I just came across this today and thought the community might find it interesting, from Wikipedia (sorry!):

"Awake Zion is a 2005 documentary by Monica Haim that draws a connection between Jews and Rastafarians. Rasta is a religious movement that came out of Jamaica. The followers accept Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia as God incarnate, grow their ( Read more... )

Some interesting ( and no doubt controversial) new claims by Israeli researcher Benny Shanon.

Disclaimer: I'm not posting this to unleash a holy war / Judeo-Christian bashing - I'm merely  fascinated by the  metamorphosis of early to modern religious thought, nor am I advocating the use, sale, or trafficking of illegal drugs
Moses was high on drugs ( Read more... )

German Jews who survived in Germany, or in exile, had a deeply ambivalent relationship with their homeland. Apart from guilt-that they had survived, and even stayed in the killers' country-many felt an almost physical revulsion when they came into close contact with Germans. So they retreated to live in yet another form of ghetto ( Read more... )

How does one respond to someone who claims that anthropology does not apply to Judaism?

(I'm debating with an Orthodox Jew who claims that Judaism is an "anthropological anomaly" and anthropological concepts cannot be used to understand it, because it is unique).

By LAURIE COPANS, Associated Press Writer ( Read more... )

DNA tests contradict Mormon scripture. The church says the studies are being twisted to attack its beliefs ( Read more... )

By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer ( Read more... )

Press Association, Saturday November 26, 2005, The Guardian

Members of the UK's Jewish community have become the first mainstream religious organisation to create and authorise a gay marriage service.Liberal Judaism, one of the three major strands of Judaism in Britain, has created a liturgy called Covenant of Love, a service of commitment for ( Read more... )

HOUSTON, Oct. 28 - When she was growing up in a small town in southern Colorado, an area where her ancestors settled centuries ago when it was on the fringes of the northern frontier of New Spain, Bernadette Gonzalez always thought some of the stories about her family were unusual, if not bizarre.

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Israel has stopped converting people in north-east India who say they are from a biblical "lost tribe" following complaints from the Indian government.Delhi did "not view positively" conversions to another religion, Israel's foreign ministry said ( Read more... )