Hackers group Anonymous takes down Vatican website: http://t.co/B6lbGAVp
WGN-TV calls doomsday prophecies "an illusion": http://t.co/mv8Gzyw7
RT @graceishuman: Really,? Asking people JUST LEAVING the service how they felt about it? Tacky, tacky, inappropriate
Whitney Houston's funeral service really took the world to church. Love Pastor Winans' honesty, very moving.
#teacher ? Here are appropriate responses to situations with your Jehovah's Witness student: http://t.co/A6UfqcgH
#Teachers: Want to know why your Jehovah's Witness student won't say the pledge and how to respond? http://t.co/EIdlgDwW
3 common questions teachers ask about their Jehovah's Witness students: http://t.co/kPTygb8r
3 common questions teachers ask about their Jehovah's Witness students: http://t.co/0y3R4WZV
Hey @BlackArtistNews check out this sculptor, this will blow your mind. My mind seriously can't take this in. http://t.co/I4VgB8ni
What do reporters have to say about balance in religion? Watch the video from last night's panel: http://t.co/jutu8oJ9
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Archive for December 2008
In November, the Wyoming Department of Corrections decided to allow its Muslim inmates to time their daily meals with prayer times.
Per the Islamic pillar of salat, Muslims are supposed to pray at five specific times each day. But in Wyoming prisons, inmates are supposed to eat within 20 minutes of being served a meal. Sometimes, this forced inmates to choose between praying and eating. Now, prisoners will be allowed to eat their meals before other prisoners in order to fit in prayers at the proper times.
This case brings to mind a recent case in Ohio where Jewish prisoners were denied kosher meals. Learn more about that case here.
What do you think? Should prisoners always have religious rights? Or should certain rights be denied?
Copyright 2009 Religion Transcends.
Hanukkah is the Jewish festival of lights, which began yesterday. Lasting 8 days, the holiday celebrates light conquering darkness (in particular, it celebrates the day the Jews conquered the Greeks and reclaimed the Temple in Jerusalem from the Greeks who had desecrated it).
Though the holiday doesn’t typically receive as much participation and significance as Yom Kippur or Rosh Hashanah, many Jews still practice lighting the menorah and other holiday traditions. The menorah is a candle-holder with 9 candles in it (one for each night of Hanukkah plus a “servant” candle). Tonight, 2 candles will be lit, as today marks day 2 of Hanukkah.
In New York City, locals kicked off Hanukkah with the lighting of a giant menorah (12-feet high). The ceremony was dedicated to Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, formerly of Brooklyn, and his wife Rivka who were killed in Mumbai during the terrorist attacks at the Taj Mahaj Palace in Mumbai, India, on November 28.
(As an aside, the rabbi and his wife are survived by two small boys, one of whom was at their side when they were killed. To learn more about them or to help them this holiday season, visit the Holtzberg relief fund Web site.)
Happy Hanukkah!
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