Tag: judaism
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November 08, 2009 02:26 PM EST --
The Real Reason Jesus was killed is a long essay on errors, assumptions, mistranslations and over zealous creativity. The finding of a stone tablet upon which was an interesting line of two about the . . .
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June 18, 2007 07:56 PM EDT --
Most Christians are pretty nice to me as a Jew. However, sometimes I feel patronized. Christians treat my religion as "Intro to Christianity" or "Christianity Lite," as . . .
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December 03, 2007 02:02 PM EST --
Lyla published a nice article about the Jewish holiday that starts tomorrow evening. http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977192619#comments The holiday does commemorate . . .
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June 14, 2008 08:50 PM EDT --
As part of our series on world religions in "Spirituality Explorers", my focus this week is "Judaism". I have often thought it funny that there are people who think Jesus was a Christian. . . .
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April 08, 2009 03:21 AM EDT --
For Andrea Grenadier, a beautiful friend and poet in honor of a shared tradition
Rose Konigsberg
kitchen maven, death camp
survivor, and Chaim Hoffman’s . . .
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May 29, 2007 01:05 PM EDT --
Even many Jews worry about being associated with Pastor John Hagee and his powerful lobbying group, Christians United for Israel. Because of his erroneous interpretation of Scripture, Hagee is completely . . .
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September 17, 2007 04:59 PM EDT --
From Denver Post's website (http://www.denverpost.com/celebritybuzz/ci_6912951). Am I the only person who wishes Madonna would just shut up already about Kabbalah? Does she realize that . . .
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March 01, 2008 12:17 PM EST --
I have heard a number of different definitions for prayer and, of course, there are just as many kinds of prayers and ways to pray. Some say that prayer is something we do to change God's mind; . . .
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March 07, 2008 10:57 PM EST --
Jesus was accused of breaking the law by healing a man on the Sabbath. He had just preached about the difference between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. Have you ever encountered . . .
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April 26, 2008 12:09 PM EDT --
So often, in discussion groups, a progressive religious person will say, "But Jesus was a liberal." This is usually stated when trying to counter a point in a debate. Many people have seen . . .
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August 02, 2008 11:31 AM EDT --
I can no longer put off writing about what has been in my thoughts over the last several months. Yesterday, in my comments on an article here, I brought up some points that I am going to address . . .
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December 01, 2009 06:37 PM EST --
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May 25, 2009 12:20 PM EDT --
Birds do it, bees do it, even Orthodox Jews do it - but not whenever the spirit moves them. Sex between couples, preferably married to each other, is fine provided the rules of purity related . . .
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February 17, 2008 08:51 AM EST --
The weekly discussion topic for the "Spirituality Explorers" is "RELIGION". How could something that, on the one hand, teaches love and compassion, be on the other hand the . . .
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October 16, 2008 06:22 AM EDT --
I just watched Religulous tonight — Bill Maher’s cinematic slap-in-the-face to every religion on earth — and I must say, I’m inspired. I have passion. I am fully devout. Never before . . .
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February 23, 2009 08:25 AM EST --
I've tried to explain to people that the lives Jews lead in Iran aren't bad. They aren't persecuted. I've done what is humanly possible to educate people about Iran and the Jews that . . .
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September 12, 2007 04:12 PM EDT --
If we would like others to take us seriously and not judge us as being fanatics in our religious beliefs we should strive to be open minded, many-sided and well balanced, mentally, socially and spiritually. . . .
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October 14, 2007 09:30 PM EDT --
Today was a picture-perfect day in New York, made special because I was meeting a dear friend from out of town whom I hadn't seen in seven years. After a delicious lunch on the East Side, . . .
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July 18, 2006 11:09 AM EDT --
I lost my connection to organized religion the day after my Bar Mitzvah 30 years ago. Since then, I have lived life as an atheist. A comment by Richard McGirr, creator of the Happy Atheists group on Gather.com, . . .
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September 13, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Bertrand Russell
I'm an agnostic. This doesn't mean I believe a god . . .
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