Sentences with phrase «jewish community of faith»

Not exact matches

This includes donor - advised funds at houses of worship and as well as those that have a mission to serve a particular faith group or in the name of a particular faith, such as Jewish Federations or Catholic Community Foundations.

You didn't have to come down to the site and yet you did — to speak on behalf of your Jewish heritage and faith — and I have to say «kudo's» to you — it isn't easy to be Jewish in our Christian communities (even on - line)-- when some of this language can be so offensive in nature to your beliefs.

Earlier we had occasion to note the relationship between Jewish faith as portrayed for us in the Old Testament and the Christian event which is the subject matter of the New Testament; and how it was indeed inevitable and right that the primitive Christian community should see their Lord and apprehend his significance for men, against the background of the whole history of the people into whom humanly speaking he was born.

The letter from the Council (which consists of forty representatives of the region's Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, mainline Protestant, and Jewish communities) warned that the SBC's efforts, «however well - intentioned,» might well «disrupt the pattern of peaceful interfaith relations in our community and unwittingly abet the designs of those who seek to provoke hate crimes by fomenting faith - based prejudice.»

He has since come to feel that in Hasidism the essence of Jewish faith and religiosity was visible in the structure of the community but that this essence has also been present «in a less condensed form everywhere in Judaism,» in the «inaccessible structure of the personal life.»

Places of worship pop up in communities of like people (same ethnicity, culture, faith etc.), so it's no surprise that we see all black churches in predominately black communities, synagogues in predominately Jewish communities, etc..

But the office's closure was protested by a variety of faith groups, including representatives from the Jewish, Sikh, and Muslim communities, who called its work valuable.

In general, Jesus directed his attention to people of Jewish faith, members of the synagogue communities — that they were, of course, race - pure Jews can not be asserted in regard to Galilee, as has been shown (pp.

The continuity of early Christian communities with the Jewish tradition suggests that children would learn Christian faith through participation in worship and through home ritual.

The Christian community in Corinth probably had in it people of both Jewish and Gentile back grounds, and even after their conversion, they must have been troubled by the discrepancies between the faith they affirmed and the taken - for - granted assumptions of their culture.

Each generation of Israelites grew the vision of the Messiah through the promptings of a newer and nobler vision by God in the heart of priest and prophet, and in the experienced faith and worship of the whole Jewish community.

In a beautiful meditation for the Osservatore Romano in 2000, «The Heritage of Abraham,» Pope Benedict (then Cardinal Ratzinger), explained the deep bonds the two communities share: «The faith witnessed to by the Jewish Bible (the Old Testament for Christians) is not merely another religion to us, but is the foundation of our own faith.»

She serves the Jewish and broader religious communities in a number of capacities including as a member of the Global Initiative for Faith, Health and Development of the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty, as a member of the Summit on Religious Leadership in Response to HIV and as a board member of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

The March 4 atrocity illustrated the brutal nature of sectarian violence, revealing lessons for all believers in the monotheistic faiths, Christian, Muslim, or Jewish (the last had a thriving community in Yemen until the 20th century).

The United States has proven itself to be a haven for religious freedom and for people of all faiths and there is no room in our nation for bigotry or intolerance,» said David Edelstein, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Council of Pelham Parkway.

«As Americans of all faiths, we stand united to condemn the acts of hate and bigotry that has plagued the Jewish and Muslim communities.

Also at 10 a.m., the UJA - Federation of New York and the Jewish Community Relations Council, will join New York elected officials, Jewish organizations and ethnic, faith and communal leaders from New York to show their support for Israel and her right to self - defense, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Core values of faith, family and liberty are at the heart of what the American - Jewish community is about and what all New Yorkers stand for.

Faith leaders from both the Christian and Jewish communities of Western New York have teamed up with labor advocates in the fight for paid family leave.

Jewish faith and community may be their most important source of hope.»

For example, our site makes it possible for a member of the Asian community to meet LGBT singles, or for someone with Christian faith to fall in love with someone with Jewish heritage.

If you are Jewish, serious about your faith and looking to meet other Jewish people for relationships, dating and fun - check out some of the pages of this website for some great online and offline meeting places for the Jewish community!

While it would be easy to make the same mistake I did and assume that JDate is a Japanese dating network, this is actually a faith based online dating community focused on the Jewish people, with tens of thousands of Jews all over the world using this premium network and a great track record in connecting people and giving them a hand in finding true love and long lasting relationship.

«We knew many singles in the Jewish community have a strong desire to meet like - minded people of faith, so we built a site around that.»

Originally intended as a way of keeping Jewish singles from marrying outside the faith; the speed - dating movement has flourished in both Jewish and secular communities throughout the world.

Traditions of faith, love and family are all on the table in Disobedience, in which New Yorker Ronnie Curtis, née Ronit Khruska (Rachel Weisz), returns after many years to her native London and an orthodox Jewish community that, frankly, doesn't want her.

Aligned against the «secularize or be shut out» approach is a growing coalition that now numbers more than seventy organizations including the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops, the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA), the Council for American Private Education (CAPE), the Faith and Freedom Coalition, the Christian Coalition, the Association of Christian Schools International, the American Association of Christian Schools, and Agudath Israel of America, which represents the Orthodox Jewish community.

First, we are taking this opportunity to advance the cause of Christian / Jewish relationships, a historic step in building bridges with a community that Pope John Paul II referred to as «our elder brothers in faith».

Home to one of the world's oldest and, in centuries past, biggest Jewish communities, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, now has only 100 to 150 Jews clinging to the faith in this fabled city.

Inter Faith Seminar on Environment and Sustainability: Practical action and the faith communities This is the report of an event on 21 March 2011, organised by Shrinking the Footprint, the Church of England's national environment campaign and the London School of Jewish Studies, for those who have responsibilities for managing and promoting environmental action within faith organisatFaith Seminar on Environment and Sustainability: Practical action and the faith communities This is the report of an event on 21 March 2011, organised by Shrinking the Footprint, the Church of England's national environment campaign and the London School of Jewish Studies, for those who have responsibilities for managing and promoting environmental action within faith organisatfaith communities This is the report of an event on 21 March 2011, organised by Shrinking the Footprint, the Church of England's national environment campaign and the London School of Jewish Studies, for those who have responsibilities for managing and promoting environmental action within faith organisatfaith organisations.

Bat - Ami Hensen, a member of the Jewish faith community in Victoria, explained that she attended to uphold the calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as honour her faith: «In our Torah it says, «Justice, Justice shall you pursue» and we're told that the reason justice is repeated twice is because it's not just for ourselves, but for others.»