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There's a lot of mythology, some of it involving the East. There was a German scholar who claimed in the 1940s that Jesus traveled the Silk Road, lived in India and may have visited a monastery in Lhasa where there were Buddhist texts. The church of St. Thomas in...
1 | California Protesting a Gay-Marriage Ban While Barack Obama may have broken the color barrier by becoming the nation's first African-American President, the gay and lesbian community in California has erupted in protests following the approval of Proposition 8, which overturns a state supreme court decision upholding...
This California contingent’s program of challenging tax-exempt institutions that visibly backed Proposition 8—including Mormon, Catholic and Orthodox Jewish religious organizations and groups like the Knights of Columbus—is a deserved one; these institutions have a responsibility not to lobby and fundraise...
Most Israeli newspapers today touted Barkat as the savior of secular Jerusalem. The city's outgoing mayor is also ultra-orthodox, and many non-religious Jerusalemites chafed at the growing number of restrictions imposed on Sabbath activities. During campaigning, Porush said little about how he would sanctify Jerusalem, but many...
But the new mayor may have trouble delivering such a secular 'miracle'. Taken together, ultra-orthodox parties will still be the largest block in Jerusalem's city council. In order to win over the large religious Zionist vote, Barkat, a former city councilman, swung from the center to the far...