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Astruc ha-Levi

Astruc ha-Levi of Daroca (lived in Spain at the end of the fourteenth and at the beginning of the fifteenth century) was a Spanish Jewish Talmudic scholar.


1982, Janine

Peter Levi on the BBC called the book "Radioactive hogwash", while Joe Ambrose of the Irish Sunday Tribune (who has expressed virulently critical views on many of Gray's books) called the author "a vainglorious lout" and "a profoundly reactionary penman".

2014 San Francisco 49ers season

It will also mark the 49ers' first season playing their home games at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

Allison Adler

From 2002 to 2011, she was in a relationship with actress Sara Gilbert, with whom she was raising a son, Levi Hank, born in October 2004, and a daughter, Sawyer, born on August 2, 2007.

Anthony Crank

He recently took on the role of bad boy Levi in Hollyoaks E4 spin-off 'The Morning After The Night Before, and is soon to be seen as one of the central roles as debt collector 'Jimmy' in Simon Powell's Salford based feature film 'Poor, Wee Me', opposite Paul Hurstfield, Michelle Holmes, Tim Booth, Ian Mercer and Suranne Jones.

Arkona, Ontario

In 1857 it was renamed 'Arkona' after the rugged cape on the Baltic Island of Rügen, a name suggested by resident cabinet maker Ephraim Brower and possibly by the incumbent postmaster Levi Schooley.

Aryeh Leib Epstein

Aryeh Löb ben Mordecai Ha-Levi Epstein (Ba'al ha-Pardes) (1708 – June 26, 1775) was a Polish rabbi born in Grodno.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Levi became Music Director Emeritus in 2000, and was succeeded as Music Director by Robert Spano.

Beppo-Levi space

In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, a Beppo-Levi space, named after Beppo Levi, is a certain space of generalized functions.

BeTipul

As of 2009, two seasons have been produced, with co-creator Hagai Levi working on a spin-off program in a format similar to the Up series.

Boxer shorts

In more recent decades, boxer shorts got a fashion boost in 1985 when English model and musician Nick Kamen stripped to white boxers in a 1950s style "Launderette" in a Levi's commercial.

Briggs v. Elliott

Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine, Harry and Eliza Briggs, and Levi Pearson were awarded Congressional Gold Medals posthumously in 2003.

Camp Robinson

Fort Robinson (named for Levi H. Robinson), formerly Camp Robinson, a former U.S. Army fort and a present-day state park, in Crawford, Nebraska, United States

Craig Kirkwood

He made his acting debut in a Levi's commercial after being hired by his aunt who was a casting director.

Danny Siegel

Within a short time, he learned of the efforts of such people as Hadassah Levi, who made her life's work the rescue of abandoned Down Syndrome babies from hospitals, Myriam Mendilow, who found Jerusalem's poor, elderly residents on the streets of the city and gave them respect and new purpose in her program, Yad L'Kashish (Lifeline for the Old), or Uri Lupolianski, a young teacher who started Israel's now famous lending program, Yad Sarah, in his living room.

Derek Vanlint

He worked on advertisements for such companies as British Airways, Chevrolet, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Guinness, Kellogg's, Levi's, Maxwell House, Pepsi, and Visa.

Eric Lévi

In 1975 Eric Lévi founded the hard rock band Shakin' Street with Fabienne Shine, which would release the two albums Vampire Rock and Solid as a Rock.

Foodways

Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1983), The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques - Volume 1, Paperback Reprint Edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hebrew language

A great deal of poetry was written, by poets such as Dunash ben Labrat, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Judah ha-Levi and the two Ibn Ezras, in a "purified" Hebrew based on the work of these grammarians, and in Arabic quantitative or strophic meters.

Homer L. Dodge

Homer Levi Dodge was the Chair of the Department of Physics, Dean of the Graduate school, and founder of the Oklahoma Research Institute, at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma.

Isaac ben Moses

Profiat Duran (c. 1350-1415) (Hebrew name Isaac ben Moses ha-Levi), physician and philosopher

Jeremy Boreing

Christopher Stipp of Asitecalledfred.com praised the film writing that "the combination of Moore's directing/writing and of Jeremy Boreing's writing with Levi and Amber Tamblyn's performances should prove to be the reason why this movie stands above most of the other independent fare that passes as film".

Jez Smith

He is also known for editorial and advertising clients such as Levis, Virgin Atlantic, George Jensen, Collette Dinnigan, Carla Zampatti, Alannah Hill, Oroton and Tiger Lily.

Judah ben Isaac Cardinal

At the request of Joseph ben Baruch, who, according to Leopold Zunz, traveled from France to Jerusalem by way of Egypt in 1211, Cardinal translated from Arabic into Hebrew Judah ha-Levi's Kuzari.

