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Women's prayer at Western Wall sparks protest
JERUSALEM -- Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews flooded into the Old City’s Western Wall Plaza early Friday in a boisterous and sometimes violent protest against a group of female activists exercising a newly court-affirmed right to pray at the holy...
Tags: Christianity, Christian Orthodoxy, Torah, U.S. Embassy, Judaism
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Senator Says God won't Save Us from Climate Change Doom
Michael McAuliff writes for the Huffington Post about Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's rebuttal to those who contend God would never allow mankind to destroy the planet: Although Whitehouse did not name names, some of his Senate colleagues could be counted as...
Tags: Conservation, Sheldon Whitehouse, Bible, Ecosystems, Weather
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JEC dedicates Torah on Lag B'Omer
With a Torah scroll 50 letters from completion, more than 300 Jews came together on Lag B'Omer to celebrate the dedication of a Torah to the Jewish Education Center of South Florida located in Boca Raton. Once the Torah was finally completed by scribe...Tags: Torah, Judaism, Boca Raton, Religion and Belief
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Connection between divine and human love
Shavuot is a celebration of that moment when we, the Jewish people, were wed to God. Note the parallel between that moment and the wedding of bride and groom. At Sinai, God and the people of Israel stood at the base of the mountain, "be-tahtit ha-har."...Tags: Shavuot, Customs and Tradition, Torah, Weddings, Judaism
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Our Torah, our purpose
Next week on the 15th and 16th we celebrate Shavuot, the holiday the rabbis called Zeman Matan Toratanu. Shavuot celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai but the rabbinic phrase actually means "the time of the giving of our Torah. There is much...Tags: Shavuot, Torah, Judaism, Plant Openings, Israel
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An artisanal Bible: A handwritten copy, four years in the making
A man in upstate New York has just about finished a task that was common enough until the invention of the printing press: Over the past four years, he has copied the King James Bible by hand, the Associated Press reports. Phillip Patterson, a 63-year-...
Tags: Bible, AIDS, Religion and Belief
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The genesis of environmentalism
In 1967, historian Lynn White Jr. ignited a firestorm that burns still today. In a widely discussed article titled "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis," he laid a charge at the doorstep of the Judeo-Christian community: The Bible is responsible...Tags: Conservation, Bible, Viral Diseases and Infections, Environmental Issues, Religion and Belief
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Northern Michigan church briefs for May 5
Petoskey Cross of Christ Lutheran Cross of Christ Lutheran, 1450 E. Mitchell, Petoskey, celebrates Holy Communion services at 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 5. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m.; nursery at 10 a.m.; confirmation at 5 p.m. Bible study...Tags: Methodist, Christianity, The Happiest News!, Breads, Bible
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Restoring Torahs
Beth David Congregation in Miami is restoring the parchments of two Torah scrolls. One of these scrolls was written in 1890 and rescued from The Holocaust. The Holocaust Torah is one of 1,564 rescued from Czechoslovakia after the Nazis emptied Jews...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Human Interest, Torah, Judaism, Nazi Party
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Why do the good suffer?
One of this week's parshiot clearly states that good people are rewarded while evil people are punished. In the words of the Torah: "If you keep my commandments…then I will give your rains in their season…but if you will not listen to Me&#...Tags: Torah, Judaism, Punishment, Religion and Belief
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Applying Torah values to our diets
Since Shavuot is z'man matan Torateinu (the commemoration of the giving of the Torah to the Israelites on Mount Sinai), many dedicated religious Jews admirably stay up the entire first night of Shavuot to hear talks about and discuss Torah teachings....Tags: Diets and Dieting, Shavuot, Conservation, Environmental Pollution, Torah
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Manifold Greatness
"Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible," a traveling exhibition opening at the Hays-Heighe House at Harford Community College on Monday, April 22, celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first printing of the King James...Tags: Separation of Church and State, University of Oxford, Trips and Vacations, Arts and Culture, Bible
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