Amy Ellis Nutt
Amy Ellis Nutt is an author at Religion News Service.
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New York turns out to greet, cheer pope
By Amy Ellis Nutt — April 21, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue was awash in sunlight and song on Saturday (April 19) as Pope Benedict XVI, ensconced behind the bulletproof windows of his popemobile, waved to tens of thousands of onlookers. The throng along the sidewalks was at least 10 deep; the police helicopters overhead, six […]
New York turns out to greet, cheer pope
By Amy Ellis Nutt — April 21, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue was awash in sunlight and song on Saturday (April 19) as Pope Benedict XVI, ensconced behind the bulletproof windows of his popemobile, waved to tens of thousands of onlookers. The throng along the sidewalks was at least 10 deep; the police helicopters overhead, six […]
What Makes a Terrorist? Science Explores How Extreme Ideology Impacts Brain
By Amy Ellis Nutt — December 29, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Tawfik Hamid stood with 200 other students for afternoon prayers inside a mosque at the University of Cairo. It was important for them to stand with their feet touching, as the Quran teaches, so that even in prayer they were prepared for war: “Truly Allah loves those who fight […]
NEWS FEATURE: Jewish Law Enters Mainstream Legal Curriculum
By Amy Ellis Nutt — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAMDEN, N.J. _ Memory, for Steve Friedell, is neither arid nor abstract _ it is sensuous. And so when he leans back in his office chair, closes his eyes and makes a temple with his hands, fingertip to fingertip to fingertip, remembrances rise like steam off blacktop after a summer […]
FEATURE SIDEBAR: The Talmud Confronts Florida’s Electric Chair
By Amy Ellis Nutt — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service UNDATED _ There are many signs of increased interest in Jewish legal studies at American law schools: More than three dozen schools now teach the subject; the American Association of Law School Professors has its own Jewish law section; there is now a Jewish law casebook being used as a […]
FEATURE SIDEBAR: The Talmud Confronts Florida’s Electric Chair
By Amy Ellis Nutt — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service UNDATED _ There are many signs of increased interest in Jewish legal studies at American law schools: More than three dozen schools now teach the subject; the American Association of Law School Professors has its own Jewish law section; there is now a Jewish law casebook being used as a […]
NEWS FEATURE: Jewish Law Enters Mainstream Legal Curriculum
By Amy Ellis Nutt — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service CAMDEN, N.J. _ Memory, for Steve Friedell, is neither arid nor abstract _ it is sensuous. And so when he leans back in his office chair, closes his eyes and makes a temple with his hands, fingertip to fingertip to fingertip, remembrances rise like steam off blacktop after a summer […]
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