Judaism

Kerala's Jews Living Far Apart

August 14, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Economist

http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11919293

Yaheh Hallegua is the last Jewish woman of child-bearing age in Mattancheri. Her cousins Keith and Len are the last eligible bachelors. But she is not keen on either of them. So within a few decades the extinction of the 400-year-old Jewish community in the port-village in India’s southern state of Kerala is assured.
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Future Uncertain for Synagogue that is Link to Lake Elsinore's Jewish Past

August 10, 2008

Author: David Olson

Source: The Press-Enterprise

http://www.pe.com/localnews/sbcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_S_suncity10.4acc100.html

Temple Beth Sholom in Sun City is one of the last links to Lake Elsinore's old Jewish community.

A 400-year-old Dutch-crafted Torah from a now-shuttered Lake Elsinore synagogue sits in a wooden cabinet. A tablet honors the late Lake Elsinore resident whose father-in-law donated...

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Activists, Hindus, Jews Protest Highway Crosses

August 7, 2008

Author: Adelle M. Banks

Source: USA Today/Religion News Service

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-08-07-crosses-highway_N.htm?csp=34

A church-state watchdog group has joined Hindu and Jewish organizations in arguing that a Utah court erred in ruling that a highway cross memorializing a fallen state trooper is a "secular symbol of death."

A friend-of-the-court brief was filed Wednesday in the 10th U.S....

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Interfaith Leaders Ask Candidates to Address Poverty

August 4, 2008

Author: Philip Jenks

Source: Worldwide Faith News

http://www.wfn.org/2008/08/msg00031.html

High ranking Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and Protestant leaders have called on the presidential candidates of both major parties to use their primetime slots at the nominating conventions to offer plans for combating poverty.

"As people of faith, we believe that it is immoral to ignore our nation's most vulnerable populations," the leaders said in letters to...

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NY Gov Speaks at Hamptons Synagogue Seeking Eruv

August 2, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Newsday.com

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--paterson-eruv0802aug02,0,127800.story

Gov. David Paterson pleaded for religious tolerance Saturday during a speech at a Long Island synagogue.

The governor made his remarks to an Orthodox congregation in Westhampton Beach that is trying to win village approval to erect a symbolic enclosure called an...

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Faith Groups Push Minimum Wage Hike to $10

July 31, 2008

Author: Ashly McGlone

Source: Religion News Service

http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=16188

A nonpartisan coalition of more than 90 faith, community, labor and business organizations has launched an ambitious "$10 in 2010" campaign to raise the federal minimum wage within two years.

The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign announced the "$10 in 2010" crusade with support from various denominations, including American Baptist...

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Anti-Semitic Incidents 'Rise 9%'

July 31, 2008

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7534243.stm

There was a 9% rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the UK in the first half of 2008 compared with the same period last year, a charity has reported.

There were 266 incidents up to June, compared with 244 last year, according to the Community Security Trust (CST).

Some 166 were incidents of abusive behaviour, including verbal abuse, hate mail and anti-...

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Religious Coexistence Promoted in Children's Book

July 30, 2008

Author: Sharon J. Doyle

Source: Middle East Online

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=27170

Was there ever a "once upon a time" when we were more tolerant and open towards those we perceive as different?

There was a golden age in Spain 1,000 years ago when Jews, Christians and Muslims lived in mutual harmony. Now, however, there are indications of an increasing global intolerance within and between nations. We are...

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