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Fast Forward Mormons May Consider 4 Jewish Shooting Victims For Controversial Baptism Rite
(JTA) — The names of four of the Jewish victims of the shootings at a Parkland, Florida high school have reportedly been submitted for proxy baptisms by some members of the Mormon church — a controversial practice that has been frowned upon by the church hierarchy. The names of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students…
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Breaking News UN Sides With Jordan in Jesus Baptism Spat
The United Nations’ cultural agency has designated the east bank of the Jordan River as a World Heritage Site, saying Jordan’s side of the river is “believed to be” the place where Jesus was baptized. Tourists and religious pilgrims also come to Israel to get baptized on the river’s west bank, at a site operated…
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The Schmooze No Jewish Royal Baby — Gad Elmaleh’s Son Baptized
Back in December, I gushed that Jews finally had their own royal baby frenzy — Moroccan-born French Jewish comedian Gad Elmaleh and Charlotte Casiraghi had just had a baby boy. “Grace Kelly’s granddaughter just had a Jewish baby. Win,” I wrote. Boy, was I wrong. When my family heard that Elmaleh was marrying Casiraghi, they were…
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News Kibbutz Is Top Spot for Jordan River Baptisms
Orlando Soares, a charismatic Christian pastor on pilgrimage from England, emerged from the Jordan River, close to where Jesus is said to have been baptized, beaming with happiness. “It’s like a restart — a declaration I want to do everything again,” he said. “You’re reborn. It represents new life and new commitment to God.” Busy…
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Opinion What Feels so Icky About Those Mormon Baptisms?
Israelism, the idea of a nation or people’s direct descent from one of the ten lost tribes of Israel, or the appropriation of Jewish ideas or texts for use in new belief systems, is not unique to the Mormon faith. At the height of British imperial power in the early twentieth century, notions of a…
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Opinion A Mormon Practice That Troubles Some Jews
The Mormon practice of baptizing deceased Jews by proxy is nothing new. The Jews called the Mormons on it years ago, and the Church promised to stop doing it. But recent headlines have indicated that some Mormons, unable to suppress their desire to save the souls of dead Jews, are back at it. Big names…
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The Schmooze Jewish Groups, Mormons Reach Agreement on Posthumous Baptisms
If there’s ever been an inter-religious dispute that’s flown under the radar, the simmering, decades-long controversy between the Church of Latter Day Saints and Jewish groups over posthumous Mormon baptisms of Jewish Holocaust victims may well be a prime example. But an agreement struck last week by the Church and the American Gathering of Holocaust…
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