Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here The Duffer Brothers’ Netflix series Stranger Things became a cultural phenomenon And now its stunning new origin story is coming to Broadway don’t miss the creative team behind the new production of Stranger Things: The First Shadow — creators Matt and Ross Duffer and co-director Justin Martin — for a special documentary screening on the making of the award-winning play that astonished London’s West End The First Shadow follows teenager Henry Creel as he seeks to make a fresh start and escape from his troubled past But when a wave of shocking and mysterious crime hits the town Henry wonders — is there a darkness within him that is connected to the darkness unfolding around him Following a special documentary screening about the making of the show Martin and Trefry for the secrets behind adopting the hit series for the stage The musical opens at the Imperial Theatre on April 10 Get the best deals and latest updates on theater and shows by signing up for TheaterMania's newsletter today Odem Merlot and Odem Cabernet Sauvignon Join the Award-winning Portfolio March 5, 2025 (New York, NY) — Recanati Winery is launching three new wines as a part of their Reserve range including Jacob 2017 (SRP: $225) Odem Merlot 2020 (SRP: $49.99) and Odem Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 (SRP: $49.99) These new additions will round out the Reserve tier which encapsulates the Recanati winemaking focus on unique Mediterranean varieties such as Wild Carignan and ancient native grapes with Biblical roots These new releases are available as of April 1 at select retailers nationwide With one of the world’s most intriguing winemaking areas Israel spans multiple microclimates where wine has been produced since the beginning of recorded time (over 5,000 years ago) Recanati’s goal is always to produce truly world-class wines that best express the region and with the release of Jacob they have created a wine that truly celebrates the unique terroir Hailing from the Yiftah Vineyard in the Upper Galilee and Judean Hills Jacob is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Wild Carignan—a grape that helped establish Recanati as a major player in the Israeli winemaking world The Jacob cuvée is made only in the finest vintages with limited production and selective hand harvests for each variety Fermentation took place in moderate temperature using free run wine only and then aged in large oak barrels for 20 months The wine was bottled and aged for at least another 30 months It’s full bodied with a perfect balance of flavors and aromas alongside impressive delicacy Continuing the expression of local climate and varieties are Odem Merlot 2022 and Odem Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 is a reference to the basalt soil on which the eponymous vineyard sits based in a high-altitude enclave (1,050 meters above sea level) of the Golan Heights Each label celebrates the unique location of the Odem vineyards amongst other surrounding plots Odem Merlot 2022: After a cold soak and bleeding to enrich and concentrate the wine moderate temperature fermentation took place using free run wine only The wine was aged for 18 months in large oak barrels This is a powerful wine with dominant earthy aromas of black and red berries Odem Cabernet Sauvignon 2020: Also processed via cold soak and bleeding followed by a moderate fermentation using free run wine The wine was aged in large oak barrels for 20 months The resulting wine is powerful with mesmerizing aromas of black berries For more information about Recanati wines, please visit: palmbay.com About RecanatiRecanati Winery was established in 2000 by Lenny Recanati and Uri Shaked Their aim was to create a new winery which would produce original The winery’s philosophy is to produce local and original wines wines that will best express the local terroir The wine production process is led by chief winemaker Kobi Arviv who began his career in the winery in 2006 believes in matching Mediterranean varieties to the Israeli climate The winery has vineyards in the best growing areas in the country and is very particular about growing varieties (Marawi) while simultaneously nurturing classic international varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon About Palm Bay InternationalPalm Bay International is a dynamic family-owned company that represents a portfolio of fine wines and spirits produced by highly regarded families with long-established roots The portfolio centers on true terroir-driven expressions that are benchmarks from the most heralded regions of the world but the passion and integrity of each family intimately involved from the farm to the table © 2007 - 2025 | Wine Industry Network LLC. 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Maya Recanati (LinkedIn) is an assistant program officer at the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies where she supports the emerging technologies and information space integrity portfolios she worked as a Privacy Program and Policy Analyst at Venable Blue helping clients develop processes and policies to prevent data misuse in Middle Eastern Studies from Dartmouth College and an M.Sc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science Stay up to date with Just Security curated newsletters: Just Security provides expert analysis and informational resources on the issues that matter most—without paywalls Just Security is an editorially independent daily digital law and policy journal housed in the Reiss Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law Support Just Security in shaping a more informed and secure world by making a tax-deductible donation of any size through the NYU giving page Donate Now Thanks for visiting NEW AQUILAN BASKETBALL: Bologna ne, Compagnoni 16, Spasojevic, Nardecchia M., Vigori 17, Ciccarelli, Di Paolo 6, Tuccella 8, Cecchi 27, Ferrettin 4. RECANATI: Marcone no, Gurini 11, Clementoni 19, Semprini Cesari 2, Zomero 4, Sabbatini 4, Atodiresei no, Urbutis 9, Pozzetti 12, Ndzie no, Crucianelli no, Magrini 16. Partial: 22-16, 21-17, 25-26, 10-18. Exited with 5 fouls: Clementoni, Pozzetti and Magrini (Pallacanestro Recanati). Final mockery for Recanati, who slips to third place, defeated 78-77 on the field of New Basketball Aquilano on the last day of the regular season. And here is the match. After the tip-off, the home team, bottom of the group, start off in high gear and surprise the visiting team: Compagnoni and Vigori find the back of the net and at 10' the locals are ahead at 22-16. In the second period Recanati tries to react, led by Clementoni and Gurini, but the New Basketball Aquilano He replies blow for blow and at 20' the home team reaches a double-digit lead at 43-33. Back on the parquet, the scoring continues with great consistency: Clementoni brings his team closer, but Cecchi rises to the fore and with several consecutive points maintains the 68-59 at the dawn of the final period. Recanati tries everything and slowly climbs back up, arriving point for point in the final sprint: Clementoni's triple is worth the tie for Svethia at 77, but the match is ultimately decided by Di Paolo's free throw that gives the victory to the home team at 78-77. On Feb. 19 2025, Microsoft unveiled Majorana 1 a quantum chip powered by a new state of matter that the company claims will help create more powerful and less error prone quantum computers Microsoft declared that quantum computers capable of solving “meaningful industrial-scale problems” are merely years away This stunning feat demonstrates that the second quantum revolution is rapidly advancing Such progress will likely help scientists tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges, such as climate change or drug discovery by simulating highly complex chemical compositions that even the most powerful supercomputers can’t understand Such modeling would reduce the time and cost of research and could lead to the discovery of new materials such advancements may also pose serious risks to human rights defenders in the near term China’s 15 billion USD commitment to quantum research far outpaces the second largest investor, the European Union, which has allocated 7.2 billion USD in funding it is crucial that the broader human rights and democracy community develop an understanding of how quantum computing will change our digital landscape Such awareness will enable democratic actors to advocate for responsible rights-respecting tech development and use Quantum computing leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to solve problems that are too complex for classical computers Classical computers rely on binary bits represented as zeros or ones quantum computers are built on quantum bits or “qubits,” that can exist in multiple states simultaneously allows quantum computers to perform multiple calculations at once a quantum computer’s capacity further increases While the compute power of classical computers scales linearly, quantum computers scale exponentially. One common analogy used to illustrate how quantum and classical computers operate differently is that of a maze a classical computer would need to try each path one by one A quantum computer can try multiple paths simultaneously reducing the amount of time it takes to get to a solution Currently, obstacles remain to producing quantum computers, primarily around accuracy, scalability, and resources. A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 72 percent of the tech executives and academics in quantum computing asked   believe that fault