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TOP STORY: JUDAISM: Jewish outreach joins the Exodus as a Passover topic this year
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-This Passover, Susan V. Gelmis-the daughter of a Catholic father and a Jewish mother who raised her as a Christian-will again host a Seder at her home in Berkeley, Calif. As always, she will make it a point to invite Jewish friends who have little...
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NEWS STORY: Four American Baptist churches expelled over gay outreach
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Four San Francisco Bay-area American Baptist churches have been expelled from their regional jurisdiction because of their outreach to homosexuals.
Delegates at a special meeting of American Baptist Churches of the West, one of 34 regional juris...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION REACTS TO GAY MARRIAGE RULING: Blessing or curse? Religious leaders react to gay
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ For Lutheran laywoman Judy Bond, there was"a moment of breathlessness"Wednesday (Dec. 4) when she read the newspaper headlines reporting that a court in Hawaii had opened the way for legal recognition of same-sex marriages."It was a moment...
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FEATURE STORY: HEROINES OF HANUKKAH: Jewish feminists revive tales of the heroines of Hanukkah
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ As a young girl, Lucy Steinitz felt her Jewish sensibilities stirred each Hanukkah as she listened to the often repeated story of how some 2,100 years ago Mattathias and his five sons _ including the legendary Judah the Maccabee _ routed their...
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TOP STORY: HEROINES OF HANUKKAH: Jewish feminists revive tales of the heroines of Hanukkah
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ As a young girl, Lucy Steinitz felt her Jewish sensibilities stirred each Hanukkah as she listened to the often repeated story of how some 2,100 years ago Mattathias and his five sons _ including the legendary Judah the Maccabee _ routed their...
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NEWS STORY: PENTHOUSE `EXPOSE’: Episcopal priest named in Penthouse expose vows libel suit
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) The Rev. Lloyd Andries, an Episcopal priest accused in a recent Penthouse magazine story of participating in homosexual orgies at his Brooklyn, N.Y., church, denied the charges Tuesday (Nov. 5) and said he would file suit against the magazine...
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COMMENTARY: Preying on human failures to make a political point
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C, an author and a former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com.)
UNDATED _ My first reaction after hearing of Penthouse magazine's expose of sex at the altar was"Da...
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