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a newly ordained minister Jane Schockey who now pastors in Toronto conducts a prayer and communion service at Vance Memorial Presbyterian in December. Gloves and masks have become a part of ministerial gear for such events, according to Vance Pastor Erica Harley.
WHEELING The short take on COVID-19 and worship in the Ohio Valley? Vaccines have been more than a literal shot in the arm. Clergy report the faithful are trickling back to churches and temples as disease count continues to drop.
The longer view? Worship ranging from Roman Catholicism’s high church to Vineyard’s rock-and-roll style to Sabbath services at Temple Shalom hasn’t just flexed, clergy also say. It has bent in a varied-venue way that’s likely to stay on when masks are nothing but a memory.
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Rabbi Yossi Greenberg and his family have lived in an apartment below Miami students since winter break. Greenberg also serves as the advisor for Chabad’s Jewish student group at Miami.
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President Biden’s new secretary of State Anthony Blinken was recently asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer if the Biden administration would honor President Trump’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. In response, Blinken questioned the legality of that sovereignty and indicated that revoking U.S. recognition was “over time, if the situation were to change in Syria…something we’d look at.”
Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is often considered one of the most original and innovative modern Jewish thinkers, but he is also one of the most misunderstood. Born into an assimilated family, Rosenzweig set out on a promising academic career. But like other young intellectuals of his time, he found himself in the midst of a spiritual crisis, finding no solace in academic philosophy. In 1913, convinced by his friend Eugen Rosenstock that only belief in Christianity could rescue modern man from the impasse of historicism and provide true orientation in life, he prepared himself for conversion. But although he had decided in favor of Christianity, Rosenzweig chose to walk to the baptismal font as a Jew, and dutifully prepared for his entrance to the Church by attending High Holy Day services in the synagogue. Spiritually, he never left it.