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Spiritual Insight
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by admin.
ANGELS Editor’s Note: Many readers have requested more information on Angels. JUDAISM ANGEL BASICS: Angels in Judaism, or malachim, are messengers of God who help carry out God’s work and plans. FORM: Angels are purely spiritual beings who do not have a physical form. Biblical angels do take on physical form, through Maimonides, the great [...]
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Did You know?
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Editor’s Note: Each issue will contain information on ISLAM so that Catholics and jews will appreciate and understand the Islamic Religion. A GLOSSARY OF ISLAMIC TERMS (credit to The Brooklyn Tallet) WASHINGTON (CNS) – Here are some terms commonly associated with Islam: Allah – God. From the Arabic term for “one God,” the same God [...]
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People
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by admin.
ARCHBISHOP STANISLAW WIELGUS The controversial process known as “’Lustracja”, the screening of people’s past for traces of collaboration with the communist era secret police has exposed politicians, writers, government officials, laity and religious leaders. Lately the resignation of Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus, the designated prelate to replace the retiring Primate Jozef Glemp has caused a deep [...]
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Jewsih Foundation – Catholic Schools
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by admin.
The Baltimore based Jewish foundation has pledged $3.5 million to Catholic schools in Baltimore in an effort to boost enrollment and financial support. The Jewish Foundation pledged $500,000 in 2006 and $1 million for the next three years to benefit 17 Catholic elementary/middle schools and 3 high schools.
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Cuba and Judaism
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by admin.
February 4, 2007 There is a small group 1,500 Jewish people who are working to keep Jewish traditions alive in Cuba. According to the New York Times paper, “the Jewish presence continued to fade for years, and it was not until 1992, after the fall of the Soviet Union, that Cuba changed its constitution, allowing [...]
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Conservative Judaism
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by admin.
According to the Jewish Week magazine (9/22/06), Conservative Judaism is alive and thriving. The Conservative Movement is dedicated to the integration of Halaka-Jewish Law and tradition – into the modern experience. In Northern America alone, more than 2 million people identify themselves as Conservative Jews.
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The U.S. Holocaust Museum
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by admin.
The Holocaust Museum Watch was founded in 2004 to address the Muslims indifference to those who now call for the destruction of Israel and death to all Jews everywhere. In an add in the Jewish Week paper (2/9/07), the Holocaust Museum Watch said, “in the face of some of the most hateful anti-Semitic propaganda since [...]
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Apologies
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Rabbi James Rudin (the American Jewish Committee’s senior inter-religious advisor) questions the sincerity of well-known entertainers and politicians when they say they are “sorry” for their actions or words that have hurt others. Words are not enough. Rabbi Rudin said, “my friend Rabbi Leon Klenicki, the director emeritus for interfaith affairs at the Anti-Defamation League, [...]
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Polish Jewry
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by admin.
A new era in Polish Jewry has developed. Recently the first native Polish Rabbi, Mati Pawlak, was ordained. He now heads the Lauder Morasha, a school founded in the early ’90s with a few children. Today this school has more than 250 students in grades K-8. Rabbi Pawlak replaces the longtime American director. There are [...]
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The Catholic Traditionalists
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Msgr. R. Michael Schmitz, the Vicar General and Provincial Superior of the US branch of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest speaks about the return of the “Old Latin Mass” according to the rite established by the late Pope Paul VI. He says that “Young People Flock to the Old Mass.” Msgr. Schmitz [...]
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