any more than all Jews are like the ultra-Orthodox who believe in the strict separation of the sexes, or how all Muslims or Hindus are like their most extreme examples. Hell, even within groups that do theoretically have
We argue that the strict behaviors described here with regard torelations among doctors, rabbis, and patients, function as social capital that raises the status of ultra-Orthodox Jews as members of an exclusive club that balances health decisions with the social demand to obey their religious ...
One of the best known is the Union of Orthodox Rabbis (OU), which certifies some half a million different brands of food and wine from around the world. Other well-known certifiers are Circle K, Star K, and Tablet K. If there is a small "p" in the device, that signals that the ...
For example, orthodox Jews adhere strictly to each part of the mosaic law, including laws regarding animal sacrifices and avoiding certain types of meat. Conservative Jews also follow mosaic laws, but may interpret them in different ways for modern worshippers....
A much more popular theory in the early church (including Jerome and Augustine) was that it meant something like “supersubstantial” — or spiritual — and referred to the bread of the Eucharist. This is still one of the preferred interpretations in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches....
* Ban on free speech for Christians to witness in Israel under penalty of imprisonment, as well as government-permitted persecution of Messianic Christians by ultra-Orthodox Jews; * Proliferation of hundreds of nuclear missiles which threaten a Mideast Armageddon, while bullying Iran for allegedly pla...
Shortly before Tacitus penned his account of Jesus, Roman governor Pliny the Younger wrote to Emperor Trajan that early Christians would “sing hymns to Christ as to a god.” Some scholars also believe Roman historian Suetonius references Jesus in noting thatEmperor Claudiushad expelled Jews from ...
Ivan Ilyin’s “On Resistance to Evil by Force” (trans by K Benois) was first published in Berlin in 1925. It gives the Russian Orthodox position on, evil, which is well worth a listen. Who Is Evil Today? Do you remember “the fall of the wall” in 1989? The wall in Berlin tha...
especially when it comes to how animals are butchered, how food is prepared, and who can eat it. For example, Muslims can eat kosher meat, but many Jewish people (especially those who are orthodox) do not consider halal meat to be kosher. Jewish law also requires only a trained Jewish ...
So, either Susan or Sarmad is lying: “Assali said her vote for Donald Trumpwas done out of a desire to see secure borders, though she didn’t expect one of her candidate’s chief campaign promises to be applied to her relatives, who are all Orthodox Christians with green cards.” ...