Eye Gifts
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:13:32 +0000
Designer sunglasses are often viewed as a wasteful investment of hard-earned money. But honestly speaking, it is not. If one remains a little circumspect while shopping for those perfect shades, a beautiful pair could be resting on your eyes without adversely affecting your pockets.
Buying sunglasses is not a very complicated process. But buying the right pair of designer sunglasses surely is. Simply, because they compliment a perfect personality outlook for an individual. And if a correct choice is not made, it will have your faux become the talk of the town for the day. After all, you would never like the idea of investing in something that does not suit your personae.
The most popular eyewear brands like Ray Ban, Gucci, Christian Dior, and Dolce & Gabbana are the preferred ones with the generation of today. However, it has been seen that most men fall for Ray Ban shades while when it comes to protecting their sensitive eyes and looking stylishly beautiful at the same time, women go for sunglasses from Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana.
Quite disappointingly, even the modern customer tends to give more weightage to price tags rather than the quality or the brand name. They can buy substandard stuff at a low price with a smile on their face but they would never indulge in high-quality expensive shades. Reason: The recent recession spell which has left many
Returning back to the crux of the discussion, buying designer sunglasses needs a lot of scrutiny. Getting straight to the point, one should opt for a pair of sunglasses that has large lenses as they protect and cover your eyes better. However, prior to that, is it necessary for the buyer to identify for what purpose is he or she actually buying this eyewear? If he/she is a party animal or a regular at social events then an eyewear straight-out from the branded store would be an ideal choice. However, if that is not the case and the buyer is merely looking for a pair of stylish glares, then that can also protect his/her eyes than cheaper version of the same brand. Reason: These glares will come handy while driving in hot sunny afternoons and will also protect the driver’s eyes from dust, blinding flashes and other external disturbances.
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In 1964, Elaine DeLott Baker left her white working-class Jewish family in Massachusetts and her scholarship at Radcliffe to go to Mississippi, where she spent a year working with SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). Many years later, she writes about returning to the black community:
"Being around black people again reminded me of the way I felt when I walked into JFK International after a year abroad and heard the sounds of English being spoken, or how I feel when I return to the town where I was born and walk in the salt air along the beach where I first learned to swim. It is a physical experience, a sense of homecoming. It was, and is, a bittersweet experience... It has been so long since I have been there and so good to feel part of the black community again. It is the easiest thing in the world for me to do, to sink back into the congregation. All that has to happen is for a black person to look me in the eye and say, ‘It's still your struggle' and I'm there."
Baker's words keep coming to mind as I think about a Jewish "take" on Black History Month. I've spent the last several months working intensely on Living the Legacy, a new curriculum on Jews and the Civil Rights Movement, steeping myself in the stories of women and men, northerners and southerners, who intersected with the struggle for civil rights in various ways: some as grassroots activists, some as public leaders, some as naysayers. For some, Jewish values overtly influenced their involvement; for others, the Movement represented a way to escape--or, perhaps, reinvent--the Jewish community.
So my take is a little bit different from the usual Jewish angle on Black History Month, which goes something like "Jews played an important role in the struggle for black civil rights" or "Jews and African Americans share a common history as oppressed peoples." Instead, I'd like to explore some questions: Why do Jews love to talk about Jews and the Civil Rights Movement? What is at stake in the claims of a common "otherness"? Why create a Jewish curriculum about the Civil Rights Movement?
Baker's words hint at many answers. She captures the enduring Jewish sense of identification with the African American community, as well as its bittersweetness--the loss and sadness that whites felt when their African American fellow activists suggested they step back and work on their own issues, letting blacks lead for themselves. She longs to hear "It's still your struggle" but knows that she can only participate if invited to do so. The love and longing, the tension and disappointment--it's all there. And which struggle are we talking about, exactly?
For American Jews, the Civil Rights Movement came at a momentous time. The community still carried a collective memory of discrimination and exclusion, pogroms and Holocaust, even as Jews of European descent benefited from their relatively recent white privilege, moving into the mainstream middle class and even into the educated elite. For many Jews, civil rights activism was possible because of these privileges, even as it appealed to them because of their history and enduring sense of otherness, or their shame at having joined postwar suburbia.
