Judiasm

Jaweed Kaleem

Muslim Group Wants To Teach You About Sharia Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Anti-Shariah, Anti-Sharia, Rick Santorum, Religious Freedom, Islamic Circle of North America, Sharia Law, Florida Sharia, Shariah Law, Religion, Sharia in America, South Carolina Sharia, Shariah, Religion and Politics, Muslim Law, Judiasm, Newt Gingrich, Sharia, Religion News

After heated debates in two dozen states over banning Sharia law, the legal code of Islam, a national Islamic group is beginning a multi-million dolla...

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Why I Support the Ban On Worship In Public Schools

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Seperation of Church and State, Education, Department of Education, Judiasm, Michael Bloomberg, First Amendment, New York Board of Education, Separation of Church and State, Religion and Politics, Religion News
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch

The New York Board of Education is right to oppose a bill that would authorize the use of public school buildings for religious worship. It is precisely because I believe in the central role of religion in America that I support this position.

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Hebrew School Dilemma

Steph Thompson | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Belief, Jewish Guilt, Raising Jewish Children, Jewish Children, Judiasm, Hebrew-School, Women News
Steph Thompson

Every Monday faithfully, for years, I have brought my children to Hebrew School. But recently, my own weak reasoning doesn't seem to resonate, not with me, and not with my kids.

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Do the Ten Commandments Cover All the Bases?

Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conservative, Honor Thy Father and Mother, Murder, Saints, Orthodox, Bible, Judiasm, Steal, Pray, Ten Commandments, Mel Brooks, History of the World, Religion News
Carol Hoenig

I've been thinking about one of the comments made in response to my latest Huffington Post blog, "A Mother's Love Versus Her Sons' Religious Demands" ...

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An Elegy to My Father

Dora Levy Mossanen | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dora Levy Mossanen

My father, Sion Levy, was ninety-years-old when he was born again on Thursday, July 8 at 5:30 PM. No, my father was not a born again Christian, but...

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NYC Subway Map For Jews

heebmagazine.com | Linda Gelman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Print out our map and begin complaining about the spots we can't be forgiven for leaving out....

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On Pesach Eve: The Muslim and Her Inner Jew

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

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Qanta Ahmed, MD

This is the prize which each of my Jewish loves - my Jewish teachers, my Rabbi and my Rebbetzin, my Jewish friends, my special Jewish Navigator and every Jewish patient has ultimately taught me: inside every Muslim is an inner Jew.

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Interpreting an Embrace: A Jew and a Sikh in Kansas

Rabbi Or Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rabbi Or Rose

I am reminded once again that the fate of my community is inextricably bound up in the fate of all others. In the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., "We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny."

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Moses Maimonides: Arab Jew, Religious Humanist

David Shasha | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sephardic, Moses, Arabic, Jewish, Islam and Judiasm, Muslim, Ibn Rushd, Religious Humanism, Jew, Moses Maimonides, Pagan, Judiasm, Toledo, Visionary, Humanism, Spain, Religion, Religion News
David Shasha

The figure of Moses Maimonides (ca. 1138-1204), perhaps the greatest post-Talmudic rabbi, exemplifies the complications and pitfalls involved in the Arabic articulation of Judaism.

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Seminaries Shack Up: The Trend Towards Multi-Faith

Joshua Stanton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joshua Stanton

Graduates of multi-faith seminaries are going to be the best able to lead their congregations and religious movements within a pluralistic society.

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Hate For Sale

Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Russell Simmons

I am concerned that the words of Ahmadinejad will continue to influence young people. But I fear that online hate groups will have much greater influence than one isolated leader.

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Christopher Hitchens and the Killer Jews

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.17.2011

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

To read Hitchens these days is to be transported to an alternate universe where religious Jews are often terrorists inspired by racist Jewish ideology that is fomented by their Rabbis.

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Jerusalem Isn't Just for Jews

Hammad Hammad | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hammad Hammad

Treating Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem as foreigners who entered Israel is astonishing, since it was Israel that entered East Jerusalem in 1967.

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How New York Media Grinches Taught Me the True Meaning of Chanukah

Steven I. Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews in Media, Religion, Orthodox Jews, Christmas, Jewish Celebrities, Richard King, Jewish Culture, George Clooney, Rachel Sklar, Judiasm, Spirituality, Celebrities, Video, Media News
Steven I. Weiss

Despite the fact that many media personalities are bright and funny and fascinating and love being Jewish, so many of them have the distinct feeling that Judaism doesn't want them.

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