“Making the desert blossom as the rose”: The American Christian Palestine Committee’s “Children’s Memorial Forest” and Postwar Land Acquisition in Palestine

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-264
Author(s):  
Amy Weiss
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Holocaust Education ◽  
Early Form ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Reclamation Project ◽  
European Jewish ◽  
The Rose

Abstract The American Christian Palestine Committee believed that Palestine, and not Europe or any other location, should memorialize the European Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Founded in 1946, the ACPC partnered with the Jewish National Fund to establish the Children’s Memorial Forest, a memorial to the more than 1 million Jewish children who perished in the Nazi genocide. Its fundraising campaign sought to plant saplings in the Ein Hashofet region, constituting an early form of Holocaust education among American Sunday school children. It solicited theologically liberal, or mainline, American Protestants’ participation in a land reclamation project aimed at advancing Jewish statehood.

scholarly journals LAND USE REFORMULATION OF NORTH JAKARTA EX-RECLAMATION FOR LAND PROCUREMENT TOWARD AFFORDABLE HOUSES IN JAKARTA

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (15) ◽  
pp. 1500-1510
Author(s):  
Martin Roestamy ◽  
Abraham Yazdi Martin ◽  
Sudiman Sihotang
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Reclaimed Land ◽  
The People ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Reclamation Project ◽  
New City ◽  
The Government ◽  
Gubernatorial Election

Jakarta Bay Reclamation is the process of land acquisition by the government of Jakarta within government Jokowi Widodo, who was replaced by Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok). Later, in the 2017 gubernatorial election Anies Baswedan and Sandiaga Uno won an absolute and seized power in the capital. With the win, according to the governor's promise during the election campaign that Anies has suspended the reclamation project and confirms the termination of the contract with the developers, some of whom started reclamation and want to restore the land benefit for the greatest prosperity of the people in accordance with the mandate of the state constitution. This action reaps the pros and cons because the developers have invested large enough to planning a new city for business purposes and converted into for the benefit of the people. The study aims to analyze and provide alternative solutions regarding the use and utilization of land reclamation which covers approximately 1500 hectares in order to find a win-win solution. The method used is normative juridical approach to address how policy should be appropriate so that the reclaimed land can be reused and do not become wastelands. From this research found an alternative solution by dividing the three steps, among others who had given position, which was the reclamation process, and that has not been processed yet been obtained prior permission from the governor. Complicating this issue is caused due to developers who build without permits and permit reclamation is still under debate, so there are some developers who commit violations in the sphere of administrative and legal procedures, and increasingly complicated in the land that has been reclaimed in fact already issued building rights to on behalf of developers perceived by the governor Anies as a rule are not prudential practice. Keywords: Land Bank, Reclamation, Land Acquisition, Affordable Housing.

zy prawda nas wyzwoli? Przełamywanie oporu psychologicznego w przyjmowaniu wiedzy o Zagładzie

2014 ◽  
pp. 803-822
Author(s):  
Marta Witkowska ◽  
Piotr Forecki
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Research ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Holocaust Education ◽  
Positive Group ◽  
Nazi Occupation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Social Psychological Research

The introduction of the programs on Holocaust education in Poland and a broader debate on the transgressions of Poles against the Jews have not led to desired improvement in public knowledge on these historical events. A comparison of survey results from the last two decades (Bilewicz, Winiewski, Radzik, 2012) illustrates mounting ignorance: the number of Poles who acknowledge that the highest number of victims of the Nazi occupation period was Jewish systematically decreases, while the number of those who think that the highest number of victims of the wartime period was ethnically Polish, increases. Insights from the social psychological research allow to explain the psychological foundations of this resistance to acknowledge the facts about the Holocaust, and indicate the need for positive group identity as a crucial factor preventing people from recognizing such a threatening historical information. In this paper we will provide knowledge about the ways to overcome this resistance-through-denial. Implementation of such measures could allow people to accept responsibility for the misdeeds committed by their ancestors.

scholarly journals Numerical simulation of the impact of an integrated renovation project on the Maowei Sea hydrodynamic environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cui Wang ◽  
Ling Cai ◽  
Yaojian Wu ◽  
Yurong Ouyang
Keyword(s):  
Water Exchange ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Exchange Capacity ◽  
Reclamation Project ◽  
Hydrodynamic Environment ◽  
Sea Area ◽  
Water Quality Models ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Main Factor

