quiz! Send your answers to Miss Hickinson. Winner will be announced at the end of the week! Open to all year groups. Thursday 1. 9th Jan Lunchtime. Micro: bits Coding club (run by the Stemettes) rm. Debating in the library: . Deloittes are a large organisation who work within the financial sector. We have been offered 8 work placements an opportunity which we are delighted to have. WOW Eigg Trip 2. 01. May – 1. 9 May 2. Those who have paid their deposit for WOW Eigg trip, please attend a meeting on Friday break in G4. CDT). It is compulsory that you attend this meeting. If you are unable to attend this meeting, please come and see me at a convenient time. 19 January: Lunchtime Bulletin BoardsPUPIL DAILY BULLETIN – WEDNESDAY, 18 JANUARY 2017 ALL YEARS ASSEMBLIES – There will be no Assemblies this week due to Prelims Careers Interviews – Wednesday, 18. SENCO BULLETIN Welcome to this issue. Monday 19 January 2015 LDD, ASCD, SLCN, SED Wintergardens Primary Monday 28 March 2015. PUPIL DAILY BULLETIN – TUESDAY 19TH JANUARY 2016. Use of IT is available. S4 or S5 students. Can any S4 or S5 students interested in potentially going to Oxford or Cambridge in the future please see Mrs Frew ASAP. S1 Craigmount Challenge. Reminder all S1 Craigmount Challenge students should meet in Mr Gaughans room (2. Thursday at 1pm to start the challenge. Taxis. Can all students sitting prelims and who receive taxi travel, please contact the office urgently. Taxi times will need to be changed. Also if you travel with a school bus pass, please contact the office. Choir and Orchestra. Choir will start back this thursday (1. January) in Miss Hannah’s room (G6. All welcome. Orchestra will begin on Wednesday 2. January in the music department. Senior Vocal Group. Could all S3- 6 vocal group students come to a meeting in Mrs Murrays Room (G 4. Thursday (1. 9th January) Looking forward to seeing and hearing you all again. HPV Vaccinations. Can students who have still to returned vaccination form, please do so before Friday. Vaccinations will take place on Tuesday 3. January. Rooms for vaccination’s to be confirmed. Junk. Food Club. For those of you who came to the club last term, you will know how good it was to cook a nutritious tasty, FREE lunch from food that would otherwise have gone to waste! Some delicious lunches last time included a stir fry, tomato pasta and fajitas. The fact is if someone is absent in FCT, the fresh ingredients that aren’t always freezable, often go to waste! The club will run every month. Open to all year groups, boys and girls, come and see Miss Tugman any break or lunch time or at any other time before 2. January to generate your interest. First come first served, students who attended last time and new students are welcome.’. ![]() 19 Thursday 7 January 2016 LUNCH QUEUES S1 – S3 – First S4 – S6 – Second TOILETS – REMINDER. East Union High School Daily Bulletin Thursday, January 19, 2017 Administration Attention Juniors and Seniors: See Trini in the Attendance Office if you’re. BBC - Culture - The shocking story of The Kiss. It must be one of the frankest – and most popular – images of carnal love in the history of art: Auguste Rodin’s monumental marble sculpture of two naked lovers fused in passion, known simply as The Kiss. With sleek and supple bodies, which provide a striking contrast to the roughly chiselled rock on which they sit, Rodin’s sweethearts appear timeless and idealised: a universal representation of sexual infatuation, oblivious to all else. Three over- life- size marble versions of the sculpture were executed in Rodin’s lifetime. The earliest is in the collection of the Mus. Rodin’s sweethearts are a universal representation of sexual infatuation The museum was always one of the most romantic destinations in the city. Now spruced up, with refurbished woodwork and parquet floors, it remains so; indeed, its appeal has been enhanced. And, appropriately enough for this mecca for young lovers, The Kiss occupies a prominent position, immediately visible as you enter the building, in the middle of a gallery on the ground floor. Yet while The Kiss seems so buoyantly optimistic, simple, and carefree, the story of its creation and afterlife offers a knottier tale. For instance, did you know that Rodin’s paramours actually represent a pair of doomed adulterers from Dante’s Inferno? Did you know Rodin’s paramours actually represent a pair of doomed adulterers from Dante’s Inferno? The Kissing DiseaseDoomed lovers. The origins of the sculpture can be traced to 1. Rodin, who had been born in a working- class district of Paris as the son of a police clerk, was approaching 4. By then, he had established his reputation. ![]() That year, he was commissioned for the first time by the French state to design a pair of monumental bronze doors for a new museum of decorative arts. As a theme, he chose Dante’s Inferno. From the off, he planned to sculpt a pair of lovers in relief in the middle of the left- hand door panel. Called Faith, the group would represent the illicit passion of Paolo and Francesca, whom Dante met in the second circle of hell, buffeted by an eternal whirlwind, and who were a popular subject in 1. Century art. According to the original 1. Century story, Francesca and Paolo fell for one another as they sat reading tales of courtly love. When Francesca’s husband, who was also Paolo’s brother, discovered them, he stabbed them to death. Rodin decided to depict the lovers at the moment of their first kiss. The Kiss Movie![]() The Kiss opens on a May evening when the officers of the Reserve Artillery Brigade are invited to take tea at the manor house of a local aristocrat, Lieutenant. Klimt paintings, Gustav Klimt paintings, Klimt painting, Women Klimt paintings, Gustav Klimt works, Klimt early works at Klimt gallery of Klimt museum. Look closely, and you can see the book slipping from the man’s left hand. In the mid- 1. 