Judaism
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Tuesday November 17, 2009
Judaism • Religious Fanaticism:
Israel has charged Jack [Yaakov] Teitel, a Jewish-American extremist, with shooting to death two Palestinians and trying to kill others, including a Messianic Jewish family, who received a booby-trapped package in March 2008 that left their son critically injured. » Full Story
Monday November 2, 2009
Judaism • Religious Fanaticism:
A Jewish settler who allegedly confessed to a 12-year spree of murderous hate-crimes has been arrested in the West Bank, Sky News reports.
Yaakov “Jack” Teitel, 37, was branded a Jewish “terrorist” in the Israeli media over attacks against Palestinians, left-wing and minority Israelis and homosexuals.
He is accused of murdering a Palestinian taxi driver and a West Bank shepherd in 1997.
In 2008, he allegedly maimed a 15-year-old boy with a booby-trapped present because he belonged to a community of Jews who believe in Jesus.
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Tuesday November 11, 2008
Holocaust • Judaism • Mormonism/Mormon Church:
Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.
‘Baptism for the dead’ is one of many un-biblical practices of the Mormon Church — which, theologicaly, is a cult of Christianity.
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Monday June 23, 2008
Judaism • Messianic Jews:
A crude bomb, burned Bibles, a torched church… Israeli Jews who claim they believe Jesus is the Messiah are subject to harassment, persecution and police indifference.
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Thursday March 6, 2008
Judaism:
The book called Jews and Sex is a controversial collection of essays on topics including sexual imagery and homosexuality in the Bible, lesbian Yiddish poetry and Jews in pornography.
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Saturday January 26, 2008
Judaism:
The Oregon Supreme Court on Friday blocked a divorced former Southern Oregon man from circumcising his 12-year-old son against the wishes of the boy’s mother.
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Wednesday October 24, 2007
Cults • Judaism:
The sign that Rabbi Bentzion Kravitz held up Tuesday night at the Tannenbaum Chabad House read “Please keep off the the grass.”
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Tuesday August 28, 2007
Judaism:
An influential and outspoken Israeli rabbi has said Israeli soldiers died in battle because they were not ritually observant Jews, sparking outrage in Israel.
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Monday July 23, 2007
Judaism:
Wine, who founded the first congregation of Humanistic Judaism in suburban Detroit in 1963, was killed Saturday in an automobile accident in Essaouira, Morocco, the Society for Humanistic Judaism’s Web site said.
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Friday May 25, 2007
Judaism:
The kosher Internet has been launched. With a host of blocks against surfing prohibited sites, with a small white list of approved sites, and with an identified e-mail address that will enable identifying rogue ultra-orthodox who do not use the kosher Internet, the ultra-orthodox have launched the war against the greatest enemy technology has presented to them: the Internet.
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Tuesday April 3, 2007
Judaism • Neturei Karta:
A synagogue of ultra-Orthodox Jews was destroyed by fire on the eve of Passover, raising suspicions Monday that the blaze was deliberately set to target members who participated in an Iranian-led conference on the denial of the Holocaust.
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Monday April 2, 2007
Judaism:
The all-knowing, invisible God, we think of today isn’t present in early chapters of the Bible, Jewish scholar James Kugel says. Instead, those texts describe a walking, talking deity who travels from place to place
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Wednesday February 21, 2007
Judaism:
The decidedly American reality of diverse Jewish identities and post-denominationalism gave birth Friday to a new Internet site that helps searchers of spirituality and community find a congregation that fits their needs.
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Judaism:
Hired rabbis worry some, but others say they bring needed flexibility to events.
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Monday January 8, 2007
Islam • Judaism:
In Israel’s vast Negev desert, an Orthodox rabbi is helping impoverished Arab Bedouins with money collected from American evangelical Christians.
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Holocaust • Judaism:
Hundreds protest against sect of Holocaust deniers
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Tuesday December 12, 2006
Iran • Judaism:
Today’s politics may convince tomorrow’s generation that it’s simply too dangerous to be both an Iranian and a Jew.
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Thursday December 7, 2006
Judaism:
Israel’s El Al airline has come under pressure from the country’s powerful ultra-Orthodox Jews to legally pledge not to fly on the Jewish Sabbath.
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Monday November 27, 2006
Judaism:
The market looking for a perceived healthier option is a growing segment in the kosher market, said Paul Crnkovich, whose company, Cannondale Associates, released a study this month about the kosher consumer.
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Monday November 13, 2006
Judaism:
Was the Dutch 17th century master Rembrandt, a Jew? In the last of a series of exhibitions marking the artist’s 400th birthday, the Jewish Historical Museum here sets out to examine the myth of the painter’s Jewish links.
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Thursday November 9, 2006
Judaism:
In a ceremony known as Pulsa D’nura (blows of fire), rabbis of the anti-Zionist Edah Haredit rabbinic court will convene sometime before the march, which is scheduled for Friday, to conduct the kabbalistic ceremony which is believed to unleash unearthly powers against specified sinners.
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Tuesday August 22, 2006
Judaism:
The Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) has called on Israel to reevaluate its military rules of war in light of Hizbullah's "unconscionable use of civilians, hospitals, ambulances, mosques and the like as human shields, cannon fodder and weapons of asymmetric warfare."
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Wednesday April 26, 2006
Judaism:
The leader of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect who died this week arranged for an organized succession by naming one of his sons as the next grand rabbi of the Satmar Hasidim, religious authorities announced Thursday.
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Judaism:
Court Battle Over Control of Hasidic Sect Continues
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Judaism:
April 25 (Bloomberg) -- The battle over a $500 million religious empire, marked by beatings, break-ins and a street riot, likely will escalate with yesterday's death of Grand Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum, leader of the ultra-orthodox Satmar sect of Hasidic Jews.
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Most Read about Judaism
- Sherwin Wine, leader of Humanistic Judaism, dies at 79
- Rabbis to curse Jerusalem gay parade organizers
- Israel: Ultra-Orthodox Group Launches "Kosher Internet"
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- Anti-Zionist Jewish sect sees its synagogue burn
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- Rabbi advises crowd to be wary of brainwashing, deceit
- City Questions Circumcision Ritual After Baby Dies
- Jewish museum explodes myth Rembrandt was a Jew
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