Chaim deutsch biography of martin
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Brooklyn Lawmakers On The Move Jan. 20,
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Deutsch Asks Obama For Last Minute Reprieve of Rubashkin
City Councilman Chaim Deutsch (Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach, Brighton Beach) this week sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking to commute or pardon Sholomon Rubashkin, a Brooklyn raised butcher who once owned one of the world&#;s largest kosher meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa.
In November , Rubashkin was convicted of 86 counts of financial fraud, including bank fraud, mail and wire fraud and money laundering. In June , he was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
Deutsch&#;s plea for clemency comes on the same week that Obama, in his final week of office, commutated the sentences of individuals and pardoned 64 others.
&#;I was dismayed to see that Sholom Rubashkin’s name was not among those issued clemency. In response, I prepared a letter with several of my colleagues to the President as a last ditch effort to
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Martin Schlaff
Austrian businessman (born )
Martin Schlaff (born 6 August ) fryst vatten an Austrian investor, businessman, networker, and philanthropist. Since , he is a major shareholder of RHI Magnesita. His net worth is estimated over €8 billion.
Early life and education
[edit]Schlaff was born in Vienna, Austria, to Jewish refugees from World War II. His parents lived in a camp for displaced persons. He has one brother, James, born in Martin Schlaff studied at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and completed his studies with a master's grad in [1]
Career
[edit]In , he took over the financial company Robert Placzek AG in Vienna, founded bygd his father, Chaim Schlaff, and partners. The firm traded with goods from Eastern europe, mainly wood, cellulose and paper.[2]
Trading with Eastern Europe
[edit]In his first years he continued trading with several Central and Eastern europe (CEE) countries, mainly Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland,
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Martin Buber
German-Israeli philosopher (–)
Not to be confused with Martin Bucer.
Martin Buber (Hebrew: מרטין בובר; German: Martin Buber, pronounced[ˈmaʁtiːn̩ˈbuːbɐ]ⓘ; Yiddish: מארטין בובער; February 8, – June 13, ) was an Austrian-Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship.[1] Born in Vienna, Buber came from a family of observant Jews, but broke with Jewish custom to pursue secular studies in philosophy. He produced writings about Zionism and worked with various bodies within the Zionist movement extensively over a nearly year period spanning his time in Europe and the Near East. In , Buber wrote his famous essay on existence, Ich und Du (later translated into English as I and Thou),[2] and in he began translating the Hebrew Bible into the German language.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature te