User:Egfrank/Workroom

Welcome to my workroom. This is where I keep notes for projects I am working on

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Judaism

Bible

lots here - see /Workroom/Bible

Mishnah

(as if I don't already have enough to do!) {{Mishnah}}

Jewish music

• Piyyut - lacks historical discussion - lists only piyyutim commonly read in synogogue with a distinct emphasis on those most familiar to Ashkenazim - check Idelsohn, Elbogan, check notes from Eli's History of Jewish Music course, talk to Eli about additional background reading. Bias towards ashkenazi piyuttim. No mention of arabic influence, special language, heavy use of allusions to targum and midrash, etc, etc.

Relationships between American Jewish religious movements

Literary view

• Shalit, Wendy. "Orthodox Jews in fiction" in Aish.com
  • [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E0DA1038F933A05752C0A9639C8B63 Shalit, Wendy. "Essay;The Observant Reader" in The New York Times, January 30, 2005.
• Shulevitz, Judith. "The New Jewish Novel:The complaints are very different from Portnoy's" in Slate - "philo-traditionalist" books

Sociological view

• Waxman, Chaim. Winners and Losers in Denominational Memberships in the United States - Reform the largest, Conservative shrinking, Orthodox thriving. Still big divide over tradition, but also a fair degree of cooperation and a tendency to see each other as one community.

Current events

• Katzav and Yoffie
  • http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/06/27/katzav-and-yoffie-just-what-we-didnt-need/ Cross Currents:Katzav and Yoffie… Just What We Didn’t Need] - Katzav is fanning the flames, is the "new symbol of Israeli Orthodox arrogance".

Informal interaction

• Mail.Liberal-Judaism home page

Organizational life

• Yeshiva - add info on the conservative yeshiva, pardes, other liberal yeshivot and study centers?

Jewish studies methodology

• Peshat and Drash - merge into one article with redirects for Peshat and Drash.
• Mikraot Gedolot - expand
• Torah L'shma, Limud - no article
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism/Manual of Style - add citations
• Exegesis - Judaism section problematic - refer to article on Perush
• Perush - needs article with Pesher as sub-article (I'm not sure but I think Pesher might be a technical name for a particular kind of Perush; prep: do survey of material on medieval commentators

Names of God in Judaism

Anemic - no history, no discussion of where and when particular names are used.

Progressive Judaism

Naming dispute

First 30 sources each from following sources

• http://www.google.co.il/search?q=Progressive+Judaism
• http://www.google.co.il/search?q=Reform+Judaism

Reform only

USA

1. Union for Reform Judaism - home page for USA movement
2. What Reform Jews Believe - social networking site for multiple religions.(Board entirely composed of US citizens - see here)
3. The Origins of Reform Judaism - discusses European origins of USA movement
4. Reform Judaism - discusses USA movement: begins with 1999 Pittsburg platform, backs up to origins and then resumes discussion of development of USA movement
5. Reform Judaism magazine - magazine for USA movement
6. Women of Reform Judaism - USA Reform women's organization

Progressive + Reform

Grouped by regions explicitly mentioned:

USA and Israel

1. About: Branches of Judaism - Reform Judaism - Progressive Jewish Denominations - Liberal Movements
   • discusses only Israel and USA
   • may be of questionable reliability: contains statements that historians (e.g. Meyer) probably would consider inaccurate:
     • Issac Meyer Wise started HUC in Cincinnati, but the start of the Reform movement in the USA is generally considered much earlier in Charleston, South Carolina
     • implies that the rabbis sent to Israel in the 1930's were from the US - they were in fact from Europe and their efforts had little lasting effect aside from the creation of the Leo Baeck school in Haifa (source: Meyer)
   • Use of terms:
     • uses the terms reform and progressive alternatively except when talking explicitly about the USA
     • contains the phrase "Like Reform Jews worldwide", implying that "Reform" has world wide meaning to this writer. However, no movement outside of Israel and USA discussed
   • Includes Conservative and Humanistic Jews within Progressive - not clear about reason: perhaps uncited sources? neither participate in world union
2. Reform Judaism - lists websites for USA and Israeli movement only.

