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It will require the collective effort of all Ghanaians to pull the country back to moral sanity. The President of the Presbyterian University College, Ghana (PUCG), Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Adow Obeng, who made the point, said: “Educational, media, traditional, religious, political and opinion leaders have to acknowledge the reality of the problem and begin to take concrete and selfless measures to add

Tennessees latest anti-protest bill is an assault on our freedom to pray | Opinion Fifty-eight Tennessee pastors sign on to a letter calling on state lawmakers to reject a bill that would increase penalties for street protestors. 58 clergy men and women from across Tennessee View Comments The 58 clergy men and women represent congregations in East, Middle and West Tennessee. Scroll down to read their names. (Editors note: On Tuesday, the Tennessee State Senate sent this legislation to summer st...

Ancient Coins Depict First Fruits for Shavout Shavout, also called Pentecost, begins the evening of Sunday, May 16. In ancient times Shavout was one of the three pilgrimage festivals, in Hebrew called “shalosh regalim” (three [using one’s] legs [days]). These were the principal occasions when Jewish people from around the ancient world came to Jerusalem to “Offer a sacrifice to Me three times each year…” ( Exodus 23:14). The three holidays are Passover, Tabernacles) and Shavout....

Published April 27, 2021, 12:12 AM REFLECTIONS TODAY The Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah) celebrates the victory of the Maccabee brothers over the Greco-Syrian king, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who forced the Jews to worship the Greek gods, to abandon the Law of Moses, and prohibited the reading of the Torah. Even the altar of the Jerusalem Temple was desecrated and so the Temple sacrifice was stopped. With the success of the Maccabean revolt, the altar was rededicated and the Temple reconsecrated so...

Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) and Yom Haatzmaut (Independence Day) is highly unusual. The U.S. has five weeks between them (last Monday in May + July 4); France four months (July 14 + Nov. 11)! Then why does Israel have the latter follow immediately after the former? The answer in a word: the Jewish approach to always link joy with sadness. For anyone residing in Israel for the first time on the 4 th and 5 th of Iyar (this year, next Wednesday and Thursday), the dual holiday is extremely jarr...

Open gallery view next 8 of 8 | 1 of 8 | Ukrainian Orthodox believers light candles during an Orthodox Easter service in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra church (Cave Monastery) in the capital city of Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, April 20, 2014.Credit: AP 2 of 8 | Easter fireworks on the Greek island of ChiosCredit: AFP Jesus and his followers arrive to partake in the Paschal sacrifice in the Jerusalem Temple on Passover, most likely in April of the year 30 or 33 C.E. As they are sitting and eating the tra...

Over every aspect of Jewish life fell the shadow of the aquila, the Roman standard. The overlordship of a pagan power was felt as an intolerable religious and national affront. Seething discontent would reach its terrible climax in the First Jewish-Roman War of 66-73CE, which left the Jerusalem Temple a smoking ruin and a million dead. Sixty years later the legions would savagely suppress another rebellion, led by nationalist general Simon bar Kokhba. Like the British in Africa, the Roman pref...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, I don’t want to be overly negative about the Pagan elements in the Christian faith, or deny their historical and cultural significance. In any case, Jewish and Pagan wisdom and knowledge cross...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, For thousands of years, Jews have relied on the Torah, The Written Law, and subsequently on the Talmud, the Oral Law, as a guide to the practice of Judaism. One generation has followed another s...

Exodus 30: 13-16) to collect a half-shekel tax, the shekel being 20 gerah of the shekel of the sanctuary, at the time of each census. During the time of Moses there were no coins, so we understand this to mean the weight of half a shekel, according to the standards set by the sanctuary. Subsequently, it is suggested that the half-shekel was paid annually ( II Kings 12 5-17 and Nehemiah 10:32-33). In the Book of Nehemiah, it was referred to as a “third-shekel” but scholars generally belie...