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...inherently indefensible. They would make central Israel eight miles wide. Eight miles between, say, the massed tank armies of Iraq and Syria to Israel's front and the Mediterranean Sea to its back. This is suicide. Nor, contrary to Abdullah's formula, is Israel going to give up Judaism's holiest shrine (the Western Wall) and Old Jerusalem, continuously inhabited by Jews for centuries until expelled by the Jordanians...
...marriage ceremonies have been around for some 3,000 years in Judaism, which requires a get--a religious document that consecrates the divorce--before couples are allowed to remarry in a temple. Today the male-oriented ceremony (the husband asks for the get and gives it to his wife) is performed mainly for Conservative and Orthodox couples. But some Jewish couples have turned to more personalized versions of the get. Rabbi Lisa S. Greene of Glencoe, Ill., helped Laura Milsk design a ceremony. It took place on the shores of Lake Michigan, where Laura, sans husband, prayed and tossed pieces...
...dignified to abandon the truth of his own existence in the face of his captors’ pressure. Although the circumstances of Pearl’s last words are unclear, it might be possible that his captors wanted the video to emphasize Pearl’s Judaism in order to capture the imaginations of anti-Semitic Muslim militants, one must think Pearl was proud to say who he was as he faced death...
...statistics to register the preposterous imbalance of the so-called Arab-Israel conflict. There are presently about 13 million Jews in the world, four or five million fewer than there were in 1939, while there are over 250 million Arabs with ties to over a billion Muslims worldwide. Since Judaism predates Islam by millennia, this asymmetry obviously attests to opposing religious priorities—self-limiting in one case, expansionist in the other. The Jews’ concept of election puts enormous pressure on them to try to live up to the measure of God—a moral outlook...
Birkat Hamazon, an after-meal grace, is always led by men in traditional Judaism, while Kiddush—which is said before Hillel meals—can be led by either men or women...