An Appeal to the Clergy of All Faiths
Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
April 4, 2002
Colleagues in faith, we must act together now. We owe it to our respective faiths and our common calling.
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Faith and Proof
Michael Tolkin
March 21, 2002
The Kurdish father living in Sweden kills his daughter because she dishonored the family when she refused the marriage he arranged for her; Andrea Yates kills her children to spare them from her fundamentalist vision of Hell;
World Briefs
JTA Staff
February 14, 2002
Almost 60 years after they risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust, a Dutch couple and a one-time Polish partisan will be honored as Righteous Among the Nations on Sunday, Feb. 17 at the annual luncheon of the 1939 Club.
Crises of Faith
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
November 15, 2001
What is most striking about all the photographs of lost souls that still line the streets of lower Manhattan, says Chaplain Gila Katz, is how many of those faces are young.
\”There\’s a real crisis of faith, but also a crisis of wondering what is going to happen in the future,\” says Katz, director of Klein Chaplaincy Service of the South Bay, which services 500 patients. \”People are just trying to figure out a way to deal with this. How do they go on with hope for the future; how do young women and men bring up children on their own?\”
When bad Things Turns 20
Sandee Brawarsky
October 25, 2001
In 1981, Rabbi Harold Kushner wrote a 150-page book, published with little fanfare, that changed the lives of the more than 4 million people who read it and made its title, \”When Bad Things Happen to Good People,\” part of the vernacular.
Exploring Faith’s Price
Charlotte Hildebrand
May 3, 2001
\”Love and Liberation: When the Jews Tore Down the Ghetto Walls\” by Ralph David Fertig (Writers Club Press, $17.95)
On Jan. 9, 1807, Prince Jerome of Prussia decreed that the fortifications of the ancient city of Breslau could be destroyed. After 540 years of isolation, the Jews of Breslau tore down the ghetto gates. Under Napoleonic law, they were now free to pursue their religion while becoming citizens of the state.
Your Letters.
Jewish Journal
April 26, 2001
Following a series of events in my life that served as a wake-up call, I returned to Judaism after nearly six decades of estrangement.
A Message From David Wolpe
David Wolpe
April 19, 2001
It\’s a well-known fact that millions of Jews have doubts about the literal veracity of Bible stories. On April 8, 9 and 15, I gave a series of sermons that emphasized the following point: faith is independent of doubt. I wanted the millions of doubting Jews to know that they can still be faithful Jews and live a life of meaning and mitzvahs.
Wolpe’s Hurricane
Rob Eshman
April 19, 2001
Reality bites. So thousands of people in the Los Angeles Jewish community learned last week after Rabbi David Wolpe got up on his pulpit, opened his mouth and unleashed a storm.
Faith in Exodus
Dennis Prager
April 19, 2001
During Passover and on Good Friday the Los Angeles Times published a front-page article titled \”Doubting the Story of Exodus.\”
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