tolerant quantum computers–which can effectively suppress and mitigate computational errors–will be a reality by 2035 the time to plan for the quantum age is now Breaking public key encryption risks compromising freedom of expression and the right to privacy, fundamental protections outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights If people can no longer be assured that their communications are private contexts in which activists and other democratic actors operate–spaces that are already shrinking–could constrict further putting present-day communications at risk highly repressive governments in places like Venezuela and China collect more data from their surveillance systems than they are currently able to analyze Quantum-backed AI surveillance systems would be able to detect and identify “suspicious” behavior–for instance Quantum-powered surveillance systems pose a significant threat to the public Governments that can track a person’s every move in real time will be better equipped to restrict freedom of assembly and movement and ensure that people who express dissenting views cannot escape retribution Quantum computing is poised to alter the relationship between governments and citizens; however the nature of this impact is yet to be determined scalable quantum computers is believed to be still several years away civil society has a unique opportunity to prepare for this new reality now which play a significant role in guiding tech development digital rights organizations should participate in conversations on how to regulate quantum technologies on the domestic and international levels The resources and technical expertise necessary to develop quantum computers make it likely that governments and private companies will control these systems for years to come Given the extreme power imbalance between governments and their people civil society has an important role in advocating for quantum computing to be leveraged for the public interest in their own national contexts While the digital rights community has limited capacity to engage policymakers and must prioritize more immediate threats to human rights the risks of quantum computing cannot be put aside the community’s current focus on protecting privacy and limiting the diffusion of surveillance tech will better prepare society for the quantum age and civil society should leverage these synergies wherever possible Finally, civil society must be vigilant about digital security as the quantum age approaches. Those living in autocracies or backsliding democracies settings should transition to secure, quantum-resistant messaging platforms such as Signal If governments are harvesting data now with the intention of decrypting it later current communications over apps like WhatsApp are already vulnerable The quantum age will usher in a new era of technological advancement To harness quantum computers’ potential to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges stakeholders must also grapple with the significant risks they pose to democracy and human rights Thanks for visiting Thanks for visiting Game Recap: Women's Basketball | 2/22/2025 6:11:00 PM | Alex Morgan Thanks for visiting There are no statistics available for this player Thanks for visiting Standings. Camerino 60; Borgo Mogliano (-2) 51; Folgore Castelraimondo 48; Belfortese 42; Elite Tolentino, Montecassiano 40; Argignano 39; Portorecanati 38; Montecosaro 37; Casette d'Ete 33; Real Elpidiense 30; Urbis Salvia (-29) 12. A tough day today for the juniors in Rome against Atl.Lodigiani and the girls who at 19pm will play everything at home against Maceratese. Where was the new Rai 1 drama dedicated to Giacomo Leopardi filmed Here are the locations of Leopardi - Il poeta dell’infinito a TV series that offers audiences a unique opportunity: to relive the places that shaped the young poet and his immortal works The two-part miniseries directed by Sergio Rubini and starring Leonardo Maltese as Giacomo Leopardi allows the audience to take a journey through historic mansions and picturesque villages that tell not only Leopardi’s personal story but also the essence of an Italy that holds the eternal dialogue between man and the infinite From the gently undulating hills of the Marche with Recanati as the cultural and poetic epicenter to the towns that welcomed Leopardi during his travels each location becomes a silent protagonist of Sergio Rubini’s tale So let us see where the Rai script was filmed: we show you images from the fiction and images of the locations in reality.1 Fiction: the exteriors of Casa Leopardi in Recanati Reality: the exteriors of Casa Leopardi in Recanati .The exteriors of Casa Leopardi (the facade the little square in front) that are seen in the fiction are actually the exteriors of Casa Leopardi in Recanati: in Leopardi - Il poeta dell’infinito we therefore really see the poet’s places The scene in which Monaldo Leopardi and little Giacomo go to the top of the tower in Recanati was filmed not far from the “native wild village”: on one of the towers of the Rocca di Offagna The scene set in the library of Casa Leopardi of the aperitif Giacomo Leopardi takes with Pietro Giordani in the square of Recanati is actually set in Piazza della Repubblica in Treia another village in the Marche region of Italy The journey to Rome together with his uncle Carlo Antici is set in the Archaeological Park of Villa dei Quintili in Rome The scene filmed in Milan in the printing shop of the publisher Stella at which Giacomo Leopardi intends to publish the Operette Morali was shot in the Antica Tipografia Portoghese in Altamura The reception scene at the home of publisher Morandini was filmed at the Palazzo dei Conti in Bricherasio (Turin) the scene in which Leopardi travels to Rome and finds himself in a palace of the papal administration faced with the possibility of pursuing an ecclesiastical career with tuition slated to be much higher than the subsidized tuition paid by students at other universities 2024Get email notification for articles from Liza Rozovsky FollowNov 13 Israel's Council for Higher Education approved the opening of a medical school at Reichman University in the central Israeli city of Herzliya the first medical program in Israel at a private academic institution CARVER : Di Bello 14, Scianaro 7, Toti none, Maiolo 3, Vitale, Lucarelli 7, Martino 12, Benincasa none, Galli 22, Pagnanelli 11, Pizziconi none. ATTILA JUNIOR PORTO RECANATI: Mancini ne, Fratoni ne, Gamazo 12, Rapini 9, Caverni 6, Redolf ​​3, Pesce, Cicconi Massi 15, Montanari, Tarquini ne, Ciribeni 17, Filippetti ne. All.: Coen. Notes - Partials: 20-21, 16-19, 19-8, 21-14 Game Recap: Women's Basketball | 1/18/2024 11:28:00 PM | Alex Morgan Thanks for visiting SEARCHThe global authority in superyachting Two circumnavigations and 130,000-plus miles over 12 years… Lenny Recanati has lived sailing life to the full with his 27 metre sailing superyacht Vivid The globetrotting entrepreneur shares the many highlights with Cécile Gauert It’s about the fact that you turn off the engine and just sail with the waves and the wind and nothing else which is incredible.” Lenny Recanati loves being at the wheel forgetting whether it is cold or hot and losing track of time He’s just flown to New York from his home in Tel Aviv with his wife and we’re meeting 35 floors above street level The view is that of avenues glowing red from the brake lights of cars stretching to a horizon hidden by glass and concrete Yet it isn’t such an incongruous location for a meeting to discuss Vivid and the trips they’ve taken around the world New York is where he was born and he has family here He returned to earn a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia University after a boarding school education in the UK and undergraduate studies in economics in Israel where he grew up and did his military service He then put his education and experience in various industries to good use and followed in his family’s entrepreneurial footsteps Two of his three children have joined him to run his private investment company and his wine-making business which hails from the Italian medieval town of Recanati in Marche He has visited the town in search of his ancestral roots He also owns the Israeli professional basketball team Bnei Hertzeliyya and serves on numerous company boards but still tries to make time for his hobbies – photography This New York trip is a quick stopover before he reunites although he plans to return soon to talk to wine writers about Recanati Winery’s new vintages Vivid was built in the Netherlands in 2001 and Recanati bought her from her original owner 12 years ago after a long search with her aluminium hull painted dark blue and brand new rigging has circumnavigated the globe twice and sailed from the north polar cap to the ice floes of Antarctica reckons they’ve sailed 135,000 miles since he came aboard A world map tacked on board charts in various colours the course Vivid has taken over the past decade “I was told it is bad luck to change a name and it’s grown on me,” Recanati says “It’s a wonderful name.” The yacht has been at the heart of unforgettable experiences for the Recanati family and the boat’s crew of four On display wherever she docks is a YachtAid Global banner attesting to the relief missions they’ve conducted The crew delivered school supplies and water filters in places as remote as Komodo where they also built a fence to protect schoolchildren from the “dragons” that inhabit the Indonesian island A tortuous path led Forderer to Recanati and Vivid Introduced by the yacht’s