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COMMENTARY: God works in mysterious ways
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(UNDATED) Aron Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish parents, was born in France 70 years ago. Today, he is Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, the Roman Catholic a...
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COMMENTARY: Rabin: A martyr in his grave cannot lead anyone to peace
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(UNDATED) Has anything really changed since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated last Nov. 4 in Tel Aviv? Decide for yourself as you consi...
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COMMENTARY: Holocaust Museum’s success risks trivializing a tragedy
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(UNDATED) I attended the opening ceremonies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., in April 1993, but it was only recently that I made...
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COMMENTARY: Texaco execs are soul mates of an ancient tyrant
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ The nation has been dismayed by the recently revealed"Texaco tapes,"in which oil company executives were secretly recorded expressing bigotry tow...
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COMMENTARY: Swiss banks reap the whirlwind of their greed in Nazi era
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ We have long known that the radical evil of Hitler's Third Reich, which sent 6 million Jews to their deaths, corrupted religion, politics, music,...
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COMMENTARY: Twilight falls on a candidate and an era
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Bob Dole's losing effort to win the presidency reminds me of a dour seminary dean I once knew who abandoned the security of campus life and tried unsuccessfully to lead a congregation.
The congregation is my metaphor for the 260 million peop...
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COMMENTARY: South Carolina flag flap shows the power of symbols
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the
American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ In his effort to remove the Confederate flag from atop the South Carolina state capitol, Gov. David Beasley has discovered what any religious lea...
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TOP STORY: UNCOVERING THE TOMB OF JESUS: Archaeologist expects new findings on tomb of Jesus
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Restoration work within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem may lead to new evidence that the site is really where disciples laid the crucified body of Jesus, a British archaeologist says.
The claim that the rock tomb is the place...
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BODY & SOUL: Power can be a vice or a virtue
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of"Putting America on the Couch,"to be published by Riverhead Books in 1997.)
(UNDATED) As Americans prepare to vote in the upcomin...
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TOP STORY: CONTENT-FREE THEOLOGY: Ordinary guy finds fame, fortune, talking with an easy-going God
c. 1996 Religion News Service
MEDFORD, Ore. _ The latest religious book to crack the best-seller list is written by a man who insists Moses got it wrong. The Ten Commandments are the ``Ten Commitments.''
Good and evil, right and wrong, don't exist. You can do your own thing becaus...
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