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Cafe Kubitscheck, Munich, by DesignLiga
words Claire Beard"Fuck The Backmischung!" (Fuck The Cake Mix!) is the unorthodox motto emblazoned in bright pink letters on the front window of Cafe Kubitscheck, a cake shop in Waldfriedhofstrasse, Munich, designed by local design office Designliga. ...
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Safer For Your Soul, But Is Kosher Healthier, Too?
After mad cow disease, peanut butter recalls and e-coli in spinach, shoppers want to know whats in their food and where it comes from. That's turned a very old way of eating into a very new way of shopping -- one that crosses religious lines.
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Condiment Art - Vik Muniz Makes Masterpieces in Sugar and Jam (GALLERY)
Artist Vik Muniz is a talented artist that uses unorthodox materials to create his pieces. Using condiments such as sugar, jam and peanut butter, Muniz also favors puzzle pieces and garbage for his art.
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Israeli conversion bill moves ahead, draws anger
Liberal Jewish groups were angered last month after a parliamentary committee in Israel approved a bill that would give...
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New rabbis signal Jewish renaissance in Germany
Judaism is making a comeback in Germany 65 years after the Holocaust, thanks largely to immigration from the former Soviet Union, as shown by this week's ordination of two rabbis in the eastern city of Leipzig.
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Pollak v. Schakowsky
Joel Pollak has two degrees from Harvard, worked as both a freelance journalist and a political speechwriter in his native South Africa, had a brief career as an actor in European movies and TV advertisements, and published two books while still at ...
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Sestak Betrays J Street
Ben Smith reports today that Joe Sestak is distancing himself from the J Street sponsored, ``infamous'' ( in the words of the Orthodox Union) , anti-Israel letter accusing Israel of`` collective punishment'' for defending itself against Hamas ...
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I've Touched A Raw Spot Among My Jewish Readers, And That's Exactly What I Intended To Do
It happened when I wrote about Rabbi Ovadia Yosef as a paradigmatic instance of moral and intellectual backwardness in the ultra-ultra-orthodox communities of Israel.On the day that I wrote I'd noted a headline and article in the Jerusalem Post : ...
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The Other Religion at Ground Zero
A Greek Orthodox congregation has been waiting longerand working harderthan Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Park51 Islamic Center to restore the church that was destroyed on September 11, 2001.
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World's Greenest Priest Leads Global Prayer Against Climate Change
Yesterday (Sept. 1), His All Holiness, Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Patriarch Bartholomew for short asked the world's Orthodox Christians to pray for the protection of the environment. The ...
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Montana Fishburne: 'I'm getting acting offers'
Daughter of "CSI" star speaks to THR about unorthodox debut.
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Progressives Against Progress
F or the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, American liberals distinguished themselves from conservatives by what Lionel Trilling called a spiritual orthodoxy of belief in progress. Liberalism placed its hopes in human perfectibility. ...
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Looks Fusion, Cooks Orthodox
If you've eaten around and in the San Gabriel Valley, you've probably become accustomed to the markers of an overly ambitious Asian-fusion restaurant: the couples picking listlessly at their saut-seafood salads, the bros pounding down exotic bowls ...
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Glenn Beck, Your Summer of Rage is Here
To dismiss Whitestock as "more religious than political" is to forget that for Glenn Beck's audience, politics are never separate from religion. Interviews with his audience members confirm what I've said for a long time now: conservative orthodoxy has ...
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Afghan central bank insists Kabul Bank is solvent
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Trying to reassure nervous account holders, Afghanistan's central bank said it will stand behind the nation's largest bank after its two top executives resigned amid allegations of mismanagement and unorthodox lending practices.
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Israels Conversion Crisis
A bill designed to help immigrants had the unintended effect of widening the gulf between Israel and the Diaspora.
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All Gods children got intolerance
News from around the world thisweekend: In Israel, during a sermon, 89year-old Rabbi Ovadia Yousef, spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shaspolitical party, attacked the Palestinian people and their President MahmoudAbbas, calling them ...
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Outrage at incitement by rabbi
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad yesterday joined the widespread outrage at Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of the ultra-orthodox Israeli party Shas, who at the weekend denounced the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and others, ...
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Off to a Great Start
With renewed peace talks about to begin between the Israelis and the Palestinians, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, one of the country's top Mizrahi rabbis and the spiritual leader of the Shas political party (an ultra-orthodox party of Jews descended from ...
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'Islamophobia' and Islamo-reality
The living legacy of Muslim anti-Jewish hatred and violence remains firmly rooted in mainstream, orthodox Islamic teachings, not some aberrant vision of "radical Islam."
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Angela And The Fifty Hoovers
Big spending Germany, austere America.
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Koch Heads
Matthew Yglesias is back from vacation and has a nice, pithy reaction to Jane Mayer's article on the Koch brothers:The orthodox view among American conservatives and libertarians and free market advocates more generally is that if I want to walk up
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Leader of orthodox Israeli party calls for death of Abbas
THE SPIRITUAL leader of Shas, an ultra-Orthodox party in Israels governing coalition, has called on the Lord to strike down Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
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Lawyer Gives Up Law Practice for Pulpit
At one time, Pastor Bruce Zachary was a lawyer. Now he is lead pastor of Calvary Nexus in Camarillo, ministering to more than 1,000 parishioners, the Acorn reports. Zachary grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family, but he converted to Christianity 20 years ...
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Man whipped by Jewish religious leader
A Jewish singer who performed in front of a mixed audience of men and women has been lashed 39 times on the orders of his orthodox rabbi, Amnon Yitzhak, founder of the Shofar organization, which promotes the "return to religion."
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Historic mass marks new beginning for Turkey's Christians
Historic open-air mass at a monastery on the Black Sea coast marks new beginning for Turkeys Christians.
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Ground Zero hypocrites
Selective concern for freedom of religion.
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Multi-tenancy Is Not a Customer Issue
I was sitting at Workday's 2010 Technology Summit earlier this week hearing the pitch about the supremacy of multi-tenancy. Despite their best efforts, Workday's rationales about this key piece of SaaS orthodoxy are coming down solidly on the vendor ...
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Black and Jewish, and Seeing No Contradiction
The killing of a Jamaican-born convert to Judaism has drawn some attention to the rare mix of race and religion.
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Long lost Jesus icon restored
By Mikhail Antonov and Nikolai Isayev Moscow - An icon of Jesus embedded in a Kremlin gate used by Soviet leaders but bricked over in the 1930s during communist times was restored on Saturday to pu...
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