http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/judaism/ en-us Wed, 22 May 2013 13:45:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3022467/posts 1.) IF John Hagee, Perry Stone, and/or anyone else on TCT, TBN, INSP, WCT, etc, accept women as being able to occupy the positions of apostles, and/or prophets, and/or evengelists, and/or pastors and/or teachers (with such examples such as Paula White and Joyce Meyer (whom I believe operate as a pastor and teacher respectively)), and... 2.) IF they believe that women can occupy these positions within the sphere of the New Testament/New Covenant, and... 3.) IF they believe that the office of Rabbi (Messianic or otherwise) has been carried over into the New Testament/New Covenant, (with such examples as Kurt... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3022467/posts#comment Wed, 22 May 2013 13:45:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3021932/posts WHEN is a Jew not a Jew? When he’s a Karaite. Or so says Israel’s chief rabbinate, which, after 65 years of relative harmony with an ancient Jewish sect, is reopening an old and bitter schism. In recent months, rabbis working for Israel’s ministry of religion have deemed Karaite marriages invalid, fined their butchers for claiming to be kosher, and demanded that Karaites marrying Orthodox Jewish women should convert, sometimes having to undergo tavila, or baptism. “We are already Jews,” protests Moshe Firrouz, a computer engineer who heads the Karaites’ Council of Sages. “The rabbinate is denying us our religious... The Economist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3021932/posts#comment Tue, 21 May 2013 06:29:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016871/posts Vice President Joe Biden has a commandment for pastors, rabbis and nuns: He wants them to tell their flocks that enacting gun control is the moral thing to do. But another vote may have to wait until Congress wraps up work on an immigration overhaul. Biden met for two-and-a-half hours Monday with more than a dozen leaders from various faith communities – Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh, to name a few. Both Biden and the faith leaders encouraged each other not to give up on what has been an arduous and thus far fruitless effort by Biden and President Barack... The Blaze / The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016871/posts#comment Wed, 8 May 2013 00:39:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3016393/posts <p>On Wednesday, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said President Barack Obama needed to clear up and "renounce" the "un-American" and "amoral" reports from the Pentagon that U.S. soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their Christian faith. She called on Obama to do so "today, right now."</p> Breitbart's Big Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3016393/posts#comment Mon, 6 May 2013 20:48:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3012098/posts Generally, expert advisers counsel against teaching about the Holocaust by having students do exercises that re-create the experience. Role-play activities can reinforce negative views, stereotype group behavior and are pedagogically unsound, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Yet some teachers leading classes on the Shoah have used such techniques, including re-creating the experience of being transported in cattle cars by having students cram into a small space, or holding the better-known “blue eyes-brown eyes” activity, with the teacher giving fewer privileges to the students with brown eyes. Two weeks ago, a class at Santa Monica High School was asked to participate... The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3012098/posts#comment Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:39:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3003142/posts A crowd of at least 30 Muslims hurled rocks at Jews touring the Temple Mount on the Passover holiday. Israel National News reported, via Religion of Peace: Once again, extremist Muslims tried but failed to prevent Jews from accessing the holiest site in the Jewish faith, with the threat of attacks. Dozens of Arab teens hurled rocks Sunday morning at groups of Jews who were touring the Temple Mount. The site was open on the eve of the final day of the Passover holiday in the morning from 7:30 a.m to 11:00 a.m and scheduled to reopen from 1:00 p.m.... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3003142/posts#comment Tue, 2 Apr 2013 01:25:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3001152/posts When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah's prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made the creation of Western civilization possible. Notice to Reader: "The Boards of both CERC Canada and CERC USA are aware that the topic of homosexuality is a controversial one that deeply affects the personal lives of many North Americans. Both Boards strongly reiterate the Catechism's teaching that people who self-identify as gays and lesbians must be treated with 'respect, compassion, and sensitivity' (CCC #2358). The Boards also support the Church's right to speak to aspects of... Catholic Education Resource Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3001152/posts#comment Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:43:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2991110/posts Judaism is Torah based and GOD honoring. Zionism is politically based and GODless. http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/differencejudzion.html The role of Zionism in the Holocaust. http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/holocaust-zionism.htm JEWS NOT ZIONISTS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2991110/posts#comment Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:57:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2990717/posts Today the Jewish people celebrate the holiday of Purim. It’s an old and familiar story: An intolerant Jew-hater named Haman hatches a plan to annihilate the Jewish people in the ancient kingdom of Persia. It’s That Genocide Thing. Again. Most of the Jews in this multicultural Persian kingdom have been enlightened to the point where they enthusiastically attend royal feasts and gorge themselves off the golden plates and cups looted from the holy Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. But these court Jews have evolved past that old, tired Judaism. They’re all new-agey, progressive, and they know that Jewish history has moved... Seraphic Press.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2990717/posts#comment Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:35:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2984257/posts Former New York City mayor Ed Koch died Friday morning at the age of 88. He plans to be buried in Manhattan, the three-term mayor said in 2008. His headstone and a memorial bench, placed at Trinity Church Cemetery in 2009, evoke his faith and his admiration of a murdered journalist. Koch explained his plans to the Associated Press: The marker will bear the Star of David and a Hebrew prayer, “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.” It also will be inscribed with the last words of journalist Daniel Pearl before he was murdered by... Poynter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2984257/posts#comment Fri, 1 Feb 2013 17:52:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2746123/posts Whittaker Chambers and Totalitarian Islam Playwright David Mamet recently acknowledged that he had been profoundly influenced by Communist apostate Whittaker Chambers’s 1952 anti-Communist memoir, Witness. Mamet described how reading Chambers’s opus inspired “the wrenching experience” of forcibly reevaluating the way he thought, particularly his confessed leftist-herd co-dependence. Also, echoing the delusive herd mentality of the Left’s ad hominem attacks in the 1950s on Chambers — whose allegations of Communist conspiracies have been entirely vindicated with irrefragable documentation from the captured Soviet Venona cables — Congressman Peter King’s staid initial hearings of March 10, 2011, on American Muslim radicalization engendered similarly... NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2746123/posts#comment Sat, 9 Jul 2011 19:33:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2983374/posts In the close-knit world of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, community members know the modesty rules as well as Wall Street bankers who show up for work in a Brooks Brothers suit. Women wear long skirts and long-sleeved, high-necked blouses on the street; men do not wear Bermuda shorts in summer. Schools prescribe the color and thickness of girls’ stockings. The rules are spoken and unspoken, enforced by social pressure but also, in ways that some find increasingly disturbing, by the modesty committees. Their power is evident in the fact that of the half dozen women’s clothing stores along Lee Avenue, only one... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2983374/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:11:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2982240/posts It was one of one of those grand summits in the journey through life, when the entire landscape is set before you in ultra-high definition. Suddenly, you know where you are, where you are going and what you have to do to get there. I upgraded my iPhone.... Chabad.ord http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2982240/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jan 2013 02:16:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2979021/posts With deep condescension, my professors informed me that we live in a post-religious world. Religion, I was lectured, was the opiate of the people. I wondered, but never had the courage to suggest, that perhaps Marxism was the opiate of the elites. seraphicpress.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2979021/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:17:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2974433/posts JERUSALEM, Israel - Areas of Biblical Judea and Samaria (West Bank) under the Palestinian Authority rule could end up with a regime change like that in Egypt or a shaking like what is going on in Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Speaking at the start of a Bible study at his home, Netanyahu likened the current situation in the Middle East to the beginning of the portion of the Jewish Bible (Torah -- first five books of the Bible) being studied this week. "Now there arose a new king over Egypt," Netanyahu said, quoting the passage from Exodus... cbn news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2974433/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jan 2013 03:23:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2972340/posts My parents told me many times how much they dreaded the Christmas season. Living in a little shtetl in Poland, they knew what to expect. The local parish priest would deliver his sermon filled with invectives against the Jews who were pronounced guilty of the crime of decide, responsible for the brutal crucifixion of their god and therefore richly deserving whatever punishment might be meted out against them. No surprise then that the Christian time of joy meant just the opposite to the neighboring Jews. The days supposedly meant to be dedicated to "goodwill to all" were far too often... Virtual Jerusalem http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2972340/posts#comment Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:11:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2971743/posts BOSTON (JTA) -- At the 2009 General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington, 50 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Jews and their allies gathered in a small room on the ninth floor of the conference hotel. The event was not part of the official GA program, and the room was in the hinterlands of the hotel, hidden from the public eye. It reminded me of photos of 1950s gay bars, underground dives with no signs or windows. At the biggest annual gathering of Jews in the world, it felt like LGBT Jews were still stuck in... Jewish Telegraphic Agency (wire service) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2971743/posts#comment Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:24:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2971027/posts NEW YORK CITY -- It hasn't been an easy time -- year, decade, early century -- for organized religion. Books by atheists proliferate, some meaner than others. Fewer men and women attend church or synagogue services. The season highlights Christmas and in recent years Hanukkah, but the cultural emphasis is more materialistic than meditative. Confidence in organized religion has declined to 44 percent, as measured by Gallup. When tragedy strikes, as in Newtown, Conn., prayer resides mostly in the shadows of those personally affected. The public ritual requires politicians to assure survivors of their thoughts and prayers -- what one... