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Sh'maya
Sh'maya is a Hebrew from "shem" and "aya": Sky, figuratively, the height or furthest extent of anything. from the particle shem, deriving from the ancient semitic root ShM -name, light, sound, vibration, atmosphere. The -aya ending indicates that it is without limit. It has been referred to otherwis..
Sh'maya (Mishnah)
This page is about the mishnaic rabbi. See Shemaiah for those with that name mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Sh'maya (or Shemaiah, Samaias or Sameas) was a rabbinic sage in the early pre-Mishnaic era who lived at the same time as Avtalyon. They are known as one of the zuggot ("couples"): Sh'maya and..
SHM
SHM is a three letter acronym, which can stand for: Simple harmonic motion, a concept in physics.Shared memory, in computer science. See also shm-reduplication ..
Shm-reduplication
Shm-reduplication is a form of reduplication in which the original word (the base) is repeated with the second copy (the reduplicant) beginning with shm-, sometimes spelled schm-, IPA [ʃm]. The construction is generally used to indicate irony, derision or scepticism with respect to comment..
Shmais
Redirect [[Template:Uncategorized]] There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since July 2006.} Shmais is an onli..
Shmaltz Herring
Shmaltz Herring is filleted mature herring, preserved in brine and brown sugar. References ..
Shmay
Shmay, a slang word used predominantly in New England, meaning 'whatever' or used as a filler in conversation. Other forms include 'shmii' the feminine form of the word. While the form and inflection is flexible, shmay is generally a positive word. It is not often used in place of an expletive or ne..
Shmelke of Nikolsburg
Rabbi Shmuel Shmelke Halevi of Nikolsburg (1726 Chortkov, Galicia - 1778 Nikolsburg, Moravia) was an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and one of the great Chasidic Rebbes of the past. He was the firstborn son of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh of Chortkov. He traced his ancestry back to the prophet Samuel. In their early yea..
Shmemis
Shmemis (also ash-Shmemis, ash-Shmamis) is a castle located 30 km south east from Syrian city Hama, on the road between Hama and Palmyra. The castle was built in the 13th century by Assad ud-Din Shirkoh, an Ayyubid governor of Hama. The castle, situated on top of an extinct volcano is today in ..
Shmendrik
Shmendrik, oder Die komishe Chaseneh (Schmendrik or The Comical Wedding) is an 1887 comic operetta by Abraham Goldfaden, one of the earliest and most enduring pieces in Yiddish theater. The title role of Shmendrik was originally written for the young Sigmund Mogulesko, and derived from a character M..
Shmil Ben Ari
Shmil Ben Ari (Hebrew: שמיל בן ארי)is an Israeli actor, star of the award-winning TV series Meorav Yerushalmi (Jerusalem Mix) and films such as An Electric Blanket Named Moshe (for which he received an Israeli Film Academy Best Actor Award), Life According To Agfa, Lovesick on Nana Street, ..
Shmi Skywalker
Shmi Skywalker (72 BBY - 22 BBY) is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe, the mother of Anakin Skywalker and paternal grandmother to Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa. Her first name is derived from "Lakshmi," a Hindu goddess. The character was played by Swedish actress Pernilla August. &..
Shmoo
This article is about the cartoon creature. For other uses, see Shmoo (disambiguation) 150px A shmoo is a fictional cartoon creature, created and first drawn by the cartoonist Al Capp in his newspaper comic strip Li'l Abner. The shmoo is shaped like a plump bowling pin with legs, but no arms...
ShmooCon
ShmooCon is an east coast hacker convention organized by The Shmoo Group. First held in 2005 in Washington, D.C. History In 2005 Shmoocon was held on February 4Th - 6Th at the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C.* There were about 400 attendees, which is a rather high count for a first y..
Shmoop
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Shmoo (disambiguation)
Shmoo may refer to Shmoo, a cartoon creature originally from the cartoon Li'l Abner.A shmoo plot in electrical engineering, a graphical display of the response of a component or system varying over a range of conditions and inputsShmoo, a member of the security practitioners' group the Shmoo GroupS..
Shmoo Group
The Shmoo Group was founded by Bruce Potter in the late 1990s as a non-profit security think-tank. Contrary to popular belief, the group is not named after the Shmoo creature of the Li'l Abner cartoon. Rather it is taken from the nickname of one of the group's charter members. It consists of i..
Shmoo plot
In electrical engineering, a shmoo plot is a graphical display of the response of a component or system varying over a range of conditions and inputs. Often used to represent the results of the testing of complex electronic systems such as computers, ASICs or microprocessors. The plot usually shows..
Shmuel
Shmuel has a number of referents: For the Hebrew Bible prophet, see Samuel.For the book of the Tanach, see Books of Samuel.For the Talmudic sage, see Shmuel (Talmud); for the earlier one, see Shmuel Hakatan.For other people named Shmuel or Samuel, see Sam. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguatio..
Shmuel-Bukh
The Shmuel-Bukh is a religious verse epic written in Yiddish. Composed no later than the second half of the 15th century and widely circulated in manuscript, it was first printed in Augsburg in 1544. Its stanzaic form resembles that of the Niebelungenlied, and its hero is the biblical David. Althoug..
Shmuel Auerbach
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Shmuel Burstein
Rabbi Shmuel Burstein giving a lecture Rabbi Shmuel L. Burstein (born in 1957) is a historian and Holocaust writer. Biography Burstein was born in December 1957 to Irving and Rhoda Burstein in Bronx, New York. He earned his semicha at Bais Medrash Al Shem Rabbi Shlomo Breuer in New York in ..