Today, too, the history of Jews and civil rights activism remains resonant to many Jews, farther now from their immigrant roots and ethnically bleached by assimilation. The Civil Rights Movement has become a touchstone of our progressive credentials, our "otherness," proof that we are something other than regular privileged folks indistinguishable from the rest of white America. Often, our interest in the Civil Rights Movement is narcissistic--an interest in ourselves, more than in the experiences and rights of African Americans. Behind the cover of the "civil rights struggle," we are, in fact, struggling with our own place--and power--in America.
I do believe that studying the history of Jews and the Civil Rights Movement is valuable. I have, after all, spent months developing a curriculum to do just that! But the purpose should not be mere celebration, patting ourselves on the back for the disproportionate representation of Jews in the Civil Rights Movement. Rather, we need to ask, why was that disproportion the case, and what can we learn from it today? And what about the fact that there were many Jews who were ambivalent at best about the Civil Rights Movement? It's an opportunity to explore contemporary American Jewish identity and its relationship to politics, to examine the Jewish values that motivate us, to learn from the challenges and gifts of partnerships that cross racial, ethnic, class, and regional boundaries.
In the end, this post is inspired by Black
History Month, but it is not about
Black History Month. (You'll note I haven't mentioned a single African
American, Jewish or not.) What I'm talking about here, really, is a (white)
Jewish story, and its intersection with black history. We make a mistake when
we teach Jewish history and pretend that we're teaching Black History. Whose
struggle, I'll ask again, are we talking about?
The Living the Legacy
curriculum is now being piloted and will be available to the public at jwa.org
in Fall 2010. The curriculum is also the focus of JWA's 2010
Institute for Educators.
Benzenering1004 Says:
If I have to see …
If I have to see one more knife being sharpened on a stone, I’m gonna have to kill myself.
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
jameshanley40 Says:
very good programs, …
very good programs, but what’s largely missing in this series, are prophets. where’s isaiah, jeremiah, ezekiel, and any the other prophets that make up the book of prophets..
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
WILDCENTURION Says:
exodus movement of …
exodus movement of your people .bob marley
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
KnowWhatIsTrue Says:
this whole series …
this whole series is such a mangled piece of bias trash. This is anti semetic against “The TRUE Jew”I .Romans 2: 28For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.Romans 10:12For there is NO DISTINCTION between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all,”
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
donnie2164 Says:
I realy enjoy these …
I realy enjoy these shows thank you so much for posting them. over time we see how much we still need to learn. stop qoteing scripture and follow our hearts.
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
claudius2u Says:
Had those hapless …
Had those hapless victims of self-reliance upon Masada only read the Scriptures, which were denied their free access by the Temple Priests, who told them, “It is above your understanding; only we have the authority to tell you what that writ says.” Constantine invaded the Believers Assemblies, and took command through his appointed priests, to prevent common people reading the same Scriptures – The Roman Catholic Church continues his evil, that he learned from Temple priests.
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
dutchdolo1586 Says:
Nice Video. But …
Nice Video. But the Israelites were people of color!!!!!
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
paronaaron Says:
A quote by Pascal ” …
A quote by Pascal “We understand nothing of the works of God unless we take it as a principle
that He wishes to blind some and to enlighten others” Fact is that Scripture actually says this. No one can come to the Father unless God makes it possible. In religion it is called the lifting of the veil. Balaam did not see the angel until the veil was lifted from his eyes.
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
paronaaron Says:
Pascal for me is …
Pascal for me is not a reliable source given his theroy about not being able to determine religion or truths by reasoning, he is an athiest who writes books that are not without bias. Historians do not agree with some of his claims of events in history. Many believe that Constantine saw something, their were two experiences but the one in regard to the cross in the sky, they say it was probably a metorite he saw. But they do agree something happened, something was seen
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
duchesseagle404 Says:
14] And this day …
14] And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
duchesseagle404 Says:
13] And the blood …
13] And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
[14] And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
duchesseagle404 Says:
moses is the law… …
moses is the law……if you are of isreal you must follow moses or else you are not of isreal ….moses showed the isreal by God how to worship God or else you are not of isreal even you you call yourself isreali today…..to be isreal you must follow moses……because God told moses how he wanted to be worshipped
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
curiomonk Says:
constantine didn’t …
constantine didn’t see a cross. the papacy bribed him.
