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Most view the relationship of Jews to the Soviet Union through the lens of repression and silence. Focusing on an elite group of two dozen Soviet-Jewish photographers, including Arkady Shaykhet, Alexander Grinberg, Mark Markov-Grinberg, Evgenii Khaldei, Dmitrii Baltermants, and Max Alpert,Through Soviet Jewish Eyespresents a different picture. These artists participated in a social project they believed in and with which they were emotionally and intellectually invested-they were charged by the Stalinist state to tell the visual story of the unprecedented horror we now call the Holocaust.These wartime photographers were the first liberators to bear witness with cameras to Nazi atrocities, three years before Americans arrived at Buchenwald and Dachau. In this passionate work, David Shneer tells their stories and highlights their work through their very own images-he has amassed never-before-published photographs from families, collectors, and private archives.Through Soviet Jewish Eyeshelps us understand why so many Jews flocked to Soviet photography; what their lives and work looked like during the rise of Stalinism, during and then after the war; and why Jews were the ones charged with documenting the Soviet experiment and then its near destruction at the hands of the Nazis.

We got submissions from across the Jewish spectrum, from very secular Jews to a piece from an Orthodox rabbi, and from across sexual spectrum _ bi, transgender, gay, lesbian and everything in between. It's the first book that publishes the voices of transgender Jews alongside the voices of other Jews and makes them part of this movement. A: The job of Jewish education should be to create proud, well- identified Jewish kids. In order to do that, it has to meet the kids and the families in the places they're in. When a synagogue tells an interfaith couple that they don't belong at the school because one parent isn't Jewish, it's failing at Jewish education because it's denying the kid a Jewish education because of the parents. We tried to create a model of Jewish education that families could access from wherever they're coming from. 2 pics (1 col), 1 infobox; 1) [David Shneer] and Caryn Aviv had little trouble finding people to write about being gay and Jewish. Their intent is to show the two identities need not be conflicting. 2) (Book jacket: Queer Jews, by David Shneer and Caryn Aviv)

AdvantEDGE International Inc. (CDNX:AII) (\"AdvantEDGE\") today announced that its wholly owned Mexican subsidiary, AdvantEDGE Products and Solutions (Mexico) SA de CV, has been awarded an exclusive contract to supply the Company's FuelMaster wireless RFID system to the Government of Mexico City (the \"Government\"). According to the contract, AdvantEDGE will be the exclusive supplier to over 17,312 Government vehicles until December 31, 2001. AdvantEDGE's service fees will be approximately US$8.00 per vehicle per month. According to David Shneer, CEO of AdvantEDGE \"This is an exceptionally good day for the Company and its shareholders as this contract will provide substantial revenues. This is the big breakthrough all employees have been working for and all shareholders have been waiting for.\"

It is often assumed, according to [Dovid Katz], one of the foremost academics in Yiddish studies, that Yiddish entered the arena of Jewish history in relatively recent years. The language is usually paired with some notion of shtetl life; spoken in fairly restricted regions, associated with the uneducated masses, and often with women and the disenfranchised of traditional Jewish society. Words on Fire, however, presents an alternative and much broader account of Yiddish history. In an engaging narrative, Katz traces the origin and evolution of the Yiddish language, looking back a thousand years to illustrate how Yiddish's European origins are themselves an uninterrupted continuation of three millennia of Jewish history and culture in the Near East. An academic look at Soviet Jewish history, [David Shneer]'s most recent book is an extensive look at Soviet Jewish culture and Yiddish in particular. Apart from being the only country in the world to have state-sponsored Yiddish language publishing houses, the Soviet Union also supported \"the creation of a group of socialist Jewish activists - dedicated to creating a new kind of Jewish culture for a new kind of Jew.\"

CONCORD, ON, March 13 /CNW/ - AdvantEDGE International Inc. (CDNX - A.I.I) (\"AdvantEDGE\") today announced that its wholly owned Mexican subsidiary, AdvantEDGE Products and Solutions (Mexico) SA de CV, has been awarded an exclusive contract to supply the Company's FuelMaster wireless RFID system to the Government of Mexico City (the \"Government\"). According to the contract, AdvantEDGE will be the exclusive supplier to over 17,312 Government vehicles until December 31, 2001. AdvantEDGE's service fees will be approximately US$8.00 per vehicle per month. According to David Shneer, CEO of AdvantEDGE \"This is an exceptionally good day for the Company and its shareholders as this contract will provide substantial revenues. This is the big breakthrough all employees have been working for and all shareholders have been waiting for.\"

CONCORD, ON, March 8 /CNW/ - AdvantEDGE International, Inc. (CDNX - A.I.I) (\"AdvantEDGE\") announced that it has reached a very important milestone today in the Company's Mexican operations. Effective this date, the Company has installed its Transaction Center (the \"TC\"). The TC functions include but are not limited to, collection of all transaction data, processing, clearing and posting the transactions and generating customer reports. The installation of the TC also represents an important development in the planned Mexican joint venture between AdvantEDGE and GE Capital Fleet Services. The participating joint venture parties have agreed to amend the partnership. Originally the joint venture was to include GE Capital Fleet Services, AdvantEDGE and Stowe Holdings (\"Stowe\"). After extensive discussions and an exhaustive technical review of all available options, the three parties mutually decided that Stowe's involvement in supplying the TC was no longer warranted. According to the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the three parties, Stowe was to provide various services, including the TC in exchange for a 10% Preferred equity position in AdvantEDGE Mexico.

CONCORD, ON, Dec. 16 /CNW/ - AdvantEDGE International, Inc. (CDNX- A.I.I.) (\"AdvantEDGE\") announced today that its Mexican subsidiary, AdvantEDGE Products and Solutions (Mexico) SA de CV has entered into an agreement with the Mexico City Government department of \"Direction of Material Resources and General Services\" (the \"City\"). The City wants to immediately conduct a trial of AdvantEDGE's FuelMaster automated refueling technology. The trial will involve 80 government owned Police department vehicles. The trial should start early in the New Year. According to David Shneer, CEO of AdvantEDGE \"This trial is a very significant development for AdvantEDGE. It marks the official beginning of what we believe will be a very long and mutually satisfactory relationship between AdvantEDGE and the Government of Mexico City.\"

CONCORD, ON, Nov. 22 /CNW/ - AdvantEDGE International, Inc. (ASE- A.I.I.) (\"AdvantEDGE\") announced today that it has received a Statement of Claim by Ezra Investments (PTY) Ltd. related to the operation of its \"On Site\" Fuelling business in the United States.

CONCORD, ON, Oct. 25 /CNW/ - AdvantEDGE International, Inc. (ASE- A.I.I.) (\"AdvantEDGE\") announced today that its Mexican subsidiary, AdvantEdge Products and Solutions (Mexico) SA de CV has signed a trial agreement with two wholly owned subsidiaries of Grupo Modelo SA de CV (owner of many famous brands, including Corona Beer). Modelo / Corona operates one of the largest fleets in Mexico - over 8,000 vehicles. Modelo has agreed to a trial with 92 vehicles. Consumption is expected to be around 10,000 litres per month per vehicle, at an approximate fuel cost of US$0.35 per litre. AdvantEdge's fees range from 2% to 8% based on litres consumed.

Martin Amis has called [Vasily Grossman] \"the Tolstoy of the USSR,\" and Grossman's vast World War II novel \"Life and Fate\" is ample support for such a claim. Now with \"The Road,\" the first collection of Grossman's short fiction to appear in English, the writer also might well merit the accolade as the \"Chekhov of the USSR.\" In Russia, the career of Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) was decidedly bumpy. His early socialist realist novels and his war reporting for Red Star and other publications - journalism that covered everything from the siege of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad to the liberation of the death camps and the Red Army's capture of Berlin - won him both official praise and great popularity. But much of his postwar work was banned during his lifetime. This included \"The Black Book,\" the documentary anthology on the Holocaust that he edited with Ilya Ehrenberg and others, and the major novels \"Life and Fate\" and \"Everything Flows.\" Indeed, only Stalin's death in 1953 forestalled Grossman's arrest and likely execution as an enemy of the state. When the novels finally appeared in 1985, a generation after Grossman's death from cancer, they did not greatly stir glasnost-era Russians. Grossman's perceived literary offenses were two-fold; first, that his writings, especially those concerned with the Holocaust, were \"too Jewish,\" and second, that his fiction was critical of Communism. (\"Life and Fate\" indeed draws parallels between Hitlerism and Stalinism.) Such charges also might well have been leveled against much of the material in \"The Road.\" For example, \"The Hell of Treblinka,\" the first full-scale account of a death camp to appear in any language (and appearing here in complete form in English for the first time) was published in November 1944, both in magazine and in book form, shortly after the Soviet forces rolled in. Grossman's report, based on interviews with survivors, captured prison guards and local peasants, was even submitted as evidence in the Nuremberg trials. But Grossman's Soviet masters, shying away from admitting that any single ethnic group had been especially persecuted by the Nazis, would not allow the victims of Treblinka to be identified as Jews. Instead, they were \"prisoners\" or \"people.\"