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Too Broad A Brush Stroke, Archbishop
The Archbishops use of Beth Din to justify sharia demonstrates his complete lack of understanding of Jewish Orthodoxy, and is, ultimately, an insult, to Judaism. Jews have always submitted to the law of the land where ever they migrated. The Orthodox take only religious matters to the Beth Din. If a mutilations, beatings or “honor crimes” were ...
Posted to Fighting Words by IMKessel on February 11, 2008
Re: Today is Shrove Tuesday
Similarly, the Jewish observance of Pesah (Passover) which often coincides with Lent, begins with the meticulous search for, clearing out and destruction of old leaven, called hametz, to commemorate the flight from Egypt - which was undertaken by the Jewish people in such haste they could not wait for the bread dough to rise. The bread later ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on February 5, 2008