88. Rodin’s Gates of Hell, as they eventually became known, were not cast in bronze until after his death. By 1. 88. 6, though, Rodin had decided anyway that his bas- relief of Paolo and Francesca would work better as a large, spiralling sculpture in the round – and the following year, the French state commissioned him to execute the work in marble on a scale larger than life. For the next decade, The Kiss stood unfinished in Rodin’s studio, as he focused his attention elsewhere. The Kiss Artist Gustav Klimt Year 1907-1908 Medium Oil and gold leaf on canvas Location Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austri. Kiss (often stylized as KISS) is an American hard rock group formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley. We meet in cities where we’ve never been before. We meet where no one will recognize us. A “man of God” is how someone. Are you ready to join us on another wild, rockin' vacation of a lifetime with your leaders, KISS? The seventh mission of The KISS Kruise will be. The Kiss originally represented Paolo and Francesca, two characters borrowed, once again, from Dante’s Divine Comedy: slain by Francesca’s husband who surprised. In 1. 89. 8, though, Rodin decided to exhibit it at the annual Salon, alongside his monolithic statue of the writer Honor. The Kiss proved a hit with the public at once While the latter sculpture, in which the writer stands shrouded in a robe covering a strangely priapic bulge, was ridiculed, The Kiss proved a hit with the public at once. It was quickly copied in bronze in various sizes, and more than 3. The French artist acquiesced and a contract was drawn up, specifying Rodin’s fee of 2. The finished piece was delivered in the summer of 1. Warren’s house and had to be stored, ignominiously, in the stable block. Its indecency offended puritanical locals, who feared that it would incite lewd behaviour During the First World War, Warren loaned it to Lewes Town Hall: “It was installed in the Assembly Room,” says Lampert, “which was a recreation space for troops billeted in the town. Regular boxing matches were staged in the room.” But the indecency of its nude protagonists proved so offensive to puritanical locals, who feared that it would incite lewd behaviour among the soldiers, that it was surrounded by a railing and covered with a sheet. Two years later, it was returned to Warren and hidden by hay bales, to protect it from shells. Eventually, long after Warren’s death in 1. Tate, in 1. 95. 3. All tied up. Half a century later, The Kiss was causing controversy in Britain once again. For years, it had occupied the central rotunda in what is now Tate Britain, but, following the opening of Tate Modern in 2. When the British artist Cornelia Parker was invited to participate in the Tate Triennial in 2. The Kiss to its “prime spot” in Tate Britain, wrapped up in a mile of string. This was a reference to an infamous wartime show of Surrealism in New York designed by the modern artist Marcel Duchamp, who criss- crossed the exhibition space with a “mile of string”, so that his tangled web would obscure the other artworks.“It was like a battle between two styles,” Parker explains, referring to her own intervention, which she called The Distance (A Kiss with String Attached). And I felt that even though it was the most famous sculpture in the Tate – people love it – The Kiss had become a bit clich. I wanted to give it back the complication it used to have: that relationships can be tortured, and not just this romantic ideal. So the string stood in for the complications of relationships.”Not everybody was enamoured with Parker’s idea. Negative articles quickly appeared in the press: “Some of it was quite painful, but it didn’t surprise me,” Parker recalls. The Tate wanted to prosecute, but Parker didn’t wish to give any more oxygen to the assailant’s cause. I imagined that Duchamp would have enjoyed that, so I thought I should enjoy it too. Actually, it’s one of my favourite pieces I’ve ever done.” Rodin was one of the first artists to be curious about the sexual experience of women – Catherine Lampert Of course, the conceptual art that Duchamp pioneered during the first half of the 2. Century could not have been more different from Rodin’s easy- on- the- eye forms. Yet Rodin, too, was a great innovator. In a gesture that may allude to the titillating routines of can- can dancers, her right hand clutches her foot, so that her legs are splayed to reveal her sex. It is a cleaned- up, tasteful rendition of desire – a kiss, not an orgasm The Kiss isn’t nearly as provocative. If anything, it is a cleaned- up, tasteful rendition of desire – a kiss, not an orgasm. Perhaps this is why Rodin himself was dismissive of it: he once called The Kiss “a large sculpted knick- knack following the usual formula”. Yet – like Parker’s mile of string – knowing about the backstory of the sculpture complicates our response to it, in, I believe, a useful and stimulating way. Perhaps the old adage is right: despite appearances to the contrary, the course of true love never does run smooth. Alastair Sooke is Art Critic of The Daily Telegraph. If you would like to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Culture, head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter. The Kiss by Stephen Dunn - Poems. In 1. 