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Hindu sacrifice of 250,000 animals begins | World news | guardian.co.uk
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The event, which happens every five years, began with decapitation of thousands of buffalo, killed in honour of Gadhimai, a Hindu goddess of power.
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The festivities included a ferris wheel, fortune-telling robots and stalls blaring music and offering tea and sugary snacks.
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Sabbath protest in Jerusalem -- latimes.com
Article summary: "About 3,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated Saturday outside an Intel plant in Jerusalem to protest its operating on the Jewish Sabbath, an action they view as a desecration of the sanctity of the holy city." Hard to imagine a more vivid metaphor fo the clash of "old" versus "new" sensibilities (though putting it that way suggests that haredism is "old," when actually it's pretty modern).
Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question - NYTimes.com
Fascinating article -- a UK court has declared that any definition of Judaism based on descent -- i.e., on whether an individual's mother is Jewish -- is ipso facto discriminatory and thus illegal. The context was an admissions policy for a publicly-funded Jewish school, which had excluded a student applicant because the school's Orthodox policy did not recognize the mother's conversion, conducted in a liberal setting, as valid and thus did not accept the applicant's claim to be Jewish. Archived: http://sqrl.it/?l3q8t and http://www.webcitation.org/5lBnaZcq8
Parents given jail terms for relying on prayers to save dying daughter | World news | guardian.co.uk
Sentencing for Dale and Leilani Neumann (of Wisconsin), whose 11-year-old daughter died of diabetes after her parents attempted to treat her using prayer alone. It's a remarkably mile sentence -- one month for each parent for second-degree homicide.
Salazar v. Buono: Can Government Give One Religion's Symbol Prominence in a Public Park? - Pew Research Center
Pew Forum backgrounder on the Establishment Clause case surrounding the large cross-shaped war memorial in the Mojave desert. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Oct. 7, 2009.
E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Tried to visit Wat Mongkoltepmunee
Archived: http://sqrl.it/?yg268
Garden State Cultural Association -- sponsors of the 2009 Durga Puja in Plainfield, NJ (Sept. 26-27, 2009)
This is the webpage for the Garden State Cultural Assocation. Right now (Sept. 2009), the site is mostly devoted to news about the upcoming Plainfield, NJ celebration of Durga Puja, which will happen on the weekend of Sept. 26-27, 2009. This is one of eight or nine major Durga Puja celebrations in the U.S. I'd kind of like to see this someday. It's probably all in Bangla though.
Thai temple rises over town (phillyBurbs.com) | Courier Times
News article from Sept. 2008 about a major construction project underway at Wat Mongkoltepmunee, a Thai Buddhist temple in Bensalem, PA. They were predicting the project would be finished during the summer of 2009.
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Dorset | Light sensors cause religious row
See also http://bit.ly/DGflz at the Daily Mail. Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5iOjI4yyU
Jewish couple sue neighbours for 'imprisoning' them with automatic hallway light | Mail Online
The story here is that two Orthodox Jewish apartment dwellers (this is in London) are suing their management company because the company installed a motion-sensing light switch in their hallway. They say they cannot trigger the light on the Sabbath without violating the tenets of their religion, that they were assured on leasing the apartment that no motion-sensing devices would be installed, and that they have offered to pay for the installation of an "override switch," whatever that is. Discovered via a very scornful post at Gizmodo, http://bit.ly/6dXIe . Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5iOiUAc3K
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