| 1. | " For example, although the Jewish biblical tradition is usually
considered aniconic, the Torah itself takes on the status of a verbal
icon, and the actual text is treated very much like a temple image."
| Source: | CLOONEY, FRANCIS X. "Veda and Torah: Transcending the Textuality of Scripture" Journal of the American Oriental Society 119.4 Oct. 1 1999: 724
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| 2. | "... St. Three rooms are filled with huge canvases of scenes from a
future third temple.
"Of the 613 commandments in the Torah, 113 of them depend on
the existence of a Jewish temple," he said. "We have..."
| Source: | Duin, Julia. "Third temple a dream of future for some Jews" Washington Times May 17 2000: 15
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| 3. | " As noted earlier, the Jewish conception of
that interpersonal bond (devekut) is integrally linked with its
conception of Torah."
| Source: | GOLDING, JOSHUA L. "The rational defensibility of being a traditional religious Jew" Religious Studies 35.4 Dec. 1 1999: 391
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| 4. | "
Arnold Eisen is professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University
and the author, most recently, of Taking Hold of Torah: Jewish
Commitment and Community in America and of Rehinking Modern Judaism:
Ritual, Commandment, Community.
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| Source: | Eisen, Arnold M. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Tikkun v13.n4 July 1 1998: 70-73
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| 5. | "
Arnold Eisen is professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University
and the author, most recently, of Taking Hold of Torah: Jewish
Commitment and Community in America and of Rehinking Modern Judaism:
Ritual, Commandment, Community.
"
| Source: | Eisen, Arnold M. "Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness" Tikkun v13.n4 July 1 1998: 70-73
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| 6. | " I am astonished by those who
profess to be religious Jews and yet fail to discern in Torah God's
passion for justice on earth."
| Source: | Yoffie, Eric. "Radical hope has no meaning" Tikkun 19.6 Nov. 1 2004: 54-56
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| 7. | "
He said the principles - set out in four pages under the topics
"God," "Torah," and "Israel" - will speak
to Jews "striving for religious meaning, moral purpose and a..."
| Source: | Witham, Larry. "Reform rabbis return to roots: Revive `obligations' such as dietary laws, ways of praying" Washington Times May 27 1999: 8
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| 8. | " Instead of limiting themselves to deciding
matters of Jewish religious law, they had taken to expounding on matters of
social policy, politics, and much else besides--all in the name of Torah."
| Source: | . "Letters from Readers" Commentary 107.5 May 1 1999: 5-6
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| 9. | " Some of these texts and fragments confirm
the accuracy of texts in Tanakh; the Temple Scroll provides a radical
re-invention of the Torah and the Temple; various Apocalypses, such as
the Book of Enoch, demonstrate the vitality of this genre."
| Source: | Burns, Paul C. "Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and theTalmuds" Canadian Journal of History 35.1 Apr. 1 2000: 111
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| 10. | " Its royal author writes in
a noticeably feminist and socialist vein whose Christian equivalent
might be Rosemary Ruether's "liberation Mariology," [9]
which presents Mary as a rebel against priestly authority, whose
admission to the Temple and studying of the Torah..."
| Source: | Winter, Tim. "PULCHRA UT LUNA: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE MARIAN THEME IN MUSLIM-CATHOLIC DIALOGUE" Journal of Ecumenical Studies June 22 1999: 439
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| 11. | "
In 1989, I celebrated my bat mitzvah at Temple Beth Ohr in Orange
County, California, Chanting from the Torah in front of those who love
me, the beginnings..."
| Source: | Altman, Heidi. "A Product of the American Jewish Community" Tikkun 15.5 Sept. 1 2000: 12
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| 12. | " Gerstenberger repeatedly points
to ways in which the temple priests are subordinated to the teaching of
Torah by congregational leaders (e.g., 72-78, 125)."
| Source: | Gorman, Frank H., Jr. "Leviticus, a Commentary" Cross Currents v48.n3 Sept. 22 1998: 418-420
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| 13. | "
Ending fratricide was a recurrent theme.
