India has never been short of religions: although 80 per cent Hindu, it also incorporates Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Judaism and Zoroastrianism as well as hundreds of lesser known faiths.
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Ravidassia sect sends shockwaves across world’s Sikh community (Times Online)
Recently Latina Role Model was featured on TikiTiki Blog: stories with cultura, color and sabor, in a post by Carrie Ferguson Weir called Smart Latina vs. Sexy Latina . Carrie asked readers: So, has your Smart Latina run up against the Sexy Latina? What do you see when you watch Maya’s video?
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excerpt from article in The Jewish Chronicle by Justin Jacobs Walk into the Saint Vincent College art gallery in Latrobe and the first thing you’ll see is a wall covered in brightly colored women’s panties. Not the most common item on display at this small, staunchly Catholic institution, but peek a little closer — each pair is adorned with Hebrew text: shomer negia (don’t touch).
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Just For Jewish Girls
Kinzer’s paper wraps up with a description of Messianic Jewish theology as a protest against the boundary drawn by mainstream Judaism against the deity of Y eshua….Yet, the Nicene Creed set about to deny some things we too, as Messianic Jews, would want to deny: … What will surprise many readers is to know that Judaism, not only in the Second Temple period, but also throughout the Middle Ages, deals with a controversy that i s parallel to that of Nicaea….
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Hashivenu Messianic Judaism is open-minded, but faithful; contemporary, but traditional;…Hashivenu is a renewal movement within Messianic Judaism (see hashivenu. org)….I think if many of our critics from within Messianic Judaism and related groups came, they would be surprised to find a great deal of agreement with the ideas we d iscuss….If you care about Jewish-Christian relations, what’s going on in the future of Jewish Yeshua-faith, and the observant, traditional side of Messianic Judaism, w e are a large part of it….
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Live-blogging Hashivenu 2010
It may seem strange to be told to look at Hebrew idioms or aspects of Judaism, because for years, or even decades, it has been understood that our English New Testament i s based on Greek manuscripts.
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Understanding the difficult words of Jesus: New insights from a Hebraic perspective
In your spare time this weekend, consider taking a few minutes to read Devin Friedman’s lengthy GQ piece that gives the background leading up to the shooting of abortion doctor George Tiller. Scott Roeder was found guilty yesterday of first-degree murder for shooting Tiller. Tiller was an usher at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Kansas where he was handing out bulletins to people before he was shot on May 31, 2009.
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Before the abortion doctor’s killing
I will be attending the Blissdom conference Feb 4-6 in Nashville. I made this Blissdom pocket planner for the Blissdom ladies. You can easily folded into quarters and slipped into a jeans pocket. Extra space is provided for your personal notes
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Blissdom Pocket Planner
mi prima… Indie-soul songstress Eleanor Dubinsky combines sultry, jazzy vocals with global pop to create hot original music with international appeal. Her music fuses French pop, canto nuevo and new American soul, using multiple languages and global rhythms to tell a story that is personal and universally accessible
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Some may never be broken Rabbi Mark Levin of Congregation Beth Torah, Overland Park: Judaism contains a vast literature clarifying “the reason for the commandments” (ta’amei hamitzvot). Theoretically, some would say, all of the biblical commandments are equally important and therefore no transgression is greater than another
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Is there any sin greater than any others?
Latina Role Model is on Tiki Tiki: Stories with Cultura, Color and Sabor, thanks to post by Carrie Ferguson Weir entitled Smart Latina vs Sexy Latina . Check out the post and be sure to leave your responses!
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Latina Role Model on Tiki Tiki
… hristianity) or about structuring a modern Jewish movement for Yeshua which has its origins in first century Messianic Judaism?…–Has Messianic Judaism transcended its origins in Christian missions to the Jews?…–Is Messianic Judaism primarily about reconstructing 1st century practices of faith in Yeshua (a la the book of Acts, what many scholars call early Jewish C…–Is Walter Riggans right that Messianic Judaism must develop more into the Jewish hermeneutical models (ways of interpreting Bible texts)…
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Mapping Messianic Jewish Theology, ch 2
The sexual victimization of children is in my opinion the most insidious thing on this planet. In as many as 93 percent of child sexual cases, the child knows the person that commits the abuse. Abusers will spend months and years planing and orchestrating insidious steps to control victims
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Prevent Sexual Abuse in Children
Telegraph.co.uk Google suggests Islam is nothing Register If you type “Judaism is,” ” Hinduism is,” or “Buddhism is,” Google also provides a long list of suggestions – some with a negative bent, some not. … 'Islam Is': Google Glitch, or Religious Favoritism?
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Islam Is … Blocked By 'Bug' In Google Suggest Search Engine Land (blog) But replace Islam with a number of other major religions — such as Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism , etc. — and Google Suggest shows a variety of terms, … Google is being sensitive ScienceBlogs (blog) Is Google Suggest biased
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Islam Is … Blocked By ‘Bug’ In Google Suggest – Search Engine Land (blog)
Kinzer is the foremost theologian amongst Torah-observant Messianic Jews, advocating a ‘p … ost-missionary’ relationship between the Gentile ekklesia and Judaism, in which the Jewish ekklesia exists within Judaism….The ‘rabbi’ of Zera Avraham is none other than Mark Kinzer: author of Post-missionary Messianic Judaism:…Whilst it can be argued that Messianic Jews who believe in Yeshua form part of the Protestant continuum, it seems that the Zera Avraham brand of Messianic Judaism i…
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No to Protestant Christianity; Yes to Jesuit Spirituality
Arrgg… our car broke down in freezing cold Chicago… and it was REALLY expensive to fix. We ended up having to spend all of the money meant to pay back my student loans this month… and then some. So friends I am asking for your help. As Loren ’s wife/manager, I am in charge of promoting his visual art career. Loren created a wonderful series of Jewish themed cartoons called Metrodox . We are selling signed digital prints of his Metrodox illustrations for $100 on LorenWellsArt.com . And of course if your in the market for some Jewish panties, be sure to visit ShomerNegiahPanties.com .
