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COMMENTARY: Answering questions about Ramadan
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Salam Al-Marayati is director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles.)
UNDATED _ As Christians and Jews complete their holiday season, we Muslims begin ours with the start Friday (Jan. 10) of Ramadan, the month during which Islam teaches...
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COMMENTARY: Learning about faith from Carl Sagan
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Robert A. Seiple is President of World Vision U.S., one of the largest privately funded Christian relief and development organizations in the world. He lives outside Seattle.)
UNDATED _ Are science and faith mutually exclusive?
For three years, I w...
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COMMENTARY: Hanukkah, Christmas meaning lost in mushy mix of"the holidays”
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the National Interreligious Affairs Director of the
American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ The eight day Jewish festival of freedom, Hanukkah, begins on Tuesday night, Dec. 23. Unfortunately, in our over-heated consumer society, Hanukka...
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COMMENTARY: The kings live! Biblical David meets Elvis Presley
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the National Interreligious Affairs Director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Question: What do the biblical David and Elvis Presley have in common? Answer: the title"King"and a great deal more.
Both men infuriated many w...
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COMMENTARY: Beware the"biblical sanitation squad”
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ One of my favorite films, Robert Altman's"Nashville,"was recently shown on VH-1, a cable TV outlet. While I've grown accustomed to the many comme...
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COMMENTARY: Learning heavenly lessons from exploring Mars
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Hecht is vice-president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America and past-president of the Rabbinical Council of California. He is the director of Chabad of South Bay in Lomita, Calif.)
UNDATED _ A few weeks back, the Pathfinder team at the Jet Pr...
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COMMENTARY: Disturbing morality tale raises troubling ethical questions
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi A. James Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Woody Allen's 1989 film"Crimes and Misdemeanors"was on cable TV recently. Despite its comedic aspects, the movie is one of the most dist...
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COMMENTARY: Special Seders highlight Passover’s universal appeal
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi A. James Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Passover, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Freedom, begins at sundown April 21, and each year I receive invitations to attend some uniqu...
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EASTER FEATURE: America’s impressions of Jesus come from film rather than Bible
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ It's spring again: gentle rains, yellow tulips, Easter.
As soon as the grass begins to green, TV and cable networks nationwide roll away the stones that seal their movie archives to rerun an array of films that depict the life, death and res...
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NEWS FEATURE: Minister sees gospel story in signs of the zodiac
c. 1997 Religion News Service
MOBILE, Ala. _ When the Rev. Chris Patrick looks at the stars, he sees something different than most people: He sees God's plan for salvation.
In fact, the pastor of Life Church Outreach Center in Chickasaw, Ala., believes the zodiac _ the 12 cluster...
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