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Runway rag: Runway N.Y Spring 09 Coverage at Men.Style
Men's Rag | July 24th 2008 by Manuel Paul
So far, So good…. Men.style.com gives their readers coverage of Runway N.Y. Spring 09. The designers so far include Nicholas K, Conference of Birds, Orthodox, Buckler and one of Men’s rag favorites Yoko Devereaux. Hopefully there’s read more
Sofia's big fat Greek baptism
My Little Baklava | July 24th 2008 by Yannis Mameletzis
My beautiful little niece Sofia was baptised into the Greek Orthodox Christian faith in style this past Saturday. Overlooking the Aegean waters and the mountains of Evia on warm summer's afternoon, the setting for this auspicious event was quite dram read more
Rosen feels Obama in his kishkes, Foxman says he’s hearing good…
JTA Election Central | July 23rd 2008 by Daniel Sieradski
Before becoming the Orthodox Union’s man in D.C., Nathan Diament went to Harvard Law School with Barack Obama and used to shoot hoops with the future presidential candidate. But however well Diament knows Obama, he really knows Jews, especially read more
#93 Tyler James - Your Woman
Pop Unlimited | July 23rd 2008 by Ben Cook
Barnsley boy Tyler James was tipped to be Britain's answer to Justin Timberlake when he released his excellent first single Why Do I Do? in 2004, but it faltered at number 25. He went top 20 with follow-up Foolish but then resorted to releasing a co read more
Why Practicing Yoga Is Great For Your Health and Stress Levels
Yoga Help & Meditation | July 23rd 2008
By Christina InghamThe Sanskrit word Yoga means Union, an entryway to balancing the spiritual, mental and physical aspects of the being. It has the distinction of being the oldest personal development technique known. Practiced for almost 5000 years, read more
PR firm's misconduct on Essential Estrogen documented by trade ma…
Essential Estrogen | July 23rd 2008 by LW
5W Public Relations, a New York-based firm hired last month by Agriprocessors, has told PR Week that a comment left on this blog was not fraudulent, but done at the bequest of Uri L'Tzedek, an Orthodox Jewish social group to which it was attributed. read more
BLACK, AFRICAN DIASPORA CATHOLICS (INCL. OCEANIA, CARIBBEAN) PRO…
Black Catholics, Black Saints | July 23rd 2008 by James Wesly Smith
BLACK, AFRICAN DIASPORA CATHOLICS (INCL. OCEANIA, CARIBBEAN) PROPHECY MEDITATIONS Black Saints of the day—From the Black Saints reference book by James Wesly Smith, 456 pages, paperback, 1000 lines of Black and African Saints in read more
The tear in Orthodoxy
JTA: The Telegraph | July 23rd 2008 by Daniel Sieradski
Michael Freund devotes his column in Tuesday’s Jerusalem Post to the increasingly acrimonious battle between differing Orthodox camps in the battle over conversions in Israel. Less than three weeks before Tisha B’Av, which commemorates th read more
Christian Carnival CCXXXIV is Online
parables of a prodigal world | July 23rd 2008 by Raffi Shahinian
The 234th Christian Carnival is up today at A True Believer's Blog, and I'm proud to say, for the second week in a row, that one of my posts made the list. The Christian Carnival is a weekly collection of some of the best posts of the Christian blogo read more
E-mail a prayer if you're too poor or sick for a pilgrimage
Bad Thinking | July 23rd 2008 by Hubert Xapier
For those who know Greek, this madness can be found here: Greece's holiest pilgrimage site on the Aegean island of Tinos has launched an e-mail service allowing those too poor or sick to visit in person to have their prayers read to its icon of the read more
Jew shield Arabs from ultraorthodox Jerusalem lynch mob
Israel News | July 23rd 2008 by Ami Isseroff
There should not be lynch mobs in an civilized society, but at least we can be comforted that a greater tragedy was averted because of the courage and decency of a few Israelis. They have redeemed our honor with their blood, as at least one read more
An extraordinary claim
BobFromBrockley | July 23rd 2008
I read slowly. I subscribe to the London Review of Books. I'm currently reading the 10 April edition. On the bus this morning, I was reading a review by Henry Siegman of two books about the Israeli settlements in the Occupied lands. The review is a s read more
"Christian Beliefs" vs. Job responsibilities
Straight, Not Narrow | July 23rd 2008
From PinkNews UK:Two leading gay Christian organisations have said that an employment tribunal victory for London registrar Lillian Ladele is "disappointing."The tribunal ruled that Ms Ladele had been discriminated against by employer. Islington Coun read more
Nikos and Patroula wedding
Code is like Poetry | July 23rd 2008 by Andreas Daskalopoulos
This weekend I attended the marriage of my dear friends Nikos and Patroula at Monastiraki near Naupaktos. Me and Vicky arrived to the event driving 15 km from Patras through Rio-Antirrio bridge and Naupaktos.The ceremony was held in the Greek Orthodo read more
Analyzing Klitschko Vs. Thompson
Wladimir & Vitali Klitschko Blog Updated With Recent News | July 23rd 2008 by Brandan
On Saturday July 12th, 2008 there was a heavyweight title match between WBO/IBF/IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir "Steelhammer" Klitschko and WBO #1 mandatory challenger Tony "The Tiger" Thompson. Even though Wladimir won the fight via 11th round KO read more
Ultra-orthodox Israeli Women Earn Biotechnology Degrees
Women in Science | July 23rd 2008 by Peggy
The Jerusalem Post has an interesting column about a science degree program designed especially for religious Jewish women.Picture the graduates: 28 young, very religious women with mortar boards fitted snugly over head scarves and wigs, marching to read more
Saint Stalin?
