Why does G-d allow death? Or evil? Or Nancy Pelosi? These are deep questions. However, they are also unanswerable as such. It is the general...
Crimea was absorbed by Russia in 1783 It became an autonomous Republic in the Russian Federation of the Soviet Union in 1922. All of the non...
Well, it's the day after the Jewish holiday of Purim. And, I see that I originally started a Thread here on Purim of 2013. A lot of hamantaschen...
Yes. And according to the Torah, this idea stated - that those who continue to hate Me, even to the third or fourth generation, will be punished....
Jews. Statistically speaking, Jews do not exist yet, there is no other people on Earth remotely similar to them in history; influence; and...
Yes, the Jews were basically in a state of insurrection against themselves and/or Rome from the time of the Hasmoneans around 167 BCE to the final...
Interesting. However - I am an ("ultra") Orthodox Jew and an avid student of history. I have studied both the Talmudic accounts of Jews under...
I didn't mention any "genocide" of native Americans. And, there was no deliberate "genocide" of native Americans by Europeans. The majority of...
A nice assessment of Judaism but, you should review a bit more history of those natives of your America's; and Africa (the Aborigines of Australia...
Okay. A correction for you - you would be more interesting and useful if you tried to be coherent. Your use of English demonstrates that you...
I posit that it is the same as mastering any other discipline. There are great geniuses who, (as you seem to point out) can go from "zero to...
Strictly speaking, there is no problem with shaving - you just can't use a razor blade or a sharp knife. An electric razor is acceptable. Plus,...
Being circumcised days after birth as a medical procedure is an agreement; a secular "covenant," between the parents and the doctor. As are all...
This is good. However, you wrote: "she has told me that jews believe that life ends at death. The soul does not carry on to the hereafter." There...
Of course they were religious. It's just that they were not believing Christians. And, I am talking about believers - Nazis, not the rest of the...
As with your second quote, Epicurus' viewpoint is totally out of context. He was actually being used as a foil for a Christian theologian's work...
Probably not. Fascists; totalitarians; leftists; communists; etc., all tend to put themselves first. Their emotion based religion is that They...
I am not entirely knowledgeable about biblical Criticism but, yes - I am pretty sure they are mostly discussing the Torah; the first five books of...
Well, with your name, I am going to presume that you are a Muslim. Would you consider someone who went to mosque on Fridays but did not pray 5...
Your Jewish friend is neither a religious or Torah observant Jew. She does not practice the religion of Judaism. She may simply be Jewish...
High Elves? Or forest Elves? Sea Elves? The Vanyar or the Noldor or the Teleri? They had a relationship with the Valar in the Undying Lands...
No. A little less than six million. The rest of the 7,800,000 Israelis are Arabs and/or Muslims.
ALERTS TO THREATS IN 2013 EUROPE From JOHN CLEESE The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Syria and have therefore...
Try this: Jews in America
"How odd of God to Choose the Jews" - William Norman Ewer "But not so odd As those who choose A Jewish God Yet spurn the Jews" - Leo Rosten
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