Karena Albers

Both were veterans of the advertising world — Fettig as a commercial cinematographer specializing in rigorous location shoots for clients including Levi's and The North Face, Albers out of DDB in Chicago.

Katja Rahlwes

She have produced phtotographs for brands such as Gucci, Céline, Miu Miu, Chloé, A.P.C., Maison Martin Margiela, Levi's and others.

Levi Marengo

Levi Luis Marengo (born January 20, 1987, Paramaribo) is a Dutch footballer who played for the AZ Alkmaar youth team in 2006/7, CD Ourense from 2007-2009, Eerste Divisie club Stormvogels Telstar in 2009/10 and Jove Español since then.

Levi Savage Jr.

Levi Savage Jr. is the principal character (played by actor Jasen Wade) in the T. C. Christensen film 17 Miracles released in June 2011 by Excel Entertainment Group.

Levi Strauss

Levi's sister Fanny and her husband David Stern moved to St. Louis, Missouri, while Levi went to live in Louisville and sold his brothers' supplies in Kentucky.

Levi Tafari

Most recently Levi has applied his work to working with the British Council, undertaking tours to the Czech Republic, Jordan, Portugal, Germany and Singapore.

Lorenzo Perrone

In the middle of 1944, while he worked on the building of a wall, Perrone met the Jewish-Italian prisoner Primo Levi, after Levi heard Perrone speak in the Piedmontese language with a colleague of his, and a friendship between the two developed.

Marcus Ashley

He has also appeared in 50 U.S. national and European commercials, including those by Volkswagen, Heineken, Levi's, Budweiser, and Toyota.

Mark Terrill

Together with the poet Cralan Kelder, he co-edits the poetry journal Full Metal Poem, which has published work by Ron Padgett, John Wieners, Joanne Kyger, Cid Corman, Bob Arnold, F.A. Nettelbeck, Louise Landes Levi and others.

Meni Levi

Levi scored his first goal in the Israeli Premier League on October 12, 2001; in the 90th minute of a match against Hapoel Petach Tikva in Bloomfield Stadium.

On January 26, 2002 during an Israeli Premier League match against Beitar Jerusalem at Teddy Stadium, Levi suddenly collapsed in the middle of the pitch, away from the run of play.

Metasyntactic variable

The Talmud, starting with the Mishnah(c. 220 CE) uses 'Reuven', 'Shimon', 'Levi' etc. being the names of the three eldest sons of Jacob and the corresponding tribes of Israel, as disputants in legal matters.

New York state election, 1894

Ex-U.S. Vice President Levi P. Morton (in office 1889-1893) was nominated for Governor on the first ballot (vote: Morton 532½, J. Sloat Fassett 69, Cornelius N. Bliss 40½, Stewart L. Woodford 40, Daniel Butterfield 29, Leslie W. Russell 20, James Arkell 1).

Norfolk, Connecticut

Norfolk also boasts important examples of regional architecture, notably the Village Hall (now Infinity Hall, a shingled 1880s Arts-and-Crafts confection, with an opera house upstairs and storefronts at street level); the Norfolk Library (a Shingle Style structure by George Keller, 1888/9); and over thirty buildings, in a wide variety of styles, designed by Alfredo S.G. Taylor (of the New York firm Taylor & Levi) in the four decades before the Second World War.

Robert Levi

In 1972, along with the leaders of four other major banks in Baltimore, Levi co-founded the Baltimore Community Foundation.

Shades of Ray

The film stars Zachary Levi as a half-American, half-Pakistani male wrestling with his mixed identity while waiting for his girlfriend to respond to his marriage proposal.

Terrell Braly

His great grandfather, J. Oliver Russell, along with his brothers William G. Russell, Levi Russell and James Russell, discovered gold in the Colorado Territory in 1858 and are credited with founding Denver and starting the Pikes Peak Gold Rush.

Uptons

(which comprised the clothing chains Millers Outpost, Levi's Outlet by M.O.S.T., Dockers Outlet by M.O.S.T., Juxtapose and Anchor Blue).

Vivian Dsena

Dsena modeled and did advertisements for several brands, including Levi's, Pepe Jeans, Hyundai i20, and Jet Airways.

Walter Haas

Walter A. Haas, Jr. (1916–1995), former president and chairman of Levi Strauss & Co., son of Walter A. Haas.

Yoel Levi

Levi became the music director emeritus in 2000, succeeded as music director by Robert Spano.

Zion's Order, Inc.

He moved to Bicknell, Utah, where he and another member of the Aaronic Order left that church and formed Zion's Order of the Sons of Levi.


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