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  • Reform Judaism refers to the spectrum of beliefs, practices, and institutions ... worldwide Progressive movement, and the Reform movement in Judaism generally. ...
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  • amounts of money, on efforts for prison reform and improvement of the lives ... the lives of the tenants living on his land. Later, a survey of Cardington ...
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  • often considered as one of the fathers Reform Judaism. later inherited his father-in-law's land and titles. He soon acquired ...
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  • training, his economic analyses stimulated reform. His writings, particularly ... found in nature, most importantly land, belongs equally to all of ...
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  • with the government and calls for land reform. (see below) ... * Pallot, Judith. Land Reform in Russia, 1906-1917: Peasant Responses ...
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  • , 240. The Catholic church was the largest land-owner and exercised considerable ... liberals in promoting educational and social reform." ...
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  • religious law. Women are now ordained in Reform, Reconstructionist, and most ... from the period of Greek rule over the land of Israel, members of this ...
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  • Prime Minister executed and attempted to reform the government, but died ... distributing to the common people land formerly owned by the nobility ...
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  • diaspora (outside of Israel) for two days. Reform Jews celebrate only one day ... from the seven species for which the Land of Israel was praised in Deut ...
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  • from their positions, and attempted to reform the system of land ownership. ... of Korea in 1238, Gongmin began efforts to reform the Goryeo government. His ...
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  • (men only) and by social status (there were land-owning requirements) what ... ===Election reform of 1882=== Count Taaffe is mainly remembered for ...
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  • inheritance tax. It may also be charged on land alone, known as land value tax. ... realty are all terms for the combination of land and improvements. Ad valorem ...
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  • " which includes any patch of land on church grounds. A public ... of cemeteries and subsequent use of the land for construction. In some ...
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  • When the Israelites entered the land of Canaan, the Levites received ... and Perizzites, the people living in this land" (Gen. 34:30). Levi himself ...
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  • his Tomorrow a Peaceful Path to Real Reform, in which he described in ... with the goal to locate and acquire land on which the proposed Garden ...
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  • advanced to be the unrivaled head of the reform movement then stirring the city. ... property, bishops who hold regalia [royal land grants], and monks who have ...
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  • in Mexican history as La Reforma (the reform), and constituted a liberal ... the period known as La Reforma. The Reform laws sponsored by the puro ...
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  • Lloyd George proposed the introduction of a land tax based on the ideas of ... subsequently accepted the Budget when the land tax proposal was dropped. ...
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  • commerce and manufacturing. He introduced land reforms, privatized land, ... him with a proposal for a complete reform of the political, social ...
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  • Land value taxation (LVT) (or site value taxation) is an ad valorem ... during Reconstruction as a way to promote land reform. There have also ...
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  • epoch," the mainland and land power become the strategic ... the world—and the distinction between the land powers and the sea powers ...
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  • and implementing land reforms. Land reform efforts did not raise ... property in the nation on August 6, 1960. Land and companies owned by upper ...
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  • contemporary types of Judaism, such as Reform, Conservative, and secular ... washing, and other rituals rejected by Reform Jews as outmoded and no longer ...
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  • seen in other countries as pressure for reform continued, for example in ... World War, entered a period of radical reform and change. In the 1970s ...
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  • had launched a wide ranging program of reform and development. During her ... its Women's League. Following the Land Reform in Sri Lanka in 1972- ...
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  • Prison - which served as a model of prison reform, implementing psychological ... Port Arthur was named after Van Diemen's Land lieutenant governor ...
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  • live in abject poverty rather than work the land. Yangban who held government ... They demanded institutional government reform, expulsion of covetous Joseon ...
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  • , which was intended to recapture the Holy Land. The Pope directed his call ... decided to send another crusade to the Holy Land (Fifth Crusade) and issued ...
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  • to bring about "family-friendly" reform of the House, making it a ... is regarded as the First Commoner of the Land. Speakers are elected after ...
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  • This effort was followed by the Taika Reform (645-649), which established ... the Asuka period as ending with the Taika Reform of 646. Okakura, however ...
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  • px|Preparing the soil for cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene ... has therefore been seen as an issue of land reform in contexts such as the ...
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  • Tho oversaw South Vietnam's failed land reform policy, and was accused ... Tho was charged with overseeing South Vietnam's land reform program ...
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  • class. In 1868, the Emperor took all land from the Tokugawa and put ... To reform the military, the government instituted nation-wide conscription ...
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  • of the population owned 20 percent of the land. Diaz encouraged industrialization ... In 1858 during the War of the Reform, a Civil War that aimed to reduce ...
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  • UNDP also works at the macro level to reform trade, encourage debt relief ... families had been relocated from federal land and were barely subsisting ...
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  • In March 1946, Russia instituted land reform, dividing land from Japanese ... control of factories, and placing the farm land in the hands of peasants, ...
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  • life, after his first visit to the Holy Land in 1827, he became a strictly ... It was the Holy Land that was dearest to Montefiore's interests ...
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  • to changing social norms in some cases. Reform and Reconstructionist Jews ... * Laws of the land (Dina d'malchuta dina): Non-Jewish laws recognized ...
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  • On October 4, 1943, power was split. Chiefdoms were in charge of land ... dominated military regime, he encouraged land reform, electoral reform, and ...
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  • several varieties), Conservative, and Reform, plus a large body of secular ... and whose descendants would inherit the Land of Israel (then called Canaan ...
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  • uncovered.Amihai Mazar, Archeology of the Land of the Bible-10,000-586 B ... was "God who brought you out of the land of Egypt is here (in Bethel ...
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  • An Indian reservation in the United States is an area of land managed ... Act, ended the general policy of granting land parcels to tribes as-a-whole ...
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  • instituted a strict Yahwistic religious reform. The Book of Jeremiah indicates ... against Jerusalem, in the loss of the land of the greedy, in their being ...
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  • kindled tremendous expectations for the reform of the Catholic Church and ... Around 1159, Joachim went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where he ...
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  • time. The most striking feature in the reform was the return to manual ... the small faction acquired a plot of marsh land just south of Dijon called ...
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  • She came to be deeply influenced by her reform-minded aunts who encouraged ... became involved in the Nationalist Club, a reform movement that centered around ...
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  • 1853, Japan responded by committing to a reform program, the Meiji Restoration ... Kingdom. Faced with Japan's naval and land forces, Korea signed the Ganghwa ...
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  • development of the Jewish Law in the Holy Land. Opinions based on the Jerusalem ... and transformation. Such movements as Reform Judaism and other secularizing ...
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  • Western Christianity, to restore the Holy Land to Christian rule, and to ... nobility and the people to wrestle the Holy Land from the hands of the Seljuq Turks: ...
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  • In 1928, he worked on Kĩkũyũ land problems before the Hilton ... Kenyatta instituted a relatively peaceful land reform; on the bad ...
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  • Liberty (1859), Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform (1859), Considerations on ... He was instrumental in shaping the 1867 Reform Bill to prevent certain corrupt ...
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  • the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?" The second chapter ... and Muslim Spanish. In the modern era, Reform Judaism developed a tradition ...
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  • In 1805, Adair became registrar of the United States land office. ... In December 1806, Adair departed for Louisiana to inspect a tract ...
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  • Khrushchev attempted to carry out reform in a range of fields. The ... mid-1950s, Khrushchev opened many tracts of land to farming in Kazakhstan and ...
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  • and prepare to enter the Promised Land of Canaan. It is the source ... and urges them to go forward to conquer the land of Canaan. The Canaanite nations ...
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  • and offering the rulers advice on how to reform their kingdoms, culminating ... of the "well-field system," a land reform plan that he thought would ...
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  • thinking, forthrightness and efforts at reform alternatively got him in ... Councilor and submitting proposals for reform in promoting and demoting ...
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  • A major land reform was also conducted, led by Wolf Ladejinsky of ... * Flores, Edmundo. 1970. "Issues of Land Reform." The Journal ...
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  • Athens). The kings stood at the head of a land-owning aristocracy known as ... sea empire against a coalition of land-based states led by Sparta ...
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  • only to see his attempts at administrative reform rebuffed by an entrenched ... * [http://professor-frithjof-kuhnen.de/publications/land-tenure-and ...
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  • == The land == Western Africa is underlain by crystalline rocks that ... Africa through a series of internal reform movements as well as the ...
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  • " replacing them with "office-land," in which governors ... sects to Silla, such as Seon and Pure Land Buddhism. The aristocratic ...
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  • to European influence. Pressure for church reform, growing English dissatisfaction ... the Monasteries put huge amounts of church land and property into the hands ...
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  • they overturned the system under which land was held in common by the ... Kenyatta instituted a relatively peaceful land reform; on the other ...
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  • "I resign the highest office in the land to become President of the ... Hayes, had both advocated civil service reform. By 1881, civil service reform ...
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  • in Ireland he was prepared to work for reform as distinguished from revolution ... at Catholic emancipation and parliamentary reform without breaking the connection ...
