Category: religions
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Hanukkah for Dummies, from Judah Maccabee to the days of Donald Trump (Haaretz)
http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-1.760313
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Jewish online resources
JewishEncyclopedia.com – in English judaism.wikia.com – in English; pretty, pretty limited www.jewiki.net – in German
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Wikipedia’s Jewish Problem – why won’t the online encyclopedia allow the truth about the New York Times’ Holocaust coverage?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/65452/wikipedias-jewish-problem-karin-mcquillan
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Shlomo Sand’s Wikipedia page under Chabad attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Sand – see the history of this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shlomo_Sand – see the history of this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Debresser – Rabbi Dovid de Bresser, a member of the Chassidic movement Chabad I assume de Bresser this way (in his thinking) is adding credit points on his way to eternal happiness – he is fighting a religious war against a scientist
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Martin Niemöller’s “First they came for the Jews. Then they came for the journalists.” – Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/jerusalem-babylon/.premium-1.636067 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niemöller … To paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemöller — First they came for the Jews, then they came for the journalists. …
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why does www.obohu.cz/bible display the Tetragrammaton in the title areas in web browsers? THEY CHANGED THAT
I sent an e-mail note to the people running www.obohu.cz/bible, asking: Why do you display the Tetragrammaton (in Hebrew letters) in the title areas in web browsers? You do know, that for … religious Jews that is a rather bad habit, don’t you? It makes them rather avoid your library, and that should not be necessary, don’t you…
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how far away is this from Agnosticism? “Religious Science” / “Science of Mind” (established in 1927 by Ernest Holmes)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Holmes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Am_Not_a_Christian – the one work of him, that influenced me deeply in my early twenties Science of Mind was established in 1927 by Ernest Holmes (1887–1960) and is a spiritual, philosophical and metaphysical religious movement within the New Thought movement. In general, the term “Science of Mind” applies to the teachings, while…
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the Ukraine and the Jewish Khazar Kingdom
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/.premium-1.580550 Not referring explicitly to Shlomo Sand, but I read about the Khazar Kingdom in one of his books.
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1989-02-14 – a fatwa was issued for the execution of Salman Rushdie (pictured) for authoring The Satanic Verses, a novel Islamic fundamentalists considered blasphemous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses_controversy