Source: The Herald-Tribune

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On February 23, 2004 The Herald-Tribune reported, "In a move that threatens to divide the local religious community, the Venice Area Ministerial Association is considering whether to exclude Jewish, Muslim and other religious groups that do not 'declare allegiance to Jesus Christ of Nazareth.' Several conservative church leaders in the Venice area said that non-Christian involvement 'compromises the Christian integrity'...

Source: The Anti-Defamation League

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ChJew_31/4453_31.htm

On February 23, 2004 The Anti-Defamation League "praised the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for rushing into print a collection of key documents relating to Catholic teaching on Jews, the death of Jesus and 'the sin of anti-Semitism' in advance of the Ash Wednesday release of Mel Gibson's controversial film 'The Passion of the Christ.'

The Bible, the Jews and the Death of...

Source: The Toledo Blade

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On February 21, 2004 The Toledo Blade reported, "Bernie Keating grew up in the badlands of South Dakota, riding horses and running away from organized religion. He was, he says, 'a cowboy infidel' raised by 'a lukewarm Catholic father and a fallen-away Methodist mother.' His work as an engineering executive for Owens-Illinois, Inc., took him around the world and expanded his awareness of different cultures and religions...

Source: The Jewish Week

http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=9080

On February 20, 2004 The Jewish Week reported, "In an era of war in the Middle East and terror and curtailed liberties at home, scores of Jews and Muslims, the old but mostly the young, gathered in the Park East Synagogue’s day school in Manhattan to thrash out prospects for bringing people of their two faiths closer... Rabbi Cohen Anisfeld noted that the larger Jewish...

Source: United Jewish Communities

http://www.uja.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=102913

On February 20, 2004 United Jewish Communities reported on the incremental change taking place in Orthodox religious settings to gradually provide more of a voice for women. "Those changes -- and frustration with the often-slow pace of the shifts -- were discussed this week at the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance conference, held Sunday and Monday at the Hyatt Hotel over...

Source: The Poughkeepsie Journal

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/thursday/lifeentertainment/stories/li021904s2.shtml

On February 19, 2004 The Poughkeepsie Journal reported, "Last year, at the first Salaam-Shalom: Family Culture Fest, members of Vassar Temple and Masjiid al-Noor celebrated and shared their cultural and religious heritage through music, dance, food, storytelling, henna art and face painting. This year, on Saturday...

Source: The Age

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/18/1077072711147.html?from=storyrhs

On February 19, 2004 The Age reported, "Australia's most senior Muslim called for a jihad against Israel in a sermon while visiting Lebanon last week, an Arabic-language newspaper has reported. Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilali, Grand Mufti of Australia and imam of Sydney's Lakemba Mosque, also visited the leader of Hezbollah - banned in Australia as a...

Source: US Newswire

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=150-02192004

On February 19, 2004 US Newswire reported, "Representatives of the Jewish community and several Christian denominations in the Greater Washington Area have created a dialogue guide to Mel Gibson's new film 'The Passion of the Christ.' The guide, offering a constructive approach for Christians and Jews in discussing the film, will be sent to hundreds of clergy in area...

Source: Anti-Defamation League

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASInt_13/4452_13.htm

On February 18, 2004 the Anti-Defamation League issued a press release that reported, "In response to the continuing surge in anti-Semitism in Europe and around the world, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) will convene an international conference on global anti-Semitism to be held in Rome. The conference was announced today by Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, after he emerged from a...

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/07/nyregion/07bias.html?ex=1077080400&en=3df960ebb2be46d7&ei=5070

On February 16, 2004 The New York Times reported, "Basketball fans from the Trinity School, one of New York City’s elite private schools, chanted anti-Semitic slurs at a player from the rival Dalton School at a recent game, taunting him with references to gefilte fish, yarmulkes and other Jewish...

Source: JTA

Source: The First Amendment Center

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=12671

On February 15, 2004 The First Amendment Center published an editorial by Charles Haynes responding to the French ban on religious symbols in the public schools. "The head-scarf issue crystallizes the European-American divide (Belgium recently followed the French lead and moved to ban head scarves in schools; Germans are debating the issue). Most Europeans I...

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Interfaith-contest-designed-to-build-common-2822767.php

On February 15, 2004 The San Francisco Chronicle reported, "...

Source: Newhouse News Service

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/religion/2399986

On February 13, 2004 Newhouse News Service reported that "results of a recent Zogby poll portray not only separate nations -- the blue states of the upper, outer rim that Al Gore won in 2000 and the red states of the South and heartland won by President Bush -- but also distinct moral world views... The blue states have more singles, college graduates, union members,...

Source: JTA

http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=13764&intcategoryid=5

On February 11, 2004 JTA reported, "When Sandra Kochmann took the post of assistant rabbi at Rio de Janeiro’s largest synagogue, becoming the first female rabbi in Brazil, many Brazilian Jews dismissed her derisively as a 'Paraguayan.' In Brazil, 'Paraguayan' is commonly used to mean 'fake' due to the prodigious amount of smuggled goods, many of them knock-...