Word: judaisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voluntary adherent of the religion of Judaism, in the same way that a Christian is an adherent of Christianity. There is no empirical basis for regarding Jews as a single ethnic group...
American Council for Judaism...
Jesus himself was not married; biblical scholars assume that most of his disciples were, since the Judaism of the time frowned upon bachelorhood. There is good reason to believe that the majority of priests and bishops during the first four centuries of Christianity were married; so were many Popes, the last of whom was Adrian II in the 9th century...
...Cabinet will back two new laws. One will stipulate that government registrars can accept as Jewish nationals only persons who are converts to Judaism or who were born to Jewish mothers and have remained Jews (which is the traditional rule). The other law will grant automatic Israeli citizenship, for the first time, to all members of an immigrant family in which one spouse is Jewish...
Behind the environment crisis in the U.S. are a few deeply ingrained assumptions. One is that nature exists primarily for man to conquer. Many thinkers have traced the notion back to early Judaism and Christianity. Genesis 1: 26 is explicit on the point that God gave man "dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth." The ecological truth is quite different. The great early civilizations ?Babylonian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Chinese, Indian and perhaps Mayan?over-exploited the basic resource of land. In the end, says...