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From foreheads to crowns: How Ash Wednesday looks different worldwide
1+ hour, 2+ min ago (808+ words) VATICAN CITY (CNS) " Catholics going to Mass on Ash Wednesday will leave church marked, but whether the ashes appear as a bold cross on the forehead or sprinkled atop the head depends largely on where in the world they worship....
A Commonsense Critique of A Priori Metaphysics
1+ hour, 56+ min ago (322+ words) Posted February 17, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley As a philosopher of science, I have some minor obligation to say something when other philosophers share harmful misinformation about how science works. Sigh. Yesterday, the panpsychist Philip Goff (who debated my wife, Heather…...
Ash Wednesday services & drive-thru ashes at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in West Bend, Wi
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (199+ words) The church, which has been a fixture of faith in West Bend for over 50 years, welcomes everyone'regardless of their faith tradition, or no tradition'to drive thru the day of Ash Wednesday, and join the church in observing the First Day…...
The Blogs: Jewish Brazil: Fortuna
3+ hour, 49+ min ago (381+ words) I attended the Congrega'o Israelita Paulista (CIP) for a Solemn Act in Memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The ceremony honored the six million Jews murdered, as well as all other victims of the Nazi regime. Among those present,…...
Catholic opposition to Zionism resurfaces in US politics
4+ hour, 32+ min ago (482+ words) On January 25, 1904, the founder of the modern political movement of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, was received in the Vatican for an audience with Pope Pius X. Herzl, after disdaining to kneel before the pontiff and to kiss his hand, requested Vatican approval…...
Charleston police working to determine who made synagogue bomb threat
4+ hour, 32+ min ago (188+ words) Fire trucks and law enforcement searched Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Synagogue and the surrounding area on Tuesday, Feb. 17 for a bomb after a threat was called in. Charleston Fire Department engines and hazmat trucks respond to a scene on Hasell…...
High Court: Israel must explain funding of haredi schools
4+ hour, 43+ min ago (642+ words) The High Court of Justice on Tuesday ordered the state to explain why it continues to fully fund the two main party-affiliated haredi (ultra-Orthodox) education networks despite what petitioners describe as systemic noncompliance with basic academic requirements. By doing so,…...
How an Undercover Operative Foiled a Planned Mass Shooting Targeting Manchester’s Jewish Community
5+ hour, 47+ min ago (960+ words) A trial unfolding in the shadow of two antisemitic attacks reveals how Britain narrowly avoided its deadliest antisemitic terror plot Three months earlier, in October 2025, Jewish worshippers in Manchester were attacked during Yom Kippur, when a terrorist drove a vehicle…...
High Court grills state, Jerusalem over egalitarian Kotel
5+ hour, 59+ min ago (699+ words) High Court grills state, Jerusalem over egalitarian Kotel'The Jerusalem Post The High Court of Justice on Tuesday held a long-delayed hearing over prayer arrangements at the Western Wall, with the justices openly pressing state officials and the Jerusalem Municipality over…...
New exhibit examines the remains of America’s Jewish vacationland
6+ hour, 46+ min ago (748+ words) The Borscht Belt was a well-known resort destination for hundreds of thousands of American Jews from the 1920s to the early 1970s. Eventually,the resorts in New York's Catskill Mountains began a gradual demise due to many factors " including the growth of…...