Judaism

Everyone In the Pool! (Not You, Guys)

June 17, 2009

Author: Omar Sacirbey

Source: Religion News Service

http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/everyone_in_the_pool_not_you_guys/

&amWhen Zahra Khan arrived at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from her native Ottawa, Canada, in 2005, she looked for a swimming pool where she wouldn’t have to worry about showing too much skin.

The only options were mixed-gender pools, which Khan felt would...

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Light Sensors Cause Religious Row

June 16, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/8103581.stm

A couple have taken legal action after claiming motion sensors installed at their holiday flat in Dorset breached their rights as Orthodox Jews.

Gordon and Dena Coleman said they cannot leave or enter their Bournemouth flat on the Sabbath because the hallway sensors automatically switch on lights.

The couple's religious...

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A New Leader for Britain's Oldest Religious Minority

June 12, 2009

Author: Zaki Cooper

Source: Times Online

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6488692.ece

The new political leader of the British Jewish community, Vivian Wineman leans back in his chair, smiles and tells me: “To do this job you need a thick skin and a supportive wife. I have the second and need to develop the first!” As president of the Board of Deputies since June 1, Wineman is prepared for the intense...

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Jerusalem Limestone Connects Congregation to Israel

June 12, 2009

Author: Susanna Graham-Pye

Source: The Barnstable Patriot

http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/home2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18192&Itemid=30

This evening at the Cape Cod Synagogue’s 8 o’clock Shabbat service, members will dedicate a beautiful new worship space, and celebrate a renewal of purpose as a religious community dwelling on this slim spit of sand.

“We...

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Anti-Faith, Anti-Government Violence a Toxic Mix

June 11, 2009

Author: Kevin Eckstrom

Source: Religion News Service

http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=18245

In 1981, white supremacist James W. von Brunn tried to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve in a bid to overthrow a financial system he believed was controlled by Jews.

Experts say violent anti-Semitic outbursts, like von Brunn's shooting Wednesday (June 10) that killed a security guard inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, are often...

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In Note, More Clues to Holocaust Museum Killing

June 11, 2009

Author: Theo Emery and Liz Robbins

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/us/12shoot.html

Stephen Tyrone Johns opened a door of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday afternoon, witnesses said, probably thinking that James W. von Brunn was just another elderly visitor needing help to get inside.

Mr. Johns apparently did not notice that Mr. von Brunn, 88, whose anti-Semitic and white supremacist views...

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Okla. Braces for Challenge to Ten Commandments Law

June 9, 2009

Author: Sean Murphy

Source: The Houston Chronicle

Wire Service: AP

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/6467815.html

Backers of a new law authorizing a privately funded Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of Oklahoma's Capitol didn't get good news this week.

A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a similar display at the Haskell County...

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Jewish Group Organizes L.A. March Against Darfur Violence

June 8, 2009

Author: Ari B. Bloomekatz

Source: The Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs8-2009jun08,0,2876658.story

Rabbi Ted Riter of Temple Adat Elohim in Thousand Oaks told throngs of demonstrators Sunday that it was important to rally against the deadly violence in Sudan because one day the marchers' grandchildren will ask: Where were you?

"We . . . made a promise to our ancestors to never forget,"...

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Metro Detroiters Praise Obama's Speech On Islam

June 4, 2009

Author: Gregg Krupa

Source: The Detroit News

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Across Metro Detroit and elsewhere people responded positively to what President Obama said in Cairo today, in a major speech on Islam and resolving problems in the Middle East and South Asia.

But, also with unanimity, those who heard the speech said the most important thing is what happens next.

"I've come here to Cairo to...

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