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...present holiday celebrations from our historical legacy. To deny such roots is to disown the origin of our American culture. The Supreme Court wisely considered the arguments in deciding Marsh v. Chambers (1983). In Marsh, the Court permitted the Nebraska legislature to continue opening its sessions with a prayer from a state supported chaplain. The Court abandoned a strict constitutional analysis; instead, the Justices cited the substantial history of legislative chaplains and found no significant First Amendment violations...
...center for Jewish communal life that stressed the humanistic rather than the solely religious aspects of heritage. Kaplan's ideas were viewed as a divisive force by many Orthodox Jews, and in 1945 a panel of Orthodox rabbis issued a religious ban against his Reconstructionist Sabbath Prayer Book, which excised references to the Jews as a chosen people and to the divine revelation of the Torah. His influence was widely felt in the Reform and even Conservative branches of the faith, not least in the perception of the role of women; in 1922 Kaplan introduced the bat mitzvah ceremony...
...could go a long way in determining whether it's really the last time Saturday when the stickwomen meet Yale in New Haven for both squads' regular season finale. Whether it's the career finale for the field hockey squad's three seniors rests on a wing and a prayer...
Luther assailed the Jews on doctrinal grounds, just as he excoriated "papists" and Turkish "infidels." But his work titled On the Jews and Their Lies (1543) went so far as to advocate that their synagogues, schools and homes should be destroyed and their prayer books and Talmudic volumes taken away. Jews were to be relieved of their savings and put to work as agricultural laborers or expelled outright...
...President Jimmy Carter; of pancreatic cancer; in Fayetteville, N.C. A self-described "catalyst for God," the ebullient, unordained born-again Christian minister suffered a severe depression in the late '50s after the births of her four children and a car accident. Crediting her recovery to God, she mixed prayer with psychology to heal troubled or afflicted believers. After she learned of her terminal disease five months ago, Stapleton refused conventional medical treatment, saying, "I have seen so many miracles. I want now to put all my faith...