When Rabbi Naomi Levy conducted Kol Nidre services this year, her congregation numbered 200,000, stretching from Canada to Colombia and from Japan to Norway
Belief is not a static illusion to be knocked down at the introduction of a new scientific hypothesis or discovery. Faith is an orientation of soul, a posture toward God\’s universe that finds expression in many religious traditions.
The oddly titled film combines state-of-the-art animation, an anti-war documentary theme and a psychoanalytic approach to recover the memory of a traumatized Israeli soldier.
With the governments in Washington and Jerusalem set to change, Israeli leaders are reassessing policy in two key areas: Middle East peacemaking and Iran.
It sounds like the beginning of a joke: A rabbi, a Russian oligarch and a high-tech millionaire are running for mayor of Jerusalem. Except there\’s no punch line, just each of them offering up himself as salvation for the hallowed capital\’s many troubles.
Jews are backing Sen. Barack Obama based primarily on traditional identification with the Democratic Party, a new study finds.
\” . . . Music was within the Jewish tradition from biblical times,\” he said. \”Music is a kind of connection between the human and the divine . . . \”
\” . . .In Argentina, we don\’t think that one country has to base its relationship with another country on a relationship which that country has with a third nation . . .\”
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