admin | January 2, 2022
ROME Every year, certain storylines dominate news coverage of the Vatican. Some are largely positive, though many tend to be negative, such as the clerical abuse scandals that have been a strong contender for biggest Vatican story of the year for each of the last 20 years.
admin | January 2, 2022
(RNS) In a year in which we expected the news to get better, the stories followed most closely by the Jewish community in 2021 were for the most part sequels to the difficult and dire stories of 2020: COVID-19, surging antisemitism and strife between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. But a new government in Jerusalem and Israels broadening ties to Arab countries brought glimmers of hope for peace.Here are the 10 most important stories on topics of Jewish concern this year: In June, after four indecisive elections in two years, Israeli leaders Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid assembled a broad-based coalition that enabled Bennett to replace Netanyahu as prime minister. In power for 15 years, Netanyahu was the longest-serving PM in the nations history
admin | January 2, 2022
The Buddhist scholar Dadul Namgyal stressed the importance of letting go of habits of self-obsession and attitudes of self-importance. Moulie Vidas, a scholar of Judaism, placed more emphasis upon Judaisms intellectual and spiritual energy. Karen Teel, a Roman Catholic, emphasized her interest in working toward making our world more just
admin | January 2, 2022
Chapter One Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO This is a series about Jewish life along the Interstate 5, which begins at the Mexican border and continues all the way to the Canadian border. We will be concerned with just the San Diego County segment of this highway, a 72-mile stretch between Baja California, Mexico, and the Orange County line
admin | January 2, 2022
It was the mother of Ghislaine Maxwell who first introduced me to the subject of supersessionism. I got to know Betty Maxwell, whose face has become a familiar one on the front pages of this weeks newspapers following the conviction of her daughter in New York for sex offences, when she invited me to help her in organising a conference to analyse the Nazi Holocaust
admin | January 1, 2022
Sunday, December 26, 2021 Many of the Torah commentaries point out that unlike our forefathers, Moshe, in this week's opening verses to the Parsha, did not accept that God's promises of redemption for the Jewish people had not yet been fulfilled. In God's response to this, we sense a veiled criticism of our great teacher and leader Moshe. Heaven responded to Moshe by saying that he enjoyed a higher and different relationship to the Revelation from God than those original founders of the Jewish people.
admin | January 1, 2022
WAYNE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) A North Jersey rabbi who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
admin | January 1, 2022
General reflections I grew up in an era when there were NO women rabbis. I decided that I wanted to be a rabbi at the age of 11, in 1967.
admin | January 1, 2022
We cannot let manipulators and extremists continue their self-serving battle at the expense of the majority. Tom Krattenmaker| Opinion contributor Congressmen team up to listen amid heightened political polarization Reps
admin | January 1, 2022
Around two weeks ago, the Heavens blessed us with our first grandchild. Our grandson surprised his parents by coming seven weeks early.
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