Notes from underground | July 22nd 2008 by Steve Hayes
Could Josef Stalin be made a saint? - Telegraph:The Communist party in St Petersburg has petitioned the Orthodox Church to canonise Josef Stalin if he wins a television poll to nominate the greatest Russian in history...The Soviet dictator, who was r read more
SPCK Bookshops — Gags & Gimcrack
Bishop Alan's Blog | July 22nd 2008 by Alan Wilson
The funniest thing in the exhibition area today was this card by Dave Walker. I was disturbed to come back this afternoon and discover he has had a “Cease and Desist” order served on him from Texas, arising from blog entries tracing the fate of f read more
RADOVAN KARADZIC IS ARRESTED
Srebrenica Genocide Blog | July 22nd 2008 by Srebrenica Genocide Blog
THE MASTERMIND OF SREBRENICA GENOCIDE, HAILED AS THE "OSAMA BIN LADEN OF EUROPE," WAS 13 YEARS ON THE RUNPHOTO: Here is your Caveman! Radovan Karadzic aka Dragan Dabic, aka Dragan David Dabic.Former Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, one o read more
Tradeoffs in Judaism Between Truth and Goodness. Or Not.
Three Jews, Four Opinions | July 22nd 2008 by Bruce Adelstein
XGH has another interesting post called Massively Conflicted. His problem, simply put, is he thinks there is a lot of good in Orthodoxy but a lot of stupidity as well. And he keep cycling through different resolutions of this problem, with little s read more
BLACK, AFRICAN DIASPORA CATHOLICS (INCL. OCEANIA, CARIBBEAN) PRO…
Black Catholics, Black Saints | July 22nd 2008 by James Wesly Smith
BLACK, AFRICAN DIASPORA CATHOLICS (INCL. OCEANIA, CARIBBEAN) PROPHECY MEDITATIONS Black Saints of the day—From the Black Saints reference book by James Wesly Smith, 456 pages, paperback, 1000 lines of Black and African Saints in the Latin Rite read more
Israeli court: Husband who refused divorce must pay damages
International Family Law | July 22nd 2008
The Jerusalem Family Court (Judge Ben Zion Greenberger) has reportedly ordered a husband who refused to give his wife a divorce for nine years to pay damages of approximately $160,000. In an unprecedented ruling, the judge said that even if a hus read more
Palm Sunday (Shaaneen) - 2008
Hadi-Aram Bachir | July 22nd 2008
We took part in the Palm Sunday march starting from the Orthodox church in Makhoul street and up through Bliss street along the AUB and back. The water fountains in the church yard was the center of attention:From left to right (hehee) Nadim Khoury, read more
Those Whitewashed Walls By Matthew J. Milliner
USA Partisan | July 22nd 2008 by Hans Gruen
Nicosia, Cyprus touts itself—mournfully but with a dash of pride—as the world’s “last divided capital.” The southern side, which is muscularly Orthodox when not pedantically secular, boasts dozens of lovingly tended chur read more
Lackthereof:: Your Anchor
parasites and sycophants | July 21st 2008 by Scott
The narcotic drip drop refrain of - the new year is the old year again - from opener "Chest Past," from Lackthereof's new album, Your Anchor, flows through the cloudy lines of the high bass string runs of a commandeering rhythm section aided by colo read more
The Limits and Necessity of Theological Terms - John Calvin
David Westerfield > Blog | July 21st 2008 by David Westerfield
Calvin argues in this section of the Institutes for the necessity of employing theological terminology as it relates particularly to the doctrine of the Trinity in the context of this section (as that was the larger subject he was addressing), so as read more
Karadzic manhunt ends
news can affect you in the way you respond it | July 21st 2008
July 22, The Sydney Herald MorningHe was accused of masterminding massacres that the UN war crimes tribunal described as "scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history."Monday's capture of Radovan Karadzic, the wartime leader of the read more
BLACK, AFRICAN DIASPORA CATHOLICS (INCL. OCEANIA, CARIBBEAN) PRO…
Black Catholics, Black Saints | July 21st 2008 by James Wesly Smith
BLACK, AFRICAN DIASPORA CATHOLICS (INCL. OCEANIA, CARIBBEAN) PROPHECY MEDITATIONS Black Saints of the day—From the Black Saints reference book by James Wesly Smith, 456 pages, paperback, 1000 lines of Black and African Saints in read more
Russian Muslims protest radical literature ban
Islamization Watch | July 21st 2008
It is time for Russians to smell - the coffee - as the Muslims of the world are protecting their territory - they clearly see yours is up for grabs. There is not a single Russian Orthodox Church anywhere in the Islamic world - but they will pay for m read more
Eastern Orthodoxy & the Immaculate Conception
The God Fearin Forum | July 21st 2008
Orthodox blogger Eirenikon has two excellent posts (part 1 and part 2) on the differences (or rather similarities) between East & West on the Immaculate Conception and the doctrine of Original Sin. As Jaroslav Pelikan, the famous convert to Orth read more