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When is a Christmas Tree Just a Christmas Tree?
It's interesting that so many in the Jewish community put an emphasis on Christmas. Specifically, whether or not interfaith families observe Christmas. And the assumption has been that if Christmas is observed, these families couldn't be raising their kids in a Jewish home. And the focus of these Christmas celebrations has often been the tree.
Two local Jewish community studies (Boston's from 2005 and New York's from 2011 (released in 2012)) noted the frequency of interfaith families having Christmas trees. Both studies also noted the lack of data indicating what a Christmas tree means to interfaith families. Wouldn't you know it? We've been asking just that question in our annual December holiday surveys!
To those of you who took our survey in September-October, thanks!
Read on for more about the results of our 9th annual December holidays survey, interfaith families, and the December dilemma:
What Draws Interfaith Families To Jewish Life
I'm pleased to report that the New York Jewish Week has published my op-ed, What Draws Interfaith Families to Jewish Life. A considerably longer version is on the Huffington Post, A New Year To Engage Interfaith Families in Jewish Life.
Having just come off Yom Kippur's intense period of introspection about the past and the future, it feels that the time is now right for this call for a new sustained effort to engage interfaith families in Jewish life and community.
You can find the report on the first year of our InterfaithFamily/Chicago project here, and the report on our holiday surveys here.
What Our Surveys Say About What Attracts Interfaith Families to Jewish Organizations
There is a great deal of concern in the Jewish world about the degree to which interfaith families are engaged or disengaged in Jewish life and community. A headline of the New York Jewish Community Study of 2011, released in June 2012, was that interfaith families generally score low on that study's index of Jewish engagement, while interfaith families who join synagogues or send their children to Jewish education score comparably to in-married families. Community studies like New York's, and other available communal research, however, tell us precious little about what factors contribute to interfaith families joining Jewish organizations and expanding their connections to Judaism – or what they experience as barriers to that expanded connection.
Starting in December 2009, Interfaith Family's annual December Holidays survey and Passover/Easter survey have asked precisely those questions. We've just published a report on the responses to those questions. Our surveys are not "scientific" or based on a random sample; the respondents are self-selected and some may have responded to more than one survey. But no one else is asking these questions, and our report sheds what is currently the most available light on these important issues: it summarizes and analyzes close to 700 responses from six consecutive surveys from respondents who were in interfaith relationships, were raising their children as Jews, and were members of a synagogue or Jewish organization.
Interfaith families are attracted, in order of importance, by explicit statements that interfaith families are welcome; inclusive policies on participation by interfaith families; invitations to learn about Judaism and, to a much lesser extent, invitations to convert; the presence of other interfaith families; programming and groups specifically for interfaith couples; and officiation by rabbis at weddings of interfaith couples. Read the full report for the data and many comments to our open-ended questions.
The policy implications of these findings are that Jewish communities that want to increase engagement by local interfaith families need to:
That's the approach we are taking in our InterfaithFamily/Your Community initiative.
Insights on Engaging Interfaith Families from the NY Community Study
The 2011 Jewish Community Study of New York, released in June 2012, has important findings for all those interested in engaging interfaith families Jewishly.
The study confirms that there is a huge amount of intermarriage, and it is continuing. Between 2006 and 2011, one in three non-Orthodox Jews who married, married someone who was not Jewish (a 33% individual rate of intermarriage); 50% of the non-Orthodox couples formed were intermarried couples (a 50% couples rate of intermarriage) (135).1 Twelve percent of the children (age 0 to 17) in Jewish households — 50,000 children — are in intermarried households (183).
The study reports that 31% of the children of intermarried households are raised Jewish and 11% are raised "Jewish and something else," while 13% have parents who are undecided and 46% are raised not Jewish (180-81).2 A goal of having more than 50% of intermarried parents raise their children Jewish is reachable — if the undecided parents and the parents raising their children Jewish and something else can be influenced towards more Jewish choices.
The tone of much of the study follows an approach consistently taken in the past by Steven M. Cohen, the study's principal author, that lumps together all intermarried couples and then highlights their relatively low levels of Jewish engagement when compared to all in-married couples. The policy implications of this approach are that it is not worth making efforts to engage interfaith couples. A different approach, which compares those intermarried couples who are Jewishly engaged with in-married couples, highlights their relatively comparable levels of Jewish engagement; the policy implications of that approach, which is reflected to a degree in the study, are to make efforts to move more intermarried couples to Jewish engagement.
For example, the study reports that the children of intermarried households receive relatively little Jewish education — only 35% are sent to supplemental school; but of the 15% of intermarried households that are synagogue members, 90% send their children to supplemental school. The policy implication clearly is to try to influence intermarried households to become synagogue members — and the study does say, somewhat reluctantly, "Perhaps expanding congregation-based efforts to engage intermarried households is worth pursuing" (28).
For another example, of intermarried households that are raising their children exclusively Jewish, 54% score high or very high on the study's index of Jewish engagement (182).3 The policy implication clearly is to try to influence intermarried households to raise their children as Jews — and the study does say that the fact that 13% of intermarried parents are undecided about how they are raising their children "suggest
For another example, the study reports that the intermarried are less engaged because they have fewer Jewish social connections, with 77% of those age 30-39 living fairly isolated from other Jews — but adds, "These patterns suggest one approach: connect the intermarried socially to other Jews" (162).
The study's authors ask an important question: "To what extent has the Jewish community made progress in closing the engagement gap associated with intermarriage?" Comparing their findings to those of the 2002 community study, they conclude that the intermarried (again lumped all together) became more distant when compared to the in-married (140). Given the negligible communal efforts to engage interfaith families Jewishly since 2002, the lack of progress should not be a surprise.
The study reports that the vast majority of the intermarried say they do not feel uncomfortable attending most Jewish events and activities — only 14% feel uncomfortable, compared to 10% of the in-married (144). In an exchange with Shmuel Rosner, Cohen says, "If discomfort is not a major obstacle to Jewish engagement, then welcoming is not the solution." Cohen seems to recognize, however, that there is a big difference between not feeling uncomfortable, and feeling truly invited to engage: "Rather than focusing all our energies on welcoming the intermarried, we ought to be focusing on engaging the intermarried, approaches that certainly include welcoming, but go to building relationships and offering opportunities to educate and participate."
