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Five Questions with Mark GersonMarch 4, 2021 at 8:58 AM  Tags: New York, Entrepreneurship, Africa, Israel, Uncategorized, Trends, Judaism, Christian, Impact Investing, ESG, Founder, Mark, Torah, Deuteronomy, GLG, Mt Sinai 133 people like this. Like Israel’s High Court Recognizes Religious Conversions Of Liberal-Leaning GroupsMarch 1, 2021 at 9:53 PM People who convert to Judaism through the Reform and Conservative movements are Jewish, Israel's highest court declared.Tags: News, Israel, Judaism 27 people like this. Like Purim in Covid times – in picturesFebruary 26, 2021 at 3:24 AM Israel has set a curfew to limit festivities for the Jewish holiday when revellers don costumes and party into the night. Similarly muted celebrations have taken place around the world Continue reading...Tags: Photography, Israel, Religion, World news, Judaism, Festivals, COVID 48 people like this. Like Could a former bar be one of Spain's lost medieval synagogues?February 25, 2021 at 7:58 AM Work is under way to see whether an abandoned 14th-century building is part of the legacy of the country’s exiled Jews The rambling, 14th-century building that sits off a narrow alley in the historic heart of Utrera, its patio walls furred with moss and its inner ones painted pugnacious shades of purple and orange, has led a long and varied existence.Over the centuries, it has served the Andalucían city as a hospital, a home for abandoned children, a restaurant and, in its final incarnation, a b...Tags: Europe, Religion, Spain, World news, Judaism, Utrera 48 people like this. Like CPAC canceled a speaker who was found sharing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, after declaring this year's theme is 'America Uncanceled'February 23, 2021 at 6:42 AM Tags: Politics, America, Trends, Judaism, News UK, Anti-semitism, Donald Trump, Trump, Media Matters, Orlando Florida, Pharoah, Ben Jacobs, Matt Schlapp, Eric Hananoki, Conservative Political Action Committee, CPAC 129 people like this. Like Conservative political conference CPAC drops speaker over anti-Semitic tweetsFebruary 22, 2021 at 8:22 PM Media Matters of America reported that Young Pharaoh "has told followers that Judaism is a 'complete lie' and 'made up for political gain.'"
[Author: USA TODAY]Tags: Usa, News, Judaism, Usa Today, CPAC, Media Matters of America, Young Pharaoh 23 people like this. Like Christians, Muslims and Jews to share faith centre in BerlinFebruary 21, 2021 at 2:30 AM €47m building will feature a church, a mosque and a synagogue all linked to a central meeting spaceOn the site of a church torn down by East Germany’s communist rulers, a new place of worship is set to rise that will bring Christians, Jews and Muslims under one roof – and it has already been dubbed a “churmosquagogue”.The foundation stone of the House of One in Berlin will be laid at a ceremony on 27 May, marking the end of 10 years of planning and the beginning of an estimated four years of con...Tags: Europe, Germany, Berlin, Religion, Communities, Society, World news, Culture, Architecture, Art and design, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, East Germany, Kuehn Malvezzi 9 people like this. Like Rabbis warn over Purim celebrations Covid riskFebruary 21, 2021 at 2:15 AM Ultra-Orthodox community in north London told to keep socially distant after last year’s festivities led to huge spike in infectionsUltra-Orthodox rabbis in north London have issued unprecedented guidance on the eve of the Jewish festival of Purim in a bid to avoid a repeat of last year’s celebrations that led to a huge spike in Covid infections.The advice was issued by the Office of the Rabbinate of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations in the form of a notice to be displayed in synagogues...Tags: Health, London, Religion, Communities, Society, UK News, Infectious Diseases, Judaism, Coronavirus, COVID 34 people like this. Like 'Love’s labours should be lost': Maria Stepanova, Russia's next great writerFebruary 11, 2021 at 7:25 AM The Muscovite’s work is arriving in English this year in three books of remarkable memoir, poems and essays that, she explains, reach for ‘the truth of the past’Years ago, Maria Stepanova visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC to do research for a book she would end up working on for 30 years. After telling him of her plan, the museum adviser replied: “Ah. One of those books where the author travels around the world in search of his or her roots – there are plenty o...Tags: Europe, Books, Russia, Poetry, Culture, Judaism, Washington Dc, Communism, Poland, Moscow, Fiction in translation, Belarus, Autobiography and memoir, Essays, Nos, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 16 people like this. Like A unique African community who have practiced Judaism for a century despite persecution say they deserve the right to be recognized as Jews by IsraelFebruary 7, 2021 at 10:14 AM Tags: Politics, Supreme Court, Africa, Israel, Immigration, International, Trends, Uganda, Judaism, News UK, Parliament, Jews, Judah, Interior