management company after a chance meeting in St Martin in 2006 Forderer flew to meet Recanati in New York he was an accomplished sailor at a young age but had put the sport on a backburner when life called on him to get a steady job He did well for himself in the mobile phone business but finally recognised shortly after the sudden death of his father with whom he sailed as a boy that it wasn’t what he loved and signed up for a captain’s course in Fort Lauderdale he had run a successful charter yacht (a motor yacht) but did not have years of experience under his belt especially for the kind of worldwide exploration Recanati had in mind Recanati had recently flown from Germany to Houston over Greenland on a beautiful sunny day and snapped a picture from the air Little did he know what it would entail,” Recanati says Greenland was the first place that Vivid explored. Before the trip, Forderer arranged for a photo opportunity by the Statue of Liberty, as the yacht, fresh out of the Derecktor shipyard Renowned sailing photographer Onne van der Wal took the iconic shot Moments after Van der Wal angled his camera just right from a helicopter “I had just asked Tim what all these buoys were when we hit bottom,” Recanati says The incident did not dent Recanati’s confidence – or the propeller – and he bid farewell to Vivid as Forderer set sail for Newfoundland where he would come aboard for a peaceful crossing from St John who when he began had only a “six pack” licence and now has a MCA Masters 3000GT unlimited licence We chatted in the boat’s deckhouse over coffee He told me about a time around six years ago when he shared with Recanati his charity initiatives and the speeches that he gives to encourage youngsters to follow their passion “I wanted him to know how grateful I was for this experience and that I had paid it forward to others around the world.” He remembers the owner listening thoughtfully and replying that his trips on board had been among the best moments of his life “I was all for it,” Recanati says about the donations “It’s definitely one of the highlights to have gone to these villages and seen the excitement of those kids as they took the little things we brought them It is so touching.” He talks about the water filters too how they can help prevent the spread of infectious disease Forderer is the third captain that Vivid has had By the time he set sail for Greenland 11 years ago the boat had already had a brush with a hurricane and made a transatlantic crossing from Tenerife There was very little wind and Vivid was running on fumes when they finally reached St Barths the skipper having mistakenly filled only one of the boat’s two diesel tanks “He kept thinking there was something wrong with the gauge,” Recanati says “then he realised there was nothing wrong with it.” Recanati who had a chance to share the experience with one of his sons It was also with one of his sons that he took a skipper’s course The experience rekindled his childhood fondness for sailing who occasionally took a break from the shipping business to sail on a friend’s boat They sailed for hours and then would go into town for lunch the son trying his hand at spearfishing from the breakwater in the port of Haifa But it wasn’t until that course that the thought of owning a sailing yacht entered Recanati’s mind He looked at many sailing yachts before Vivid which was bigger than what he’d wanted at the time “I am very particular and I look at small details I saw the craftsmanship was of very high quality and I liked the deckhouse,” he says that deckhouse was the best thing because it allows going to unlimited places He knows that well as Vivid has sailed from Indonesia and the Marquesas to the iceberg-laden waters around Greenland She’s done more miles than many so-called explorer vessels and without the benefit of special certification for extreme cold “Vivid is not an ice class boat or a racing boat but it has everything: it’s a good performance boat and a very safe boat We have been very careful and we know how to navigate through ice.” He adds that hiring experienced crew is a must and “a bit of luck never hurts” once in Thailand when a malfunctioning thruster and strong winds and currents combined to steer the boat to within a few feet of big rocks which proved true to its reputation as one of the world’s most treacherous bodies of water Forderer had tapped friend and fellow sailor Ashley Perrin As it happens Perrin was also on board for the trip to Newfoundland and estimates she’s sailed about 1,000 nautical miles with Vivid we were hit with 10 metre waves and 50 knot wind gusts “The guy driving the boat put it in autopilot The boat swung 180 degrees and the mainsail ripped a bit Ash and Tim took control and steadied the boat Recanati was thrown twice and hit the port window I have to stitch you,” he recalls Perrin telling him she treated the wound with biological glue He says he’ll take a break after Vivid is sold. His grandchildren are babies, so it’s a good time for his children to take a break from sailing also, and he and his wife want to focus on other projects. But he admits there will probably be another boat someday, something a little bigger for more crew and guest spaces. He knows for sure that it will be a sailboat and look a bit like Vivid. “I love this boat,” he says. 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ThePadana Boxing Academy, with whom he trains regularly, is working very carefully on his growth, allowing him to refine his technique and prepare for increasingly challenging challenges. Next goals: the Memorial Carlo Duran scheduled for March 22. The boxer is already preparing intensely to face international level opponents. "This victory is just the beginning," Ramo said at the end of the match. "I'm happy for this success and for the work we are doing. Now the focus is all on the next challenge." That's the first question that comes to mind when entering the new Andreina after last year's renovation a grill table is set up for an itinerant dining experience the place is more elegant and sophisticated The cuisine remains incredibly delicious in its avant-garde experiments: pure archaeology of the future Suspended like still lifes on embers for an extraordinary low temperature especially reduction and concentration techniques that bring smoke into broths and stocks before watering and reducing to one-tenth of the volume The research takes shape in the 12-course Flames menu while the already established dishes make up the Smoke menu increasingly attentive to local and natural wines Must-tries include the bread with smoked butter and lard It is then lacquered with the reduction of grill waste to bring out a sweet and licorice flavor plus a drop of Laphroaig whiskey to enhance the smokiness through peat Served on a plate with sweet and bitter pink grapefruit sauce so cold and acidity allow the palate to take a break." a variation of a thousand little lettuces and Italian cabbage rolls the leaves are grilled and soaked in Laphroaig whiskey with a little soy and sapa; they encase cubes of cod and end up on the house cast-iron grates punctured for caramelization and Maillard reaction while its scraps become a broken milk with drops of herb oil reduced on the grill Another distinctive feature of the venue is the sea and mountains combination like raw mantis shrimp with its crispy coral next to a mustard-infused wild boar tartare with a base of mantis shrimp waste on the grill a partridge raviolo with pasta colored with burnt onion flour served with roasted onion broth and burnt walnut for umami and the fatty sensation of essential oils The second courses focus on the grill and ingredients created for the house and not by the usual brands as surprising as they are pleasant: grill-cooked flan with grilled banana and smoked cream ice cream and even the caramelization of meringue at the table with the burning ember on the lemon curd of the small pastry shop Website Do you want to discover the latest news and recipes of the most renowned chefs and restaurants in the world La nostra società utilizza inoltre cookie funzionali per registrare informazioni sulle scelte dell’utente e per consentire una personalizzazione del Sito; ad esempio Questi cookie possono essere installati dalla nostra società o da Terze parti In caso di disabilitazione di questi cookie la qualità e l’esperienza di navigazione potrebbe non essere soddisfacente Questi cookie sono installati da social media per consentire la condivisione dei contenuti del presente Sito Essi sono in grado di monitorare la navigazione compiuta anche in altri siti e creano un profilo dell’utente sulla base dei suoi interessi Ciò potrebbe avere un impatto sul contenuto e messaggi visualizzati sugli altri siti visitati non sarà possibile utilizzare o visualizzare questi strumenti di condivisione per l’installazione e l’uso di tali cookie occorre il consenso dell’utente Per maggiori informazioni consulta la pagna cookies policy Get important news about your town as it happens Get the top stories from across our network Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from daily updates A violent ex-con from Carlstadt who spent several years in state prison for robbing a group of tourists at knifepoint assaulted Little Ferry police at their headquarters over the weekend to complain about a victim whom he was under a court order not to contact What he may or may not have known was that the victim had just shown police text messages that he’d sent that same day When Officers Joseph Montemurro and Officer Max Katzner told