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Monthly Archives: March 2005
Waskow’s Purim message
They key in Rabbi Arthur Waskow’s Beliefnet essay on upcoming Purim is this: In a new and deeper understanding of Torah, “blotting out the memory of Amalek” must come to mean something other than murder. The key to a deeper … Continue reading
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Campus Luncheon on Islam
The Drury University‘s student paper, The Mirror, covered the third installment of their Newest Emerging Religions Luncheon series on Islam. A communication science professor talked about women in Islam and a sociology of religion professor on the potential of its … Continue reading
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Interface Peace Builders
Another group of 11 US/Canadian citizen is in the Middle East to “see the conflict with their own eyes.” Their (and the funding organization’s, The Fewllowship of Reconciliation‘s) goal is to “support Palestinians and Israelis striving to end the occupation … Continue reading
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All for Peace Radio
These are the goals of a new Palestinian-Israeli Radio Station: exposure of the various aspects of each side to the other side exposure of interviewees, artists and topics of each side to the other side emphasis on the different and … Continue reading
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Cooper Down Under
Here is the transcript of an conversation with Rabbi David Cooper–the author of God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism–in an Australian radio show. He talks about Kabbalah as a universal practice, Abraham Abulafia, practice and … Continue reading
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Women’s day
This Jerusalem Post article is on “Jewish, Christian and Muslim women from Israel, the Palestinian Authority, the United States, Canada and some Scandinavian countries – were celebrating International Women’s Day in their own special way.” It’s not very informative, but … Continue reading
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CFP: Religion and Politics conference in Bulgaria
CALL FOR PAPERS ON THE OCCASION OF ITS 10th ANNIVERSARYThe Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Law and History of the South-West Unifersity “Neofit Rilski” Blagoevgrad organizes AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “RELIGION AND POLITICS”
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Zionism from a Muslim perspective
Ahmed Nassef, the editor-in-chief of muslimwakeup.com was invited to lead a workshop on Muslim-Jewish relationsat a gathering for Jewish students. He accepted and had a positive experience. Later he was criticized by some Muslims who recommended that Muslims should engage … Continue reading
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Religion in the Contemporary World
I bumped into this review of the book Religion in the Contemporary World: A Sociological Introduction, by Alan Aldridge . But I didn’t feel like signing up for the service to read the whole review. Instead I just checked the … Continue reading
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Sharing a Meal
Here is a nice story about the values and practicailities of interfaith eating from BeliefNet. It was triggered by the recent controversy and attack whether shechita, Jewish ritual slaughter, is cruel to animals or not. But it wanders off from … Continue reading
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