But a related finding exposes widespread negative attitudes about intermarriage that potentially result in disinviting, unwelcoming behavior: high percentages of parents say they would be upset if their adult child married someone not Jewish who did not convert. While 6% of intermarrieds and 12% of converts would be upset, 56% of non-Orthodox in-married Jews would be upset. Feeling that the fact of their relationship is a cause of upset in a community is a factor likely to discourage a couple from engaging with that community.
Sensing negative communal attitudes may explain why more intermarried households make charitable contributions exclusively to non-Jewish causes, and fewer give to Jewish causes (203-05) — and the study does suggest "experiment[ing] with new ways of connecting with those who seem the most disconnected from communal Jewish philanthropy — [including] intermarried households" (30).
The fact that people go where they feel welcomed is supported by another study finding, namely a significant shift of Conservative Jews to Reform, which clearly has been perceived as the more hospitable movement for the intermarried. Of all Jews raised Conservative, 29% now identify as Reform; of all now Reform, 31% were raised Conservative (124).
The study has a very helpful discussion of the current context of shifting identities. It highlights fluidity, with people freely choosing identities based on relationships; malleability, with identities changing over time; and hybridity, a confluence of multiple traditions that is the ethos in American society generally (111-12) .
One aspect of hybridity briefly mentioned in the study is that in 9 of 10 intermarried households, synagogue affiliated or not, Christmas is celebrated by a household member. The study states that "In about half, it is celebrated as a religious holiday" but provides no explanation of what that means. InterfaithFamily's eight years of December holiday surveys have consistently reported, in contrast, that high majorities of interfaith families raising their children as Jews celebrate Christmas but not as a religious holiday.
The Jewish Community Study of New York report can be found at ujafedny.org/jewish-community-study-of-new-york-201.
[1]The study may understate the amount and the Jewish engagement of what have commonly been thought of as intermarriages. Five percent of study respondents were people who had no Jewish parent and had not formally converted, but identified as "Jewish by personal choice." A marriage between a Jew (by birth or formal conversion) and such a Jew by personal choice has up to know been thought of as an intermarriage, but the study appears to count such couples as "conversionary, in-married" — resulting in less intermarriage. Moreover, Jews by personal choice almost by definition would be more Jewishly engaged than non-Jews; if marriages involving Jews by personal choice were counted as intermarriages, that should mean more Jewish engagement by intermarried couples than this study, which treats those couples as in-married, reports.
[2]The study frequently attributes cause and effect to intermarriage while being very cautious about doing so with any other issue. Thus the study concludes that intermarriage — as opposed to other factors such as what the partners bring to the marriage — "strongly influences" whether children are raised as Jews, the Jewish engagement level of the home, and the Jewish educational choices for their children (191). In contrast, for example, on the question whether having fewer Jewish acquaintances causes less engagement, the study says "Of course, the chicken and egg here are difficult to discern. Do people with many Jewish intimates acquire and sustain Jewish engagement, or do Jewishly engaged people form and sustain Jewish friendships and family relationships?"
[3]Many of the study's findings are organized around an index of Jewish engagement, based on twelve factors selected by the study's authors (118), and the study frequently refers to intermarried households scoring low on that index — for example, 70% of the intermarried score low on the engagement index (142). The authors acknowledge, however, that indicators that can be undertaken individually or with friends and family, that don't demand formal affiliation or collective action, are not included in their engagement index (119). As intermarried households are more involved with these indicators that are not included on the study's index, their Jewish engagement is understated by the index.
A Long Look at a Long Study
While I was away from the office earlier last week, the UJA-Federation of New York released a big, giant, whopping study of Downstate NY's community. (Downstate being, of course, the opposite of Upstate NY. That is, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau County, Suffolk County and Westchester County.) More than 250 pages long, there's a lot to think about – and I'm still thinking. But there are some highlights that readers of InterfaithFamily.com might especially want to know about. I'm going to do a
From 1991 to 2002, the number of Jews in the eight-county New York area held steady, while from 2002 to 2011 it grew dramatically. The contrasting changes in the number of non-Jews in Jewish households — consisting mostly of spouses and children in intermarried homes — are even more striking. In the earlier period (1991–2002), the number of non-Jewish people in Jewish households almost doubled; since 2002, though, it has declined slightly, falling to 231,000. With respect to the slightly declining numbers of non-Jews in Jewish households, the Jewish population in the New York area sharply contrasts with most Jewish communities in the United States and, indeed, the entire Jewish world outside of Israel. In every other large Jewish diaspora community, rising intermarriage has brought increasing numbers of non-Jews — spouses, partners, and children — into Jewish households.
Are outreach initiatives working in NY while falling short in other communities? Are Jewish communal organizations, such as synagogues and JCCs, more welcoming and inclusive of partners and other family members who aren't Jewish in NY than elsewhere? Or is this solely a statistical game, with the number of non-Jews in Jewish households smaller in NY than elsewhere due to the large number of Orthodox (who have lower rates of including non-Jews in their Jewish households)? Indeed, the study attributes it in part to the high birthrate of Orthodox families, but also to the "dramatic increase in the number of people who consider themselves 'partially Jewish,' many the children of intermarriage."
Unlike major religious groups in the United States, major segments of Jews do not necessarily identify being Jewish with Judaism as a religion. Significant numbers of Jews claim their religion as "none." This configuration is particularly common among the intermarried, children of the intermarried, and less engaged Jews, as well as Russian-speaking Jews. However, Jewish identity without religion is by no means isolated to these Jews; it is also expressed by those influenced by certain Zionist and Yiddishist movements in the United States and Europe. Still others lay claim to Jewish identity even though they maintain religious identities tied to something other than Judaism.
After reading the first two sentences here, I started to wonder about those Jews who have identified as cultural Jews for generations, but was reassured that intermarriage wasn't being (solely) blamed as I continued reading the last two sentences.