Ministry, Amin, Christianity and Judaism 111 people like this. Like Trump's top lawyer asks to delay the impeachment trial if its not finished by the beginning of SabbathFebruary 7, 2021 at 10:57 AM Tags: Politics, Law, Senate, US, Trends, Cnn, Judaism, New York Times, News UK, Mitch McConnell, Capitol Hill, Times, Trump, Schumer, Office Building, Chuck Schumer 125 people like this. Like Invite-only chat app Clubhouse, which Elon Musk used over the weekend, says it plans to open its doors to everyone as soon as possibleFebruary 1, 2021 at 11:05 AM Tags: Facebook, Elon Musk, News, Amc, Trends, Social Media, Judaism, Silicon Valley, Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Jared Leto, Free Speech, Robinhood, Cnbc, Gamestop, Clubhouse 98 people like this. Like One of the earliest mosques has been unearthed beside the Sea of Galilee and indicates Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived in harmonyJanuary 30, 2021 at 11:03 AM Tags: Science, News, Israel, Jerusalem, Trends, Ap, Judaism, Middle East, Christianity, Islam, Mosque, Mohammed, Medina, Haaretz, Old City, Levant 99 people like this. Like Large weddings, packed schools: Haredi Jews flout English lockdownJanuary 29, 2021 at 4:34 AM Community insiders say weddings taking place each week and there is ‘no respect for the guidelines’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEngland’s lockdown rules are being flouted in ultra-Orthodox Jewish areas, with large weddings taking place each week and schools continuing to operate, according to community insiders and local residents.Last week police discovered 150 guests celebrating a wedding at the Yesodey Hatorah girls’ school in Stamford Hill, north London. The sc...Tags: Health, London, Religion, UK News, Judaism, Manchester, Stamford Hill, Coronavirus, Yesodey Hatorah, Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations Continue 40 people like this. Like ‘Is it OK to eat during online mass?’: how the faithful handle lockdownJanuary 23, 2021 at 7:00 AM From streamed baptisms to the impossibility of hajj, it’s been a tricky time for religious people to stay observant. But many have some holy hacksWell before places of worship were closed during the first lockdown, we hectored my father to remain indoors and stay safe. He rebelled. One frigid Sunday last March, through the silence of a sleeping household, he slunk down the hall and to the kitchen, careful not to rouse his house guests.We don’t know if his plan was dependent on my siblings being ...Tags: Religion, Communities, Society, Judaism, Catholicism, Christianity, Islam, Coronavirus 34 people like this. Like Essenes in Judaean Society: the sectarians of the Dead Sea ScrollsJanuary 17, 2021 at 5:30 AM The sectarians reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls, identified with the Essenes, were not the isolated community of popular imagination that spent their days praying, studying scriptures, and waiting for one or two messiahs in the desert. Some of them did do so, especially those who lived at a site near the Dead Sea known as Khirbet (‘ruins of’) Qumran, but most of them did not. Four thousand of them lived in towns, villages, and large groups throughout Judaea. They were in Jerusalem, where a gate...Tags: Books, Featured, Religion, Jerusalem, Rome, Judaism, Mediterranean, Philo, Herod, Simon, Romans, Roman Senate, Dead Sea, Josephus, Masada, Habakkuk 22 people like this. Like The director who dared to suggest Jewish men don't need rescuing by blond womenJanuary 8, 2021 at 3:00 AM The late film-maker Joan Micklin Silver exploded the cliches of modern romances. If only others would do the sameThe director Joan Micklin Silver, who died last week, was – to use the kind of cliche she abhorred – a pioneer. She was a female director at a time when studio executives were more than comfortable with being openly sexist, telling Silver: “Women directors are one more problem we don’t need.” She made distinctly Jewish movies, as opposed to the kind of Jewish-lite movies that were – a...Tags: Hollywood, Film, Netflix, Culture, Judaism, Woody Allen, Harry Met Sally, Lower East Side, Carol Kane, Amy Irving, Hester Street, Joan Micklin Silver, Comedy films, Peter Riegert, Steven Keats 42 people like this. Like Survey shows Congress is more religious than AmericaJanuary 7, 2021 at 2:53 PM  Tags: Politics, Congress, Democracy, Government, Religion, America, United States, Judaism, House Of Representatives, Innovation, Catholic, Congressional, Gallop, Orthodox Christians 74 people like this. Like An Animated Introduction to Baruch Spinoza: The “Philosopher’s Philosopher”January 7, 2021 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Google, College, Judaism, Philosophy, Alain De Botton, Facebook Twitter, Loyola, Voltaire, Josh Jones, Sagan, Nietzsche, Baruch Spinoza, Leibniz, Descartes, Al Farabi, Spinoza 51 people like this. Like The Weird Case Of The Hallmark Channel’s Jewish Christmas MoviesDecember 27, 2020 at 1:00 PM  Tags: Art, Media, Judaism, 12.24.20 92 people like this. Like Faith leaders encourage coronavirus vaccinations among Southern