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by Rachel Zoll (AP)

Interfaith Couples Seek Out Rabbis-For-Hire

Rabbi Barry Tuchman has no congregation, no ties to a recognized Jewish movement and an ordination that was far outside the norm for American Jewish clergy.

But the interfaith couples who contact him don’t want to see his diploma.  They want to know whether he’s willing to marry them.  And Rabbi Barry, as he calls himself, if ready to oblige.

He officiates anywhere:  in churches, alongside Christian clergy, on the Jewish Sabbath and at Roman Catholic weddings.  A student of Shamanism, he can perform American Indian rituals, too.

“What I do,” Tuchman said, “Is throw the liturgy out the window.”

History Lesson on Your Social Security Card

Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn't know this.  It's easy to check out, if you don't believe it.  Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what's what and it doesn't matter whether you are Democrat or Republican.  Facts are Facts. 

Libya's Rebellion

America's true reason for attacking Libya becomes clear with new central bank
by Kenneth Schortgen Jr, Finance Examiner.com

America's true reason for intervention, and missile attacks against Libya has become very clear today with a sudden creation by the rebels of a new central bank on March 29th.

The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life or death civil war and Moammar Gadhafi is still in power and yet somehow the Libyan rebels have had enough time to establish a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company.  Perhaps when this conflict is over those rebels can become time management consultants.  They sure do get a lot done.  What a skilled bunch of rebels - they can fight a war during the day and draw up a new central bank and a new national oil company at night without any outside help whatsoever.  If only the rest of us were so versatile!  But isn't forming a central bank something that could be done after the civil war is over?  According to Bloomberg, the Transitional National Council has "designated the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya and the appointment of a governor to the Central Bank of Libya, with a temporary headquarters in Benghazi." – The Economic Collapse via Uruknet

By Robert Pigott BBC News religious affairs correspondent

BBC News Middle East

They could be the earliest Christian writing in existence, surviving almost 2,000 years in a Jordanian cave. They could, just possibly, change our understanding of how Jesus was crucified and resurrected, and how Christianity was born.

A group of 70 or so "books", each with between five and 15 lead leaves bound by lead rings, was apparently discovered in a remote arid valley in northern Jordan somewhere between 2005 and 2007.

A flash flood had exposed two niches inside the cave, one of them marked with a menorah or candlestick, the ancient Jewish religious symbol.

A Jordanian Bedouin opened these plugs, and what he found inside might constitute extremely rare relics of early Christianity.

That is certainly the view of the Jordanian government, which claims they were smuggled into Israel by another Bedouin.

The Israeli Bedouin who currently holds the books has denied smuggling them out of Jordan, and claims they have been in his family for 100 years.

Jordan says it will "exert all efforts at every level" to get the relics repatriated.

Pastor Don Elmore

March 27th 2011

by Pastor Don Elmore

In today's Cincinnati Enquirer (3/20/2011) on Page A9, there is an article entitled:  "Image of interracial marriage shifting in Deep South." 

Let's look at the first paragraph: "HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- For generations here in the deepest South, there had been a great taboo:  publicly crossing the color line for love.  LESS THAN 45 YEARS AGO, marriage between blacks and white was ILLEGAL, and it has been frowned upon for much of the time since."