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Deepti Hajela and Jennifer Dobner, "Jewish group wants Mormons to stop proxy baptisms," washingtonpost.com (November 10, 2008)
Via the AP. An advocacy group for Holocaust survivors is mounting a public relations campaign against the inclusion in a LDS genealogical database the names of Jews killed in the Holocaus...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/10/AR2008111001416.html?referre...
For Kosher Emergencies, Manna From a Machine - New York Times
The NYT profiles the Kosher Vending Industries, Inc. "Hot Nosh 24/6" line. Remarkable.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/dining/15vend.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Shaul Magid, "Pariah or Charmed Hero: America's Obsession with Jews and Israel," ReligionDispatches (Oct. 21, 2008)
A thought-provoking piece on the deeper (and darker) meaning of America's unwavering support for Israel.
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http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/international/627/pariah_or_charmed_hero%3A_americ...
Anna Blackshaw, "My Enemy, My Brother (interview with David Gorssman on the conflict betwen Israel and Palestine)," The Sun Magazine (October 2008)
This is only an excerpt from the full interview. Even the excerpt is worth a read though. Grossman is an Israeli writer who manages to combine a powerful and ongoing activism for peace an...
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http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/394/my_enemy_my_brother?utm_medium=email
Anna Blackshaw, "My Enemy, My Brother (interview with David Grossman on the conflict betwen Israel and Palestine)," The Sun Magazine (October 2008)
This is only an excerpt from the full interview. Even the excerpt is worth a read though. Grossman is an Israeli writer who manages to combine a powerful and ongoing activism for peace an...
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http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/394/my_enemy_my_brother
Army Private Subjected to Anti-Semitic Attacks Brutally Beaten By Soldiers
PVT Michael Handman, 20, claims to have been the victim of intense anti-Semitic harrassment (being called "kike" and "fucking Jew," being forced to remove his kippot), and then subsequent...
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http://www.pubrecord.org/religion/362-army-private-subjected-to-anti-semitic-attacks-brutall...
THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM
The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem along with other local Christian leaders expresses its opposition to the mostly-American phenomenon of Christian Zionism.
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http://www.hcef.org/index.cfm/mod/news/id/16/subMod/NewsView/NewsID/1595.cfm
Exodus 33.7-11, 17-23: Moses's relations with God
These passages describe Moses's encounters with God in the Tent of Meeting and his thwarted desire to look YHWH in the face.
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http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=90248068
Pew Global Attitudes Project: Overview: Unfavorable Views of Jews and Muslims on the Increase in Europe
Bad news on the prejudice front from Europe. Across the continent, unfavorable perceptions of Jews are increasing; attitudes towards Muslims are worsening as well, although not as consist...
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http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=262
Catechism Edit 'Troubling,' Jewish Leaders Say - washingtonpost.com
This sentence will shortly be cut from the Roman Catholic catechism: "Thus the covenant that God made with the Jewish people through Moses remains eternally valid for them." Annotated li...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091203077.html?hpid=se...
Rabbis launch pro-Obama group - JTA, Jewish
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jta.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fiowa%2Fnews%2Farticle%2F2008091620080916rabbisforobama.html
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http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2008091620080916rabbisforobama.html
Building bridges between Jews and Latino Pentecostals
In L.A., a Jewish group has been mounting outreach efforts to Latino Pentecostal congregations and organizations, including a Spanish-language 'Essence of Judaism" course. The piece sugge...
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http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/26141794.html?location_refer=Faith%20+%20Values
I.B. Singer on Yiddish, via A.Word.A.Day
I.B. Singer is a great writer; here's an excerpt from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, plus, as a bonus, the definition of the word "schnorrer."
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http://wordsmith.org/words/schnorrer.html
NETUREI KARTA
Neturei Karta opposed the establishment of and retain all opposition to the existence of the so-called "State of Israel"!
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http://www.nkusa.org
Kaluach.net :: online Hebrew/civil calendar
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http://www.kaluach.net/welcome.php?useroffset=120
Judaism 101: Table of Contents
Parece ser uma excelente fonte judaica.
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http://www.jewfaq.org/toc.htm
My Day
Blog written by a young convert to a Hasidic community in NYC (?)
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http://deryid.blogspot.com
Tiferet Bet Israel
Web page for Tiferet Bet Israel, a Conservative synagogue in Blue Bell, PA (Rabbi: David Ackerman).
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http://www.tbibluebell.org
The Temple Institute: The Holy Temple in Jerusalem: Yesterday Tomorrow Today
The red heifer people.
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http://www.templeinstitute.org/main.htm
Religious Diversity: Rabbi’s sermons offer both spiritual hope and a strong call to action
The article on which Greg's news analysis was based. On a recent publication of a sermon collection by a "welcoming" (i.e., gay-friendly) NYC synagogue.
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http://www.gaycitynews.com/gcn_455/religiousdiversity.html
Is Ritual Circumcision Religious Expression? - New York Times
Does the government have the right to ban a form of ritual circumcision that carries a small, but real, risk of dangerous infection? Tommy used this article for his analysis. The headline...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/magazine/05wwln_idealab.html?ex=1296795600&en=d181d8449cf5...