Recanati they'd have to arrest him for violating a restraining order "he became irate and started to escape towards the door,” Walters said “actively began ignoring commands and resisting arrest." Katzner took Recanati down and Detective Sgt Katzner sustained minor injuries to both knees but refused medical attention Both officers completed use-of-force reports with a string of arrests out of various towns – including Fort Lee Teaneck and Carlstadt – for offenses that include aggravated assault making death threats and weapons possession Recanati has served nearly seven of the past nine years in three separate state prison stints following multiple convictions for robbery He was released this past February following the latest stretch Recanati was captured in the Meadowlands marshes after robbing a group of tourists from Virginia at knifepoint in July 2013 Three victims were walking back to the Econo Lodge on Washington Avenue with two six packs of beer from Redd’s Restaurant shortly after arriving in town when Recanati mugged them Wearing a ski mask and pointing a switchblade He also told one of he knew people in Virginia who’d kill anyone who called police Recanati then tried robbing their bus driver Little Ferry police charged Recanati with two counts each of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest He was also charged with violating a restraining order Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic and technological issues being discussed in the news In this episode, Andrew talks to AI Battle Royale author Ashley Marc Recanati about how to protect your job from the disruption of the 4th Industrial Revolution of smart machines Find more Keen On episodes and additional videos on Lit Hub’s YouTube Channel {"id":"23288","width":"800","height":"450","video":"1254199"}); Ashley Recanati has lived and worked in the three powerhouses that are Europe rising from odd jobs to general management through financial control thanks in part to the continuous learning and implementation of automation tools Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature Masthead About Sign Up For Our Newsletters How to Pitch Lit Hub Privacy Policy Support Lit Hub - Become A Member Lit Hub has always brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall you'll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving Editor’s Note: Details of the WFB’s Democracy Alliance exposé can be found here The multiple business failings of an Israeli shipping heir have not prevented him from pumping millions into a shadow Democratic Party Michael Recanati, son of Israeli shipping and banking mogul Ralph Recanati has dedicated his inheritance to improving the prospects of Democratic politicians he contributed more than $800,000 to national Democrats contributed nearly $125,000 to Democratic candidates in 2008 and 2010 according to the Center for Responsive Politics has focused on secretive left-wing networks as well as on non-profits backed by hedge fund billionaire George Soros He and Statfeld are members of the secretive Democracy Alliance which encourages wealthy Democrats to contribute to Democratic super PACs and outside groups closely tied to the Obama White House such as the Center for American Progress and Media Matters according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon Neither the Alliance nor Recanati nor Statfeld returned requests for comment Recanati cut mammoth checks to several Soros-backed efforts to oust former President George W Recanati gave $250,000 each to America Coming Together 2004 and Joint Victory Fund 2004—527 groups unrestricted by giving limits that later disbanded after Soros moved on to projects like the Democracy Alliance you had a lot of liberals who were not satisfied with the Democratic Party particularly among businessmen," elections expert Jay Cost said "They got together and decided that their money would be better spent if they could control it with these shadow party systems." Recanati’s business failures mirror his anti-Bush activism. His father forced him out of the family business The younger Recanati went on to start a series of ventures that quickly went bust Recanati founded an Internet broadcasting company The venture folded less than 18 months after its launch "CEO Michael Recanati was often singled out—by employees and industry observers—for apparently squandering the startup’s resources and failing to inform employees of the company’s demise," Internet World reported in 1998 Recanati’s high salary demands also crippled future ventures damaging the livelihood of hundreds of employees In 1999 Recanati started the venture capital firm Orama Ltd. a $48 billion financial behemoth his grandfather founded in 1935 His paycheck played a direct role in the company’s shaky start Orama reported its business results—a $15 million (Israeli) loss as of the end of June 2000 mostly due to the huge salaries of its executives: Orama Group chairman Michael Recanati and Orama Partners president and CEO Alan R Recanati’s businesses have also proved disastrous for American workers qualified for $3.5 million in incentive funds from the state of Indiana while promising to create 1,000 new jobs and bring in $100 million in investment However, the company created more problems than it solved in Wayne County, Ind., a Rust Belt area beset by 11 percent unemployment. Not only did Recanati fail to fulfill his job and financing pledges, grease from his factories ended up "clogging pumps and ruining sewage equipment at a sewage plant … for two years." When the factory went bust in 2011, the venture had created a mere 131 jobs "They had big plans and we appreciated them coming here "I think it was bad timing with the economy … that’s the way it is with business sometimes." Recanati inability to replicate the business success of his father and grandfather has not kept him from enjoying a comfortable lifestyle and becoming a high roller in political and philanthropy circles In 2007, Recanati and Statfeld purchased a $24.5 million apartment in the Jean Nouvel tower in Manhattan, but backed out of the deal because the ceilings were not high enough for their "extensive and valuable art collection." Not all of their lavish real estate deals have proved as disappointing Recanati and Statfeld purchased former Clinton adviser George Stephanopolous’s 3-bedroom cottage in the Hamptons for $1.2 million in 2003 Hillary Clinton would later use the home to help jumpstart her presidential bid with a $22 million fundraiser But the school met a similar fate to that of Really Cool Foods Morris’s 21 students were forced to merge with another high school Recanati was forced off of the school board arguably only Dante occupies a more exalted position than ­Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837) Both Leopardi’s verse—collected in the various volumes of his Canti and so forth—and his works of prose—the Operette morali and Pensieri—enjoy an unassailable reputation for lyrical beauty The Italian language has known no more brilliant master of both its native extravagances and its native subtleties And no Italian poet was ever more innovative: At the high meridian of European Romanticism he produced verse at once austerely classicist and precociously modern distinguished not only by its verbal ingenuity and inexhaustible flow of potent images but by a sensibility so confidently remote from prevailing fashions and a voice so irreducibly personal as almost to constitute a new genre and was for the most part recognized as such in his own time may have been the work we have come to know as the Zibaldone—the “gallimaufry,” “hodgepodge,” or “miscellany”—his heterogeneous but which did not appear in print intact until 1900 Had this work never become known to the public Leopardi would still be revered as a genius but the sheer magnitude of his genius would scarcely be suspected He poured everything into its pages: philosophy It is a vast compendium of impromptu treatises It is wholly absorbing and unflaggingly brilliant The autograph manuscript exceeds 4,500 pages and this unabridged translation exceeds 2,500 are far too numerous and too unusual to distill into any kind of brief picture of the whole Suffice it to say that it is a magnificent achievement rich and varied and well worth both its large price and the strain it will put upon one’s bookshelves and wrists The seven translators and two editors who produced this English edition have accomplished something heroic and precious and they deserve the gratitude of the Anglophone literary world I shall concentrate upon only a few particular aspects of this ­enormous book In attempting to understand the singularity of Leopardi’s voice in his journals—that perspective that seems to be situated at some panoptic point within the world of European culture never previously discovered—one ought first perhaps to consider the singularity of his life The remarkable achievement of the Zibaldone is a reflection of the still more remarkable achievement of its author’s own self-creation This is not to say that he lacked advantages an impecunious but socially elevated scion of the landed gentry Leopardi’s education was entirely informal: He was tutored by two priests but ultimately made himself into a prodigious linguist and poet principally through the unabated energy with which he absorbed the books collected by his father a provincial town in the Papal States (in Le Marche and his youth was spent under the tireless gaze of a mother whose rigid religiosity bordered at times on ­psychosis he still could not leave the region without a