Judaism
Elizabeth Warren
After listening and watching Rick Santorum, one of the most dispicable presidential characters in some time — ranting about the “way things should be”, never seeing a country that he doesn’t want to bomb, never seeing a woman’s body that he didn’t want his laws all over, and ranting about lots of other things that [...]
Easter Sunday
Easter is perhaps the most important of the Christian holidays. According to Christian tradition, It celebrates Christ’s resurrection from the dead following his death on Good Friday. Easter is named for a Saxon goddess who was known by the names of Oestre or Eastre. Although American Christians continue to generally celebrate Easter as a religious [...]
Passover
April 8th, marks the start of the Jewish holiday of Passover (Pesoch, in Hebrew). Basically, skipping a lot of interesting stuff, the story goes that the Jews were slaves in Egypt. They were mistreated and a leader, Moses, emerged at the behest of the Jewish God, to represent him (God) and the slaves in front [...]
Middle East Crisis
About a week ago, I touched on the possibility of Israel attacking Iran (“Maybe the Dog will Talk” – March 21, 2012). Let’s deal with the Middle East crisis a bit more: Typically we look at the morning paper and read of some Palestinians firing rockets in to Israel. Sometimes they kill a few people [...]
Religious Violence in the Middle East
Religious and ethnic lobbies are dangerous things. They often intentionally spread misinformed and perpetuate ignorant foreign policies. Indeed, they want us to be misinformed and ignorant — in their favor. Probably the most famous and influential is AIPAC – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. They say, from their website, www.aipac.org , that their mission [...]
Love thy Neighbor
I hope you had an enjoyable New Years celebration. I did. I am not much of a believer in New Years resolutions. If there is something that you really feel that you should do, then DO IT NOW! If you feel that you can put it off for a week, then you certainly can put [...]
A Thanksgiving Prayer
Since getting home from my two week vacation to visit family in Ohio and Kansas, I have been attempting to catch up on the things that I am interested in. This means reading blogs, newspapers, magazines, etc. It was easy to note that this was the Thanksgiving holiday time. Why? Well, because a lot of [...]
Yom Kippur
For those of you who live in a neighborhood where some of your fellow Americans are Jewish. You might notice that this evening (Friday, October 7), your Jewish neighbors are walking to Synagogue. Although observant Jews are supposed to be doing that every Friday evening, it seems like this Friday, there are more of them. [...]
Touchdown Jesus
There is a statue — or monstrosity — of Jesus in front of the Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio. It was erected in 2004 at a cost of $250,000. It depicts some Northern European guy who, I guess, is supposed to be Jesus rising out of a pool of water with, of course, his [...]
I’m a Girl and by me that’s only Great!
No, no, not me. That, of course is from a song sung by Pat Suzuki in Flower Drum Song. She sings about being a teen-age girl and why she is so happy and so lucky. I love the song. I love her lust for life. It was first sung by her in 1958. Today it [...]
