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Blood infusion in Judaism
2008-06-26 02:40:00 Jewish ultra-Orthodox concern with blood infusions is in part superfluous. Jews are enjoined against consuming animal blood, ?for its soul is in its blood.? Soul, however, can be only in a single place at a time, and it?s either in the animal or in its blood. The commandment, therefore, only deals with slain animals and ...
By: Samson Blinded
The light against reason
2008-06-22 10:45:00 In recent years, anti-Semites around the world stepped up their attempts at banning Jewish religious books. A number of criminal complaints has been filed alleging racist incitement, notably in Russia. Rabbis seem to recognize that side of our books, as during the Knesset debate on anti-racism law designed to ban the Kach Party, religious parties ...
By: Samson Blinded
The usual apocalypse
2008-06-20 01:48:00 Ignorant Jews claim the Holocaust?s uniqueness. By various estimates, it devoured about a third of the world?s Jewry, including many Christianized Jews, whether formally converted or assimilated into the Christian culture. We have experienced similar catastrophes at least thrice: in the Babylonian onslaught, the Judean War and Bar Kochba Revolt, and the century leading to ...
By: Samson Blinded
Israel? Gaza Invasion Or Peace?
2008-06-08 09:02:00 During the past few years, Israel and the United States have jointly pursued a policy of non-engagement with Hamas. The result of this foreign policy approach bears scant evidence of success. The Israel government is presently confronting a situation in which it could invade Gaza or whether it could risk accepting Egypt’s offer of a ...
Honesty cannot be reformed
2008-06-05 10:29:00 Jewish reformism is not bad per se. Orthodox Jews were the biggest reformers in their time: they have substituted rabbinical Judaism for the Temple-based, land-centered religion. The amount and severity of changes introduced by Pharisaic rabbis pales the current reformist attempts. There is, however, a critical difference between the Orthodox and reformist approaches, namely honesty. ...
By: Samson Blinded
Israel Jerusalem Housing Upsets Egypt
2008-06-04 09:47:00 Over thirty years ago, Israel began to construct housing on the West Bank using the argument such housing units were necessary to assist in the defence of the nation. As the years have passed, Israel West Bank settlers have grown from a few hundred to a few thousand and now over 300,000 creating a formidable ...
Threats And Warnings From Israel And Iran
2008-06-03 15:30:00 Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni warned that although no final decision has been taken by her nation’s leaders about the threat from iran, their eventually will be a final resolution of how to deal with that country. “Iran needs to understand that the threat of military action exists and has not been taken off the ...
Torah Judaism, Homosexuality, and Gay Marriage
2008-06-02 17:23:00 The Torah does not like gays. For some Jews, this is not a difficult challenge to overcome. The Torah may have been inspired by God, but it was written by men. Its intolerance toward homosexuals can be written off as the outdated bigotry of a bygone age. For others, it is not a challenge at all. The ...
By: Jewneric
German Agent Brokers Mideast Peace
2008-06-02 09:03:00 A member of the German intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst(BND) has been responsible for brokering an exchange deal between Israel and Hezbollah on behalf of the United Nations. He has now enabled development of an official proposal which is on the table and the Israeli government will shortly decide whether or not to accept it. Gerhard ...
Shamanic Judaism, 2nd Video On Double Portions
2008-06-01 17:58:00 ?'? ????? ???"?Mab 28Oops? I posted the first shamanic Judaism video twice (a double portion) the first time (correct now). The second video (part 3) is now available for viewing here or here or here. Take another look ... and hear more of the story.
By: Walking On Fire
Shamanic Judaism
2008-06-01 00:05:00 ?'? ????? ???"?Mab 27Hat tip to Asherah's Place for posting links to two available YouTube (of three) videos featuring topics related to earth-based Shamanic Judaism. The teacher in the videos is Rabbi Gershon Winkler of the Walking Stick Foundation.Part 2Part 3I want to make a drum like the one in the videos.
By: Walking On Fire
Bishop Tutu Urges Palestinian-Israel Peace
2008-05-31 09:17:00 Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu spent several days in Gaza exploring conditions and seeking to find a way that would bring together Palestinians and Israelis. The South African cleric, heading a team of UN human rights observers, gathered stories from Gazans about Israel attacks that had killed civilians, including many children. Tutu said the ...
