Abravanel

They're saying: 'Even if you cut your deficit to nothing, we're not going to buy your bonds because, without growth, you're not going to be able to meet your debts', said Abravanel, the Milan-based author of two bestselling books that probe the causes of Italy's economic underperformance.

Debt crisis: Silvio Berlusconi unveils reforms to avert Italian crisis 2011

Not before time, said Roger Abravanel, the international financial community had woken up to the implications of Italy's inability to grow.

Debt crisis: Silvio Berlusconi unveils reforms to avert Italian crisis 2011

An important English summary of archival findings and their analysis relevant to the Abravanel and the Mendes/De Luna/Benveniste/Nasi families is Renata Segre.

Benvenida Abravanel. 2009

She was the daughter of Jacob Abravanel (d. 1528), who was one of the two brothers of Isaac Abravanel (1437 – 1508), the Spanish Jewish exegete, philosopher and statesman.

Benvenida Abravanel. 2009

Building on earlier speculations by nutritionist Henry Bieler, Abravanel decided back in the '80s that there are four types of people, and that their cravings depend on which glands dominate their metabolism.

One Man's Meat 2008

To keep people out of this alleged cycle, Abravanel prescribes gland-specific diets-more lean protein for thyroid types, more carbs for adrenal types and so on.

One Man's Meat 2008

According to Abravanel, those preferences set us all up for obesity.

One Man's Meat 2008

Isaac Abravanel on miracles, creation, prophecy, and evil: the tension between medieval Jewish philosophy and biblical commentary, New York: P. Lang, 2003.

Miracles Levine, Michael 2005

Abravanel (1437-1508), though an admirer of scholasticism, and practically the last of the line of Jewish Aristotelians, considers the thirteen Articles of Maimonides 'Creed gratuitous, and as not representative of the maturer views of Maimonides.

The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various

In the same connection, Abravanel adds that the fashion of laying down creeds as fundamental in Judaism owes its origin to the method employed in the secular studies which always started with certain indisputable axioms.

The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various