Rachel Pomerance
Rachel Pomerance is an author at Religion News Service.
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Passover adapted to new meanings of liberation
By Rachel Pomerance — April 16, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service ATLANTA _ Moses may be a central character in the Jewish exodus from Egyptian slavery, but the old Negro spiritual “Go Down, Moses” isn’t exactly standard musical fare for a Passover Seder. Yet on a recent night here, some 150 blacks and Jews erupted in the chorus as they retold […]
Jews worried again as Methodists mull divestment plan
By Rachel Pomerance — February 12, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The United Methodist Church is poised to become the next U.S. church to consider divesting from Israel, a topic so controversial that it prompted the Presbyterian Church (USA) to backpedal on its own divestment program two years ago. At its quadrennial General Conference this April in Fort Worth, Texas, […]
Activists Want Circumcision Declared a Human Rights Crime
By Rachel Pomerance — August 4, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Could a religious ritual sacred to Muslims and Jews be threatened? If critics of circumcision have their way, it could be. Anti-circumcision crusaders, calling themselves “intactivists,” have called on the United Nations to label the act a human rights crime. The move came after the recent release of a […]
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