Religion, science clash over ritual | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
A NYC newborn, presumably born to an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family, dies from a herpes simplex I infection after a traditional bris (circumcision), in which the mohel (ritual circumciser) ...
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3635615.html
The Post and Courier | Charleston.net | News | Charleston, SC
Gabrielle's article dealt with a kosher bed-and-breakfast in Charleston, SC.
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http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=68789§ion=faithvalues
kosher bed and breakfast charleston south carolina
The website of the kosher B&B that Gabrielle's article talked about.
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http://www.charlestonkosherbedandbreakfast.com
Legislature too wrapped up in religion, Jewish leaders say
A Jewish organization in Kentucky has objected to a proposal to strip the state courts of the power to prohibit the display of the Ten Commandments in public spaces. Includes comments fro...
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http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060329/NEWS0101/603290389
Preoccupied with matters of religion and personal faith
A letter from a Jewish organization in Lexington, KY, to the state legislature, criticizing a proposal to bar the state courts from prohibiting the display of the Ten Commandments.
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http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060329/OPINION04/603290449
oremus Bible Browser : ezekiel 22.23-27
A great reference for the qadosh idea, and the centrality of the notion of "difference."
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http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=11198974
The two-minute Haggadah. By Michael Rubiner
Goofy summary of what's in the Passover seder. Kind of funny.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2139601
The two-minute Haggadah. By Michael Rubiner
Goofy summary of what's in the Passover seder. Kind of funny.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2139601/?nav=navoa
Jewish Standard Out of my Jewish box
Mohsin sent me this back in May 2006 when it came out. Nicely written piece on a young Jewish woman who attends an interfaith "pilgrimage" and what it changes about her Jewish identity.
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http://www.jstandard.com/articles/1065/1/Out-of-my-Jewish-box
For Sen. Allen, Questions of Much More Than Faith - washingtonpost.com
The WaPo reflects on the revelation of Sen. George Allen's Jewish roots and on his public response thereto. Interesting.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101953.html?nav=rss...
Terri Gross interviews Judea Pearl and Akbar Ahmed (10/10/2006)
Terri Gross of WHYY (Philadelphia) interviews Judea Pearl (Daniel Pearl's father) and Akbar Ahmed about their ongoing interfaith dialogue project. Both men are highly articulate and opini...
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6230947
Apocalypse: a history of the end
I haven't read this yet. Highly recommended Frontline companion site on the development of apocalypticism and its role in Western thought.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse
"Jewish Week" on religious right's setbacks in US Congress
Newspaper "The Jewish Week" interviews Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition. He is unfazed by last week's election: "The American people are with us. They're just confused." An...
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http://thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13253
Nazi-hunter Wiesenthal no longer to be "vicarious" Mormon
Apparently Simon Wiesenthal's name was entered into the Latter-Day Saints' genealogical database, a first step towards "vicarious" (posthumous) baptism into the Church. After vehement pro...
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http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/203609/3
"Hatikvah" - recorded at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by BBC, April 20, 1945
BBC recording made on April 20, 1945, 5 days after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by the British Army. Recently discovered in the Smithsonian Center for American Folklife archives and br...
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http://www.s106085032.onlinehome.us/BergenBelsenHatikva.mp3
Poll: Bethlehem's Christians fear Israelis, not Muslims
An interesting polling result from OpenBethlehem.org. They find that Americans have enormous misconceptions about Bethlehem's history, demographics, and even location; while Christian Bet...
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http://www.openbethlehem.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=107&Itemid=17
Interfaith anti-domestic violence coalition publishes handbook
A joint Jewish-Christian-Muslim group has collaborated with STAND! Against Domestic Violence to produce a handbook for clergy dealing with domestic violence. Statistics suggest that most ...
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http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/living/16738987.htm
Interview: Paula Fredriksen on St. Paul
Fredriksen wrote the classic From Jesus to Christ and recently completed a book on Augustine and the Jews. In Fall 2005 she was interviewed by Vision magazine.
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http://vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=265
NYPL, Dorot Jewish Division, Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Books
Yizkor books are books memorializing Jews who died for their religion. This is an online collection at the New York Public Library.
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http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/jws/yizkorbooks_intro.cfm
VA Dunkin Donuts goes non-kosher, angers Orthodox
There are only a few kosher Dunkin Donuts stores in the country, and several in the D.C. area have recently decided to give up their kosher status, causing something of a furore among the...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/31/AR2007033101171.html?nav=rss...
Vatican threatens to boycott Holocaust memorial | International | Reuters
An exhibit in the Yad Vashem memorial museum in Jerusalem suggests that Pius XII was "apathetic" towards the plight of the Jews during WWII (most historians agree, though Pius's archives ...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1232687620070412
Religious "generation gap": children more observant than parents
Some evidence suggests a trend within families towards children's exhibiting greater religiosity than their parents. This story examines a few examples of this in different traditions.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-07-08-kids-parents-religion_N.htm