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...high summer of the adult Bat Mitzvah. The ritual retrofitting is becoming standard in Judaism's Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist branches. In the Reform movement alone, 600 of some 900 congregations offer the necessary 18-or 24-month adult preparatory courses in Hebrew, ritual and Scripture. Both Reform and Conservative movements offer guides to facilitate the adult rite. Such ceremonies, says Jack Wertheimer, provost at the Conservative arm's Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan, have not only "generated the spark of transformation within individuals [but] transformed congregational life...
...animal's head. The scene - repeated hundreds of times a day at slaughterhouses across the U.K. - could soon be a thing of the past if the recommendation published last week by the Farm Animal Welfare Council (F.A.W.C.) that all animals be stunned before slaughter becomes law. Both Islam and Judaism forbid consuming animals' blood and require that livestock be conscious when killed so that the blood pumps out. Animals used for halal and kosher meat must be healthy and uninjured when slaughtered for consumption. Although animal-cruelty regulations throughout Europe say that livestock must be stunned before slaughter, Britain...
...Federation of Jewish Communities, concedes that some opponents were motivated by genuine concern for animals. But he says, "part of it was motivated by anti-Semitism, that's for sure. We had threatening letters." The F.A.W.C. has a surprising ally in Reform rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok, a professor of Judaism at the University of Wales. He argues that Jews can live perfectly religious lives without meat, as he has done for the past decade. There's no doubt, he says, that Shechita "was the most humane form of slaughter" when it developed over a millennium...
Stacey J. Sublett’s anti-Christian cartoon in April 8’s Crimson was really unacceptable. I can’t imagine a similar cartoon involving Islam or Judaism and rightfully so. Religious workers of all faiths have brought comfort, faith, and critical humanitarian aid to the world’s troubled regions...
...what has piqued some library-goers since 1919, irrespective of their faith, was Sargent’s symbolism of the synagogue as a blind old woman—a reference to the medieval convention signifying the failure of Judaism to see the truth of Christianity. By contrast, Sargent portrayed the church as wide-eyed and demurely poised atop a throne-like seat...