Modern Judaism: An Oxford Guide (Oxford Guides)
2008-05-31 01:35:00 Modern Judaism: An Oxford Guide (Oxford Guides)# Author: Nicolas de Lange , Miri Freud-Kandel# Format:PDF 1.3MB# Page Count: 472 pages# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 17, 2005)# Language: English# ISBN-10: 019926287X# ISBN-13: 978-0199262878A comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, multi-authored guide to contemporary Jewish life and thought, focusing on social, cultural and historical aspects of Judaism alongside theological issues. This volume includes 38 newly-commissioned essays, including contributions from leading specialistsin their fields. This book covers the major areas of thought in contemporary Jewish Studies, including considerations of religious differences, sociological, philosophical, and gender issues, geographical diversity, inter-faith relations, and the impact of the Shoah and the modern state of Israel.Readership: Suitable for all undergraduate students studying Modern Judaism. Also for the general reader looking for a comprehensive guide to Modern Ju...
Some Progress In Syria-Israel Talks
2008-05-30 15:25:00 In the latest rounds of unofficial discussions between Israel and Syria there are reports of some slight progress in resolving issues between the nations. A Syrain official who is close to the negotiations said that issues were being discussed along genral lines in preparation for future talks which hopefully would get down to specific ...
From Orthodoxy to fundamentalism
2008-05-29 09:44:00 The current Judaism is an aberration. Rabbis introduced its most prominent concept, that of the fence around the law, when Jews went into the Exile. The gentile influence suddenly became great, the option of purifying oneself in the Temple was absent, and so the rabbis developed an immense body of legislation to protect against inadvertent ...
By: Samson Blinded
Hamas Makes Threats As Israel-Syria Talk
2008-05-24 14:28:00 Israeli and Syrian leaders are discussing possible peace, but the leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, made clear his organization’s refusal to compromise on certain key points and the need to end the Gaza blockade. “If the international community and the concerned parties don’t take the initiative and break the siege, we will break it ourselves. ...
Britain?s Jewish Population Rises In Turnabout
2008-05-20 14:50:00 At the end of World war II in 1945, the Jewish population of Great Britan numbered about 450,000 people but today it has declined to about 280,000. The decline is most probably attributed to several factors such as a lower birth rate among those with higher incomes, the departure of some British Jews ...
No Talk, Time For Action, Says Olmert
2008-05-11 15:33:00 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made clear he is not going to discuss issues with Hamas, but will put an end to the Gaza rocket attacks through some form of military action. “Let it be clear,” he told the Israel Cabinet, “we view Hamas as completely responsible for everything that happens in the Gaza Strip. ...
Israel Independence Day And Palestinian Rights
2008-05-09 18:47:00 Israel is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its establishment as an independent nation. There are parades, speeches and parties as Israeli citizens continue marvel the nation has remained intact despite wars and conflicts. On the same day an alternative “celebration” was being held by Palestinians who regard the birth of Israel as a sad event ...
Palestinian Leaders Charge Olmert With Lying
2008-05-09 15:17:00 Prme Minister Ehud Olmert is facing criminal charges for supposedly accepting money from businessmen, but he is also under attack from another source as Palestinian Authority officials blast his latest comments as deliberate distortion of what is taking place in negotiations. Palestinians leaders are upset at the recent comment by Olmert that “significant progress” has ...
Israel West Bank Settlements Subvert Peace Process
2008-05-06 15:02:00 The continuing saga of Israeli’s subversion of the peace process by constructing new housing settlements on the West Bank porceeds without any serious effort to halt this effort to hamper achievement of peace with Palestinians. The ultra-Orthodox settlement of Modi’in Illit in the West Bank will most probably be granted city status even though council ...
Cease Fire In Gaza?
2008-05-05 14:49:00 The struggle to establish a modicum of peace in Gaza continued as there were hopeful signs Israel was prepared to accept the cease fire agreement hammered out by Egypt with Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza. Reports indicate Israel will give an “unofficial” acceptance of the agreement only after Palestinian factions announce they will ...
