Judaism
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Christian rally puts `evils’ on trial
By Adelle M. Banks — May 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Thousands of evangelical Christians, gathering at the U.S. Capitol Tuesday (April 30) for a rally dubbed”Washington for Jesus,”declared the United States”guilty”of a variety of”sins,”ranging from abortion to AIDS to racism.”We face the 21st century a great nation with a great heritage, but living today in the shadow of the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By Carl Anderson — May 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Protestant, Jewish leaders back Clinton abortion veto (RNS)-More than two dozen top Protestant, Jewish, Unitarian and humanist leaders Tuesday (April 30) voiced their support for President Clinton’s veto of legislation banning a controversial late-term abortion procedure.”We fully support the president’s action in standing with women and their families who face […]
NEWS STORY: Priest found guilty for protest at Fort Benning’s School of the Americas
By RNS Blog Editor — May 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service COLUMBUS, Ga. (RNS)-In a trial that looked beyond the official charge-criminal trespass at a U.S. Army base-to issues of free speech, religious conviction and U.S. foreign policy, Louisiana priest Roy Bourgeois was found guilty Monday (April 29) and sentenced to the maximum six months in prison in connection with protests […]
COMMENTARY: Let moral renewal begin with me
By RNS Blog Editor — April 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(AT)compuserve.com.) (RNS)-In synagogues, churches and meeting halls across the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By Carl Anderson — April 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Scholars ponder whether Shakespeare was Roman Catholic (RNS)-British scholars are discussing the possibility that William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a”church-papist,”one who outwardly conformed to the established Protestant Church of England while secretly harboring Roman Catholic beliefs. Shakespeare wrote at the height of the Elizabethan era, named after Queen Elizabeth I, when […]
After lapse of a generation, Cuban Jews resume religious practice
By RNS Blog Editor — April 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service HAVANA (RNS)-Two years ago, Diana Silverstein didn’t know much about what it meant to be Jewish. Her knowledge was scant when it came to the meaning of religious holidays. She didn’t know much about kosher food. Hebrew was as foreign to her as English. But in the last two years, […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Methodists reaffirm homosexuality is”incompatible”with Christianity (RNS)-An effort to soften the United Methodist Church’s 24-year-old stance declaring that homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching was soundly defeated Wednesday (April 24) by delegates attending the denomination’s General Conference. The proposal, brought by the 8.6 million-member church’s Board of Church and Society, was […]
COMMENTARY: Shedding light on Luther’s dark side
By James Rudin — April 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-This year marks the 450th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther, the German monk who left the Roman Catholic Church in 1517 to become the leading figure in the Protestant Reformation. Now that Germany is unified, […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Southern Baptist relief group to help feed North Koreans (RNS)-A Southern Baptist relief agency plans to feed a flood-ravaged area in North Korea for the next six months after North Korean officials asked for help.”We were asked to help from now until October in the rescue of a city,”said Bill […]
TOP STORY: JUDAISM IN AMERICA: New Jewish culture center rivals museums in Israel
By RNS Blog Editor — April 24, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES (RNS)-The world’s fourth-largest Jewish museum opened here Sunday (April 21), with its founding president expressing the hope that the teaching of Jewish history will help Jews recover their waning sense of community. Built at a cost of $65 million, funded largely through donations from the Jewish community, the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 24, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Church should add religious insights to scientific advances, bishops say (RNS)-The U.S. Catholic bishops have issued a statement on genetic testing, declaring its importance but noting that some of its uses”invite serious moral reflection.” The statement, called”Critical Decisions: Genetic Testing and Its Implications,”was developed by the National Conference of Catholic […]
COMMENTARY: Resurrecting the spirit of the village
By James Alan Fox — April 24, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Paul C. Fox is a practicing physician and a member of the Bruderhof Communities. He lives in Farmington, Pa. He is also editor at large of Plough magazine, the quarterly publication of the Bruderhof Communities.) (RNS)-It takes a child to raise a village. This sentence is not a misprint. Nor […]
NEWS STORY: Bishops, pope seek land-mine ban as U.N. takes up issue
By Carl Anderson — April 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are asking the Clinton administration to”act boldly”and quickly to ban the production, sale and use of anti-personnel land mines.”The United States should move quickly and unambiguously to ban the production, sale and use of anti-personnel land mines,”Bishop Daniel P. Reilly of Worcester, Mass., said in […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 18, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service American Jewish Committee finds little anti-Semitism in Russia (RNS)-Anti-Semitism in Russia is relatively low compared to hostility toward other groups, according to a survey released Tuesday (April 16) by the American Jewish Committee. The study, entitled”Current Russian Attitudes Toward Jews and the Holocaust,”measured respondents’ attitudes toward Jews and knowledge and […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — April 17, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Report charges China with suppressing Tibetan Buddhism (RNS)-A new report released Monday (April 15) by the International Campaign for Tibet says Tibetan Buddhists are undergoing the worst wave of religious repression since martial law was imposed in 1989. The Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet was formed in 1988 to promote […]
