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Similarly, for Mendy Greenberg in Anchorage, Alaska, the bar mitzvah is a meaningful event. Mendy’s parents are members of the Lubavitcher Hasidic sect of Judaism, and they believe that part of their mission in life is to reach out to less observant Jews, a task that begins, for Mendy, on the day he becomes a bar mitzvah...
...religious conservatives to introduce creationist theories to public-school curriculums. A case in the lower courts concerns whether the state of Iowa can fund a religious-fellowship program in Iowa prisons. One case next term revolves around whether the federal government can prohibit a small Brazilian-American religious sect from importing a hallucinogenic tea--officially classified as a controlled substance--that it uses in rituals. The current court has rejected school-prayer schemes that are not purely voluntary, and it has put restrictions on school vouchers. But if another moderate leaves the court, that could change...
...responsible for the death of their historic leader?" asks Chibli Mallat, professor of international law at St. Joseph University in Beirut. And as this stalemate deepens, Lebanese fear that another assassin's bomb will be used to try to break it. Walid Jumblatt, leader of Lebanon's Druze sect and a senior opposition figure, thinks he could be one target. In a television interview he called on his followers to "behave calmly and peacefully" should he be assassinated. "This is my last will and testament," said Jumblatt, who rarely leaves his heavily guarded home south of Beirut. Some opposition activists...
Hsia even managed to integrate an explorative quest into her senior thesis film project, following a seven-year-old growing up in the Hare Krishna religious sect, which claims to base its way of life on ancient Indian scriptures...
...tomes from the stacks--not when you can let your fingers do the walking on a keyboard. To put modern society's lack of movement in context, researchers at the University of Tennessee's Department of Health and Exercise Science studied a group of Old Order Amish, a religious sect that shuns cars and other modern conveniences. Using pedometers, the researchers found that the average Amish man took 18,425 steps a day and the average Amish woman took 14,196 steps. A typical American, by contrast, takes about...