Posts Tagged ‘ Rabbis ’

Rabbi’s, Priest, and Mufti’s meet to promote Green

Rabbi’s, Priest, and Mufti’s meet to promote Green

By SHARON UDASIN AND JONAH MANDEL Christian, Jewish, Muslim clerics talk about environmental awareness; "We are tourists on this land, and will leave it one day." epresentatives from Israel’s Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities met on Monday to talk about instilling their congregants with environmental awareness. “When a priest or rabbi or mufti speaks, he speaks to the conscience of people, to the inner side of it, not only to the mind but to the heart,” Auxiliary Bishop to the Latin Patriarch Msgr. William Shomali, who presides over Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories, told The Jerusalem Post after the panel,…

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Construction freeze is forbidden like bloodshed

Construction freeze is forbidden like bloodshed

by Elad Benari Heads of the Rabbinical Congress for Peace have begun rapidly collecting signatures of rabbis of cities and neighborhoods throughout Israel on a ruling forbidding any construction freeze in Judea and Samaria and calling such a freeze “bloodshed”. RCP heads Rabbi Joseph Gerlitzky, Rabbi of Central Tel Aviv and Rabbi Moshe Havlin, Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Gat, explained that the ruling is not a new one but rather one that can be found in the Shulchan Aruch, the written Halacha manual written by Rabbi Joseph Caro during the 16th century. “The Halacha determines that any waiver or consent…

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The blessing of unanswered pray

The blessing of unanswered pray

I have been prayed for more times than I know. I was unaware of the words being spoken, prayers offered, the fervent pleas for my recovery from an eating disorder, for courage to fight one more time for health, passionate petitions for my life. There were circles of strangers who gathered to recite Psalms on my behalf. Rabbis in Israel who murmured my name as they bowed at the Western Wall. My Hebrew name, Dafna Ariel bat Miriam appearing on the list of members in need of healing. There were forwarded emails and urgent calls wrapped around the globe as…

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New York board of Rabbis human chain in protest at United Nations

New York board of Rabbis human chain in protest at United Nations

On Tuesday,Sept. 21, 2010 @ 9:45 AM, at the Southwest corner 40th & 1ST ave, the New York Board of Rabbis (NYBR) gathered at 1st Avenue and 40th street to protest the President of Iran . “There is no place for this evil-entity to be at the U.N. A sad day for New Yorkers and Americans.” “Ah’jad, a man who brutalizes the opposition. A tyrant . A murderer who is being given an honorable welcome by the U.N. when he should be locked away; put on-trial and locked away for the crime of genocide.” They gathered at the UN to…

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The Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding & court Jews

The Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding & court Jews

The media coverage of the marriage ceremony of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky took several weeks to abate. The rabbi who co-conducted the Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding was Rabbi James Ponet a Reform rabbi with deep connections to some of the most radical elements of the American Jewish community and that fact went completely unreported in both the American Jewish and general media. Of interest here too is that Hillary Clinton also has a long history with these radicals and brought them to the Clinton White House when Yasir Arafat was hailed as a peacemaker by her husband when the Oslo Accords…

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Should American Rabbis be Trained to Fight Terrorists?

Pistol-packing rabbis are locked-and-loaded The idea of pistol-packing rabbis and a locked-and-loaded congregation may sound ludicrous, but Gary Moskowitz - who is both a rabbi and a martial arts sensei - is deadly serious about what he sees as terrorist threats to American synagogues and what he believes is the appropriate response.

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