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    May 14, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  1. God's special love for the convert

    If a thief robs by violence, swears falsely and then confesses his guilt, the Torah tells us that he is liable to return the value of the object plus an additional one-fifth to the plaintiff. (Numbers 5:6, 7) If, however, the plaintiff dies leaving no...

    Tags: Religious Texts, Theft, Trials, Religion and Belief, Judges

    2. May 10, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Women's prayer at Western Wall sparks protest

    JERUSALEM -- Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews flooded into the Old City’s Western Wall Plaza early Friday in a boisterous and sometimes violent protest against a group of female activists exercising a newly court-affirmed right to pray at the holy site in a similar fashion as men do.
    JERUSALEM -- Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews flooded into the Old City’s Western Wall Plaza early Friday in a boisterous and sometimes violent protest against a group of female activists exercising a newly court-affirmed right to pray at the holy...

    Tags: Religious Texts, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Christian Orthodoxy, Judaism

    3. May 7, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  3. JEC dedicates Torah on Lag B'Omer

    With a Torah scroll 50 letters from completion, more than 300 Jews came together on Lag B'Omer to celebrate the dedication of a Torah to the Jewish Education Center of South Florida located in Boca Raton. Once the Torah was finally completed by scribe...

    Tags: Religious Texts, Religion and Belief, Judaism, Boca Raton

    4. May 7, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  4. Connection between divine and human love

    Shavuot is a celebration of that moment when we, the Jewish people, were wed to God. Note the parallel between that moment and the wedding of bride and groom. At Sinai, God and the people of Israel stood at the base of the mountain, "be-tahtit ha-har."...

    Tags: Israel, Religious Texts, Arts and Culture, Weddings, Religion and Belief

    5. May 7, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  5. Our Torah, our purpose

    Next week on the 15th and 16th we celebrate Shavuot, the holiday the rabbis called Zeman Matan Toratanu. Shavuot celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai but the rabbinic phrase actually means "the time of the giving of our Torah. There is much...

    Tags: Israel, Religious Texts, Religion and Belief, Plant Openings, Shavuot

    6. May 2, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  6. Restoring Torahs

    Beth David Congregation in Miami is restoring the parchments of two Torah scrolls. One of these scrolls was written in 1890 and rescued from The Holocaust. The Holocaust Torah is one of 1,564 rescued from Czechoslovakia after the Nazis emptied Jews...

    Tags: Religious Texts, Nazi Party, Religion and Belief, Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War

    7. May 2, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  7. Why do the good suffer?

    One of this week's parshiot clearly states that good people are rewarded while evil people are punished. In the words of the Torah: "If you keep my commandments…then I will give your rains in their season…but if you will not listen to Me&#...

    Tags: Religious Texts, Punishment, Religion and Belief, Judaism

    8. May 2, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  8. Applying Torah values to our diets

    Since Shavuot is z'man matan Torateinu (the commemoration of the giving of the Torah to the Israelites on Mount Sinai), many dedicated religious Jews admirably stay up the entire first night of Shavuot to hear talks about and discuss Torah teachings....

    Tags: Religious Texts, Global Change, Heart Disease, Ecosystems, Religion and Belief

    9. Apr 24, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  9. Written, oral law form one unit

    In this week's portion, the Torah proclaims the famous dictum "eye for an eye." (Leviticus 24:20) The message seems clear. If one takes out the eye of a neighbor, his punishment is that his eye is taken out. The oral law, however, explains through...

    Tags: Religious Texts, Death Penalty, Punishment, Religion and Belief, Crime, Law and Justice

    10. Nov 30, 2012 |Column| Petoskey News

  10. How one man left the world a better place

    My uncle, the inventor Stanford R. Ovshinsky, died a month short of his 90th birthday which fell over this Thanksgiving holiday. He was my dad's older brother. They worked together their entire lives not so much for the money but to try and solve the...

    Tags: Religious Texts, Renewable Energy, American Jewish World Service, Solar Energy, Religion and Belief

    11. Sep 16, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. 1 of 6 ordained cantors celebrates new year, new career in Chicago area

    Self-conscious and embarrassed at times about her Jewish identity as a child in the Soviet republic of Ukraine, Vicky Glikin didn't embrace the beauty of Judaism until she became a teenager. Ukraine had discovered religion. She had discovered her tradition's sacred music.
    Self-conscious and embarrassed at times about her Jewish identity as a child in the Soviet republic of Ukraine, Vicky Glikin didn't embrace the beauty of Judaism until she became a teenager. Ukraine had discovered religion. She had discovered her...

    Tags: Religious Texts, Yom Kippur, Yamim Noraim, Holidays, Separation of Church and State

    12. Sep 6, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel

  12. Campaign rhetoric and the Jewish vote

    The Religion World
    With the 2012 presidential election shaping out to be a tight race, the Jewish vote, is even more coveted than in past elections. The Election 2012 series, broadcast weekly on Jewish.TV, sets out to inform those voters and any others interested in the...
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