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Board: Charter School Can Teach Hebrew
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nsymmonds
Associated Press – September 11, 2007 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A charter school may resume teaching in Hebrew, more three weeks after the lessons were halted over concerns the Jewish faith was seeping into public classrooms, the school board voted Tuesday. Broward County board members said close monitoring of the country’s first Hebrew-language charter school…
Christian Broadcaster is Savior for Florida Bible Theme Park
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nsymmonds
Thanks to help from a California-based Christian broadcasting empire, a Christian theme park in Orlando, Fla., seems to have boosted its popularity. Ever since Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) acquired The Holy Land Experience in June, attendance figures jumped at least 25 percent, according to Melanie Davies, public relations manager for the park. “That 25 percent…
Wiesenthal Center Starts Website About Judaism for Muslims
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akornfeld
Associated Press New York – The Simon Wiesenthal Center has launched a multilingual Web site whose main purpose is to inform Muslims about Judaism through a forum that allows visitors to post live questions in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Bahasa and English. The Web site, http://www.AskMusa.org, which means Ask Moses in Arabic, also will offer essays…
Prisons Tossing Out Religious Books
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akornfeld
United Press International Washington – Prisons in the United States are following a government directive to purge their libraries of religious books, causing outrage among many inmates. The action, according to a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Prisons, was prompted by a 2004 report listing things prisons should do to avoid becoming recruiting grounds for…
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