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Last year I took the first steps towards converting to Judaism; also last year, I abandoned my attempt. It was partly that I find it hard to stick at any discipline, being bone-idle and highly hedonistic (for instance, I was only a lesbian for six months), and I realised that Judaism was such an extraordinarily complex and rich religion that I would really have to commit to do it properly. As I can't even commit to Lost or any of those long American television shows, this seemed unlikely.

I also began to feel a tiny bit ridiculous trotting to shul every Saturday, in a way that I didn't feel going to church on a Sunday, even though I found the Jewish idea of one deity far more sensible than the Father, Son and Holy Ghost free-for-all. I'm well aware that everyone who isn't a complete self-deluding fool finds themselves preposterous at times, but I didn't want this to happen because of a culture that I have such respect for.

American Jews associated with the Weisenthal Centre want to build a Museum of Tolerance on the site of an ancient Muslim cemetery at the heart of Jerusalem. They are opposed by an unlikely alliance of imams, ultra-orthodox and reform rabbis and historians who say that an ancient graveyard - still containing some bones and gravestones dating back nine centuries - is inappropriate for such a museum.

Muslims want to build an Islamic Centre, with mosque and cultural facilities, on a site bordering Ground Zero in New York where Islamist terrorists killed over 3,000 American citizens in the bloody aerial attack on the World Trade Centre. A survey for Time Magazine found 61 per cent of those polled opposed the construction of the mosque.

But the respondents were not implacably opposed to Islamic religious buildings, with 55 per cent happy to have a community centre and mosque near to their home, just not adjoining Ground Zero. They, like the critics of the Jerusakem museum, found the Ground Zero site inappropriate.

Many social care charities across Britain will have welcomed the government’s announcement in the Comprehensive Spending Review that £2 billion is to be provided for adult care. However, if we look closely at this new allocation, as half of the allocation is coming from the NHS, is this really new money for the sector or is it more of a ‘robbing Peter to pay to Paul’ mentality?

What controls will be put in place to ensure that local authorities use the money for the purpose for which it was intended? How can we be certain that it will not be used to plug other holes in their budget? After all, this money is not being ring fenced.

As the true nature of the CSR begins to become clear and experts begin their speculation, one thing is for certain – there is going to be less money available to our homes than ever before.

http://www.thejc.com/blogpost/no-free-speech-queens-belfast#new

Above is the link to my blog about this University's outrageous rescinding of their invitation to Professor Geoffrey Alderman to speak tonight.

Professor Alderman is now sitting in the hotel in Belfast while the meeting proceeds at the University. He was unable to negotiate his presence on the Panel and unable to get the meeting cancelled in view of the disgusting violation of free speech.

http://methodistpreacher.blogspot.com/2010/10/small-print.html

David is the Methodist preacher who is suing the Methodist Church for using charitable donations to discriminate against Israeli Jews. This is a massively significant case which - if he wins - will have significance for War On Want, Oxfam and all the other charities who regularly trash Israel in the same manner.

David deserves the support of right-thinkers everywhere!

The 33 Chilean miners were underground for 69 days. Much of the world focused its attention on them, while no effort or cost was spared to get them out into the light after the nightmarish accident that buried them.

Gilad Shalit has been underground for one thousand, five hundred and seventy-four days today (he was taken on June 25, 2006).

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