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...Separate Worship. Like Catholicism, Judaism has traditionally treated women ambiguously. In the home, the Jewish mother is charged with considerable religious responsibility. She must not only preserve the ritual of celebrations but also see to it that her husband studies Halakhah, the body of Jewish religious law. Jewishness itself is determined by whether one is born of a Jewish mother, not of a Jewish father. Ancient Israel boasted seven women prophets, heroines such as Judith and Esther, and a judge, Deborah...
...quorum for a religious service (minyan) is ten men, and-except among Reconstructionist Jews, who hold men and women equal-no number of women can make up for one absent man. In Orthodox synagogues, women are seated separately, and in Jerusalem they must worship separately at the Wailing Wall. Though women in Israel have fully equal secular rights and are even subject to compulsory military service, Orthodox control of such social institutions as marriage clearly favors the man. In the strict interpretation of the law, for instance, only a husband can grant a divorce. The Orthodox male attitude is perhaps...
Then why Clearasil, and not Tackle or Propah Ph? Why Clearasil, developed by a pharmacist for use by his own wife? I don't know. But Bobby Sherman would win the honor because more pimples and their owners worship him than anyone else...
When Mohammed died, his first caliph, Abu Bakr, told the Prophet's mourning followers: "If you worship Mohammed, Mohammed has died. But if you worship Allah, he is alive and never will die." Throughout the Middle East, a variation of that aphorism was broadcast over Arab radios last week: "If you worship Gamal, Gamal is dead. But if you worship the ideas of Gamal Abdel Nasser, they are alive and will never die." Nasser had many ideas, not all of them worth preserving. The future of the Middle East may thus depend on which the Arab world jettisons and which...
...join a religious order, wear any special garb or be required to live in convents or special communities. Beyond maintaining their virginity, they may if they wish function as assistants in the missionary field, in line with their interests and abilities. According to the Sacred Congregation of Divine Worship, which announced the Vatican plan, the new rite is "a mark of esteem for women whose dignity is sometimes offended in our society, which is often dominated by vulgar hedonism...