passport and could not obtain that without his parents’ consent (which was always withheld) He was also debilitated by tuberculous spondylitis (at least which caused him considerable pain and weakness as well as the gradual deformation of his spine and Bologna; but his infirmity made it difficult to stay away from Recanati permanently he did make a kind of escape from his provincial prison where he died during a cholera epidemic in 1837 to attempt to find some direct continuity between an artist’s life and his art; but obviously the rule can be relaxed when the work in question is as much a private diary as a public statement I think it correct to say that the Zibaldone is written in a voice that bears the inflections of someone whose life consisted to a great degree in the tension between boundless imaginative and theoretical creativity It is an almost ­titanically exuberant treasury of astonishing insights and mental adventures; it is also in many ways one of the bleakest books ever written but of every one of those lingering vestiges of faith with which shal­lower less reflective atheists console and seduce themselves and shield their minds against the logical conclusions their unbelief entails Leopardi was resolute in his desire to face the icy emptiness of a universe reduced to mere monstrous utterly devoid of any purpose or of any tenderness for humankind; and that meant the rejection of any form of personal or collective optimism and certainly of any kind of rosy meliorism His repudiation of every soothing idealism—moral He had a particular disdain for the beguiling myth of progressive enlightenment all cultural values are historical contingencies; and those of the modern age enjoy no conspicuous superiority over those of antiquity He saw the tension between traditional religious piety and scientistic rationalism as no more than the natural hostility that exists between incompatible The latter devotion has perhaps brought about considerable advancement in the sciences but this he regarded as anything but an unequivocal good The practical benefits of modern science can hardly compensate for the abyss of meaninglessness that modern rationalism opens beneath our feet or for the surrender to total nihilism that it invites he startlingly prefigured ­Nietzsche in his thinking The godless universe was for him an unquestionable fact; but he doubted the ultimate value of truth as such pre-Christian world—which was perhaps his fiercest intellectual passion—was largely prompted by his belief that it had been a world of particularly ennobling illusions Under the sheltering canopy of its myths and native devotions it made a truly human existence possible: cultivation of the body and the whole fabric of religious dreams that the cult of disembodied rationality tears away from before the void The modern pursuit of truth in the abstract no matter what the moral or cultural consequences was for ­Leopardi an essentially inhumane and remorselessly destructive fanaticism Since this kind of rationalism is ­tho­roughly unnatural as it turned out) that it would ultimately lead to acts of utter barbarity; in abstraction from familial reason can and will find motives and justifications for anything inasmuch as modernity involves a deracination of men and women from the world of the senses it has supplanted antiquity’s healthy devotion to the flesh with the withering interiority of modern individualism and its attendant obsession with that pallid ghost the self; and this has made modern men at once sicklier than their ancient forebears and possessed of a far larger capacity for cruelty so it was for Leopardi: In his genea­logy of modern nihilism It was the Gospel that taught Western humanity to abandon all faith in the visible world to cast aside any hope of final happiness in this life and to submit to that merciless spiritualization of desire by which bloodless truth in the abstract has been elevated to the position of God the curse of ­scientific reasoning has rendered the world ­uninhabitable for us “that the Christian Religion has in large part been the source of atheism or more generally of religious unbelief Man is not naturally incredulous because he does not reason much and does not care a great deal about the causes of things Metaphysics delving into the ­hidden causes of things and examining nature Christianity inspires a secretly voluptuous delight in the inner torments of conscience exacerbated by a morality of universal love that is ultimately fantastic and impossible and that produces instead universal hatred masked by sentimentality This is because hatred is the most natural the most ­primordial state of all living things while love of others is a habit prompted by ­necessity and enforced by cultural illusion: “The love dreamed of by many philosophers which embraces not only all men but all living beings and which has indissolubly joined to self-love a quality of exclusiveness in which an individual puts his own interests before those of others a passion as ­natural and as indestructible in all living beings as self-love is.” Thus by dissolving the closely bound ­community of clan and homeland that alone has the power to discipline the hatred that animates us all Christianity set loose universal malice and hostility instead: a “principled” hatred of the world and of others taking the form of a devotion to an insatiably ­nihilistic ­abstraction and immense fertility of imagination make his ideas somehow as much entertaining as provoking no one else had so great an ability to make ultimate despair so engaging the bleakness of ­Leopardi’s vision is so free of any pathetic self-deception that at times it seems positively sublime to gather around ourselves the beautiful illusions necessary to make life tolerable The best we can do now is to seek solace in art which arises from the primordial energy of nature and which alone can connect us again—however tenuously—to the dream-worlds of ancient men and women since the arts can only decline in a materialist culture.) All that said—and here I shall sound a single discordant note—as brilliant as Leopardi’s mind was the ­unremitting intensity of his melancholy becomes oddly callow as if he has self-indulgently exaggerated his own private disaffections to the dimensions of the cosmos And it is strange that his keen sense of the illusoriness of social progress never caused him to question whether the materialism of modernity might not also be an illusion For all that the Zibaldone is a great surging ocean of brilliant insights at times it drains itself into shoals whose ­glittering surfaces cannot entirely conceal the shallows of something disturbingly similar to adolescent discontent a work of magnificent genius; but that is not to say that it is a source of great wisdom David Bentley Hart is a contributing writer for First Things His most recent book is The Experience of God: Being One year subscription including unlimited web access to the current issue and the online issue archives Brian Babcock-Lumish is the Recanati-Kaplan Chair and Director of the General David H. Petraeus Center for Emerging Leaders at the Institute for the Study of War he served as a US Army military intelligence officer Babcock-Lumish twice deployed as a part of Multi-National Force-Iraq first leading a team training Iraqi intelligence collectors and later serving for a year as a strategic intelligence analyst and General Petraeus’ daily intelligence briefer during “The Surge” in 2007 he served as General Vincent Brooks’ analysis chief leading 200 analysts watching the 36 countries of the Indo-Pacific and as a strategic planner in General Robert Brown’s commander’s action group Babcock-Lumish served two tours teaching international relations in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point where he also led the Academy’s graduate scholarship program he served in various command and staff positions including a company command training intelligence analysts at Fort Huachuca and as the battalion executive officer of the 205th Military Intelligence Battalion at Fort Shafter Babcock-Lumish double majored in International & Strategic History and International Politics and received his commission from West Point in Russian and East European Studies at Oxford University as a US Marshall Scholar Prior to his first tour on faculty at West Point in War Studies at King’s College London as a Harry S has served as West New York's Plumbing Sub-code Official and Inspector since Aug He also works as the plumbing sub-code official in Guttenberg in Hudson County Wallington and Hasbrouck Heights in Bergen County He is also the Construction Official in Carlstadt According to West New York employee attendance records Recanati called in sick 31 times between January 2010 and November 2011 Timesheets and payroll records obtained through the state's Open Public Records Act from his other employers show that he worked in at least one of the other municipalities where he is employed on 17 out of those 33 sick days Recanati collected roughly $5,450 in sick time for the 33 days based on a calculation of his annual salary in West New York Employees in West New York who work 25 or more hours per week are entitled to the benefits of a full-time employee According to the handbook of the labor union Recanati is a member of he is prohibited from working elsewhere if he calls in sick to his West New York job nor be otherwise employed or engaged in any other activity for employment whatsoever," according to the Communications Workers of America handbook Recanati is contracted to work 15 