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  Judaism
Jewish views of the messiah, the messianic era, and the afterlife are discusssed in the entry on Jewish eschatology.
Jewish eschatology - Jewish views of the messiah and the afterlife.
The various Jewish religious denominations in the USA and Canada perceive this as a crisis situation, and have grave concern over rising rates of intermarriage and assimilation in the Jewish community.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ju/Judaic.html   (4828 words)

  
 Religious pluralism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adherents of religious pluralism, in the scholarly sense of the term, reject religious relativism.
Religious pluralism is sometimes used as a synonym for Interfaith dialogue.
Jewish views on relations between different Jewish denominations is covered in the entry on Jewish views of religious pluralism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religious_pluralism   (7803 words)

  
 A Journey To The Truth
Early Jewish philosophy was influenced by the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, and Islamic philosophy.
Called the Jewish New Year because it celebrates the day that the world was created, and marks the advance in the calendar from one year to the next, although it occurs in the seventh month, Tishri.
Religious (and secular) Jewish movements in the USA and Canada perceive this as a crisis situation, and have grave concern over rising rates of intermarriage and assimilation in the Jewish community.
www.ajourneytothetruth.com /Judaism.htm   (7685 words)

  
 Religious Liberty Quotations
The Fathers of the Constitution were not unaware of the varied and extreme views of religious sects, of the violence of disagreement among them, and of the lack of any one religious creed to which all men would agree.
Thus, the religious heterogeneity of the American colonies helped to undermine the religious establishments which had benefited from laws that imposed the doctrines of the preferred church and taxes that were levied upon everyone for the support of the established clergy.
Religious liberty, sincere and equal for all, without privilege… in a word the free church in a free nation, such has been the program which inspired my first efforts and which I have perceived, after thirty years of struggle, in considering just and reasonable.
www.teachingaboutreligion.org /TeachingMaterials/snippet_b.htm   (3021 words)

  
 Judaism - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
Contrary to popular belief, Jewish people do not simply say that "God chose the Jews." Jews believe that they were chosen for a specific mission; to be a light unto the nations, and to have a covenant with God as described in the Torah.
The literature of questions to rabbis, and their considered answers, is referred to as responsa (in Hebrew, '"Sheelot U-Teshuvot".) Over time, as practices develop, codes of Jewish law are written that are based on the responsa; the most important code, the Shulkhan Arukh, largely determines Jewish religious practice up till today.
According to most Orthodox Jews, Jewish people who do not keep the laws of Shabbat and Yom Tov (the holidays), Kashrut, and family purity (taharat ha-mishpacha), to at least a minimal level, would be considered non-religious or frei (from Yiddish; free of the yoke of the Torah).
www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Judaism   (6047 words)

  
 Judaism - Define
Jews began to grapple with the tension between the particularize of their claim that only Jews were required to obey the Torah, and the universalism of their claim that the Torah contained universal truths.
It is difficult, or impossible, to generalize about Jewish theology, because Judaism itself is non-creedal; that is, there is no dogma or set of orthodox beliefs that Jews believed were required of Jews.
A Jewish person who does not accept Jewish principles of faith and becomes an agnostic or an atheist is also still considered to be Jewish.
www.milechai.com /judaism/judaism.html   (3387 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Ecumenism
The term is usually used with regard to movements toward religious unity.
Ecumenism in this sense is discussed at great length under the entry on religious pluralism.
Jewish views of religious pluralism and Relationships between Jewish religious movements
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Ecumenism   (196 words)

  
 NJ Jewish News | Israelis, practicing religious pluralism, sample life in MetroWest community
Some are deeply religious, others resolutely secular, still others insistent that their own identities could not be easily labeled.
“Religious pluralism is an existential question of Jewish identity so critical to the well-being of the state that it should rise to the top of the Diaspora community’s agenda,” said Gary Aidekman of Madison, chair of MetroWest’s Religious Pluralism Subcommittee.
I think in their houses they don’t have a fully Jewish life, and I want them to be more Jewish.
www.njjewishnews.com /njjn.com/051806/mwIsraelisPracticing.html   (1294 words)

  
 Judaism
A Jew who doesn't accept Jewish principles of faith and becomes an agnostic or an atheist is also still considered to be a Jew in good-standing in the Jewish community, albeit one who is in error.
This doesn't mean that Jews are required to read the books of the prophets literally.
Halakha, the Rabbinic Jewish way of life, then, isn't based on a literal reading of the Torah or Tanakh, but on the combined oral and written tradition, which includes the Tanakh, the Mishnah, the halakhic Midrash, the Talmud and its commentaries.
www.fastload.org /ju/Judaism.html   (4852 words)

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