admin | October 11, 2021
Many eyebrows were raised when a small group of leftist anti-Israel congressional representatives successfully torpedoed their own presidents initial supplementary Iron Dome funding proposal. As Iron Dome is a defensive system that protects Israels civilian population from rockets fired by terrorists, the progressive Democrats who quashed the proposal were widely accused of not only being fierce opponents of the Jewish state, but of harboring hostile attitudes toward Jews and their words would seem to attest to such prejudice. How can the Left, which proudly champions the equality of all, be bigoted against Jews?
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admin | October 11, 2021
Tech entrepreneur and author Antonio Garca Martnez made wavesover the weekend with a Substack post about his decision to leave behind "cultural Catholicism" in favor of Judaism. The main reason the post has people talking is Garca Martnez's case for conversion has more to do with his hostility to secular modernity than a positive defense of specifically Jewish scripture or tradition. That makes his conversion story exceedingly modern.
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admin | October 11, 2021
God: An AnatomyFRANCESCA STAVRAKOPOULOU(PICADOR, 608 PP, 25)Tablet bookshop price 22.50 tel 020 7799 4064 This scintillating study sets out to recover the body of the God of Israel, which Francesca Stavrakopoulou argues has been lost in religious transit. Modern Judaism, Christianity and Islam, according to Stavrakopoulou, think of God as bodiless: formless, imageless, invisible
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admin | October 11, 2021
Liza Behrendt: I looked at [Jewish events at Occupy] as another opportunity to build Occupy, rather than feeling a deep sense of Jewish identity in those spaces. The framing of the movement really flattened and erased identity; I was not particularly aware of any of my identities in the space, as a white person, or a Jewish person, or a queer person
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admin | October 4, 2021
By Abby Seitz TEL AVIV (JTA) From the outside, HaOgen Cafe looks a lot like the many other espresso spots that line the streets of Tel Aviv.
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admin | October 4, 2021
(This article is written by guest writer Aron Gamman.) Exploring Judaism through the lens of Spiritual Naturalism brings forth many possibilities. On the one side it challenges Jewish traditions by denying a supernatural agency.
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admin | October 2, 2021
Its the eve of Rosh Hashana in a building erected in the 19th century by the Templers, a Lutheran sect from Germany, in what is now central Tel Aviv. A passerby peeking in through a window of the preserved structure will discover that its completely packed.
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admin | October 2, 2021
How many of us think about why we are as we are, but this is precisely what I found myself doing during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
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admin | October 2, 2021
Photo by Getty Images Police entry a Jewish cemetery over a wall near the scene of a shooting that left two people dead on October 9, 2019 in Halle, Germany. Pew Research Center released a report Thursday tracking religious discrimination across the world in 2019. Jews experience a disproportionate rate of discrimination in countries around the globe, with 89 governments engaging in some kind of harassment against Jews or restrictions on the practice of Judaism, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
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admin | October 2, 2021
THE QUESTION: When Does Life Begin? THE RELIGION GUYS ANSWER: Those four words are regularly posed in the current abortion debate, so lets scan the lines in pregnancy that have been drawn.
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