hours a week and is on call Monday through Friday from 8 a.m Recanati is on call to conduct inspections on Tuesdays and Thursday between 11 a.m Guttenberg officials said Recanati is a part-time employee required to work 19.5 hours per week which can be spread out throughout the week Wallington officials did not provide the hours Recanati is expected to be available I started my day working in Bergen County," Recanati said "There were plenty of times when I called out of West of New York due to lingering issues with my back or kidney stones." Recanati used seven vacation days in 2008 and 10 and in 2009 I think the taxpayers should be appropriately outraged to hear this kind of abuse." Work records do not show what time Recanati worked his various shifts Mayor Felix Roque said the town is engaging in an "internal investigation" to "look at the legalities of this matter I am doing my best to clean up that (building) department and make it functional "I haven't heard any complaints about him (Recanati) I don't care if Frank has 10 jobs." Recanati earned $131,455 from the six municipalities with roughly $43,000 coming from West New York Recanati's employers gave him high marks all of our building department people are part-time," Guttenberg Mayor Gerald Drasheff said so we count on them to account for their own hours Carlstadt Mayor William Roseman said "the feedback" he gets from his "constituency is that he (Recanati) does a very good job." Recanati is also the construction official in Carlstadt "He fulfills his obligations here," said John Giancaspro a mayoral assistant and town counsel in East Rutherford where Recanati is also head of the construction department He called out sick in West New York on these days But public documents show that Frank Recanati the town's plumbing sub-code official showed up for work at these other municipalities on those same days Besides working 25 hours a week in West New York Frank Recanati juggles these other obligations * Guttenberg officials said Recanati is a part-time employee required to work 19.5 hours per week * Wallington officials did not provide the hours Recanati is expected to be available Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, (updated 8/1/2024) and acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/1/2025) © 2025 Advance Local Media LLC. All rights reserved (About Us) The material on this site may not be reproduced except with the prior written permission of Advance Local Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site YouTube's privacy policy is available here and YouTube's terms of service is available here Ad Choices Middle East Research and Information Project: Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971 “As settlers are non-indigenous, they are forever indigenising. . . The question then is how to be efficient self-indigenisers.”[1] In 2008 the first Palestinian wine made from indigenous grapes was released introducing a discourse of primordial place-based authenticity into the local wine field Israeli wineries started marketing a line of indigenous wines a growing number of Palestinian and Israeli winemakers and scientists have been using the research production and marketing of indigenous wines to bolster their historical claims to the land These producers have emerged in a global era in which terroir—defined as an idiosyncratic combination of soil culture and history that gives food its distinct taste—shapes economic and cultural value Against the dominance of international grape varieties the indigenous turn in the wine world is mobilizing genetics enology and ancient texts to rewrite the Israeli and Palestinian landscapes The trilingual Marawi label on the Recanati Winery’s “ancient wines” series the first Palestinian indigenous wine made its international debut in 2013 at a special tasting of wines from the Holy Land in London The globally renowned Master of Wine Jancis Robinson conducted the baptismal ritual and awarded the highest score to the Cremisan Winery’s Star of Bethlehem Hamdani Jandali 2011 a blend of two indigenous grape varieties (hamdani and jandali) Later she confessed it was the first time she had tasted Palestinian wine Israelis use indigenous wine to help refute the claim that they are settlers and to claim ancestral Jewish ties to the land adopted the grape varieties that Palestinians have been growing for centuries in an unbroken Christian village tradition of winemaking Dire economic conditions due to the ongoing Israeli occupation of the West Bank oblige Palestinian vintners to rely on uncooperative Israeli authorities to export their wines and has pushed many to sell their grapes to winemakers in Israel and in Jewish settlements some Palestinian wineries are succeeding in producing indigenous wine and in the process are strengthening their traditional connections to the land The experiences of both Israeli and Palestinian winemakers’ use of endemic grape varieties illustrates the power of science craft and taste to reconfigure the human and nonhuman politics of settler colonialism Elyashiv Drori walks across his research vineyard at Ariel University The signpost acknowledges the financial support of Ariel University the Samaria Region and the Jordan Valley Research and Development Center for his “Israeli grapevine varieties.” Daniel Monterescu 2018 which can be described as “a terroir without people for a people without terroir,” seeks to write out non-Jewish narratives In contrast to the production of other agricultural commodities wine production is framed in the Israeli discourse exclusively in terms of Jewish history The omnipresence of wine in the Bible and in Jewish tradition coupled with the Muslim prohibition against drinking alcohol perfectly pairs the teleological story of local wine with hegemonic Zionist motifs: from ancient sovereignty The marawi or hamdani grape plays a role in this quest for the holy grail of indigenous authenticity in a colonial space inhabited by two populations fighting over the question of who was there first When winemakers connect indigenous grapes to the wine that Jesus drank at the last supper—as advertised when the wine is marketed internationally to non-Jewish customers—or to the wines served at King David’s table the local varieties become emblematic of political place and historical roots reconstructing indigenous wines is also a practice of reviving national identity and inventing tradition at work in his research winery at Ariel University in the West Bank An assistant winemaker removes a tasting sample from a barrel a molecular biologist at Ariel University (an Israeli university attached to an illegal settlement in the West Bank) set up a research laboratory and experimental vineyard with a grant from the Jewish National Fund to find the connections between indigenous grapes and Jewish history a Jewish settler and a major player in the scientific project of mapping and recovering native species the goal of his project is no less than to “create an identity.” He explains that People ask me about the purpose of the research. I tell them that the goal was almost ideological. The goal was to create an identity for the Israeli wine industry, which is now struggling and debating and not knowing exactly what it is. [. . .] Our scriptures are filled with wine and grapes. We have a very ancient identity, and for me it is very important to restore this identity. It is a matter of national pride.[9] Following the indigenous turn in the local wine field Israeli and Palestinian scientists and winemakers compete over the singular value of the grape as an object that is both natural and biological as well as human and cultural This project combines different types of knowledge Scientists use DNA analysis and genetic mapping to scientifically prove biological continuity Scholars collect local and indigenous knowledge through the oral testimonies of elderly Palestinian farmers Historians analyze ancient Arabic and Hebrew texts to identify taste alcohol concentration and ancient winemaking techniques Practitioners of modern enology re-create and market wines with a story to tell write reviews in leading journals and participate in international competitions to secure the product’s marketing success Describing the indigenous wine field therefore involves exploring the chemistry as well as scrutinizing the history and political economy of its production such an examination sheds light on the paradox inherent in the settler-colonial situation in Israel and Palestine which subordinates Palestinian indigeneity to the Israeli quest for rooted identity Although the Israeli wine industry presents itself as the pioneer of native wine research and marketing Palestinian experimentation with indigenous varieties has a long history Palestinian winemakers exemplify two fundamental aspects of the process of reverse engineering the native vine: precedent and continuity located in the Salesian Monastery on the outskirts of Beit Jala (just outside Bethlehem) earlier than the winery established by Baron Edmund de Rothschild the Jewish Zionist philanthropist who planted vineyards in Palestine with French varieties in the 1890s Cremisan set a precedent by launching its indigenous wine series first six years before Recanati produced wine with marawi grapes in 2014 emphasizes historical continuity in its reliance on local knowledge and varietal terroir to continue an uninterrupted Christian tradition that requires no “reconstruction.” winemaker Fadi Batarseh points across the Cremisan Valley at the Israeli settlement Har Gilo Under the supervision of renowned Italian winemaker Riccardo Cotarella Cremisan features a portfolio of three native wines: baladi The winery identifies itself as Palestinian Israeli restrictions on movement and control over the Palestinian economy make it difficult to export goods from Palestine forcing its owners to cooperate with Jewish Israeli partners winery manager and chief agronomist Fadi Batarseh laments the need to export to Europe and the United States via Israel but he must comply to survive economically Amer Karadosh, Cremisan’s sales manager, stresses the Palestinian provenance of indigenous grapes and calls out Israeli cultural appropriation: “As usual in Israel, they declare that falafel, tahini, tabouleh, hummus and now Jandali grapes are an Israeli product. I would like to inform you that these types of grapes are totally Palestinian grapes grown on Palestinian vineyards.”