AbstractIntegrated renovation projects are important for marine ecological environment protection. Three-dimensional hydrodynamics and water quality models are developed for the Maowei Sea to assess the hydrodynamic environment base on the MIKE3 software with high resolution meshes. The results showed that the flow velocity changed minimally after the project, decreasing by approximately 0.12 m/s in the east of the Maowei Sea area and increasing by approximately 0.01 m/s in the northeast of the Shajing Port. The decrease in tidal prism (~ 2.66 × 106 m3) was attributed to land reclamation, and accounted for just 0.86% of the pre-project level. The water exchange half-life increased by approximately 1 day, implying a slightly reduced water exchange capacity. Siltation occurred mainly in the reclamation and dredging areas, amounting to back-silting of approximately 2 cm/year. Reclamation project is the main factor causing the decrease of tidal volume and weakening the hydrodynamics in Maowei Sea. Adaptive management is necessary for such a comprehensive regulation project. According to the result, we suggest that reclamation works should strictly prohibit and dredging schemes should optimize in the subsequent regulation works.

scholarly journals Genocide and Holocaust Education at Secondary Schools in Armenia

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1 (8)) ◽  
pp. 150-161
Author(s):  
Siranush Chubaryan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Armenian Genocide ◽  
National Program ◽  
Holocaust Education ◽  
The Holocaust

The article refers to the organization of Genocide and Holocaust Education at secondary schools in Armenia. The survey and investigation indicate the key direction of the reforms in the national program of education. Special attention is paid to reforms in the fields of social sciences, as well as human rights (including the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust) at the secondary schools in Armenia which significantly contribute to the establishment of civil society in our country.

Does Gender Matter?

2008 ◽  
pp. 54-71
Author(s):  
Paula E. Hyman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Family ◽  
European Jewish ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S History

This chapter probes the significant contributions to the understanding of the past, which postmodern criticism that has attributed vital importance to women as a historical subject and to gender as a category of critical analysis. It offers a valuable assessment both of inroads already made by women's history and gender analysis into Jewish historical research. It also invokes distinctions drawn by Gerda Lerner, 'the doyenne of women's history', to categorize both achievements and desiderata in the field of feminism. The chapter reviews compensatory history which focuses on women previously ignored, including gender-based adjustment and refinement of interpretation in areas ranging from the Conversos to the shtetl and from the Holocaust to the family. It tackles areas where women's and gender-sensitive history have the power to transform and reshape the fundamental assumptions of European Jewish history.

Chapter V

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Twain
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
Small Church ◽  
The People

About half-past ten the cracked bell of the small church began to ring, and presently the people began to gather for the morning sermon. The Sunday-school children distributed themselves about the house and occupied pews with their parents, so as to be under supervision....

scholarly journals Unsettling Theology: Sunday school children reading the text of the Bible in the age of recolonisation

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Botha
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Blood Disease ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Women Abuse

During Women’s month in South Africa (August), a group of Sunday school children from the rural congregation of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA), Middelburg- Nasaret, got together to read the narratives of the resurrection of the daughter of Jairus and the healing of the woman suffering from a blood disease. The exercise which appears to be quite innocent is in a sense subversive in its hidden script. In the Reformed tradition, the pulpit as a centre of reading and preaching the Word has become the ‘holy of holiest’ which nobody, leave alone children, except the ordained minister could occupy. This is of course contrary to the intention of the Reformation to return the Bible to the people and have the people return to the Bible. The reading exercise of this article goes beyond all exegetical and theological presuppositions, unsettling conventional interpretations of Scripture. The children allow their real life experiences in the township of having witnessed, among others, child and women abuse to inform their reading of Mark 5:21–43. In the process they avoid a linear reading of the Bible which is based on the explication-application scheme of matters. Put differently, instead of doing a deductive reading of the portion, i.e. trying to explain or exegete the text clinically and then applying it to their context, they read it inductively, resulting in a hope sharing and hope giving understanding of the rising from the dead of the 12-year-old girl and the healing of the woman with a blood disease. A major spin-off of such reading of the Bible by children is the unlocking of refreshingly new avenues of reading the Bible and interpreting the text.

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