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The recent Catholic manifesto for religious freedom, “Protecting Consciences” (www.usccb.org/conscience), presents a view that seems hard to contest: “What we ask is nothing more than the right to follow our consciences as we live the life of our teachings.”  Yet, it cannot be that simple when one person’s conscience directs him to discriminate. Determining when […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:22 p.m. Torah: Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9 Haftarah: Isaiah 41:12-42:12 Havdalah: 8:22 p.m.  ‘Be a Jew at home and a man on the street.” So went the famous advice of Judah Lieb Gordon (1831-1892), an early Hebraist, poet and writer, and a pioneer in what we call Haskalah, the 19th-century movement to harmonize […]

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On Wednesday, Aug. 8, a flight left Tel Aviv carrying about 100 South Sudanese Christians to Juba, the capital of the newly declared state of South Sudan. This was the latest in a series of flights that began earlier this summer, carrying nearly 1,000 men, women and children, including families who had lived for several […]

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