Chickens Come Home To Roost To Muslim/Jewish Dismay
2008-05-05 09:08:00 The decision by the European Union to allow pig remains to be used to fed poltry has sparked an uproar of anger among Jewish and Muslim citizens of the EU. Both religious and animal rights activists argue the change would place families at risk, offend religious sensibilities, and lead to a major consumer backlash. There ...
Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism
2008-05-03 18:05:00 Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism # Author:Howard Schwartz# Format:PDF 3.6MB# Page Count:708# Publisher: Oxford University Press (2004)# Language: English# ISBN-10: 0195086791# ISBN-13: 9780195086799Only one of the world's mythologies has remained essentially unrecognized--the mythology of Judaism. As Howard Schwartz reveals in Tree of Souls, the first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, this mythical tradition is as rich and as fascinating as any in the world.Drawing from the Bible, the Pseudepigrapha, the Talmud and Midrash, the kabbalistic literature, medieval folklore, Hasidic texts, and oral lore collected in the modern era, Schwartz has gathered together nearly 700 of the key Jewish myths. The myths themselves are marvelous. We read of Adam's diamond and the Land of Eretz (where it is always dark), the fall of Lucifer and the quarrel of the sun and the moon, the Treasury of Souls and the Divine Chariot. We discover new tales about the great figures of the Hebrew ...
Need For New Gaza Solution Urge Nations
2008-05-03 14:52:00 The Quartet for Middle East peace issued a statement urging all parties to explore the need for a “new approach” to dealing with the ever increasing tragedy of Gaza. The blockade initiated by Israel was intended to create such bad living conditions that Gazans would turn away from Hamas and seek assistance of the Palestinian ...
Rabbinical Wars Rage In Israel Over Conversions
2008-05-02 17:09:00 In an unecedented decision, the High Rabbinical Court of Israel has declared invalid all conversions performced since 1999 by Rabbi Haim Drukman, the head of the Conveersion Authority. The issue arose when the Ashdod’s Regional Rabbinical Court, declared invalid a conversion by a woman, a decison supported by the High Rabinnical Court. They also said ...
Gaza-A Bomb Waiting To Go Off!
2008-05-01 09:00:00 John Ging, Gaza head of the UN Relief and Works Agency, is warning that Gaza is on the verge of an explosion of anger that will result in violence and destruction. Ging describes humanitarian conditions as “shocking” and “shameful” because of the lack of basic supplies. Since Hamas assumed control of the Strip, Israel is ...
Islamic Jihad-Cease Fire Possible
2008-04-30 15:41:00 The Islamic Jihad expressed a willingness to accept an Egyptian-mediated cease-fire in the Gaza Strip on the condition there would be “removal of the siege on the Palestinian people and the opening of the crossings” on the Gaza border. Ziad al-Nahia said he would accept the deal because it would benefit the Palestinian population. The ...
Israel Foreign Minister Unaware Silence Is Golden!
2008-04-29 16:32:00 The conduct of foreign policy is best achieved by quiet diplomacy and avoidance of making public comments concerning those with whom one must negotiate. Israel Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will be meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abdul Ghit this week to patch up their relationship which has been impacted by comments that were ...
Syria Hedges On Peace Talks With Israel
2008-04-27 18:44:00 Syria termed a willingness on the part of Israel tocede the Golan Heights was not sufficint to achieve peace with its northern neighbor. Turkey has offered to oversee negotiations between the two nations, but Syria wants the United States to be directly be inolved in any peace negotiations. Syrian President Bashar Assad made clear he ...
Egyptian Diplomat Brings Hamas Truce Offer To Israel
2008-04-23 15:46:00 As Jews throughout the world celebrate the Passover holidays, Egtpitan Intelligence Minister Omar Suleiman will soon be arriving in Israel with an offer from Hamas for a truce. The Egyptian government has been actively engaged in peace discussions with Hamas for many reasons including a desire to avoid its own confrontation with Gazans if Hamas ...
It?s Us Says Al-Qaida, Not Them Jews!
