Ayatollah: Ali "strongly adored" by Xians

That's what it says. From Fars:

Ali (PBUH) is the first of the Shiites' twelve Imams and he is strongly adored not only by the Shiite, but also by the Sunnite Muslims as well as Christians and others who may - or even may not - faith in God as he was the symbol (and probably the only symbol) of a perfect man, of perfect humanity.

Tags: Ayatollah, Iran, Ali

BTB: "Boulder Eruv Freakout"

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Tags: Eruvin, Eruv, Judaism

"2007: The Year in Thugs"

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To be fab and not to roll

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(Hat Tip: Discarded Lies)

Splodies time rolls around again for the first time

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"Kaddish, extreme edition"--does anybody know what this means?

From Jewish News of Northern California:

All his life, Leon Charney had uttered the Kaddish. By rote.

He davened from the amud alot?

Then, when his mother died, Charney opted for the Mourner’s Kaddish, extreme edition, reciting it several times a day with a minyan for a year. The experience got him wondering why the prayer has proven so central to Jewish life.

Charney’s inquiry resulted in "The Mystery of the Kaddish," a bestselling book he co-wrote with Israeli journalist Saul Mayzlish. On Nov. 29, Charney will speak about the book and the prayer at Berkeley’s Jewish Community Center of the East Bay.

For a man known for his work as a Middle East peace negotiator, talk show host and philanthropist, this intimate quest to understand the Kaddish might seem out of character. It wasn’t.

I mean, a quest to understand Kaddish would be understandable, but an intimate quest?

"What I learned," he said from his New York office, "is that this integral prayer, brought about by rabbinical Judaism, has kept the Jewish people together for 2,000 years. The whole idea is minyan, and minyan is community." [...]

So it's the same concept as shmaltz herring?

Tags: Judiasm, Kaddish, Jews

This kinda says it all

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So does this.

Tags: terror, Israel, Palestinians, Pakistan