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Finally, all of us, including people of faith and those who are ardent secularists, should be able to recognize the increasingly important discourse of faith, based on commitment to deeply held values and principles, whether Muslim, Christian, or Jewish. In the United States, we should be able to distinguish the discourse of faith from the discourse of citizenship, also based on commitment, but premised on a set of values and principles shared by people of all faiths and none. And we should be able to distinguish both the discourse of faith and citizenship from the critical and deliberative discourse...
...creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind. Floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, disease germs, speeding bullets, they are all equal opportunity offenders. They have no way of knowing whether it's a good person or a bad person in their path. In fact, there's a passage in the Talmud [Jewish scripture] that says that God's justice would demand that certain things not happen, but nature is not just and those things happen. TIME: Does that separate you, to some extent, from the Orthodox Jewish community? Kushner: I get a better reception from Mormons than I do from the Orthodox Jews...
...killed the Wall Street Journal reporter. This official says that Ahmad Omar Saed Sheik insisted under interrogation that taking Pearl's life was not at first part of the kidnap plot - though Sheik also told his questioners that Pearl's kidnappers could never have released him because he was Jewish. But as the scheme unfolded, someone senior to him in the al-Qaeda hierarchy, known as "the fat man," took control of the operation and beheade Pearl...
...Livestrong”-style bracelet.The keystone of “Raising Malawi” is the creation of an “orphan care center” meant to provide 4,000 children with the bare essentials of life, i.e. healthy food, a proper education, and daily lessons in Jewish mysticism. Madonna’s not stupid; she knows that people are skeptical of Kaballah, but she also knows that there’s no such thing as bad press. Most importantly, all of “Raising Malawi” will, of course, be turned into...
...DIED. Andre Schwarz-Bart, 78, French author; in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. His greatest work, The Last of the Just, traced one Jewish family's history from the Crusades to the death camps at Auschwitz. The novel-inspired by the murder of Schwarz-Bart's entire Polish-Jewish family by the Nazis-swas awarded France's highest literary award, the Prix Goncourt...