2008-04-23 09:28:00 Osama bin Laden’s chief deputy denied with anger the theory that somehow Israel was behind the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. Ayman al-Zawahri accused Shiite Hezbullah and Iran of spreading such false allegations in order to denigrate the work of al-Qaida. “The purpose of this lie is clear(to suggest) that there are no ...
Passover and Politics: Reflections
2008-04-19 00:51:00 Hey, Passover starts tomorrow night - it's always been my favorite holiday.A fine feast, catchy songs, and a great storyline - what more can you ask for?The part I like best comes early in the seder. Why do we need to have a Passover ceremony - the answer is provided by a look at The Four Sons. The first son is highly intelligent - no need to have the story of Passover told for him, because he already understands it. The second son is evil - no point in telling the Passover story for him, because he deemed himself above all of this. The third is a little bit of a dim-wit - no need to have the story told to him either, because the meaning can be satisfactorily conveyed to his weak mind in just a few, simple sentences. But the fourth son - he who has not the capacity to even inquire - he is the reason that the Passover story must be told. It must be told, in other words, for those who, for whatever reason (perhaps because they are too young, or otherwise know nothing at all ...
By: Infinite Regress
Syria Prepares For War As War Rages In Gaza Area
2008-04-17 13:50:00 President Bashar Assad of Syria told a Lebanese newspaper his nation accepts the possibility they may wind up in a war with Israel sometime in the coming months. “If israel declares war on Lebanon and Syria or if America declares war on Iran,” his nation is prepared to enter such a fray. He ...
It?s Springtime For Hitler In South Korea!
2008-04-16 14:46:00 A Soouth Korean cosmetic company has come under heavy fire by the Israel embassy in Seoul for its offensive advertisement which draws upon Adolf Hitler in order to sell a product. The Coreana Cosmetics Company decided on Tuesday to withdraw the television ad for a skin lotion which depicts a young womn in a military-style ...
The J Street Project, or ?Yes, Virginia, you can be pro-Israel and progress
2008-04-16 04:26:00 I’m Jewish. You don’t hear me blog about this much for a variety of reasons, one of the major ones being that you are then inevitably asked to take a stand on Israel–as if such a thing even needed to be discussed, like Marx’s odious asking of “The Jewish Question.” My faith influences my thinking in a lot of ways, but it is not the sole arbiter of my thinking, and I don’t feel that I have to travel in lockstep with what any other Jew thinks–certainly not about Israel, which has every right to exist as a sovereign state, yet commits indefensible acts against peoples it (rightly or wrongly) perceives as implacable foes. As such, people like myself stay out of the debate, allowing it to be usurped and dominated by a cabal of crazy ultrahawkish right-wing Zionists who claim that anything short of total annihilation of Palestine will end with, as my father says, “the Jews being driven into the sea.” Thankfully, there’s an ...
Zionism vs. Judaism
2008-04-15 18:25:00 Sudhan @18:25 CET Zionists have managed to unforgivably drag their religion’s name through the mud for more than 60 years Seth Freedman | The Guardian, UK, April 14, 2008 Though my detractors often claim otherwise, I see myself as anything but a “self-hating Jew”, and the more vocal I am in my criticism of the Israeli government’s crimes, ...
By: Suzie-Q
What stranger should we love?
2008-04-14 11:21:00 There is one statement that drives me mad during almost every lecture. Invariably, someone stands up and says something along these lines, ?I know a little about Judaism, but the one thing I know for sure is that we should love our neighbors and not oppress strangers. That?s the entire Torah.? That?s what they were ...
By: Samson Blinded
Quotabull
2008-04-11 19:26:00 This is actually a boost to remind people that we can produce this kind of journalism at any time. We’re going to have a large enough newsroom to continue to produce this kind of quality journalism. ? Leonard Downie Jr., editor of The Washington Post, winner of six Pulitzer Prizes for 2008; The Post’s front-page story by media critic Howard Kurtz did not mention the paper has endured three rounds of staff cuts since 2003, but the AP’s story did; April 7; emphasis added. I can only confirm that the route is dynamic. ? Nathan Ballard, a San Francisco city spokesman, as, said The New York Times, “The precise route remained in flux on Tuesday as the torch extravaganza threatened to become more civic migraine than celebration in the face of potential protests by those upset with China?s human rights record and recent crackdown in Tibet”; April 9. For some members of the U.S. Congress to set aside the Olympic spirit and the principle that sports should not b...