Growing up in Canada, our Jewish population studies are slightly different. According to the Canadian census, one is considered Jewish if one identifies as Jewish by ethnicity, by religion, or both. Additionally, one is counted as Jewish if identifying as Jewish by ethnicity and with a religion that does not require conversion (such as Buddhism, but not, say, Catholicism). Using definitions such as these, perhaps there wouldn't be a negative connotation to being Jewish but listing religion as "none."
Several factors account for the rise of the nondenominational segment of the population. One factor noted earlier is a decreasing attachment to denominational (and other social) identities, including political parties, consumer brands, nations, and communities. Another is the increased number of adult children of intermarriage — among the adult children of the intermarried, 65% identify with no denomination or a minor denomination, in contrast with just 32% of the adult children of two Jewish parents. A third is the increasingly porous boundaries that allow the entry of people born non-Jewish but who become identified as Jews despite never having gone through conversion.
This one surprised me. I'm familiar with the growing trend to move away from denominations. (Heck, I'm as engaged with Judaism as it gets, but pray at transdenominational or post-denominational minyans instead of synagogues of any denomination and regularly score low on Steven M. Cohen's scales. (One such example, where I score a zero.)) But I hadn't expected the statistic to be so much greater among adult children of intermarriage. I'd love to know more: Were these adults raised with strong ties to the Jewish community? Were they raised in denominations that recognized their parents' marriages? Recognized them as Jews? And when it comes to "minor denomination," why are Renewal, Sephardic, secular humanist, havurahs and minyans, and others considered lesser?
Further, how do these statistics take into account the likelihood of an intermarried individual who was raised Orthodox or Conservative shifting to Reform, Reconstructionist or "other" (or no) denominations after facing barriers in the denomination in which they were raised? If raised Orthodox but now participating in a Reform synagogue, because that's the only place they could find clergy to officiate their wedding, because that's where their patrilineal children are acknowledged as Jewish, they're now counted as Reform (though they might not identify as "Reform" nor "Orthodox" now). And with statistics skewed in this way, it perpetuates the idea that intermarriage isn't an issue for the Orthodox community (or Conservative, to a lesser extent), making it difficult to make inroads there.
as intermarriage rates persist or rise, and as Jewish group boundaries remain porous, we can expect further increases in the nondenominational, along with Jews who score low on indices of Jewish engagement.
Intermarriage is to blame? Shouldn't this read, "unless the Jewish denominational organizations make changes, start welcoming and including intermarried partners and families, we can expect further increases in the nondenominational…"?
3 in 5 Jews are congregationally affiliated, only 1 in 6 non-Jews living in Jewish homes is congregationally affiliated. The vast majority of people in congregationally affiliated households are Jewish (Orthodox, 99%; Conservative, 97%; Reform, 95%). Non-Jews in Jewish households disproportionately live in homes that are nondenominational and that do not belong to congregations.
How does this compare to Boston, where the federation (CJP) focuses some spending on interfaith families? Is there still such an extreme divide between Jewish households that are congregationally affiliated and households with non-Jewish members? In the footnote for the chart that fleshes out the above statistic, there's a footnote explaining that those non-Jewish (presumably intermarried) who said they identified as Reform were moved to the "other" category. That seems off to me, given the definition of conversion (below) that included self-identifying as Jewish with or without formal conversion.
By way of definition, we classify married couples into three categories.
It's nice, though not without controversy, to see their self-identification definition of conversion, instead of sticking to those who have taken a formal conversion route.
This definition would also lower the number of intermarried couples, as those who have not formally converted, even if living Jewishly, are usually counted amongst the non-Jewish, thus forming an intermarriage.
The "couple rate" is always higher than the "individual rate." A simple example will clarify the point: in a population with just two couples — one in-married and the other intermarried — the intermarried couple rate is 50%, as half of the two couples are intermarried; however, of the three Jews in the population, just one is intermarried. Thus, for the same imaginary population, a third of the Jewish individuals are intermarried, while half of the couples are intermarried.
Always good to remember this distinction.
In 2011, 72% of all Jewish married couples in the eight county area were in-married, another 6% were conversionary in-married, and 22% were intermarried. This distribution is nearly identical to that found in 2002, when 22% of couples were intermarried and 7% were conversionary in-married. In 1991, 20% were intermarried. Over a 20-year period, then, intermarriage edged upward by a relatively small amount, but only in the first part of the period. In effect, the overall rate of intermarriage has stabilized in the eight-county New York area.
22% of NY's couples are intermarried? That's much lower than the national average of 48%. I wonder how much their inclusive definition of "conversionary" lowers this stat.
Intermarriage rates really jump among people who do not belong to a congregation.
Let's look at this one differently. It isn't cause and effect (intermarriage leads to lack of affiliation). Rather, too often congregations and denominational bodies haven't kept up with the needs of their potential members. (Want to attract more intermarried couples to your congregation? Our Resource Center for Program Providers and Resource Center for Jewish Clergy both have great suggestions.)
For the most recently conducted marriages, those who wed between 2006 and 2011, as many as 50% of non-Orthodox couples intermarried. This rate represents the first time that the intermarriage couple rate reached the halfway point, attaining a level almost three times that found in the 1970s.
This reminds me of how women are seen as a minority group, despite being a majority of the population. Can we start seeing intermarried couples and their families as a main Jewish population? Stop seeing them as the minority? Can we shift federation and other communal funding and programming accordingly?
On nearly all measures of Jewish engagement, the intermarried trail the in-married.
I don't think we can measure them on the "groom or bloom" scale. And, again, I think there's a sizeable population of intermarried who aren't engaged because they do not feel welcomed with their partner and/or families at Jewish events, organizations, etc. It is the responsibility of the greater Jewish community to change this, not just the individual's.
Among the intermarried, we find changes ranging from an increase of 5 percentage points (giving to a Jewish cause other than UJA-Federation) to a decline of 16 percentage points (importance of being Jewish). Double-digit declines also characterize Chanukah candlelighting (-13%) and participating in a Passover seder (-12%).
This completely differs from the results of our annual Passover/Easter and December Holidays surveys, where we've been seeing increases.
In short, from 2002 to 2011, the intermarried became more distant from Jewish life, especially when compared with the in-married.
As a community, what can we do to change that? How can we meet the needs of intermarried couples and their families, make sure they feel explicitly welcomed in our Jewish communities and organizations?
