Illinois lawmakers begin considering approval of same-sex marriage
Illinois lawmakers began considering a measure on Wednesday that would make President Barack Obama\’s home state the 10th in the nation to legalize gay marriage.
Illinois lawmakers began considering a measure on Wednesday that would make President Barack Obama\’s home state the 10th in the nation to legalize gay marriage.
Sometimes, only a period of separation will save a troubled marriage. That is why the Simon Wiesenthal Center and other Jewish groups are pulling out of the Christian-Jewish Roundtable. Fifteen liberal Protestant leaders, including those of the Presbyterian, Lutheran and Methodist denominations, chose the Jewish High Holiday season to urge Congress to curtail U.S. aid to Israel.
Jewish groups pulled out of an upcoming meeting with Protestant colleagues over a letter from Christian leaders to congressmen calling for a possible suspension of U.S. aid to Israel.
With Christians being persecuted and threatened across much of the Middle East, guess which country the leaders of several major U.S. Christian denominations have decided to pick on?
When 15 prominent American Protestant leaders sent a letter to Congress last week calling for an investigation and possible suspension of U.S. aid to Israel, at least one outcome was certain: The Jews wouldn’t like it.
The first conversion I ever performed as a rabbi was for a 45-year-old father of two who was in the final stages of liver cancer.
Leaders of four American Protestant denominations issued a statement endorsing the Palestinian U.N. bid for statehood.