judaism

This isn't a hate speech against organized religion. I had the rare opportunity to sit in on the high holy day services at an Orthodox Jewish temple, which was part of a religious school. Like some people, I knew Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur as the days public school closed in September for...

"Michele Bachmann Makes Surprise Visit To Synagogue, Congregants Storm Out And Donate To Her Opponent" http://www.thedailydolt.com/2012/10/02/michele-bachmann-makes-surprise-visit-to-synagogue-for-yom-kippur-congregants-walk-out-and-donate-to-her-opponent/ I literally LOLed at this part...

* The Natural, Normal, and Traditional Sexual Morality of the Talmud * Breach of rule 4 removed. Do not copy and post material from elsewhere.

In December 2011, 162 orthodox rabbis and "health professionals" have signed a "Declaration On The Torah Approach To Homosexuality". Therein, they claim that The signatories are mainly from the USA, but there are also some from Israel, the UK and other countries. New York-based Rabbi Aryeh...

The Claims: Abraham pimped his wife Sarah not once [Genesis 12:9-20] but twice [Genesis 20:1-18] and gained wealth from the transactions [Genesis 13:1-8, 20:14-16]. Isaac his son also inherited the trade from his father but was not as good at it since he only pimped his wife Rebekah once...

Did YHWH have a wife called Asherah (Astarte)? If she really looked like the picture below.... I can understand now why YHWH is such a cantankerous monster. A very interesting 4 part video by the BBC..... it is VERY interesting Part I Part II Part III Part IV There is also book about the...

It occurred to me that a test of the historicity of the Christian Scriptures that might be worth asking Chirstians on this forum to explain is to be found in Acts 2:1-6: And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound...

After reading this book, which was recommended to a friend of mine who wanted to bring me back to Christianity, I am still unconvinced of the divinity of the Bible. Why? Well, the thing is, Feiler does not defend the authenticity of the Old or New Testaments. This book is mostly about cultural...

sure, I was raised Jewish..which makes me kinda biased. but still, I firmly believe that Judaism is more believable then Christianity. you don't have to believe in Adam, Eve, Noah, even Abraham, to be a Jew. You don't have to believe that Moses received the Ten Commandments, to be a Jew. You...

This article touches on rules of the sabbath and whether use of an elevator that stops on every floor violates the sabbath for observant Jews. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/nyregion/10elevator.html?ref=middleeast With all do respect to Judaism, isn't this one of those really absurd beliefs...

On Bill Maher's program (Aug 7) he made the claim that Is that true? Do only one half of Americans know Judaism is older than Christianity? ETA: wrong forum, sorry

Yesterday I had a conversation about the whole Middle East mess with a colleague and we also talked about Israel as a part of it. When the Holocaust came up as an "accelerator" for immigration into Palestine, he argued that "the Holocaust probably never had happened if the Jews wouldn't have...

I watched this program last night (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/cohen.html) and found it very interesting. It appears some of the latest archaelogical theories surrounding the Biblical stories indicate that the ancient Israelites were a oppressed class of Canaanites and over a long...

Something I've heard quite often from believers is that humans are, in the words of the last person I heard it from, "inherently evil". Others have put it in other ways - "humans are wretched sinners", "humanity's fruits are rotten", and so on, but it's always the same basic principle: that...

The Torah clearly says one should not eat a kid cooked in its mother's milk. This is a very clear statemant, no ambiguety. So why interpreate it to mean "thou shalt not eat any meat with dairy during a 6 hour period"?? This goes for many other interpretations of the Torah. I know that the...

Fairly recently I rejected my hereditary Christian faith, and thus I've spent the intervening time being repeatedly assaulted by evangelics. Possibly surprisingly, however, they hadn't until recently begun to argue from history. The 'divine' acts that they claim to have most evidence for seem to...

There are various opinions on this. I'm not sure, myself. I'd be interested in seeing those of others. A poor man comes up to another man and says, "Please help me; my children are hungry and I have no money." The second man has little money himself; he has only a dollar, his last, but he...

Whoo-eee, this is gonna be a long one. That's a bigger order than you know, and I truly do not consider myself qualified to fill it, but I'll try. (Happily, this may also serve to distinguish Judaism from Unitarian-Universalism. There ARE a few differences.) Before I begin, or attempt to...

Well checked the tags, surprised this hasn't been mentioned, maybe I missed it , Dawkins comments on the "Jewish lobby" causing a hoo-harr with some commentators here: original report here: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2180660,00.html comment here...

I can't see any positive result of this belief. Ariel Sharon once said that Israel has the right to judge other nations..but no nations have the right to judge Israel. If this kind of thinking, that the Jews are special and the rest of the world is somehow less, then the chosenness concept is...

It's my understanding that Jews are forbidden to have tattoos or similar body markings because altering one's body is unconsidered ungodly. So, what I want to know is, why do so many Jews have plastic surgery done, then? Wouldn't that be much worse than a tattoo?

Tony Blair, due to retire next year, has seen his true vocation - comedian! Here is a little from today's Independent

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7361060&sc=emaf I...don't know what to say, really. Also of note: Perhaps the sense of irony was surgically excised from their brains? Edit: It gets better!

http://www.skeptic.com/the_magazine/featured_articles/v12n03_orthodox_judaism_and_evolution.html I'm intrigued by the two statements which are used in Figures 1 and 2, which have been denied not only by creationists, but by a number of supporters of evolution on this forum.

Hello, I screened the film The Believer recently, and was intrigued by some of what the main character was talking about regarding the core ideas of Judaism. Admittedly, this was a feature film interested more in drama than intellectualism, but, nevertheless, the questions it raised are...

Its described in the manual in some detail between "vacation mode" and "power failure (high temp) recovery mode". Now far be it from me to question a sales pitch to the Jewish populace, but what did people do before? My understandings of Kosher are thin, I admit, but I don't remember anything...

When did the old testament get written?

Not sure why, but I found myself rooting for different sects.

I'm currently waiting for the people who know about these things at SKEPTIC to answer this question but I would still appreciate your answers. |PS|

Ok, this is a real question, not an attempt to troll or incite a flamewar. As I understand it, Judaism and Christianity are very closely related. In fact, Christianity evolved from (hehe) Judaism and Jesus was Jewish. But the one huge difference between the two religions is that Judaism does...