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Murray Levine (1928- ) papers, undated, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1 984-1985, 1990
No full textPapers of Murray Levine, a rabbi at Temple Beth Sholom in Framingham, MA, worked extensively to help resettle Jewish immigrants arriving from the former Soviet Union and traveled to the Soviet Union to deliver spiritual and material support to Soviet Jewish Refuseniks. The materials include photographs and slides, trip reports, notes, memos, clippings, Refusenik profiles, a notebook with coded names of Soviet Jews, and correspondence, including a letter of support from Senator Edward M. Kennedy.The collection documents an eleven-day trip to the Soviet Union that Rabbi Levine and another New England Reform rabbi, David Klatzger, took in January 1985 to visit Refuseniks in Moscow, Leningrad, and Vilnius. The trip was sponsored by the New England Rabbinical Assembly and by Temple Beth Sholom.Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); Murray Levine Papers; *P-974 ; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.Rabbi Murray LevineRabbi Murray Levine,Rabbi Murray Levine is a scholar of Judaica and a widely-published author. He holds a Doctor of Hebrew Letters degree, a Doctor of Divinity degree, and an honorary doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He has been a frequent contributor to several publications, including, Conservative Judaism, The Jewish Spectator, The Reconstructionist and The American Rabbi. As rabbi at Temple Beth Sholom in Framingham, MA, Murray Levine has reached out to the community's young people, senior adults and recent immigrants and provided his services to the homeless shelters, nursing homes and hospitals of his district. An active member of Framingham's Interfaith Council, he promoted mutual understanding among the community's many cultures and religions. Rabbi Murray Levine retired after thirty-nine years of distinguished service.Finding Aid available in Reading Room and on Internet.20061211far031
The Craig Lecture: Michael Levine on the Role of the Designer
No full textCSSD’s Craig Lecture is given in honour of leading 20th Century Modernist Edward Gordon Craig, author of The Art of Theatre, and director of Stanislavski’s epoch-defining production of Hamlet.
The Craig Lecture is presented by the Central School of Speech & Drama in association with the Society for Theatre Research.
[The] inaugural speaker is Canadian theatre designer Michael Levine who talks about the design process and creative collaboration on two very different scales
Sustainability Awareness Week 2021: Welcome Remarks from Caroline Levine from the SGA
No full textWelcome Remarks from Caroline Levine from the SGA.Sustainability is a key component of FIT’s mission and is embedded in the college’s curriculum and operations. During virtual Sustainability Awareness Week, we invite our community to learn about recent innovations from leaders in the industry, FIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni; experience FIT’s efforts to make a positive impact on the earth; and discover new ways to live with a smaller footprint
Hypertension and medullary sponge kidney in an adolescent with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome.
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Reading Thomas Hardy
No full textThis major new reading of the novels of Thomas Hardy, by leading critic George Levine, disentangles the author&apos;s often elaborately distanced prose from his beautiful poetic and precise renderings of the natural world. Clear, direct and minimally academic in his own writing, Levine provides an overview of Hardy&apos;s entire fictional canon, with extensive discussions of his early and late novels including his last, The Well-Beloved. Levine draws new attention to the way Hardy absorbed both the ideas and the writing strategies of Charles Darwin, and develops new perspectives first articulated in the criticism of great novelists - in particular Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence. Levine departs from the critical norm by reading Hardy in the context of his deep feeling for the natural world and all living things, and the implicit affirmation of life that sometimes drives his bleakest narratives.</jats:p
Financial structures and economic development
No full textThe author constructs a model that captures the two-way nature of the relationship between financial and economic development - and allows societies at different levels of economic development and with different policies to choose different financial services. In this model, various types of financial contracts and institutions arise in response to the economic environment. Incentives for financial structures to emerge are generated by liquidity and productivity risk, the costs of gathering information and mobilizing resources, and the costs of financial transactions. The emergence and development of financial arrangements in response to the economic environment can alter investment decisions and per capita growth rates - while the level of per capita income helps determine the types of financial services a particular society chooses to develop and use. The author not only reconciles more empirical regularities than past theoretical studies have done, but highlights the role of public policies on financial activities. Policy has important implications for the rate of economic growth, the level of financial development, and the types of institutions providing financial services. The model also predicts that per capita growth rates should be related to the types of financial services provided by the financial sector. Thus, the most common empirical measure of financial development may not appropriately capture fundamental features of financial development.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Financial Intermediation,Governance Indicators
Serum androgens as a continuing index of adequacy of treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
No full textThe Social Cost-of-Living: Welfare Foundations and Estimation
No full textWe present a new class of social cost-of-living indices and a nonparametric framework for estimating these and other social cost-of- living indices. Common social cost-of-living indices can be understood as aggregator functions of approximations of individual cost-of-living indices. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the expenditure-weighted average of first-order approximations of each individual’s cost-of-living index. This is troubling for three reasons. First, it has not been shown to have a welfare economic foundation for the case where agents are heterogeneous (as they clearly are.) Second, it uses an expenditure-weighted average which downweights the experience of poor households relative to rich households. Finally, it uses only first-order approximations of each individual’s cost-of-living index, and thus ignores substitution effects. We propose a “common-scaling” social cost-of-living index, which is defined as the single scaling to everyone’s expenditure which holds social welfare constant across a price change. Our approach has an explicit social welfare foundation and allows us to choose the weights on the costs of rich and poor households. We also give a unique solution for the welfare function for the case where the weights are independent of household expenditure. A first order approximation of our social cost-of- living index nests as special cases commonly used indices such as the CPI. We also provide a nonparametric method for estimating second- order approximations (which account for substitution effects).Inflation, Social cost-of-living, Demand, Average Derivatives
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