Several hundred supporters of Israel gathered near the United Nations to protest the Durban III meeting and oppose the Palestinian statehood bid.
About 7,000 Christian tourists are arriving in Israel for the Feast of Tabernacles celebration.\n
When Jewish and Christian holidays converge — like Passover and Easter or Chanukah and Christmas — Southland communities with large Jewish populations often witness a competition between the celebrations, from public schools to shopping centers.
The rocket landed Sunday not far from the home of Mayor Eli Moyal
Jews and Christians should get to know each other better, Pope Benedict XVI said at a meeting with French Jewish leaders.
Christianity has an image problem, and Christians ought to pay earnest attention to it, rather than dismissing it as the product of media bias. That\’s the message of a new book that should be of interest to Jews, because it shows the kind of questions that Christians have started asking themselves — questions that we Jews don\’t seem to be asking ourselves. Yet we, too, have an image problem.
A seemingly benign U.S. congressional resolution supporting Christmas has become the latest fodder in the debate over whether America is a \”Christian nation.\”\n\nNearly all the members of the House of Representatives, including a majority of Jewish members, voted for the Dec. 11 resolution acknowledging the celebration of Christmas and the role Christians have played in U.S. history.
The evening had three acts. First came ritual. Taubman and Rabbi Naomi Levy of Nashuva, another co-sponsor, lit the traditional Havdalah candle, woven together from three wicks.
The sound of angry Christians railing against the marginalization of Christmas has become the new tune of this holiday season. Across the country, from department stores to town halls, battle lines have been drawn over how to mark the winter holidays.
When the controversy over Mel Gibson\’s \”The Passion of the Christ\” first erupted, Jewish leaders like Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League angered Christians by coming out forcefully against the movie.\n\nWilliam Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights, took umbrage. \”A lot of Catholics in this town are saying, \’Is that how Jews are looking at us,\’\” he told The Jewish Week, \”\’that you scratch a Catholic and out comes a latent anti-Semite?\’\”\n\nLast week, Donohue provided the answer to his rhetorical question. And the answer is, in his case, yes.
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