How does a boy become “bar mitzvahed” and a girl “bat mitzvahed?” What ceremony is needed? What does the term mean? What is the history of it? What’s the purpose of it? The right and wrong ways to do it. The Jewish Wedding ...
🕍 Synagogue Representing Jewish places of worship. ⛩️ Shinto Shrine Symbolizing traditional Japanese places of worship. 🕋 Kaaba The most sacred site in Islam, located in Mecca. ⛲ Fountain Representing decorative water features. ⛺ Tent Often used to represent camping or temporary shelte...
owfan, and ophinnin), meaning wheels. The Bible does not specifically name the ophanim as angels. However, Jewish apocalyptic writers list them as angels because of three aspects: their eyes are attributes of a living creature, they have supernatural powers, and they exist ...
Inner-City Gangbanger going all fight-club and clubbing the stuffing out of some hapless teenager of white, Jewish or Asian background and posting video of the beatdown to their social media account. Such black-on-white beatdowns make a brief splash on the local news … and then the ...
Gojira's fire-fueledperformance at the Olympics opening ceremonyin Paris, France (July 26) was a massive win for metal. Now, what does it mean for the genre's future? That's the question we aim to explore, assessing metal in its current state and how newcomers are funneled in while sp...
Polymath--the term some of us use when Renaissance man would be an understatement, may be the right category for Burgess. God did not make many of them. When I was a junior in college, I went to hear Burgess, then in his mid-50s, talk extemporaneously to maybe 250 undergraduate ...
The shiny stuff (political scandals, celebrity nonsense, and more) in the long run, does not matter. We must turn away from the distractions, but it’s hard when those who “design” the distractions are very VERY good at it. The challenge with facing up to the mul...
When I was around 12 years old, I was told by my mother that I would be beaten(and yes, that is the term mom used) if they found out I had defended myself. Now think about that; how would they find out that I defended myself unless I, or someone else, told them? They wouldn...
What does the word "noble" still mean for us nowadays? How does the noble man betray himself, how is he recognized under this heavy overcast sky of the commencing plebeianism, by which everything is rendered opaque and leaden?—It is not his actions which establish his claim—actions are ...
People close to the president-elect aren’t being subtle about how loyalty could matter above all else for job seekers in a second Trump term. As Mike Davis — acontender to be Trump’s attorney general— putit in a post on X: