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The Schmooze When Saul Became Paul
Saul of Tarsus, a first century Pharisee, supposedly came to believe in Jesus while traveling to Damascus. Changing his name to Paul, he expressed “unparalleled animosity and hostility to Judaism,” according to the 1906 Jewish Encyclopaedia, which scorns him, like many other sources, as an apostate. Yet today, Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer of Pennsylvania’s Reconstructionist Rabbinical…
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Life Why Fewer Christians Are Being Born in Israel
Christians have the lowest birth rate of all religious groups in Israel, official statistics reveal. Christian women have on average two children, which is far lower than the statistic for Jewish women who have 2.9 and Muslim women who have 3.8. These statistics come from a new report by the Central Bureau of Statistics, an…
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Life Of Virgin Births and Water Bottles
As the Bintel Blog just reported, Israeli humor has already provoked the fury of Holocaust survivors this week. Now it has Christians up in arms, too. A late-night talk show on Channel 10 ran a sketch jibing Christian beliefs, including the virgin birth and the notion that Jesus walked on water. According to the sketch,…
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