{"id":292,"date":"2010-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/communitynews\/2010\/01\/whats-the-belief.html"},"modified":"2010-01-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T00:00:00","slug":"whats-the-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/communitynews\/2010\/01\/whats-the-belief.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Belief?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out an interesting conversation going on in the Beliefnet Community that discusses whether Jews <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/go\/thread\/view\/43851\/22080549\/Hell_(for_Skeptic889)\">believe in hell<\/a> or not. Why do some Jews believe differently than others? What does Judaism say? 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