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Recent Posts
- Boy Scouts to vote today to permit homosexual members
- Oklahoma tragedy leads to inevitable ‘disappointed God’ theology
- U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on government meeting prayers
- U.S. Social Security Administration: ‘Messiah’ and ‘King’ trending baby names
- Victoria’s Secret model Kylie Bisutti gives up career for Christ: admirable?
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- DONNA ANDERSON on Boy Scouts to vote today to permit homosexual members
- Dorothee Benz on Former Yale dean Tom Ogletree on why he officiated his son’s same-sex wedding
- Ken McKiernan on Muslim reaction to Boston Marathon bombing
- Jim Fahringer on Keeping Ten Commandments out of public places good for Christians
- Belief & Beyond | Washington Post poll reveals broad support for allowing gays in Boy Scouts on Boy Scouts of America compromise on gays: is it fair?
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Category Archives: Judaism
Rosh Hashanah is upon us
Today is the start of the Jewish High Holy Season. While Jewish people make up only 2 percent of the U.S. population, their impact is very strong. Take Ernie Weiss. He came to America in the 1940s and settled in … Continue reading
Posted in Judaism, Local events
Tagged Ernie Weiss, Hahn Home Fund, Jewish Family Services, Rosh Hashanah
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Should schools adopt Muslim holidays?
And today, we have this from our friends at Gazette.net to the south. It seems Maryland public schools are considering closing for Muslim holidays. I can’t wait until Bill O’Reilly and Fox News hears about this. The issue is interesting, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Elsewhere, Islam, Judaism, Politics, Pop Culture
Tagged Gazette.com, Jewish, Maryland, Montgomery County, Muslim, Yom Kippur
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Ancient Bethlehem seal discovered
Interesting news from Jerusalem, where archaeologists have discovered a 2,700-year-old seal that bears the inscription “Bethlehem.” The finding is significant because it would seem to prove that Bethlehem was not just the name of a fabled biblical town, but a … Continue reading
Posted in Arts and media, Catholicism, Elsewhere, Judaism, Science
Tagged annulment, Bethlehem, Bible, Catholic Church
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Does Heaven exist?
Famed Christian scholar N.T. Wright, who made a May 13 trip to Dallastown, is the most prominent voice to date questioning the traditional view of heaven. Wright, a former Anglican bishop and author of several books on Christianity, is among … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Atheists, agnostics, doubters, Books, Elsewhere, Judaism
Tagged Heaven, N.T. Wright
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Church giving on the rebound?
Church giving has suffered along with the economy since 2008. Many churches I visit report sharply reduced collections, which staff and program cuts, just like it does with any enterprise. A new report offers a little hope that the rebound … Continue reading
Posted in Ecomony, Judaism, Local events
Tagged Lives Changed By Christ, Passover, State of the Plate, Temple Beth Israel
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When neighbors are different
Israel is embroiled in a religious controversy that began when an 8-year-old girl tried to walk to school in Beit Shemesh, a city between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Naama Margolese, 8, was spit on and harassed by ultra-Orthodox Jewish men … Continue reading
Workshop on Art of Jewish Papercutting
A free, hands-on workshop on the Art of Jewish Papercutting begins at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Agricultural & Industrial Museum in York. Youth ages 10 and older (with an accompanying adult) may participate in a craft class that explores … Continue reading
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Daughter of Lutheran bishop ordained a rabbi
A local “pastor’s kid” was recently ordained at a Bronx rabbinical school. She now leads a 100-family congregation at a synagogue in Brooklyn. A NYT profile Monday guesses Heidi Hoover is a first — a Jewish convert, now rabbi, with … Continue reading
Posted in Judaism, Mainline Protestants
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The week in Pa. religion news: April 3, 2011
The number of Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia suspended for alleged aberrant behavior involving children grew to 29, as officials placed two more clerics on administrative leave. The Philly case has the U.S. bishops defending the credibility of … Continue reading
Posted in Around Pennsylvania, Catholicism, Judaism
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At Yom Hashoah, a Torah is rededicated
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) will be observed at 7 p.m. May 1 at Temple Beth Israel in York Township. John Freund will speak about his experiences as a youth in Czechoslovakia, his time in the concentration camps of Theresienstadt … Continue reading
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