California worshippersDecember 18, 2020 at 7:57 PM  Tags: News, Supreme Court, College, Religion, Sport, Public Health, Lego, Soccer, Judaism, Healthcare, Islam, Catholic Church, Miami, Catholic, Christian, Pfizer 88 people like this. Like "In the two weeks since commercial flights began between Tel Aviv and the Emirati cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Israelis have caused a remarkable tourism boomlet in the Gulf nation."December 15, 2020 at 8:36 AM "Suddenly, Hebrew can be heard throughout the markets, malls and beaches of a destination that was strictly off-limits until the two countries achieved a diplomatic breakthrough in August and established normal relations. More than 50,000 Israelis have brushed aside covid-19 concerns, a terrorism warning and decades of tension to make the three-hour flight across the Arab Peninsula.... The first Israelis to arrive described a congenial culture clash unlike anything they have experienced in the r...Tags: Travel, Law, Israel, Tel Aviv, Wealth, Egypt, Judaism, Dubai, Jordan, Burj Khalifa, Gulf, Trump, JCC, Dubai Mall, Festivities, Ann Althouse 50 people like this. Like Giuliani doubles down, says Soros uses Judaism as ‘a shield and a sword’December 4, 2020 at 7:32 PM The former New York mayor is doubling down on his statements on Soros’ Jewish identity, saying that he is “the last person in the world...Tags: New York, Judaism, Giuliani, Soros 1 people like this. Like Hundreds of Ethiopian immigrants welcomed in Israel by PMDecember 3, 2020 at 8:19 AM Benjamin Netanyahu greets arrivals as part of pledge to bring all Ethiopians of Jewish lineage to IsraelHundreds of Ethiopian immigrants on Thursday arrived at a festive ceremony at Israel’s international airport, as the Israeli government took a step towards carrying out its pledge to reunite hundreds of families split between the two countries.Some 300 people landed on the Ethiopian Airlines flight, with many waving flags or stopping to kiss the ground as they stepped off the aircraft onto a r...Tags: Africa, Israel, Religion, World news, Middle East and North Africa, Judaism, Ethiopia, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ethiopian Airlines 17 people like this. Like Non-Christian faiths welcome Christmas easing of Covid rulesNovember 25, 2020 at 1:00 AM Religious leaders pleased that Christians will not experience ‘same disappointment’ they didRepresentatives of faiths that have been unable to gather for religious festivals this year because of the pandemic have welcomed the fact that Christians will not have to experience “the same disappointment and deflation” they did.The Muslim festivals of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, the Jewish holy days of Passover, Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish new year) and Yom Kippur, and Diwali festival of lights celebra...Tags: Religion, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Diwali, Sikhism, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Coronavirus 28 people like this. Like Meet the Bidens: America's new First FamilyNovember 12, 2020 at 3:35 PM Tags: Apple, New York Post, Obama, Navy, Senate, White House, America, Barack Obama, Trends, Joe Biden, Ukraine, Ap, Bbc, Hillary Clinton, United States, Judaism 72 people like this. Like Archbishop of Canterbury joins faith leaders' outcry over lockdown ban on worshipNovember 3, 2020 at 11:02 AM  Tags: England, News, Judaism, Boris Johnson, Canterbury, Robert Jenrick, Muslim Hindu Sikh, Stephen Greenhalgh 65 people like this. Like Must be the season of the witchOctober 31, 2020 at 5:37 PM  Tags: Halloween, Post, News, Judaism, Spirituality, Occult, Peter Bebergal, Peter Bebergal Season 89 people like this. Like Sassoon family collection of Jewish artefacts to be sold at auctionOctober 29, 2020 at 12:00 AM Unparalleled collection of one of the greatest Jewish dynasties in the world to go on sale in New YorkAn unparalleled collection of Judaica amassed by one of the greatest Jewish dynasties in the world and not seen in public for over a century is to be sold at auction.The trove of 68 items includes silver objects, Hebrew manuscripts and family artefacts collected by the Sassoon family. Some items date back to the 11th century, and they originate from countries from east Asia to western Europe. Co...Tags: Asia, Europe, New York, Religion, World news, US news, Culture, Art and design, Judaism, Sassoon, Judaica 37 people like this. Like Europe's Jewish population has dropped 60% in last 50 yearsOctober 25, 2020 at 8:35 AM Soviet Union’s collapse may be responsible for exodus from eastern EuropeEurope has lost almost 60% of its Jewish population over the past 50 years, mainly as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union after which many Jews left eastern Europe as borders opened, a study shows.Only about 9% of the global Jewish population now lives in Europe, compared with nearly 90% in the late 19th century – but similar to the proportion 1,000 years ago. Continue reading...Tags: Europe, Religion, World news, Holocaust, Judaism, Soviet Union 25 people like this. Like |