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2971027/posts#comment Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:58:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2968248/posts Gay couples who seek spiritual affirmation of their relationships can now sanctify their unions with special blessings at South Florida's Episcopal churches. Priests in the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida have been given permission to perform a distinct rite, different from the marriage between a man and a woman. Called "The Witnessing and Blessing of a Lifelong Covenant," the ceremony, to be introduced this month, was approved by national convention delegates over the summer. Lorraine Michels and Joan Van Ness were married in 2009 in Massachusetts, but decided to participate in a nine-couple blessing ceremony in April at All Saints... Sun Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2968248/posts#comment Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:27:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2968245/posts Divisions in the Episcopal Church on the subject of gay marriage have led yet another diocese to break from the national US Episcopal Church. Reuters reports Bishop Mark Lawrence of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina received a letter Oct. 15 from Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori saying he had “abandoned the church” and barring him from exercising his office. The local diocese however had previous stated that it would disassociate with the national church if it took exercised any hierarchical authority. It did, and the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina became the fifth US diocese to break from its mother... Inquisitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2968245/posts#comment Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:18:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2968250/posts Members of Pittsburgh Presbytery expressed grief and frustration with three churches that recently voted to leave the Presbyterian Church (USA) without going through the constitutional process for doing so, while the church's national moderator, who coincidentally was at their regular meeting Thursday, said he had offered to meet with leaders of those churches and two others that are pursuing the formal process for leaving. Representatives from only one of the five, later identified as Bellefield Presbyterian Church in Oakland, agreed to meet with the Rev. Neal Presa. About 140 churches are in the countywide presbytery. Recently, Mt. Lebanon United Presbyterian... Post Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2968250/posts#comment Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:31:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2966138/posts Jews do not accept Jesus as the messiah because: Jesus did not fulfill the messianic prophecies. Jesus did not embody the personal qualifications of the Messiah. Biblical verses "referring" to Jesus are mistranslations. Jewish belief is based on national revelation. Aish http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2966138/posts#comment Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:46:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963411/posts Before Sheldon Bruck told his orthodox Jewish parents he was gay, the teenager looked for a way out of homosexuality. His search led him to JONAH -- Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing -- which claimed on its website to help people "struggling with unwanted same-sex sexual attractions." JONAH co-director Arthur Goldberg promised Bruck, then 17, that "JONAH could help him change his orientation from gay to straight," according to a consumer fraud lawsuit filed Tuesday against JONAH, Goldberg and a JONAH counselor. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963411/posts#comment Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:56:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2963336/posts “The Golden Land” has a lot of historical plot to condense as it chugs through a two-hour rendition of the entire New York Jewish immigrant experience, from the 1880s to the 1940s. In montages and medleys, partly in Yiddish and partly in English, we are transported to Ellis Island, the Lower East Side, the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, union protests, two world wars, the Holocaust, the migration to Harlem, an adaptation of “King Lear,” a confrontation with Ivy League admissions quotas and the founding of a Jewish state. But this show isn’t really about individuals, anyway. As evidenced by Roger... NYTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2963336/posts#comment Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:35:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2960496/posts Yesterday, the alternative archaeology group Emek Shaveh published its most recent report on the extent to which Elad, the ultra-nationalist settler organization, has control over the presentation, excavation and development of archeology in Jerusalem, specifically in occupied East Jerusalem. The report outlines each of Elad’s six sites, emphasizing that “visitors are told an exclusive story of Jewish heritage and Israeli connection to the site, whilst other periods and cultures are almost entirely ignored.” The report is welcome, as this time last month Israeli and Zionist media spun itself into a frenzy when a French consul general, Frédéric Desagneaux, dared to... The Electronic Intifada http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2960496/posts#comment Sat, 17 Nov 2012 02:45:30 GMT