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
gamesbok Says:
The historian of …
The historian of Constenine is Eusabius, who gives two accounts, first in a history of the war, and secondly in a Biography.
In the first it’s unclear if it’s the cross or Sol Invictus who’s the inspiration, in the second it’s Christ, who appears in the sky before the armies. 90,000 men present appear not to have noticed.
There wasn’t a God who Constantine hadn’t worshipped at some time or other (Pascal’s Wager), and the last statue he commisioned was of himself as a god.
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
RedCrescentDemon Says:
Religion is the …
Religion is the opium of the people. It is a terminal illness whose symptoms include the loss of common sense, humility, rational thinking, and in some cases, moral decency.
Btw, cool story bro
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
12peacekeepers Says:
this is crazy to …
this is crazy to commit suicide while u can fight or surrender to live another day. suiside is prohibited in Jewish religion! may ((GOD)forgive there soul and mine 2 if my conviction is not correct.
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
mghills Says:
Yeshuah Ben Miriam …
Yeshuah Ben Miriam (Yeshua, Son of Miriam)
Judaism continues through the Mother line, which is far more accurate.
Also, if a man-child is named “son of (mother)” then his father is unknown.
For me Middle Eastern history pales into insignificance in the light of Chinese history.
Our (European) history is heavily titled in the favour of the “civilised” romans.
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Kurtlane Says:
But if it is a …
But if it is a Jewish gift, it’s not the one to be proud of.
Justice is injustice. In essence, it’s nothing but ego – the root of all evil. It only seems different.
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Kurtlane Says:
When I read that, …
When I read that, it dawned on me how idiotic Western (and Middle Eastern and Central Asian too) civilization has been in putting justice on a pedestal.
I wonder how in all that pursuit of justice human beings haven’t wiped themselves off the face of the earth altogether. Well, it’s not too late. (sarcasm)
I don’t think justice is a Jewish gift. Confucius and Lao Tsu talk about it, ancient Middle easterners, Greeks and Romans displayed plenty of it in their conquests.
(cont.)
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Kurtlane Says:
Fierce pursuit of …
Fierce pursuit of justice is the most heinous evil in the universe. Not only Jews, Christians and Muslims, but atheists, capitalists, colonialists, slave traders, communists, fascists, even the Nazis pursued justice. (Each saw the thing in his own way of course.)
The result: more evil and bloodshed than everything else put together.
Just a few weeks ago, a Muslim told me that the murder of children on their first school day in Beslan was “justice” – the actual word he used.
(cont.)
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Kurtlane Says:
Of course, there …
Of course, there was no Russia, nor even its ancestor state Rus in 4th century. But there were Sarmatians, possible ancestors of Slavs, in what’s now southern Ukraine (and a bit of Russia), shores of Black and Azov seas.
And there were fairly large cosmopolitan centers there, where lots of different peoples lived, so there’s no reason Jews wouldn’t lieve there too.
But “no reason” is one thing, actual evidence is another. Does anyone know this any better?
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Kurtlane Says:
At 38: 35 – 38:40, …
At 38: 35 – 38:40, it says, And so the Jews began to search for new homes in… Russia.
Really? In 4th century?
(cont.)
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
shayshalom Says:
n don’t tell me the …
n don’t tell me the world was created 5000 yrs ago in 6 dys from send or Jhona was in a Big fish stomach 4 3 dys – Belief is not mythology on jewish boy’s body saver – it’s about FAITH on superior power that created world withoght any politization of that basic faith called religion that every fanatic take 2 his crazy-bloody-violent way
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
shayshalom Says:
y can’t u ask …
y can’t u ask concerning questions about ur faith? how could u knw that the story ur ancestors passed u is d ultimate truth ? If u were born in Pakistan u would believe in Muhamad like any other places – just because ur past – not ur self-knowledge.
As half jew-half christian I c completly different interpetations of THE SAME BIBLE – who led me 2 d only conclusion that religion is based on jewish fary tales-
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
MrMrsclash Says:
I know Jesus’s name …
I know Jesus’s name is Yeshuah in Hebrew. BTW
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 1:06 pm