Pat Robertson says divorce of a spouse with Alzheimer’s is allowable since the partner “is gone.” A viewer had asked Robertson how she should advise a friend who had begun dating another woman although his wife was still alive — but suffering from dementia brought on by Alzheimer’s. “That is a terribly hard thing,” Robertson said. “I hate Alzheimer’s. It is…

A federal appeals court in California ruled Tuesday that a San Diego-area math teacher does not have the constitutional right to display America’s national motto, “In God We Trust” in his classroom. The fact that school officials allowed Tibetan prayer flags in other classrooms was irrelevant. Bradley Johnson, a math teacher for Poway Unified School…

The Democrats lost a long-held Congressional seat to the Republicans Tuesday because Jewish voters were irked over New York’s new same-sex marriage law and the Obama administration’s attitude toward Israel, according to political observers. “Many Jewish voters turned out to support Bob Turner in Tuesday’s election, bucking the historical pattern in their Democratic-leaning neighborhoods and…

by Corine Gatti of the Beliefnet staff Why would a Jewish believer in Yeshua — Hebrew for Jesus —  uproot themselves to move to the Middle East? That could be easily answered: a passion for the Holy Land and belief that Israel is the place of the Messiah’s return. There is another question: would these believers be…

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