Tag: judaism
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#MorningMonarchy: November 3, 2026
Voter rolls, if memory serves and dark skies threatened + this day in history w/awkward auctions and our song of the day by Jo-DBL on your #MorningMonarchy for November 3, 2026.
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How Did God Get Started?
from bu.edu: One day in the Middle East about four thousand years ago, an elderly but still rather astonishingly spry gentleman took his son for a walk up a hill. The young man carried on his back some wood that his father had told him they would use at the top to make an altar,…
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Five Best: Religious Cults In Antiquity
from wsj.com: Written by Mary Beard: The Greeks and the Irrational. By E.R. Dodds (1951) For me, this was a life-changing book. It starts with an encounter in the British Museum in front of the sculptures from the Parthenon. E.R. Dodds bumps into a young man who is unimpressed—he can’t bear the ancient Greeks, he…
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Berlin House of One: The first church-mosque-synagogue?
from BBC News: Berlin thinks it is making religious history as Muslims, Jews and Christians join hands to build a place where they can all worship. The House of One, as it is being called, will be a synagogue, a church and a mosque under one roof. An architecture competition has been held and the…
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Ariel Sharon’s Death: The *yawn* End Is Near
from ghosttheory.com / disinfo.com: Does a note left by a venerated Orthodox Rabbi shortly before his death indicate that the Apocalypse and the ’1000 years of peace’ are just around the corner? Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri died in Israel in 2006 at the age of 108. At his funeral 24 hours later it is estimated that…
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menorahs lighted in new york, nation’s capital
from cnn: From big balloons at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a big Christmas tree at Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center, the Big Apple is known for going big around the holidays. And on Tuesday, the first night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, New Yorkers went big again, lighting a massive menorah outside the south…
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kabbalist doctrine explains world events
from pak alert press: The Kabalist Doctrine of Destruction provides a key to understanding world events. According to the Kabbalah, which is the secret doctrine of Judaism and Freemasonry, “Evil and catastrophe [are] endemic factors in the process of creation. Without evil there could be no good, without destruction, creation could not take place.” (Kabbalah:…
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making sense of elizabeth taylor’s jewish conversion
from cnn: In early April 1959, Time magazine reported that “the most famous and perhaps the most beautiful baby born last week was a Jewish girl named Elisheba Rachel Taylor.” Explaining that a convert to Judaism is considered “a newborn child,” the article recounted the conversion of 27-year-old actress Elizabeth Taylor to the faith. Her…
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US pilots trigger terror alert over orthodox jews’ tefillin ritual
not muslims? maybe they’re just afraid of prayer… from haaretz: Pilots on an Alaska Airlines flight locked down the cockpit and alerted authorities after three passengers conducted an elaborate Orthodox Jewish prayer ritual during their Los Angeles-bound flight. Airline spokeswoman Bobbie Egan says the crew of Flight 241 from Mexico City became alarmed Sunday after…