[11] During our stay in the winery and we’re glad we have the opportunity to do it like all industrial enterprises in the West Bank Cremisan does not have the luxury to ignore the political reality of Israeli colonization Batarseh is deeply concerned with the construction of the separation barrier approved by the Israeli Supreme Court in July 2015 despite papal opposition which will cut through the Cremisan valley pointing at the settlement Har Gilo across the valley legal activists and religious leaders have resisted the barrier but so far they have been unable to stop its construction The Israeli separation barrier cuts through the Cremisan monastery’s fields in the West Bank the company also makes sure to add the name Palestine on the label (Cremisan’s label mentions only West Bank to comply with US import requirements.) While the Palestinian origins of its products have become part of his marketing strategy Khoury insists that politics are not Taybeh’s main selling point: “I can sell wine or beer in America as a Palestinian product,” he says Taybeh’s decision to cultivate indigenous varieties began as a result of   constraints in transporting grapes across the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000–2005) This challenge led the winery to focus on local native cultivars Only later did it evolve into a philosophy of authentic winemaking and a marketing strategy ‘We make indigenous wines;’ they don’t want to try a chardonnay from Palestine,” Khoury says “Most of them want to try the zeini.” Khoury guided us through his repeated failures to list local species (such as zeini bitouni and balouti) as Palestinian grape varieties referring to what he perceives as an absurdity: In the European Union’s certified grape variety database the staff at Ariel University has registered a grape variety called Hebroni as an Israeli species Under the banner “We live and exist here,” Bethlehem-area Christians and solidarity activists celebrate Mass to protest the Israeli separation wall that will cut off the Cremisan monastery and winery from nearby Palestinian communities Khoury studied enology at the University of California Davis after graduating with a degree in engineering from Harvard He defines himself as a “man of science” and reiterates throughout our encounters that terroir is about not only physical conditions (topography soil) but also traditional viticultural practices Taybeh is an ancient Christian village with a long winemaking tradition “I want to see how my grandma used to make wine,” he says “and how her grandmother used to make wine And so that’s part of my personal journey.” such as Adam Kassis of Latroun Winery near Jerusalem and the small Domaine Kassis in Birzeit are also exploring the potential of indigenous Palestinian varieties Centering his attention on the dabouki (Arabic for “sticky”) cultivar he is confident that he has found the perfect fit between the “true expression of terroir” and “the very ancient identity of the place:” the Israeli side is “forever indigenizing,” while the Palestinians are thrown into an uneven competition that forces them to prove their own relationship to the land indigenous wine has become a vehicle for mobilizing and stabilizing territorial claims Palestinian and Israeli winemakers and scientists of various disciplines combine wine research and development production and marketing with the aim of creating a new identity for the wine industry—and to a large extent Indigenous wine is thus a contested site where gastronationalism The terroir discourse embodies a passion for value Wine helps Jewish Israeli settlers imagine themselves as indigenous inhabitants of the land even as it allows Palestinians to reclaim their own threatened traditions [1] Lorenzo Veracini “What Can Settler Colonial Studies Offer to an Interpretation of the Conflict in Israel-Palestine?” Settler Colonial Studies 5/3 (2015) pp [2] Itay Gleitman Made in Samaria from a Unique Local Variety a Revelation for the Wine Industry?” Haaretz [3] Judi Rudoren, “Israel Aims to Recreate Wine That Jesus and King David Drank,” New York Times [4] Shimon Cohen, “The Study That Will Reconstruct the Wines of the Holy Temple,” Channel 7 [5] Mike Peters, “The Toast of Israel,” China Daily [6] Daniel Monterescu “Border Wines: Terroir across Contested Territory,” Gastronomica 17/44 (Winter 2017) [7] Amy Trubek The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir (Berkeley: University of California Press [8] Ariel Handel and the Geopolitics of Terroir in the West Bank’s Settlements,” Environment and Planning A 47/6 (June 2015) [9] Fieldwork for this project took place in 2015–2017 in wineries across Israel and Palestine The interview with Drori was conducted at Ariel University’s molecular biology department in February 2017 [10]  Rezq Basheer-Salimia “Molecular Identification and Genetic Relationships of Palestinian Grapevine Cultivars,” Molecular Biotechnology 56/6 (June 2014) [11] Judi Rudoren [12] Anne Meneley “Resistance Is Fertile!” Gastronomica 14/4 (Winter 2014) [13] For Sari Khoury, grapes of wrath is a reference to John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel, Grapes of Wrath. Anya Evans, “Palestinian Winemaking Under Occupation,” Open Democracy [14] “Domaine Kassis Dabouki Story,” LinkedIn Donate Subscribe Michele Recanati loved being a mom to three sons And she loved being an identical twin to her sister The two women lived in the same towns most of their lives And they both worked as medical assistants most recently at the MercyOne hospital in Oelwein Michele’s boisterous voice and laugh were often heard way down the halls announcing her presence to patients and colleagues before they could see her She found a deep fulfillment in lifting the patients’ spirits even when they were contending with serious health problems “She felt like she was putting something good out into the world,” Cynthia said.  Just as COVID-19 deaths were peaking in Iowa last fall, Michelle and Cynthia caught the virus. Cynthia had a mild case, but Michele’s infection was relentless. She died of COVID-19 in early December. More: These are the names of more than 700 of the Iowans who have died from COVID-19 Michele’s personality was well-suited to being a medical assistant She often led patients from the waiting room to an exam room and got them settled in for an appointment “She could make them feel comfortable She could always make people laugh and smile.” When she became infected with the coronavirus in late November she expected it would give her a relatively mild that’s how the virus had affected Cynthia a headache and some fatigue for about a week before recovering 'A real cultural loss': Augustana Professor Roald Tweet inspired students in and out of the classroom “I think she was confident that she wasn’t going to get very sick because we were twins,” Cynthia said She kind of thought we were the same person.” But something was different with Michele’s case After experiencing relatively mild symptoms for about a week developing a violent cough and severe pneumonia and eventually wound up at University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City Doctors there put her on advanced life-support machines She had a massive stroke and never woke up The family will never know if the sisters’ jobs at the hospital exposed them to the virus Cynthia said Michele was involved in testing the public for coronavirus More: John Pettit was the man behind the Barnstormers. Now the team must go on without him. But she just as easily could have caught it outside of work.  Tre could tell she was struggling with the virus He could hear over the phone that she was short of breath But he also knew that she didn’t want him to worry about her didn’t want their last moments to be marked by fear “She always put everybody else first," Tre said.  Tony Leys covers health care for the Register. Reach him at tleys@registermedia.com or 515-284-8449.  