The vast majority of intermarried Jews are relatively unengaged in Jewish life: 70% score low or very low on the Index of Jewish Engagement (see Exhibit 4-22) as compared with just 22% of the non-Orthodox in-married.
Again, I'm not sure we can accept these statistics as they stand. By an earlier study of Cohen's, I scored a 0 for "Jewish Educational Background," despite my heavy involvement in Jewish life, both at home and communally, for most of my life. They just didn't fit into Cohen's ascribed Jewish experiences. Is it possible for people to be engaged without paying for a synagogue membership, without feeling "very attached" to Israel, without "always" or "usually" lighting Shabbat candles? Yes.
The Intermarried Are Far Less Engaged — But Not Because of Lack of Comfort
I saw this section heading and was surprised. When I then saw the statistics of discomfort compared to non-married individuals, it all came together for me. Like many groups within the Jewish community, those who are not married (by choice or because they are still looking) often report feeling excluded from community organizations and events. This goes doubly for those without kids (by choice or otherwise), who frequently feel excluded for their decisions. And this is another example of the Jewish community needing to shift, not just the individual. Too often, the entry point for a Jewish adult into the community is their wedding or having a child whom they want to educate Jewishly. Not married, no kids? Those entry points don't exist for you.
That the percentage of discomfort is so low (10-14%) remains surprising, given all the anecdotal evidence I've heard over the years, both personally and as a Jewish professional. Do people feel they cannot report feeling discomfort with the Jewish community on a Jewish community study?
Over the years, opposition in the Jewish population to intermarriage and one's children intermarrying has steadily declined.[/quote]
Really? The two options for answers were "upset" and "not upset"? That's hardly nuanced! As Julie Wiener said, more response options were needed. Including, "something like 'somewhat disappointed' or 'depends on other factors, like whether or not they plan to be involved in Jewish life and what decisions they've made about how they will raise future children.'"
the demonstration of the close ties between Jewish social networks and Jewish engagement helps partly explain why the intermarried as a group score lower on Jewish engagement than the in-married as a group, and yields implications for policies designed to elevate their engagement and that of others. It is of some consequence that the intermarried maintain very few Jewish social connections. Among the intermarried ages 30 to 39, fully 77% live fairly isolated from other Jews — no one else is Jewish in their homes and only 4% have mostly Jewish friends. In contrast, their in-married age peers not only have Jewish spouses and most have Jewish children at home — the vast majority (74%) also has mostly Jewish friends.
The study's authors offer InterfaithFamily.com's model of connection (to other intermarried couples) and advocacy/education (helping intermarried couples and their families access and be included in the Jewish community, raise children with Judaism, and help the Jewish community become welcoming and open for these couples and families) as the solution to this low engagement.
Chapter 5
Much of the content that looks at intermarriage and its impact on Jewish engagement I've already countered, above. (See "groom or bloom" and read the full blog post that's linked there.)
the philanthropic behavior of intermarried households is distinguished in three ways:
Could this be another statistic demonstrating the need of the community to change, not just the individual? If intermarried couples/families feel underserved by Jewish organizations, there's not much incentive to give to them. (If I'm allergic most pets, I'm not likely to donate to an animal shelter.) If the Jewish communal organizations of these eight counties of NY did a giant push to attract, welcome, engage, include intermarried couples/families, I'd like to think they'd see long-term growth in donations from this demographic.
As compared with other Jewish households, in-marriage rates (87%) are far higher and intermarriage rates (13%) are far lower among Russian-speaking households, roughly half the rate for non-RSJ households.
The explanation given has to do with their relative recent immigration, as I would suspect, which lends to tight-knit, ethnic identity-based community standards. A generation or two later, their American-born (grand)children are more likely to have similar intermarriage rates.
Perhaps my favorite chapter heading, if only for its "we don't know what to do with these other groups"-ness.
of those married, many more LGBT people are intermarried (44% versus 22%), and fewer belong to congregations (33% versus 45%). As compared with others, LGBT respondents (precisely, respondents from households with one or more LGBT individuals) score lower on all measures of Jewish belonging.
This is disappointing, but not surprising. It's hard to find a partner, harder still if there are limitations (religion, gender, LGBT, etc.). If groups feel excluded from the general Jewish community, they're less likely to join congregations or other communal organizations, and score lower levels of "engagement" to formal Judaism.
Biracial, Hispanic, and Other Nonwhite Households
There's just so much to say for this section. Instead of hearing it from me, I urge you to read an article that Be'chol Lashon contributed to, originally published by the Jewish Week.
I don't know about you, but I'm exhausted. There's just so much to think about in here. What are your thoughts?
Our Passover/Easter Survey Results Are In!
Thanks to all of you who responded to our Passover/Easter survey.
The results are in! Yesterday, we sent out the following press release – let us know what you think of the findings.
Do check out that full report, and let us know your thoughts!
This Year Be One of the 1,800
It's December 14. Do you know what that means?
Yes, it means 11 more days until Christmas, 6 more days until Hanukkah and 12 days until Kwanza!
But, it also means 17 more days to get your end-of-the-year contributions in to your favorite charity (InterfaithFamily.com, perhaps?). Last night, I went online and made my personal contributions. In addition to volunteering my time at local nonprofits, I give what I can. Why? Because I know that every gift can make a difference, no matter the amount. So, if you like what we do, please consider making a small donation. Believe it not, a $5 contribution can make a difference, and, even better, when we get a bunch of $5 donations, they add up!
This year, InterfaithFamily.com is aiming to receive contributions from 1,800 supporters. Please help us reach our goal.
Why give to IntefaithFamily.com? Your contribution, no matter what amount, will be have a tremendous impact. In the last twelve months, 563,0000 people visited our website. Over 2,040 people requested clergy to officiate their lifecycle event. 172,000 people accessed our "Jewish Holidays Cheat Sheet." Talk about impact!
Thank you for making a contribution to InterfaithFamily.com. We look forward to continuing to support interfaith families exploring Jewish life in the year to come.
Happy Holidays to you and yours.
Our December Holiday Survey Results Are In!