93. 9, Stephen Dunn was born in New York City. He earned a BA in history and English from Hofstra University, attended the New School Writing Workshops, and finished his MA in creative writing at Syracuse University. Dunn has worked as a professional basketball player, an advertising copywriter, and an editor, as well as a professor of creative writing. Dunn's books of poetry include Lines of Defense (W. Norton, 2. 01. 4); Here and Now: Poems (W. Norton, 2. 01. 1); What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1. Everything Else in the World (2. Local Visitations (2. Different Hours (2. Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry; Loosestrife (1. New and Selected Poems: 1. Landscape at the End of the Century (1. Between Angels (1. Local Time (1. 98. National Poetry Series; Not Dancing (1. Work & Love (1. A Circus of Needs (1. Full of Lust and Good Usage (1. Looking For Holes In the Ceiling 1. He is also the author of Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry (BOA Editions, 2. Riffs & Reciprocities: Prose Pairs (1. About Dunn's work, the poet Billy Collins has written: . His honesty would not be so forceful were it not for his discrete formality; his poems would not be so strikingly naked were they not so carefully dressed. He has taught poetry and creative writing and held residencies at Wartburg College, Wichita State University, Columbia University, University of Washington, Syracuse University, Southwest Minnesota State College, Princeton University, and University of Michigan. Dunn is the Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College and lives in Frostburg, Maryland, with his wife, the writer Barbara Hurd. The Fire Island Lighthouse is a visible landmark on the Great South Bay, in southern Suffolk County, New York on the western end of Fire Island, a barrier island off.Hundreds die in Brooklyn theater fire - Dec 0. Also on this day. Lead Story. 19. 45 At 2: 1. U. S. Navy Avenger torpedo- bombers comprising Flight 1. Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three- hour training mission. Flight 1. 9 was scheduled to take them due east for 1. American Revolution. 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The question is based on ideas about Jewish personhood, which have cultural, ethnicreligious, political, genealogical, and personal dimensions. Orthodox Judaism and Conservative Judaism follow the Halakha, deeming a person to be Jewish if their mother is Jewish, or they underwent a proper conversion. Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism, accept both matrilienal and patrilineal descent. Haymanot Judaism and Karaite Judaism follow patrilineal descent. Opinion polls have suggested that the majority of Jews see being Jewish as predominantly a matter of ancestry and culture, rather than religion. Because Jewish identity can include characteristics of an ethnicity. However, there are differences in interpretations when it comes to non- Orthodox. Jewish denominations in the application of this definition, including. Should a person with only one Jewish parent be considered Jewish? Which conversion processes should be considered valid? 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Halakha states that the acceptance of the principles and practices of Judaism does not make a person a Jew. ![]() But, those born Jewish do not lose that status because they cease to be observant Jews, even if they adopt the practices of another religion. If both parents are Jewish, their child will also be considered Jewish, and the child takes the status of the father (e. If either parent is subject to a genealogical disability (e. If one of the parents is not Jewish, the rule is that the child takes the status of the mother (Kiddushin 6. Shulchan Aruch, EH 4: 1. In Orthodox Judaism the child of a non- Jewish mother can be considered Jewish only by a process of conversion to Judaism. Reform and Liberal Judaism do not accept the halakhic rules as binding, and most branches accept a child of one Jewish parent, whether father or mother, as Jewish if the parents raise the child as a Jew and foster a Jewish identity in the child, noting that . This presumption of the status of the offspring of any mixed marriage is to be established through appropriate and timely public and formal acts of identification with the Jewish faith and people.. Depending on circumstances, mitzvot leading toward a positive and exclusive Jewish identity will include entry into the covenant, acquisition of a Hebrew name, Torah study, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, and Kabbalat Torah (Confirmation). For those beyond childhood claiming Jewish identity, other public acts or declarations may be added or substituted after consultation with their rabbi. It does not establish a new definition of Jewish identity, for its preamble states expressly that it means to be operative only for Reform Jews in North America, not for all Jews everywhere. In fact, the 1. 