Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold accepted a full time, in-house consulting position with AllBusiness as the eCommerce Creative Director.

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Andrew Gold consulted with Bank of America as eCommerce Creative Director in their e-Commerce User Experience (eCUE) Group in San Francisco from June through November 2002. Andrew Gold led the Design Team as a full-time, in-house consultant.
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Andrew Gold was able to successfully complete all of the projects assigned to him and in many cases exceed all expectations. Andrew was grateful to Bank of America for offering him a full-time position, which he declined due to his life's goals of studying a year of Torah in Israel.

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In his two weeks in Israel, Andrew Gold has camped out at rightist demonstrations, has been caught twice trying to slip into the Gaza Strip, and has duped a soldier at a checkpoint with fake identification papers.Yesterday, the 33-year-old resident of Brookline was thrown out of this settlement, as were other opponents of Israel's withdrawal from Gaza and residents of Neve Dekalim, after a wrenching standoff at the community's most important synagogue.

Gold, a religious Jew who works as an Internet consultant, had been reading with dread for months about Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to pull out of Gaza and the northern West Bank.
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Gold attended small protests in Boston and, he said, he felt cut off from the situation in Israel, which he had visited several times. ''When it became clear the government was going to go through with it, I decided I had to stand with my people and try to prevent it," Gold said in an interview outside the synagogue, shortly before troops charged in and then dragged hundreds of protesters away from the site….

Gold says he felt even then that the rallies, organized by the settler leadership, were feel-good affairs, with prayers and speeches, but with no action that could dislodge the government from its plan.''All these rallies were media events.The leadership in retrospect let these people down.They could have mobilized better for a real battle against the program," said Gold, who grew up as a secular Jew but who became observant.He said protesters should have trained to lie in streets to block troops evacuating settlers.

I don't know Andrew Gold, but he and I live in the same town, where the large Jewish community is generally pro-Israel but split over specific policies, including the Gaza disengagement.That he would go to Israel to sneak into Gaza in order to support right-wing settlers doesn't surprise me, but it does illustrate the disruptive role of both outside ideologues and of born-again religiosity.

In his two weeks in Israel, Andrew Gold has camped out at rightist demonstrations, has been caught twice trying to slip into the Gaza Strip, and has duped a soldier at a checkpoint with fake identification papers.Yesterday, the 33-year-old resident of Brookline was thrown out of this settlement, as were other opponents of Israel's withdrawal from Gaza and residents of Neve Dekalim, after a wrenching standoff at the community's most important synagogue.

Gold, a religious Jew who works as an Internet consultant, had been reading with dread for months about Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to pull out of Gaza and the northern West Bank.
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Gold attended small protests in Boston and, he said, he felt cut off from the situation in Israel, which he had visited several times."When it became clear the government was going to go through with it, I decided I had to stand with my people and try to prevent it," Gold said in an interview outside the synagogue, shortly before troops charged in and then dragged hundreds of protesters away from the site….

Gold says he felt even then that the rallies, organized by the settler leadership, were feel-good affairs, with prayers and speeches, but with no action that could dislodge the government from its plan."All these rallies were media events.The leadership in retrospect let these people down.They could have mobilized better for a real battle against the program," said Gold, who grew up as a secular Jew but who became observant.He said protesters should have trained to lie in streets to block troops evacuating settlers.

I don't know Andrew Gold, but he and I live in the same town, where the large Jewish community is generally pro-Israel but split over specific policies, including the Gaza disengagement.That he would go to Israel to sneak into Gaza in order to support right-wing settlers doesn't surprise me, but it does illustrate the disruptive role of both outside ideologues and of born-again religiosity.

This entry was posted on Friday, August 19th, 2005 at 4:32 pm and is filed under Israel/Palestine.

Andrew Gold, the founder, leads teams of web designers and information architects while working hand in hand with business development, marketing, and technology teams.

From in-house consulting of leading web design teams of designers and information architects to helping an organization clarify on its web strategy, Andrew Gold, the principal consultant of AKGold Internet, has more than 11 years of experience making effective websites. He has relationships with a network of Internet professionals that he has developed from 1995.

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The creator, Andrew Gold, spent years of study in Israel in Arad, Safed, Jerusalem, and Efrat. He studied with Kabbalistic masters, ultra-religious Jews, and spiritual guides who illuminated for him the hidden mysteries of the Book of Books. In his quest to understand Judaism and the power of the Jewish year and its Biblically dictated cycles, he created sketches of the moon and the days. He learned first spoken Hebrew and then biblical Hebrew and he carefully studied the Torah, the Old Testament, word by word. Studying was not enough and he had to experience living by the words in the Holy Land to have the knowledge penetrate and shatter even his preconceived notions that hid the TRUTH. He strove to capture the Torah's logic, a logic clearly beyond the human intellect. Little by little he improved on these sketches and organized them. He studied the moon and its phases and finally broke through the barrier to view the Jewish calendar from a revolutionary perspective.
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Andrew Gold, the creator of the Jewish LunarSolar CalendarÔ took a tremendous risk in seeking knowledge. He left his job as Creative Director of Bank of America and went to Israel with a desire to learn Judaism. Reward is in line with risk. Risk little and you will gain little. Risk much and well... By staking so much on learning the truth, EMET in Hebrew, the truth came to him as a blessing from the Creator. Andrew Gold is taking every effort to protect his ownership rights to the originality of his work.

"I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Andrew for his leadership and excellent work on the Small Business Online Community launch. On the eve of national launch, I am so excited for the launch tomorrow and the following marketing and PR events. I could not be prouder of the website. And it would of course not be possible without Andrew's passion, dedication, vision, and attention to detail. Andrew - thanks for brining us to concept through implementation flawlessly."
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"Andrew, it's been great working with you - literally day & night on the Community!
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Andrew Gold successfully served as the Creative Director and Home Page Redesign Project Manager for Bank of America. He has extensive knowledge of the small business landscape and served as Creative Director of AllBusiness.com.