Thanks to all of you who responded to our December holidays survey.
The results are in! Earlier this morning, we sent out the following press release – let us know what you think of the findings.
Interfaith Families Participate in Secular Christmas Activities While Raising Jewish Children
Do check out that full report, and let us know your thoughts!
In Case You Missed It…
A few interesting articles that you might have missed:
1. Rabbi Bruce Warshal opined on why interfaith families should raise their children in just one religion. Check out Choose One But Not Two Religions.
2. A clip from Samon Koletkar's "Mahatma Moses Comedy Tour," during which he discsusses being a Jew in America. (Warning, he also drops the "r" word, too many times, at the end. To counter that, a PSA from Glee's Becky and Sue.)
3. Instead of arguing about how to count the Jewish population, an argument for increasing egalitarian parenting. Why?
Both quantitative and qualitative studies have found that if the intermarried Jew is a woman, the children will more likely be raised Jewish. Further, intermarried Jewish men stand a greater chance of raising children to identify as Jews if the organized Jewish community will count those children as Jews.
4. Effective March, 2010, gay and lesbian couples in Washington, DC were able to legally marry. In what's believed to be a first, an Orthodox rabbi, Steve Greenberg (who's openly gay), officiated at the marriage of a gay couple at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. Mazal tov!
5. Last week, I was unable to go to the Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly. (Luckily, Joanna and Ed were able to go and represent InterfaithFamily.com.) There, Rabbi Elie Kaunfer gave the opening address, bravely (given his audience) talking about how "continuity" should not be the Jewish community's focus. Instead, he suggested, it should be learning. From the op-ed version of his speech:
Jews, like all people, are searching for meaning, substance and connection. The more we are inundated with e-mails, status updates and tweets, the more we want to go deeper. Our souls are calling out for engagement; our hearts are crying out to be opened.
I agree. The rest of his speech-turned-op-ed is worth reading as well.
Survey Again Says: IFF Has Impact!
At IFF we are always interested in who our users are, and in what they are looking for and whether they find it with us. We're especially interested in our impact, and so are our funders and Jewish professionals with whom we seek to work: are we changing the attitudes and behaviors of people in interfaith relationships, and of Jewish leaders?
Every two years we do an online user survey – so far, we haven't had funding to have an independent consultant do an evaluation for us – and we're issuing a press release today on our 2011 User Survey Report. The results are very, very positive.
Some key points about our users (referring to site visitors who responded to the survey):


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Franzy ended up being a little bit more of a bear to construct than I thought she would. This was my first time making a vest, and I am proud of the way I lined it, but it actually ended up causing me problems when I added the closure (the lining made it bubble away from my body because it was slippery, whoops). It's edged in gold vinyl bias tape from New York (best stuff ever) The jewels on the vest, neckbow, and sleeves were all hand-mixed from the same batch of resin and handcut into the needed shapes, since I had to get (and destroy) giant soap molds to get jewels that large. I just cut/peeled the plastic away and sacrificed the molds themselves xD The neckbow is of large wired ribbon, and the sleeves were hand-patterned by me and reinforced with craft foam. I purchased a pencil skirt, black tights, and black heels, and made 'cuffs' out of the same suiting as the vest. Borrowed leather gloves from jaypoy, bought a whip, and spent FOREVER picking a wig, and settled on one that was a slate gray-blue as a happy medium to all the crazy Capcom renders. :D
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- Room size (sqm): 40
- Living room: 1
- Number of bedrooms: 1
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- Short walk to the beach
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The Vell Mari in Ca'n Picafort, Majorca is located amongst beautiful gardens, giving a relaxed and comfortable feel to the hotel. The modern and stylish complex, coupled with ... Continue reading
The Vell Mari in Ca'n Picafort, Majorca is located amongst beautiful gardens, giving a relaxed and comfortable feel to the hotel. The modern and stylish complex, coupled with extensive facilities makes this hotel the perfect choice for a family holiday.
With an outdoor free-form swimming pool and sun terrace with sun loungers and parasols, you can be sure to relax and sunbathe in pure comfort and style. If you feel like pampering yourself then head to the spa where you'll find an array of beauty treatments of offer such as hydro massages and salt baths. There are many sporting facilities available at the Vell Mari such as tennis, football, fitness classes, a pool table and gym. The hotel also caters brilliantly for children. There is a Kids' Club for 4 to 11 year olds, their own pool, a separate section of the main pool, a playground and mini disco. With all this on offer they're sure to have a great time. For the whole family, the hotel offers frequent evening entertainment to keep you having fun way into the evening.
The buffet restaurant serves a huge range of food and will be sure to satisfy everyone. There is also a pool bar so you won't have to walk (or swim) far to get a refreshing drink when you are having a dip in the pool. There is also a 24 hour reception at the Vell Mari, so there will always be someone available if you need assistance.
If you prefer to spend your holiday relaxing on a sandy beach, you'll only have to travel 800m to find one! The Vell Mari is also only 1km from shops, bars, restaurants and a bustling nightlife. There is a shuttle bus available to Son Baulo beach as well, if you're looking to explore the area further.
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- WiFi in public areas at a cost of €7 per hour
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The breakfast type is Buffet. The hotel has one restaurant. A snack bar is also available throughout the day.
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C'an Picafort is a relatively large holiday resort situated on the north east coast of Mallorca on the lovely Bay of Alcudia, about an hour away from Palma. Like El Arenal, C'an Picafort is highly popular with German visitors, and due to those who have returned to live, it retains a certain German flavour. The resort grew from a tiny fishing village (remains of which can be seen in the town's working harbour) and today, spreads along a grid of small streets near the principal beach.
Pedestrian-friendly with a promenade perfect for evening strolls, the resort has become popular with those seeking a quiet beachside getaway, and hotels provide much of the resort's entertainment. There are several bars, restaurants and nightclubs, however, and plenty of shops and an excellent market on Fridays. C'an Picafort is also right next to Son Baulo, which has its own beach, shops and restaurants and is a popular holiday destination.
There are several activities to indulge in during the day such as cruises, horse riding, jeep safaris, go-karting, biking and watersports, and excursions to neighbouring areas provide a more local Spanish flavour. Santa Margalida has more than 150 archaeological sites, including the Son Real Necropolis (also known as the Cemetery of the Phoenicians) that was used as a burial site from the Iron Age to Roman times. The nearby S'Albufera Wetlands Park offers excellent bird-watching opportunities, and a chance to enjoy the local flora and fauna. Another great way to spend the day is to take a bus trip to the busier resort of Puerto de Alcudia, or to Palma or Pollensa.
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The excellent beach is the main draw for most visitors to C'an Picafort, but there some other distractions for those wanting some variety. Driving skills can be tested at the Karting track; free transfers are provided from the centre of town. The enormous Hidropark in nearby Alcudia is a fun a refreshing day out. Nature lovers should check out S'albufera wetland nature reserve on the outskirts of town. A little further afield in Porto Cristo, are the Caves of Drach, the most popular tourist attraction in Majorca.
There are numerous British-themed pubs and eateries, and an equal number of German and Scandinavian restaurants catering to the large number of visitors from those countries. For fine dining try Es Turo which is housed in a centuries-old building. The most popular style of eating for locals and visitors alike is tapas, provided at any café in town.
C'an Picafort's longest running nightclub is Skau which is open every night during the summer season. Another nightlife hotspot in C'an Picafort is the western-themed bar Charly's.
Most shops face onto the paved road lining the beach. The Caprabo shop on the Carreterra d'Arta-Port d'Alcudia road sells all things British for those missing the luxuries of home. Market days are Tuesday and Sunday, and while the market is small if visitors are prepared to bargain hard they can pick up some great souvenirs.
There are few worthwhile attractions in town and for those wanting more than a beach-based holiday C'an Picafort can be a bit dull.
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Hotel address : Carretera Arta-Alcudia, 127, Ca'n Picafort, Majorca, Balearic Islands, 07458
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How far is this hotel from the airport? 1 Answer
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A direct transfer from Palma to Can Picafort is approx 50 minutes by taxi and 1.5hours by coach.
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Car Hire, can I day hire a family car from the hotel? 2 Answers
Hi there, yes there is an onsite car rental facility. Kind Regards
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By Gemma.Larder, loveholidays.com team member
Yes the hotel offers car hire
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Is there free wifi in the room? 2 Answers
Hi Annabel, wifi is only free in the hotel lobby. If you want it in your room also there is a charge of 7 euro a day. Kind Regards
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Sorry the hotel charges for wifi, it is 7 euros per day
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If this is something you do or are thinking of doing then there are some very important tasks and configurations which you should implement to ensure this works well and consistently across your environment.
This is well documented in the following two articles and should be read from COVER to COVER if you are looking to virtualize Domain Controllers.
Running Domain Controllers within Virtual Server 2005
(Taken from above) Time Synchronization Recommendations
For virtual machines that are configured as domain controllers, the Host time synchronization feature of Virtual Machine Additions should always be disabled. Instead, accept the default W32time domain hierarchy time synchronization.
The Host time synchronization feature allows guest operating systems to synchronize their system clocks with the system clock of the host operating system. Because domain controllers have their own time synchronization mechanism, Host time synchronization must be disabled on virtual machines that are configured as domain controllers. If domain controllers synchronize time from their own source and also synchronize time from the host, the domain controller time can change frequently.
Use the Administration Website to disable Host time synchronization when the virtual machine is turned off. You can disable Host time synchronization during or after installing Virtual Machine Additions.
For information about how to use the Administration Website, see the "Virtual Server 2005 Administrator's Guide" on the Web at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkID=27540
So based upon the above the following steps are recommended.
1. Follow the Domain Hierarchy. E.G. all Domain Controllers EXCEPT the PDCE should be set to NT5DS.
2. The PDC(E) should be configured NTP to a reliable time source. See an earlier blog entry of mine which has an excellent article all about time.
3. In the Virtual Machine Additions of Virtual Server ensure the option "Host time synchronization is disabled (I.E. unticked).
I also suggest reading the following KBARTICLE to further underline the importance of strong management and maintenance of Domain Controllers if you intend running on a virtualized environment.
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T-SQL Tuesday is here again, brought to us this month by Allen White (blog|@SQLRunr). I've read Allen's blog many times for PowerShell advice, but today he's asking for your favorite T-SQL tricks.
I'm not sure if this qualifies as a "trick" per se since it's pretty simple and well documented. But it has come up several times in the past few weeks during code reviews, so I am sure that it's something that not everyone is familiar with.
It seems like most T-SQL developers know that the TOP keyword can be used to SELECT the TOP n number of records. I use it all the time when trying to get a quick look at the data, and SSMS has it as a built in menu option.
Selecting the first 100 records of a table is easy.
SELECT TOP 100 * FROM Sales.Customer;
So what if you don't want 100 records, but instead you want to dynamically specify the number of rows to be returned? Often, developers will try to do something like this is a stored procedure:
DECLARE @NumRows int = 10; SELECT TOP @NumRows * FROM Sales.Customer;
This results in an error:
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An accurate but not very helpful error message.
From here, many developers will turn to dynamic SQL to solve the problem. While dynamic SQL is perfectly appropriate in many situations, it's not really needed here at all. The sad part is that the developer was almost there with the first attempt, they were just missing one little thing – the parentheses.
DECLARE @NumRows int = 10; SELECT TOP (@NumRows) * FROM Sales.Customer;
The TOP keyword can also be used with other DML statements such as INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE. In those cases the parentheses are required, even if you specify only a number. The parentheses should be there when you SELECT a TOP number as well, but they are not required for reasons of backwards compatibility and in my experience, no one uses them. More info here.
In fact, in Management Studio, when you right click on a table and choose SELECT TOP 1000 Rows…, the query SSMS produces has a TOP 1000 without parentheses. And this is still true in SQL 2012 (at least in CTP 3).
One last note: if the TOP amount used as an input parameter varies wildly, you may run into problems due to parameter sniffing. A query with SELECT TOP 100000 records might look very different than a SELECT TOP 10, but the stored procedure will be compiled based on the first value passed in. There are ways to work around that, one of them being the full dynamic SQL solution.