98. Jewish status. The child of a Jewish mother and gentile father, whom halachah regards as clearly Jewish, enjoys but a presumption of Jewish status that must be . In the determination of Jewish identity.. Jew and must undergo a formal conversion in order to become a Jew. The Jewish status of a child of an intermarriage cannot be determined . Both elements—descent from one Jewish parent and the performance of mitzvot that lead to a . He or she will require conversion prior to observing bar or bat mitzvah in the synagogue. Most notably, the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism has rejected patrilineal descent and requires formal conversion for anyone not born of a Jewish mother. They argue that only patrilineal descent can transmit Jewish identity on the grounds that all descent in the Torah went according to the male line, basing this idea . Orthodox Judaism has a predominant position in Israel. Although Orthodox and Conservative Judaism do not recognize Jewishness through patrilineal descent, . Not all conversions are recognised by all varieties of Judaism. If a male is already circumcised, a drop of blood is drawn from the penis. Because rabbis in the other movements do not require that converts make this commitment, Orthodox authorities do not generally accept as valid conversions performed outside the Orthodox community. Conducting a conversion absent the traditional requirements of immersion in a ritual bath and circumcision for males is a violation of a Standard of the Rabbinical Assembly and grounds for expulsion. Accordingly, Conservative rabbis may accept the validity of some conversions from other non- Orthodox movements. The length and format of the course of study will vary from rabbi to rabbi and community to community, though most now require a course in basic Judaism and individual study with a rabbi, as well as attendance at services and participation in home practice and synagogue life. Following this, converts are required to immerse in a ritual bath, be circumcised if male, and accept the commandments before the rabbinical court. It has different requirements for conversion, and refrained from accepting any converts until recently. At a ceremony in their Northern California synagogue, ten adults and four minors swore fealty to Judaism after completing a year of study. This conversion came 1. Karaite Council of Sages reversed its centuries- old ban on accepting converts. Nor do they accept such converts from other communities, or the children of mixed marriages or marriages involving such converts. The traditional view regarding these individuals, known as Meshumadim (Hebrew: . In general, no formal ceremony or declaration is required to return to Jewish practices. All movements of Judaism welcome the return to Judaism of those who have left, or been raised in another religion. When returning to Judaism, these individuals would be expected to abandon their previous practices and adopt Jewish customs. The same rules in principle apply to the matrilineal descendants of such persons, though some rabbinical authorities may require stricter proof of Jewish descent than others. Whether such persons are required to undergo a full formal conversion depends on the community and their individual circumstances. For example, a male who has had a brit milah, who has a general understanding of Judaism, but who has been raised in a secular home might not be required to undergo ritual conversion. However, a male who has not had a brit milah, a male or female who has converted to or been brought up in another religion, or an individual raised in a completely secular home without any Jewish education, in most communities, may be required to undergo a full ritual conversion. For full participation in the community (for example, to marry with the participation of a rabbi), they may be required to display sincerity, such as a declaration of commitment to Judaism. Technically, such a person remains Jewish, like all Jews, provided that the original conversion is valid. However, in some recent cases, Haredirabbinical authorities, as well as the current Religious Zionist. Israeli. Chief Rabbinate, have taken the view that a given convert's lapse from Orthodox Jewish observance is evidence that he or she cannot, even at the time of the conversion, have had the full intention to observe the commandments, and that the conversion must therefore have been invalid. A valid Jewish court of sufficient stature has the ability to revoke a person's or a group's status as Jews. This was done for the lost Ten Tribes of Israel. Similarly, non- adherence by a Jew to the 6. Mitzvot, or even formal conversion to another religion, does not make one lose one's Jewish status. Thus, the immediate descendants of all female Jews (even apostates) are still considered to be Jews, as are those of all their female descendants. Even those descendants who are not aware they are Jews, or practice a religion other than Judaism, are defined by this perspective as Jews, as long as they come from an unbroken female line of descent. As a corollary, the children of a Jewish father and a non- Jewish mother are not considered to be Jews by Halakha unless they formally convert according to Halakha, even if raised fully observant in the Mitzvot. In addition, Halakha requires that the new convert commit himself to observance of its tenets; this is called Kabbalat Ol Mitzvot (Hebrew: . Kabbalat mitzvot (Hebrew: . However, their application of these rules have been different, and the difference has been increasing in recent years. Modern Orthodox authorities have been more inclined to rule in favor of Jewish status and to accept non- Orthodox Jews' word in doubtful cases involving people claiming to be Jews, while Haredi authorities have in recent years tended to presume non- Jewish status and require more stringent rules and standards of evidence in order for Jewish status to be proven, and have tended to distrust the evidence of Jews who are not personally Orthodox. Haredi rabbis have tended to look at a convert's current personal observance and to regard deficiencies or lack of Orthodoxy in current observance as evidence that the convert never intended to validly convert. |