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As I listen to the talking heads in the media who are practically beside themselves trying to come up with a politically correct explanation for the Fort Hood shooting it becomes more and more painfully clear that they really don't get it! In the Middle East Quarterly , Raymound Ibrahim asks, " Are Judaism and Christianity as violent as Islam? " Although this article was written before the...
Should government sponsored or government regulated healthcare charge sick people and old people more than young healthy people? On sick list: Elderly and the ill pay more under GOP health care reform bill BY MICHAEL MCAULIFF • New York Daily...
Catholics and Anglicans can draw important lessons from Judaism's journey towards accepting female rabbis The parallels are astonishing. For centuries rabbis had been male. In Jewish life, women deserved respect, but it was men who had been the guardians of tradition. Suddenly women wanted to become rabbis. What was even more confusing is that they did not base their claim just on grounds of equity...
London – The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain’s Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself. Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide? On the surface, the court was considering a straightforward challenge to the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London. But the case, [...]
Richard Dawkins has taken a lot of abuse himself for having the temerity to suggest that some kinds of religious upbringings can be considered abusive even if no physical harm is involved. We know that Catholic children suffered abuse at the hands of priests and nuns, and that some fundamentalist Christians have also engaged in extremely abusive practices. We don't usually think of Jews as routinely...
The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain's Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself. Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide?
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(Pope Benedict XVI at Auschwitz) Once a Catholic priest, author James Carroll's faith in authority was broken by the Vietnam War. He left the church and began a rigorous study of the history of the relationship between Christianity and Judaism, distinguishing an extraordinary story that deepens the understanding of the forces that made the seeming incomprehensible Holocaust comprehensible. (Constantine)...
THE UCL ARAMAIC INCANTATION BOWL CONTROVERSY is back in the news: UK scholars linked to 'stolen' bowls of Babylon Suppressed report reveals archaeological treasures were dug up after Gulf war * Vanessa Thorpe and James Doeser * The Observer, Sunday 8 November 2009 * Article history A secret report on the chequered history of priceless Aramaic bowls loaned to a leading university has exposed an apparent...
A lot has been said about the Fort Hood shooting. Islam is to blame, immigration is to blame, liberalism is to blame. All that is right, or at least not wrong. But why did it happen NOW? After all, 9/11 happened 8 years ago and there was little Muslim violence against America since then - on home soil, that is. But there is one aspect that wasn't discussed at all, and if, I've overlooked it. In the...
Gershom Gorenberg, has an article in The American Prospect. Gershom has specialized in messianic Zionism. His Wikipedia entry defines him as "an American-born Israeli historian, journalist and blogger, specializing in Middle Eastern politics and the interaction of religion and politics" and "a left-wing, skeptical Orthodox Zionist Jew". The article, as others of his usual writings,...
Have you heard or read from a Muslim, a Muslim apologist or a kafir who has befriended a Muslim a statement similar to this: “Islam is no different than Christianity or Judaism. They both have bloodshed – one in the Quran and the other in the ... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Ft. Hood shooter douche is a product of a politically correct military. Orlando shooter douche is a product of culture where we don't keep score of kids soccer games. These guys have never related to failure until it's a big one. And now we're surprised that he freaked? I expect an invitation to CNN as an expert on psycho shootings any moment now. By the way, for the record, if I have to hear that...
THE RAPHAEL GOLB case is covered in the New York Times : 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls, Internet-Era Crime By JIM DWYER Published: November 6, 2009 Early one morning in March, the law banged on the door of an apartment on Thompson Street in Greenwich Village. Investigators had a warrant to arrest Raphael Haim Golb and seize his computer. He was caught red-handed. Mr. Golb is, or was, a guerrilla fighter in...
HOW TO TALK LIKE AN INTELLECTUAL. The epistemology of praxis functions as the conceptual frame for the construction of linguistic transparency. (Via David Meadows on Facebook.)
Rabbi Adam Chalom Dean of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism Allahu Akbar, Gott mit uns – we’ve heard it before, and the lesson is still the same: “you don’t count the dead/When God’s on your side….you never ask...
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