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Tying up the loose ends in simple correspondence analysis
Although correspondence analysis is now widely available in statistical software packages and applied in a variety of contexts, notably the social and environmental sciences, there are still some misconceptions about this method as well as unresolved issues which remain controversial to this day. In this paper we hope to settle these matters, namely (i) the way CA measures variance in a two-way table and how to compare variances between tables of different sizes, (ii) the influence, or rather lack of influence, of outliers in the usual CA maps, (iii) the scaling issue and the biplot interpretation of maps,(iv) whether or not to rotate a solution, and (v) statistical significance of results.
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- Michael Greenacre, 2008. "Correspondence analysis of raw data," Economics Working Papers 1112, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, revised Jul 2009.
- K. Ruben Gabriel, 2002. "Goodness of fit of biplots and correspondence analysis," Biometrika, Biometrika Trust, vol. 89(2), pages 423-436, June.
- John Aitchison & Michael Greenacre, 2002.
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- J. Aitchison & Michael Greenacre, 2001. "Biplots of compositional data," Economics Working Papers 557, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
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I am almost completely unable to enjoy Chinese pop music. In fact, I can barely stand listening to it: I find it saccharine-yet-bland and silly and clichéd. But there's one aspect of it that's kind of fun, though I can only appreciate it with the help of an interpreter. Chinese musicians record cover versions of a lot of Western pop hits, and the lyrics they write are amazing. When compared to the originals, that is.
Here are snippets of two late-70s song lyrics, translated by my wife from Chinese to Swedish and by myself from Swedish to English.
The birds are singing and cawing
Telling me to hurry home
The sun is going down soon
And the shepherd-boy should get on home
The kind and loving parents
Are waiting for me to come home
Recognise that? No? It's Boney M's "Gotta Go Home"! Coked-up Caribbean expats in a studio in Germany!
Headin' for the islands
We're ready man and packed to go
When we hit those islands
There's gonna be a big hello
Diggin' all the sunshine
It's easy not to say goodbye
Headin' for the islands
Hey yeah, we're really flyin' high
Gotta go home, home, home
Here's another one. This one's easy.
Her name was Lola
Everybody loved her
She was smart and good-looking
And her hair was long
Streaming in the wind like the leaves of a willow tree
She's always cheerful
My fondest dream is to hear Lola sing that love song
And when she dances, she is enchanting
Not quite what Barry Manilow sang on "Copacabana":
Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl
With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there
She would merengue and do the cha-cha
And while she tried to be a star
Tony always tended bar
Across the crowded floor, they worked from 8 til 4
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more?
The Chinese version of "Kookaburra sits in an old gum tree" is apparently about an effing hair dresser. And Faye Wong has recorded a version of "Bohemian Rhapsody". *shudder*
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"The Voice of My Servants: Apostolic Messages on Teaching, Learning, and Scripture" is a noteworthy ollection of discourses from members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the First Presidency of the LDS Church.
While some small commentary is offered in the introduction, the editors leave the addresses untouched, allowing the reader to learn directly from these special servants of the Lord. The book is organized according to subject, with focuses on gospel teaching, personal learning and application of the scriptures.
President Thomas S. Monson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, emphasizes how improved communication allows the Spirit to operate more effectively; President Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the First Presidency, counsels teachers to help their students to take the gospel into their hearts; and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor, speaks of the challenges and opportunities presented by the many cultures represented in the modern global church.
For those working with youth, Elder Richard G. Scott, of the Quorum of the Twelve, offers counsel on teaching by the Spirit to help students come unto Christ, while the late President Gordon B. Hinckley challenges educators to grow in knowledge, spirit and love, and the late Elder Bruce R. McConkie discusses the place of teaching within the Lord's gospel plan.
Regarding gospel learning, President Boyd K. Packer, president of the Quorum of the Twelve, reiterates the importance of the home as a spiritual foundation and refuge, and Elder Dallin H. Oaks, of the Quorum of the Twelve, focuses on the purpose and importance of personal revelation. Elder Robert D. Hales, also of the Quorum of the Twelve, encourages readers to make gospel learning a lifelong endeavor, giving helpful insight on how to do so.
Using the experience of the brother of Jared as an example, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, of the Quorum of the Twelve, discusses how we can "rend the veil of unbelief" in our own lives, and Elder David A. Bednar, also of the Quorum of the Twelve, contrasts teaching by the Spirit and learning by faith, focusing on the latter.
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Week in South Florida--1
2008/10/15 21:06:00
I recently spent a week on business traveling to Miami, Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale. Full intent was to explore some new spots to eat at and see if i could report my trip on Roadfood.
Started off on a Sunday night, arrivng in Miami around 8 PM and having to wait 50 minutes for the luggage to show up. Checked into the hotel around 9 PM, so spoiled my original idea to hit las Culbrinas in Coconut Grove. So I wandered over to Mojitos in the Dolphin Mall next to my hotel. They were starting to pack in in for the night. No music. Poor beer selection for a bar, I settled for a Presidente, a Dominican knock off of Cororna. Had been hoping for at least a Red Stripe. Being late, I ordered the tostones rellenos, filled fried plantains; shrimp and piccadillo. Outside the plantains, there wasn't much flavor. Piccadillo tasted like sloppy joe mix out of the generic brand can. Needed Singleton's Seafood Shack's Colon Cleaner hot sauce for sure.
On Monday, I picked a Spanish (but really more Peruvian) restaurant called Casa Paco. Extensive menu, Good bottles of Roja inviting you to the table. Crisp plantain chips (no chimichurri sauce). Most of the menu and daily specials were geared toward parties of 2 or more. I went for a Basque style seafood dish, Corvina dela Vasca, that sounded excellent on the menu. Snapper, shrimp, clams, hard boiled eggs, asparagus. But the presentation looked like the type of meal the Campbell's soup commercial people usually ate before the Campbell's soup chef shows up.
Tasted just as bland. Where's that Colon Cleaner?
The snapper and the shrimp tasted fresh. So that was a good sign.
Again, poor beer selection, went with a Guiness which wasn't meant for fish but didn't want to drink a full bottle of wine.
