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Date: 01 Jan 2006 06:15:25 AM
Object: Top issues affecting Jews in 2005
Top issues affecting Jews in 2005
http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2005/12/29/news/local/acover1230.txt
Cleveland Jewish News - Cleveland,OH,USA
Israel’s historic withdrawal from Gaza, the Protestant campaign to divest
from Israel, the death of Pope John Paul II, and concerns about the
religious right’s efforts to impose Christianity in the public square were
among the issues most affecting the Jewish community in 2005, according to
the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) annual list.
Here’s a look back at this historic year and its impact on world Jewry:
Gaza disengagement
In August, millions of people around the world watched live television
images from Gaza as the Israeli government successfully implemented its
historic disengagement plan. Despite calls for civil disobedience n and
worse n by some Israelis opposed to the withdrawal, protests remained
largely peaceful. In the final hours before the deadline for evacuating
settlements, Israel’s military and police personnel safely removed settlers
and activists, showing resourcefulness, sensitivity and compassion. The
disengagement demonstrated to the world the democracy that is Israel.
The religious right in America
Attempts by some evangelical Christian groups to “reclaim America for
Christianity” and the larger issue of the role of religion in the public
sector emerged as a key domestic challenge to the Jewish community.
Christian activism has borne out in recent controversies over intelligent
design versus Darwin’s theory of evolution, prayer in the public schools,
judicial nominations, same-sex marriage and abortion. All of this poses a
challenge to Jews and others who strongly believe that America’s religious
freedom has thrived as a result of the Constitutional separation of church
and state.
Religious intolerance in the Air Force Academy
After months of swirling reports and allegations of a pernicious climate of
religious intolerance at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs,
Colo., the Air Force in June issued a report. It confirmed many of the
concerns raised by cadets, staff chaplains, civilian observers and military
personnel that a persistent pattern existed at the academy, and that change
was necessary.
While the report established clear guidelines for dealing with religious
intolerance in the military, the issue shows no signs of diminishing. As
the year drew to a close, 70 mostly Republican members of Congress wrote to
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defending the right of military chaplains
to use specifically Christian language in public prayers.
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Posting and reading from alt.politics.usa.constitution OR alt.education
You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the U.S. and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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User: "Viator"

Title: Re: Top issues affecting Jews in 2005 01 Jan 2006 10:04:55 AM
And, the top issue facing Jews this century is,
How to pretend we Jews knowing anything of
significance when our worldview is based on
a belief in an invisible person whose existence
is unproven and unprovable, and belief in
which can only be assured by indoctrinating
helpless children who can't think for themselves?
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