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  • wars ensued, mainly caused by conflicting land and livestock interests. ... some of which are controversial, such as land reform and the deregulation of ...
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  • The driving force for reform in Alexander’s regime was Mikhail Speransky ... In his constitution, Pestel granted land to every Russian with a desire ...
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  • In June 1953, with land reform fully underway, Naguib announced the ... ====Land Reform==== Financial hurdles considerably delayed the progress ...
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  • founded Norfolk Island, Van Diemen's Land, and New South Wales as such ... its Eastern Norfolk Island to prevent the land from falling into the hands ...
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  • gives to the Patriarchs a promise of the land of Canaan, but at the end ... with a promise to take them to the promised land. On the way, they camp at ...
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  • fight the abuses of government concerning land, slavery and corruption. He ... him in planting tea trees and amending the land with farmers. ...
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  • The Ming Dynasty government wanted to conduct a reform of their calendar ... *Field System (Tian Zhi): land distribution, field management ...
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  • it and eventually built a stadium on the land, which is still used today. ... He spoke in favor of the Reform Bill, and took the leading part in ...
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  • transformation of society through monetary reform, the establishment of cooperative ... at the right of the farmer to possess his land and the craftsman to possess ...
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  • purchasing 14 acres (57,000 m²) of land in open country, four miles ... which motivated much of his humanitarian and reform work. ...
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  • *Laws about clean and unclean animals (11). Land animals must chew ... Reform and secular Jews generally take the view that the Levitical ...
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  • She was also exposed to the British lunacy reform movement, whose methods involved ... Her dream was that legislation be enacted to set aside federal land ...
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  • from which Jan Hus later spread his reform ideas, was built for the ... from the Catholic Church, only its reform. He maintained that Jesus ...
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  • forced to make his way back to Yangzhou by land, lecturing at a number of ... priests. In 759, he retired to a piece of land granted to him by the imperial ...
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  • without interrupting his required stay—and land grants. ... Santander also disagreed with Bolívar's attempt to promote a ...
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  • Marxists, the emphasized the gradual reform of capitalism to greater ... economics applied to capital as well as land. The group, which favored ...
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  • more democratic, given that only land-owners could vote. He also ... Pitt also supported parliamentary reform measures, including a proposal ...
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  • profits and political power associated with land ownership. ... and farmers.E.L. Woodward, The Age of Reform, 1815-1870 (Oxford: Clarendon ...
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  • funds and finally set out for the Holy Land in summer 1240, leaving Eleanor ... of the king's hostility to all reform; and raised a rebellion with ...
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  • in 1874 agreed with Lubbock to exchange the land for a piece of pasture in ... pressure group to promote electoral reform and in particular the use ...
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  • in the ports, and the right to purchase land in the port area. Japan modeled ... He immediately dismantled the reform measures implemented by Min ...
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  • Committing his life both to the reform movement and a newspaper career ... member of the editorial fraternity in the land, now, perhaps, the oldest ...
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  • second was the beginning of civil service reform. Hayes' first step in ... * Desert Land Act (1877) * Bland-Allison Act (1878) * Timber and Stone ...
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  • debt and a good track record on economic reform, Mozambique was the first ... The resettlement of war refugees and successful economic reform have ...
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  • issue beginning in 1999. Mugabe's land reform involved the (often violent ... by the government's controversial land reform efforts, starting in 2000 ...
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  • to inspire and inform many. For although reform, such as that invoked by ... Apostolic legate, carried out a project to reform the university, correcting ...
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  • took office in 2005, vowing to speed up land reforms. The majority of commercial ... * [http://www.irinnews.org "Reports on land reform in Namibia ...
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  • family. The earliest dowries were usually land entitlements, but later were ... In some parts of Europe, land dowries were common. In Grafschaft Bentheim ...
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  • themselves by jumping down the shaft to land on the roof of the elevator. ... Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Flames of Labor Reform. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow ...
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  • The first reform was the promulgation of the Five Charter Oath in ... most daimyo voluntarily surrendered their land and census records to the ...
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  • political policies including prison reform and increased spending on ... per acre. The purchase of this frontier land was alternately mocked as ...
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  • In modern-day Israel (and among Reform Jews), the first day of Sukkot ... (third through seventh days outside the land of Israel) are called Chol ...
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  • and South Korean authorities carried out a land reform that retained the institution of private property. They confiscated and redistributed all ...
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  • who undertook to erect cotton mills on land bought from Marsland. Marsland ... At New Lanark, Owen involved himself in education, factory reform ...
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