Syria Heats Up Situation In Lebanon And Region
2008-04-05 14:19:00 During the past few months the government of President Bashar Assad has alternated between expressing a desire for peace with Israel to inflammatory expressions of warlike defiance. The Army radio quoted a “high ranking Arab source” as claiming Assad was willing to risk war with Israel in order to pursue policies in Lebanon which support ...
Peace Or War For Israel?
2008-04-05 09:43:00 Great Britain’s Foreign Minister David Miliband told an audience of his admiration for the establishment of the nation of Israel and said the sixtieth anniversary of the creation of that nation was “an opporunity for all of us to recognize its achievments-in democratic govenance, science, culture and business.” Miliband emphasized the security of Israel ...
Hamas Accepts 1967 Palestinian Border
2008-04-02 15:21:00 Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashjaal said his organization recognizes the border of 1967 that describes the boundaries of a Palestinian state even though he refused to recognize the existence of Israel. Obviously, if the Palestinian state does not comprise the entire area then there must be another nation in the immediate presence. “There is a ...
Israel Defense Force Teaching Children In School
2008-03-27 14:46:00 The Israel Defense Force has initiated a new program in schools termed “the Golden Way and the Sky” as part of an effort to instill feelings of citizenship within young people. The campaign launched this week by the Education Ministry and the Israel Air Force sends thousands of IDF soldiers to visit schools and talk ...
Sounds Of Hate Echo In Israel
2008-03-26 13:55:00 All nations contain individuals who hide behind the robes of religion in order to spew out hatred toward humanity. Chief Rabbi of Sahed Shumel Eliyahu called on the state of Israel to engage in a barborous action by hanging the sons of the man who killed innocent Israelis. “A state that really respects the lives ...
Judaism, Christianity and Islam: is it really "the same god"?
2008-03-24 16:25:00 While it is common for the more fundamentalist believers to believe that following their religion (or even their variant) is the only way to be saved, more liberal believers tend to claim that Judaism, Christianity and Islam worship basically the same god, that they are just varying interpretations of the same deity, and of the ...
By: Way of the Mind
Syria Wants Public Talks With Israel
2008-03-15 20:07:00 Future historians writing about Israel at the beginning of the 21st century will describe its inept leadership which did everything possible to move away from peace on the mistaken view only violence can end violence. Syria has conveyed a message to Israel suggesting discussons about peace but only on condition any talks will not be ...
Islamic Leaders Decry Islamophobia
2008-03-15 08:42:00 Leaders of the world’s Muslim states criticised a rising wave of “Islamophobia” in the West and pledged to deal with Islamic exztremism. A goal of the meeting was attempting to improve the effectiveness of the 57 naton organization, but even as its leaders urged improved cooperation, member states Chad and the Sudan engaged in hostile ...
Cease Fire In Gaza Ceases
2008-03-14 14:07:00 The week-long lull in fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza appears to have come to a conclusion as rockets slammed into the western Negev heading to the city of Siderot and other communities bordering on the Gaza Strip. Palestinian militants insist they are responding to the killing Wednesday of four Islamic Jihad gunmen ...
Cease Fire In Gaza? Yes Or No?
2008-03-11 13:49:00 Palelstinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Jordanian reporters in Amman that “a top Israel official is sabotaging the peace talks with Israel over internal matters and due to a personal hostility towards me.” He apparently was referring to Defense Minister Ehud Barak. On Monday, Abbas contradicted an earlier statement by Barak and insisted a cease ...
Have Israel and Hamas Agreed To Cease Fire?
2008-03-10 17:55:00 Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas told the Arab language al-Arabiya television network that Israel had in fact agreed to a cease fire with Hamas. His statement apparently contradicts comments made earlier by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert who insisted there was no cease fire agreement with Hamas. According to Abbas, Hamas had obtained a promise from ... |
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