Shmuel Dayan
Shmuel Dayan (8 August 1891 – 11 August 1968) was a Zionist activist during the British Mandate of Palestine and an Israeli politician who served in the first three Knessets. Born in the town of Jashkov in the Ukraine, he joined the Zionist movement as a boy and emigrated to Palestine, then ..
Shmuel Eisenstadt
Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (b. September 10, 1923 in Warsaw) is an Israeli sociologist. In 1959 he was appointed to a teaching post in the sociology department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Since 1990 he has been a professor emeritus. He has held countless guest professorships, at among othe..
Shmuel Gonen
Shmuel Gonen (né Gorodish; 1930 - 30 September 1991) was an Israeli general and Chief of the Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War. Early life Born in Lithuania, Gonen immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine with his family at the age of three. He served in..
Shmuel haKatan
Shmuel Hakatan (literally Shmuel the Small) was a Babylonian Jew considered a great scholar of the Talmud, Jewish law and custom. He was one of the second generation of Tannaim, who served under the patriarch Gamliel II of Yavneh, during the last two decades of the first century C.E.. He is known f..
Shmuel Halpert
Rabbi Shmuel Halpert, member of the Israeli Knesset. A Grandson of Rabbi Mordechai of Nadvorna and Rabbi Yisroel Yaakov of Chust. Date of Birth: 05/02/1939 Year of Aliyah: 1960 Place of Birth: Romania Residence: Bnei Brak Family Status: Married Number of Children: 6 Viznitz Institu..
Shmuel Hasfari
Shmuel Hasfari is an Israeli playwright and screenwriter, author of such plays as "Kidush", "Shivaa", "Hamets", "Acordionim", "Tashmad" and "Milano". His play "The Master of the House" (In Hebrew: "Eeshah. Ba-al. Bayit.") 2003 Award-winner for Best Play in Israel, is slated to receive its American ..
Shmuel Mikunis
Shmuel Mikunis (born August 10 1903 in the Ukraine; died May 20 1982) was an Israeli communist politician and member of the Knesset from the first Knesset in 1949 to 1973. ..
Shmuel Sackett
Shmuel (Seth) Sackett is a Religious Zionist leader. He co-founded both the Zo Artzeinu ("This [is] Our Land") and Manhigut Yehudit ("Jewish Leadership") political movements in Israel. During the 1990s Zo Artzeinu opposed the Oslo Accords through civil disobedience. Sackett was born in t..
Shmuel Salant
[Orthodox Rabbinical Biography Collaboration of the Week ] Rabbi Shmuel Salant (January 2, 1816 – August 16, 1909) served as the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and was a renowned Talmudist and Torah scholar. He was born in Białystok, then part of Russ..
Shmuel Schneersohn
Shmuel Schneersohn (or Rabbi Shmuel or Maharash) (1834–1882), was an Orthodox rabbi. He was the fourth Chabad Lubavitch Rebbe based in the town of Lubavitch in present-day Russia. He was the son of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn who was the third Rebbe of Lubavitch. He was also known as th..
Shmuel Tamir
Shmuel Tamir (10 March 1923, Jerusalem, Israel – 29 June 1987) was a member of the Israeli Knesset from approximately 1965 to 1980. He was a member of the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth Knessets. Before entering politics, he served in the Israeli military and was a prominent lawyer. E..
Shmuel Winograd
Shmuel Winograd is a computer scientist, noted for his work on fast algorithms for arithmetic, and in particular for the algorithm known as the Coppersmith-Winograd algorithm. From 1970-1974 and 1980-1994 he was the director of the mathematical scienced department at IBM. ..
Shmuel Yeivin
Shmuel Yeivin, an Israeli archaeologist, was the inaugural Director of the Israeli Department of Antiquities, holding the position from the foundation of the Department on July 26, 1948, until 1961. ..
Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman
Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman (1868 – June 1953) was an Orthodox Jewish Talmudic scholar, rabbi and Dayan of the United Synagogue. He was born in Kovno, a descendant of Rabbi Shmuel Hillman (Helman), the Av Beth Din of Metz, who is mentioned in the introduction to the responsa Noda BeYehuda...
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew שמואל יוסף עגנון), (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970), was the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1966). He won the prize jointly with poet Nelly Sachs. His works are published in English under the name S. Y. Agnon (Hebrew ש..
Shmuel Zakai
Shmuel Zakai is an Israeli Brigadier-General who was forcibly discharged from the Israel Defense Force (IDF) in November 2004 by order of Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon. Zakai resigned as commander of the IDF's Gaza Division, a position he had held since March 2004, after failing a polygraph test duri..
Shmuley Boteach
Shmuley Boteach (born November 19, 1966) is an American Orthodox rabbi, radio show [host], and author. Rabbi Boteach received his rabbinic ordination in 1988 from the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement in New York City, as a disciple of its leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. That s..
Shmustar
Lebanese town located between Baalbeck and Zahleh. Its population is over 2000, and is of Shi'a Muslim majority. It is part of the Bekaa province in eastern Lebanon. From 1955 until 1995, President Hussein el-Husseini was the mayor of Shmustar. ..
SHMZ
Founded in 2005, the Singapore . Hong Kong . Macau . Zhuhai (SHMZ) Association is a non-profit association of like-minded people from Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau or Zhuhai. SHMZ is supported by the Singapore International Foundation and activities are based in Macau. External link [Shmz.org�..
SHM Memorial Center
SHM Memorial Center is a 3,200-seat multi-purpose arena in Orangeburg, South Carolina, named in memorandum of Samuel Hammond, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith, who died in the Orangeburg Massacre. It is home to the South Carolina State University Bulldogs basketball team. ..
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