A 'once-in-a-lifetime' teacher: Cherie Dandurand was 53 when she died of COVID-19 The following deaths from COVID-19 were added in the past week to our list of more than 700 Iowans who have died from the disease, found at DesMoinesRegister.com/IowaMourns who tied his own flies and passed along his knowledge through Boy Scouts lessons Planted banana trees in her yard each year bringing them inside during the cold months John Pettit Served as chief operating officer and vice president for the Iowa Barnstormers since 2008 Raced in his Silver 1963 Corvette Stingray at the NEITA Raceway and in Byron Gave back to her community by volunteering with 4-H the Springville Public Library and Meals-On-Wheels Jumbo-Visma man has the chance to overhaul Adam Yates on Tuesday but he was in a philosophical mood afterwards happy with his effort and looking forward to the challenge of Tuesday's closing time trial Primoz Roglic: I still have work to do before the Giro d'Italia Roglic seals overall victory at UAE Tour Primoz Roglic: From ski jumper to Giro d'Italia contender Tirreno-Adriatico: Fuglsang solos to victory on stage 5 The steep climbs of Italy's eastern Marche region played host to the 'queen stage' of the race and to Adam Yates bolstering his advantage over the Jumbo-Visma leader by another 18 seconds Roglič could only watch as the flyweight Yorkshireman sprung away on the double-digit gradients leading to the finish in Recanati who already has the UAE Tour to his name this season it's just a number in front of your name," he said while warming down after the stage "I think we gave it our all with our full team but the traditional final time trial in San Benedetto del Tronto the following day is what Roglič will set his sights on He's one of the top time triallists in the peloton with two TT wins to his name in each of the past two seasons as well as a silver medal in the discipline at the 2017 World Championships he was reticent about Tuesday's 10km test against the clock despite the pan-flat course and a bridgeable 25-second gap to make up on Yates "I don't know," he said when asked whether he thought Adam Yates would be able to replicate twin brother Simon's time trial stage win at Paris-Nice last week We'll all start from zero and we'll all have Regardless of what happens in the remainder of 'The Race of the Two Seas' for Roglič it’s a return to the Giro d’Italia – the race where he hit the big time with his Chianti time-trial win in 2016 Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha-Alpecin) and Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida) are all at Tirreno-Adriatico and will be among Roglič’s rivals in May despite having the beating of all three men this week "It's [the racing in Italy] quite specific so of course it's nice to feel Italy – and to taste Italy "I think the Giro will be quite a different race to here at Tirreno But I think every race is important; it's better to be doing this than training at home "I don't really need to hide – my goals are clear But still you have to be realistic: it will be my second Giro and so we'll just see what we can do with the whole team and then we'll be able to be happy at the end Recognizes 25 Years of Trauma Treatment NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Friends of NATAL (www.afnatal.org) an organization that provides vital assistance for trauma preparedness and recovery will be hosting its inaugural gala "Sharing the Light of Healing" on Thursday 2022 at 583 Park Avenue venue in NYC.  The gala will honor will: Andrew J Chairman at Needham & Company and Jude Yovel Recanati Founder and Chairperson at Gandyr Group and Founder of NATAL former Israeli Air Force Commander and IDF Chief of Staff in attendance will be Consul General and former Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv Chairman at Needham & Company will receive the organization's first Impact Award for his tireless support in helping build Israeli technology companies and his work on behalf of AFNATAL.  "Since 1998 NATAL has changed the lives of several hundred thousand people providing support for trauma and PTSD survivors and advancing the resiliency of Israeli society through treatment "It's a great honor to be celebrating the organization's 25 years of work as we look to the future to build upon such innovative and successful programs." NATAL's co-Founder and President will be honored for her life's devotion as a social activist and her pioneering work in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  Together with psychiatrist Dr Yovel Recanati has received close to a dozen awards over the past decade in recognition of her work "While much of our work has been focused in Israel people around the world who have faced trauma and PTSD have a bond because of similar experiences Our work in America is just beginning to help victims of trauma We hope that this gathering will build awareness and understanding of the innovative ways NATAL has been a pioneer in a variety of treatment and services Our message is that "we can help so that people don't have to live a lifetime of suffering from the devastating effect of trauma," Jude Yovel Recanati "I am honored to be recognized by my peers and to work with our friends in America." Those interested in supporting the event or purchasing tables or tickets, can find more information online American Friends of NATAL's (AFN) mission is to support and strengthen NATAL's important work providing vital assistance and expertise to over 450,000 Israelis suffering from trauma and PTSD primarily due to the impact of terrorism and war NATAL works to ensure the vital health and well-being of people in Israel for now and for the future AFN also supports innovative collaborations partnering with US organizations who seek NATAL's expertise in the field of trauma preparedness and recovery AFN brings NATAL's experts and groundbreaking work to aid Americans suffering from trauma and PTSD in communities impacted by violence Find out more about the Sharing the Light of Healing gala on December 8th here: https://afnatal.networkforgood.com/events/47840-american-friends-of-natal-inaugural-gala Media Contact: Nataly Blumberg 5168596665 [email protected]  Do not sell or share my personal information: an Israeli vintner is making wine from a nearly extinct species of indigenous grapes used in biblical winemaking thousands of years ago Recanati Marawi wines mark a turning point in modern Israeli winemaking – which until now has used varieties of grapes transplanted in Israel from European wine regions such as Merlot The new-old Israeli wine was introduced to the world in Italy at the recent international Expo Milano during a tasting hosted by Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) and the Israel Ministry of Tourism JNF-KKL funded the research and development behind this breakthrough, spearheaded by a team from the Samaria and Jordan Rift R&D Center at Ariel University under Elyashiv Drori, an agricultural and oenological researcher and owner of the Gvaot boutique winery Drori tells ISRAEL21c that there’s abundant archeological evidence of intensive winemaking in Israel starting from around the 28th century BCE Yet all the indigenous grapevines in Israel today are table grapes brought in French wine grapes when he reestablished the wine industry here in the late 19th century Drori and his team set out to discover what happened to the native wine grapes mentioned in the Talmud  “Marawi is a tasty grape to eat but it also makes a very good wine similar to Chenin Blanc.” We hypothesized that our ancestors’ vines became neglected when Muslim regimes took over around the seventh century the Mamluk rulers prohibited wine production and cut down all the vineyards people started growing only table grapes,” says Drori “Yet we believed that because of the strong resilience of the grapevine some would still be found in nature in the wild.” Hodaya Brauner and Oshrit Rahimi went around Israel collecting 480 wild grapevines extracting their DNA and analyzing them to find similarities to 3,000 varieties listed in American and European databases the lab identified more than 150 unique Israeli varieties including around 60 unknown to local growers they produced whites and reds from these varieties in Ariel’s research winery Chemical analysis and expert tastings revealed a few with great potential for high-level production associate professor in Land of Israel studies at Bar-Ilan University confirmed that these varieties’ features matched those described in the ancient rabbinic literature “Marawi is a tasty grape to eat but it also makes a very good wine similar to Chenin Blanc,” says Drori “A few winemakers tasted it and decided they want to produce white wines with it.” Among those tasters was Ido Lewinsohn of Recanati He tells ISRAEL21c that the winery contracted with a Palestinian grower near Bethlehem to grow the grapes for 2,480 bottles of Recanati Marawi 2014 commercially available in restaurants only now aging in barrels for release next year may be retailed if the quantity is sufficient Several other Israeli vintners are interested in cultivating the rediscovered grapes. Barkan Winery has planted both Jandali and Marawi vineyards a winery outside Bethlehem run by Salesian monks Lewinsohn explains that although Israeli wines have achieved gold-medal quality in the past two or three decades “People in the wine business are looking for unique wines that represent a local character and identity The only wines that can do that are made from grapes best adapted to the local climate and soil The nose is very citrus and mineral; you can really feel the soil in this wine It’s not aromatic like Muscato but has lots of character on the mineral notes.” “Every respectable wine region has its own indigenous grape varieties important work to reestablish indigenous varieties.” Now Drori and his collaborators – also including Mali Salmon-Divon from Ariel’s Genomic Bioinformatics Laboratory — are trying to identify which other varieties in their wild collection were used to make wine in antiquity “A lot of remains of grape seeds have been found in archeological sites including the Temple Mount and City of David Ehud Weiss at Bar-Ilan is collaborating with us to identify them by 3D and DNA analysis Maybe we can identify what wine Jesus drank at the Last Supper,” Drori speculates