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1 day ago · Both Haredi Judaism and Modern Orthodox Judaism accept a similar set of rules regarding Jewish status based on classical rabbinic Judaism, including both matrilineal descent and requirements that conversions be performed by Orthodox rabbis and that converts promise to strictly observe elements of traditional Judaism such as Shabbat and Niddah ...
1 day ago · The Eldridge Street Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue at 12 Eldridge Street, in the Chinatown and Lower East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Built in 1887 for Congregation Kahal Adath Jeshurun, the synagogue is one of the first erected in the U.S. by Eastern European Jews. The congregation, officially ...
- Peter and Francis William Herter
- Moorish Revival
- 1887
1 day ago · Anglican Church of Australia – 3.1 million [45] Anglican Church of Southern Africa – 3 million [46] [47] Anglican Church of Tanzania – 2.0 million [48] Episcopal Church in the United States – 1.6 million [49] Church of North India – 1.5 million [50] Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan – 1.1 million.
1 day ago · Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. As a forerunner of the Age of Reason, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and contemporary conceptions of the self and the universe, establishing himself as one of the most ...
- Benedictus de Spinoza
1 hour ago · In South Africa, a nation characterised by a rich tapestry of cultures and diverse marriage practices, both religious and secular, civil law has succeeded in finding common ground among these various traditions. In some religious denominations, like many Christian sects and Judaism, civil marriage is an integral part of the ceremony.
1 day ago · Satan. Satan, [a] also known as the Devil, [b] and sometimes also called Lucifer in Christianity, is an entity in Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood. In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, or "evil inclination".
6 hours ago · Theorists of Northern origins challenged the Bible, for orthodox religion looked to Israel as the cradle of language. Grimm's work spread and scholars began to record tales and customs of their ...
