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In a word: redact
The Baltimore SunEach week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word: REDACT It is a commonplace of biblical criticism...Tags: Judaism, Religious Texts
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A Leap of Faith
Sun StaffKOCHAV YAAKOV, West Bank - The white van rolled past cement barricades, past a barbed-wire fence and an armed guard at the entry gate, past rows of cream-colored houses with red-tile roofs before pulling to a stop. Glenn and Gilla Jasper, a young Orthodox...Tags: Riverdale (Bronx, New York), Manhattan (New York City), Stamford, Palestine, Refugee
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For rabbi, stance on execution evolves
Sun StaffIt was a speech like no other that Rabbi Rex Perlmeter had given -- delivered inside a Baptist church and pressing the argument that the death penalty is "killing the soul of this country." When he finished his talk last week at Mount Hope Baptist Church...Tags: Mount Hope, Family, Hospitals and Clinics, Death Penalty, Rape
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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: Justice System, Theft, Trials, Shavuot, Religious Texts
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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...
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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: Boca Raton, Religious Texts, Judaism
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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: Weddings, Marriage, Shavuot, Family, Customs and Tradition
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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: Plant Openings, Shavuot, Judaism, Religious Texts, Israel
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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: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Nazi Party, World War II (1939-1945), Judaism, Religious Texts
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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: Punishment, Judaism, Religious Texts
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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: Global Change, Environmental Pollution, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Heart Disease, Shavuot
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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: Punishment, Death Penalty, Religious Texts, Judaism
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