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The Car Broke Down
The first blow that started the warlike crack inside the Messianic Jerusalem Church occurred at the Council of Jerusalem held on 50 A. … The Christians that separated from Judaism misinterpreted this Jerusalem Council verdict as “doing away” with the Mosaic Law….This short-lived revolt was the most significant event in the split between Judaism and Messianic Gentile Christianity….The Pharisees that believed in the Messiah, which developed into Rabbinic Judaism, and the Messianic Gentile Christians….
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A LITTLE LEAVEN, LEAVENS THE WHOLE LUMP: The EPHESUS CHURCH of the Kabbalistic Book of Revelation – 2
Paul Harvey Just following up on some of previously posted-about topics. First, ” Dissertations on His Dudeness, ” NY Times , December 30, has more on religion/philosophy, cult movies, and The Big Lebowski , which we had posted about here previously. Secondly, over at Immanent Frame is more on “Religion and the Historical Profession,” including several scholars weighing in on an uptick of interest in religion in the historical profession, as discussed in a recent AHA study and reported on by Inside Higher Ed; we blogged about it previously here (with links to all of the above)
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Dissertations on Dudeness, the Historical Profession, and Francis Asbury
I’ve only been a card-carrying Get Religion-er since August, and in that brief time I’ve been repeatedly drawn to articles that cover the intersection of faith and culture. And what a year it was for examining Dan Brown and the Masons, Michael Moore and Catholicism, the Coen brothers and Judaism, punk rock musicians and Islam, Ricky Gervais and atheism, Glenn Beck and Mormonism, or the online pranksters of the Assclown Offensive and Scientology. There were also fascinating books (such as cartoonist Robert Crumb’s Bible project, Andre Agassi’s memoir “Open,” and Carl Jung’s huge (and hugely anticipated) “Red Book.” The Vatican gave a fitting postlude to the year in culture with its Dec
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God and culture: 2009 remix
Tzeniut is a word that is not heard in Messianic communities. … Posted in Bible, Faith, Israel, Judaism, Love, Middle East, News, Prayer, Religion, Religous Outreach, Uncategorized, World Tagged:…Bible, Christianity, Encouragement, Faith, Israel, Jewish, Judaism, Love, Messianic Judaism, Middle East, News, Outreach programs, Prayer, Religion, World…
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Family Purity – Modesty – Tzeniut – צניעות
So Bob Dylan went and made himself a Christmas album , instead of a holiday album. It ends with him singing “amen” at the end of a non-ironic “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” Many will note that the album does not contain a performance, ironic or otherwise, of “ Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel .” Needless to say, this has raised some eyebrows.
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Dylan the mysterious ‘true believer’
I met Ben Schachter at the 2009 Conney Conference on Jewish Art: Performing Histories, Inscribing Jewishness , where coincidentally, we both presented Eruv themed works. In addition to making humorous Jewish themed conceptual art, Ben is a curator and is the man behind Tzit Tzit: Fiber Art and Jewish Identity
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Tzit Tzit: Fiber Art and Jewish Identity
This is the cover for a booklet about the Garden of Eden created from the Adam to Abraham Scrapbook Kit (and a few new papers I made I’ll be adding to the kit). Here is the tentative layout for our Scrapbook Folder. I am using the Adam to Abraham Ebook Adam to Abraham Digital Scrapbook Kit Adam to Abraham Links I’ll be posting each booklet if you’d like to follow our progress
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Lapbook and Scrapbook Folder Differences
… t equally very much like they should hold ). people would state Christianism was about love, so if the impotent Luther ramp about Jews, it got to be right someways, b…Christianism, a faith enforced by the fascist, particularly bloody and murderous emperor Constantine, is, course, likelily the most deadly faith that ever was….Hebraism and Christianism hold killed megs….Indeed Islam was obtained by a sequence of mutants from Judaism and Christianism….
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Transmissibility and deadliness.
The wonderful Suzan Shutan has agreed to help me with my resume/cv/statements in exchange for web design and video work. I couldn’t think of a better collaboration. Here is one of the many projects (and its many iterations) that I am attempting to catalog for said documents… Tallit Rebozo , from the series Hiddur Mitzvah , Quilted, Embroidered, Woven, and Recycled Fabric, 2006 Comodification Series: Modeling Tallit Rebozo , Performance 2006 Comodification Series: Maya Carrying Maya , Photo Collage, 2006 Gringa Loves Guatemala , YouTube Video, 2007 Maya Carrying Maya , YouTube background, 2009 Maya Carrying Maya , Twitter background, 2009 Former Myspace Profile Picture , found internet photo (repeated here 3 times), 2006
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If I haven’t mentioned it before, I am quite the fan of awful horrible animated gifs. As I continue to work with seeNoga and Rio Yañez on the Jewish characters from Acciones Plásticas プリクラ : The Jewess Blogging Queen , The Avodah Girl and The 612er ; I thought I would share this terrible image created early on in our collaboration.
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rio prayed for la virgen de guadalupe and instead got…