7 month ago
philgyford : Daf Yomi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "... a daily regimen undertaken to study the Babylonian Talmud one folio (a daf consists of both sides of the page) each day." Would take 7.5 years. (via Haddock)
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16 month ago
deusx : Kefitzat Haderech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The name Kwisatz Haderach from Dune universe (referred to as the "Shortening of the Way") is presumably derived from the term kefitzat haderech."
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21 month ago
plasticbag : Maps of War has a Flash map supposedly illustrating the evolution and territorial expansion of the world's religions - Frankly it's a pile of balls. Firstly it represents legally atheistic countries as Christian, does not distinguish between radically different sects of the same religion and totally ignores polytheistic religions. Judaism gets a particularly hard represen
Matthew M. Boedicker : history of religion in 90 seconds map - (via boingboing) [via]
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plasticbag : Islam vs. Christianity - it comes to a head on The Daily Show - Frankly it's about time a primetime TV show tried to answer the question, "Which religion is correct?"
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Is the new Superman meant to be Jesus? - This must be one of the weirdest articles I've read in a while - on Superman Returns, Jesus, Christian parallels, Nazis, Jewish comic book creators and crystal from Krypton as metaphors for sin...
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merlinmann : Ohr Somayach - Ask The Rabbi / Shabbat Elevators - "A Shabbat elevator is essentially an automatic elevator which operates according to a preset program, and is not influenced by the passenger(s) in any way."
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31 month ago
plasticbag : After a thread on Holocaust Denial appeared on Barbelith, I went and read this fascinating page examining the claims of the revisionists on Wikipedia - It's really good stuff, thorough and interesting. It's not going to convince anyone determined to believe that there's a huge Jewish conspiracy at work, of course, but then they have other issues.
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31 month ago
deusx : Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder: The ironies of the cartoon jihad - "When Jews saw how Gentiles played hockey that is how Jews found out that instead of becoming a hockey player they would become dentists, and that way they decided to let other people play the game while they found a way to make a profit from it. "
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