Casa Paco is certainly a place to try with a larger group and get the paella or pork dishes. but for someone dining alone, the latin American Cafeteria #1 or #2 would have been a better selection. Then again, I'm trying new places.
2 disappointments. 4 days to go. Tuesday is breakfast at Moe's in Adventura.
RE: Week in South Florida--1
2008/10/15 22:35:11
On Tuesday, I got up early and drove from West Miami to North Miami and Biscayne Bay with a slight detour north to Adventura, home of Moe's Bagels and Deli, for a hearty breakfast.
Can't beat the corned beef hash here. And a bialy!! Haven't had a bialy since I was in NYC a couple of years ago. Home fries were very good.
Later that afternoon, I drove up to Fort Lauderdale, my base for the next 3 days. Dinner on Tuesday was at the Calypso, in Pompano Beach.
A great menu on the specials board.
I started with some conch fritters and a Sam Adams.
No need to wish for the Colon Cleaner here as they offer an array of pepper sauces.
I love good mussels so that was dinner. With plantains, pigeon peas and rice.
Fresh baked key lime pie was dessert. But I was so full, I got it to go. Later at the hotel, when i opened it up, I had flipped it upside down. Not a good picture but a darn good piece of pie!
Filet Mignon
RE: Week in South Florida--1
2008/10/16 09:07:05
Lovely pictures, crew! I'm glad you clarified the asparagus in the first dish you mentioned--I was trying to figure out whether they'd slipped you a whole squid body or what exactly. And what is up with the hard boiled eggs?
RE: Week in South Florida--1
2008/10/16 09:23:59
Those conch fritters look very appetizing especially with a nice cold beer!
Thanks for sharing!
RE: Week in South Florida--1
2008/10/16 09:27:05
That looks like the kind of breakfast I like!
How were the conch fritters?
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RE: Week in South Florida--1
2008/10/16 09:29:18
Needed Singleton's Seafood Shack's Colon Cleaner hot sauce for sure.
Are you from Jacksonville???
I ate at Singleton's twice last week.
RE: Week in South Florida--1
2008/10/16 09:38:14
Haven't had conch since a trip to Marathon years ago...those fritters and beer looked great...thanks!
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RE: Week in South Florida--1
2008/10/16 09:46:05
Those conch fritters at the[url='http://www.calypsorestaurant.com/']Calypso Restaurant and Raw Bar [/url]look like the kind I like!
If every meal at Las Culebrinas is like the one I had the other year, then you did not miss much. I remember finding a flaw in everthing I was served. Not awful, just nothing to recommend.
Yours is the latest of several recommendations of Moe's in Aventura. I really have to get there, although it is a long haul (90 minutes) for breakfast.
About your dishes at [url='http://www.mojitos.com/']Mojitos[/url] - in general, Cuban food is not picante. Did your picadillo have olives and raisins in it?
RE: Week in South Florida--1
2008/10/16 09:58:27
: The fritters were excellent. Even had a lot of conch in them.
Not just filler.
: We live a bit west of JAX, as in Tallahassee. Got some pics of Singleton's before the batteries died, but BB's thread captured the place better, except for the wooden boats. I'll post a pic of me eating at Singletons when I get home tonight.
Miami Don
: If there were raisins in the piccadillo, they left before the plate was delivered. Olives? The bar didn't even have them out for drink garnish. You expect the cooks to have them?
Like I said, it tasted like sloppy joe mix straight out of the can.
The drive to Moe's took me about 45 minutes at 6:30 AM. I wouldn't have ventured up that way except that I was over at the FIU North Campus that day.
Next leg of trip coming up later.
Baah Ben
Filet Mignon
RE: Week in South Florida--1
2008/10/16 10:28:23
Olives and raisins...Standard ingredients in any legitimate piccadillo....
Don't recall Moe's when I lived in Aventura..Looks pretty good. Hey, thanks for the pictures.
Filet Mignon
RE: Week in South Florida--1
2010/10/29 17:01:24
Calypso sounds great, crew! Do you think it's close enough to the airport for a reasonable taxi ride? I am salivating at your pics of the conch fritters......
sk bob
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RE: Week in South Florida--1
2010/10/30 22:07:08
that breakfast at Adventura looks great
whatever is in that first picture does not look edible
Calypso looks way to pricey for what it is, where it is, but those conch fritters look good.
good report, crew84row.
RE: Week in South Florida--1
2010/10/31 08:59:43
My favorite Italian restaurant in South Florida,
Casa DeLuca
. Real old school Pompano Beach Italian. I was there about five years ago and the waiters were still wearing leisure suits.
About a 10 minute ride up US-1, right next to The Church of the Seven Bells.
Double Chili Cheeseburger
RE: Week in South Florida--1
2010/10/31 10:38:02
Great report! I love conch - fritters- salad- cracked conch you name it. Hard to get around here. Did any of those places have Kalik beer?
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November 2-8, 2008 Issue | Posted 10/28/08 at 1:56 PM
The Little Flower
CATHOLICTV "The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love." So wrote St. Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897), the Carmelite sister who promised that she would "let fall from heaven a shower of roses." Father Leonard Tighe discusses her life at 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday, 9 a.m. Tuesday, 11 a.m. Wednesday, 2 a.m. and 9 p.m. Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Friday and 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
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MAJOR NETWORKS As America determines whether pro-life John McCain or pro-abortion Barack Obama will prevail, Catholic viewers might reflect upon Pope John Paul II's remark in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Value and Inviolability of Human Life, 1995): When a nation denies the right to life, "In this way democracy, contradicting its own principles, effectively moves toward a form of totalitarianism. The state … is transformed into a tyrant state which arrogates to itself the right to dispose of the life of the weakest and most defenseless members."
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EWTN In this six-part series, Father Benedict Groeschel and missionary Father Michael Shields recount Russian Catholics' sufferings and martyrdom under Soviet communists' 70-year persecution, the role of Mary Immaculate in the fall of the atheist regime, and today's efforts to rebuild the faith. Continues Sunday and Monday.
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Well this is the version she wore in 1989 in Hong Kong - the time she met Victor.
I never thought I would ever cosplay any kind of vampire...but here I am cosplaying one *laugh*...but she is such an amazing character although she has an unbeliveable sad background.
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