Radical right resents judges and juries
Bill Boyarsky
November 2, 2006
These days no judge is safe from the assault of the religious right, anti-government crusaders and law and order zealots.
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Local minister, dressed as High Priest, stages Yom Kippur service for evangelicals
Sarah Price Brown
September 28, 2006
The way Dieckilman sees it, Jews are God\’s Chosen People and Christians are simply \”grafted on\” to that group.
\”There\’s no question Jews are the people blessed by God and chosen by God to bring redemption to earth,\” he said.
A Place of Worship Where We Belong
Rachel Barenblat
September 22, 2005
My resolution that High Holiday season? To find a congregational home by the following fall. I\’ve lived in this cluster of small towns for almost a decade: people know me on the street, at the grocery store, at the community-supported organic farm. It felt wrong to be so rootless when it came to religion.
Links to Christian Zionists Pose Peril
James D. Besser
September 1, 2005
People are judged by the friends they keep.
Why Scapegoat?
Rabbi Lisa Edwards
April 21, 2005
In response to the three clerics who made the front page of The New York Times, in just one week several hundred clergy, mostly from the United States, signed on to a letter of support for WorldPride in Jerusalem, saying, among other things, that \”Jerusalem, a living, holy city, a pilgrimage site for people of many faiths and many beliefs, increases in holiness when all are welcome within her walls.\”
There’s No Santa, but Keep It Quiet
Julie M. Brown
December 16, 2004
It was in 1998 that my son, Sammy, broke out of his cocoon and started kindergarten at our neighborhood school. Up until then, he had spent his entire tiny life surrounded by Jews.
Having left his Jewish preschool behind only a few months prior, he had little knowledge of his own minority status in the world, not to mention in our South Bay community. But that didn\’t matter to him, at least as far as I knew.
December Dilemma: Distorting Chanukah
Gaby Wenig
December 2, 2004
Welcome to Chanukah and the December Dilemma. In Hebrew schools all over Los Angeles — and in temple discussion groups for intermarrieds on how to survive the holiday season — Chanukah is taught as a ritually dense Jewish substitute for Christmas that needs to elbow its way into some December shelf space, rather than a holiday that commemorates a group of Jews fighting against the forces of Hellenistic secularism to remain an insular, Torah-committed community.
Should Jews Oppose Evangelical Help?
James D. Besser
October 7, 2004
In Israel this week, televangelist Pat Robertson inveighed against giving territory to the Palestinians, claiming that the goal of Islam is to \”destroy Israel and take the land from the Jews and give East Jerusalem to Yasser Arafat.
Evangelicals Back Israel at RNC
Ron Kampeas, JTA
September 2, 2004
\”Evangelical Christians support Israel because according to prophecy, Jews have to be in Israel in order for the apocalypse to happen, and the messiah and all that stuff,\” Al Franken said.
\”And when that happens, of course, Jews will all burn in hell,\” he said. \”And so I think at that point the coalition will break up.\”
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