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Prosecutors from the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division had alleged that Zevi Wolmark , the former chief financial officer of muni-bond broker CDR Financial Products Inc., and Evan A.
Two Ex-Muni Bond Broker Employees Plead Guilty in Bid-Rigging Probe Chad Bray 2012
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However, the distinctive aspect of the JHVH cult is that it incorporates a great deal of demonic rather than angelic material, and this can only be due to ‘Ezra’ – it is not something added in recent times by e.g. the followers of Sabbatai Zevi, it has always been there – at least since the JHVH material was added to the original Elohim material, much of which appears to have been suppressed or altered.
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Indeed, it was named after Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, a musicologist who also wrote the classic tune "Hava Nagila."
Boing Boing 2009
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In the mid-seventeenth century, it erupted in a mass movement of Middle Eastern and European Jews who lined up behind an erratic, wild-eyed mystic from Smyrna named Sabbatai Zevi, who claimed to be the Messiah, reveled in violating the laws of the Torah, and proposed to restore the kingdom of Israel.
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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In the mid-seventeenth century, it erupted in a mass movement of Middle Eastern and European Jews who lined up behind an erratic, wild-eyed mystic from Smyrna named Sabbatai Zevi, who claimed to be the Messiah, reveled in violating the laws of the Torah, and proposed to restore the kingdom of Israel.
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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In the mid-seventeenth century, it erupted in a mass movement of Middle Eastern and European Jews who lined up behind an erratic, wild-eyed mystic from Smyrna named Sabbatai Zevi, who claimed to be the Messiah, reveled in violating the laws of the Torah, and proposed to restore the kingdom of Israel.
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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In 1950 she initiated the reinternment of the body of the late Chief Rabbi of Vienna, Hirsch (Zevi) Perez Chajes (1876 – 1927) from Vienna to Tel Aviv.
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Many of these new publications (including Hebrew tehinnot, supplemental prayers for men) developed out of and popularized a mystical pietism originating among the kabbalists of Safed; others originated among secret followers of Sabbetai Zevi (1626 – 1676), the failed mystical messiah.
Tkhines. 2009
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The Jews were shattered internally too, by the dual tragedies of the Spanish Expulsion (1492) and the false messiah Shabbetai Zevi (1626 – 1676) in the seventeenth century.
Genizah. 2009
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Zevi continues to hold numerous public positions in Italy and elsewhere, including membership in the National Committee on Bioethics, the Italian Committee of UNESCO and several Italian national committees.
Tullia Calabi-Zevi. 2009
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