USA

1. Special Introduction to the Reform/Progressive Portion of the FAQ and Question 2.5:What is Reform/Progressive Judaism?
   • uses sources exclusively from USA
   • title uses reform/progressive, but actual text only uses reform
2. Reform Judaism
   • copyrighted to URJ - gateway to other sites.
   • all links are US sites
   • shows up in search for progressive judaism BUT word does not appear on page!
   • BUT content meta field ="progressive judaism, liberal judaism, uahc, ccar, huc-jir"
   • claims CCAR is international - is it? (new to me if is - have to research this)
3. [1] - uses Progressive when referring to Israeli movement; otherwise uses phrase Reform/Progressive rather than either one alone

Progressive + Liberal

1. Bristol and West Progressive Synogogue - UK synagogue
2. Progressive Jewish Community of East Anglia
3. Liberal Judaism (UK liberal movement congregational assoc.]
4. Nottingham Progressive Jewish Congregation - "liberal" present in source, but not visible on page (seems to be a scrolling problem)
5. European WUPJ - liberal (Netherlands, Germany); progressive used when not referring to a specific region
6. Leicester Progressive Synagogue - Neve Shalom

Progressive only (religion)

1. Union for Progressive Judaism - website for progressive jews in Oceania: appears to use the term "Progressive" exclusively.
2. Brisbane Progressive Jewish Congregation
3. Welcome to Temple Sinai
   • "Home page of the Reform movement. From here there are links to the websites of all major branches of Progressive Judaism, in the United States, Israel and the rest of the world." - note that the movement is called "Reform" but the Judaism is called Progressive: what does this imply?

Progressive only (politics)

Means US Jews on the social left

• Progressive Jewish Alliance
• Progressive Jewish Alliance - PJA Letter to Jewish Business Leaders
• Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism - discusses anti-zionist tendencies in the Jewish social left and their impact on anti-semitism
• Anti-Zionism by Progressive Jews

Evaluation

• German Reform Movement
  • need to develop this into an article in its own right
  • need to rework Reform Judaism, Conservative Judaism, Liberal Judaism to refer to this article
  • need to create page on modern German progressive movement as distinct from 19c German movement
  • also need to rework paragraph in History of the Jews in Germany

• Progressive Judaism - anemic - needs to be converted into a full sized article with sub-section (or sub-articles) for:
  • Progressive Jewish approach to text
  • Progressive Jewish halakhah
  • Progressive Jewish liturgy
  • Progressive Jewish chazzanut
  • Progressive Jewish organizations

• regional differences in Progressive Judaism
  • UK needs special attention - currently information about the special history of UK Judaism is split between Reform Judaism and Liberal Judaism. This makes it hard to discuss the history of their relationship. Despite this fact there are some that are quite enamoured of this arrangement. Needs to be handled with care.
  • North America - currently covered by Reform Judaism but much of the material is applicable to the progressive movement as a whole. Other information is given more time than its due: e.g. the 19th century reformers are given a prominent place at the beginning of the article and many other influences are completely ignored.
  • Germany - as Germany was the birthplace of progressive Judaism, the modern Germen progressive movement deserves special attention. Need to also consider this articles relationship to History of the Jews in Germany
  • FSU - this is one of the most rapidly growing segments of progressive Judaism (is this true? check with Uri) and has been a particular focus of the WUPJ.

• Reform Judaism - too long - try to split into subarticles and then eventually into disamb page that points to articles and organizations that have refered to themselves as "Reform Jews"
• Liberal Judaism - short, but should also probably be a disambig page - there are a lot of countries where the prefered term is "Liberal" - the name isn't the exclusive property of UK judaism. Also it is the name of a book by Eugene Borowitz

Hope

definitions: 1. a feeling that something desirable is likely to happen 2. a chance that something desirable will happen or be possible 3. something that somebody wants to have or do or wants to happen or be true 4. somebody or something that seems likely to bring success or relief -- MSN Encarta

Some Psychological definitions of hope (Source: LUSENET):

• James Averill
• David Myers - false hope
• Ira Progroff
• Hendrika Vande Kamp
• Multidimensional Hope Scale
• Hope Index Scale
• Self-Anchoring Striving Scale

Identifying consulting practice areas

• reviewing international consulting firms for categories that might be consulting practice areas -- finished with G's - start at H. 2007-03-27.

• some interesting categories - related to consulting
  • Category:Public opinion research companies
  • Category:Think tanks
  • Category:Appropriate development organizations

Company categorizations, by country, industry

Category:Companies by country and industry

Country company Lists:

• List of Albanian companies - several one line definitions

Categories for renaming:

• Defunct financial companies
• Defunct financial companies of the United States

Helpful automations:

• template that given country, link of subsidiary and industry list
  • adds for each country, a link to the subsidiary accompanied by
    • country name linked to country article
    • flag image
  • for each country and industry pair, adds a category
• if more than two such templates are embedded, adds international category for those lines of business

• bot that scans categories and flags companies needing above template
• bot that generates listing of international companies with two or less country specific categories
• bot that generates listing of companies directly listed on line of business sheets - should be moved to by country or international line of biz listing
• bot that geneates listing of companies directly listed on by country sheet - should be listed in line of biz by country.