"The Torah - the Bible - begins with a famous question, a sad
question: 'Am I my brother's keeper?' " said Rabbi
Leonid Feldman, of Temple Beth-El in West Palm Beach, Fla."
| Source: | . "Leaders call for unity; Common Legacy summit sees no room for hatred" Washington Times Dec. 14 2004: 02
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| 14. | " In the fifth century, disinterest in the Temple and its
restoration continued, study of Torah and prayer replaced temple
sacrifice, and synagogues became holy places replacing the Temple."
| Source: | Elliott, John H. "Zerstorungen des Jerusalemer Tempels: Geschehen--Wahrnehmung--Bewaltigung" Theological Studies 65.4 Dec. 1 2004: 850-852
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| 15. | " But no
matter how anti-Zionist any particular haredi community, each is willing to
use the state's authority to enforce the dictates of Torah on their fellow
Jews. (p.139)
Still, the Haredi become defensive of Israelis when..."
| Source: | EL-EINI, ROZA I.M. "Jerusalem" Middle Eastern Studies July 1 1998: 168-169
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| 16. | "
The Temple was the central religious site of the ancient Jews, a
wonder of the ancient world."
| Source: | Rhodes, Fred. "The Temple of Jerusalem" Middle East .351 Dec. 1 2004: 64-65
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| 17. | " Marci
Greenberg, a biologist and conservative Jew, sought to connect her
beliefs with her love of knitting by offering "Knitting by
Torah," a class she teaches to Jewish high schoolers in Seattle."
| Source: | . "Knitters tell yarns about getting hooked; Creative outlet draws men as well as women" Washington Times Dec. 16 2004: 14
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| 18. | " Moreover, he argues that because non-Jewish cultures
understood studying Torah, the quintessential activity of rabbinic
Jewish maleness, as female, internalized ambivalence within Jewish
culture itself is also responsible for the extreme exclusion..."
| Source: | Baskin, Judith R. "Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Inventionof the Jewish Man" Criticism 41.1 Jan. 1 1999: 124
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| 19. | "... in it." This is no
mere narrative of the sort that has become familiar: the secular Jew
returning to the fold, or the untrained Jew becoming entranced late in
life with the richness of Torah, Talmud, and ritual observance."
| Source: | Schwartz, Amy E. "Kaddish" Wilson Quarterly 23.1 Jan. 1 1999: 106-108
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| 20. | "... as he puts it in a
succinct formulation, "God gives the Torah not only to the Jewish
people, but through the Jewish people."
By placing the historical Jewish people..."
| Source: | Singer, David. "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" Commentary 109.4 Apr. 1 2000: 60
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| 21. | " The religious Jew does not see an ancient wall and
concludes that since it is the exterior wall of the Temple, it is holy."
| Source: | VERBIN, N. K. "Religious beliefs and aspect seeing" Religious Studies 36.1 Mar. 1 2000: 1
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| 22. | " For more than 1000 years,
Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish state, and the Temple on the
Temple Mount was the center of Jewish religious life."
| Source: | . "RABBINIC CALL FOR A SHARED JERUSALEM" Middle East Policy 7.2 Feb. 1 2000: 140
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| 23. | " But no serious scholar questions
that Jews lived as a people with their Temple and religious cult intact
in the land that the Greeks and Romans imperialized between the..."
| Source: | Lerner, Michael. "No to Slater's Path to Reconciliation" Tikkun 15.4 July 1 2000: 27
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| 24. | " It's a
battle to define the `true Jew'--one that pits secularists against
fundamentalists, hawks against doves, Torah purists against Torah
relativists."
| Source: | Hammer, Joshua. "JEW VS. JEW: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry" Washington Monthly 32.9 Sept. 1 2000: 56
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| 25. | "... mainly through the incremental repetition of the
piece's wording. [9]
Arcana defines a midrash as "a narrative/commentary often on
the Torah, which deals with ideas and ethics, historically Jewish"
(p.224, n. 3)."
| Source: | Harrell Clark, La Verne. "A Matter Of Voice: Grace Paley And The Oral Tradition" Women and Language 23.1 Mar. 22 2000: 18
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