Rabbi Baruch Chalomish is an example of how human the priests, rabbis and other religious heads are. These men of virtue, ethics and high handedness are so full of weakness just like you or me. Rabbi Baruch Chalomish lost his wife who died of cancer sometime back. He turned to alcohol, got addicted to cocaine [...]
Marriage is often referred to as a dead institution because the most basic tenets of a marriage are not fulfilled today. Most people would advice you that it is a pure waste of time, a trap, a merely temporary legal binding between two individuals who would eventually lose their freedom (as well as their state [...]
Phnom Penh has been developing at breakneck speed. Infrastructure dots the capital. The result of this property boom is the sad and sorry reality that the city’s poor are being displaced at an alarming rate. ‘Activists are calling it the largest epidemic of evictions since the Khmer Rouge emptied all of Phnom Penh in 1975.’ [...]
From McCann Kenya comes a visually-compelling and direct message to stop human trafficking, especially of children. The public awareness campaign through transit ads serve to spread the message quickly, and with a visual connect that is readily comprehensible, action-inducing, agitating, and graphic as any visual communication should be.
The transit ad campaign is the brainchild of [...]
Henry Ford, the father of the modern automobile industry, ‘refused to do business on Friday the 13th.’ Ford shared the same fear and caution with other stalwarts as Napoleon and President Franklin Roosevelt.
FDR was such a day 13th phobic that he altered his ‘own travel plans on any day of the week that landed on [...]
Surprising common sense and putting it in check survey in 2006, a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that people who use the internet and have a cell phone has a bigger and more diverse social network.
According to the study, the isolation rate of U.S. citizens remains the same in 1985: [...]
Ex-Miss California Carrie Prejean wanted nothing more than to win the Miss America title and go on to spread the word of Jesus to all her righteous countrymen. Unfortunately for her, there were so many people treading on the wrong paths who just didn’t want for her to be the second Virgin Mary. These vile [...]
As a communist regime, ‘the political ideology of the CCP has traditionally been hostile to religion, but its policy since the late 1970s has been to tolerate religious belief and expression among non-Party members so long as it does not threaten the CCP’s monopoly of authority or the functions of the state.’
International bodies such as [...]
The Taliban have apparently been fighting for the institutionalization of the Muslim Sharia law, imposing extremist views on the population. These militants and religious fundamentalists forced ‘their ultraconservative brand of Islam in and around the Swat.’ In the process, they have also been ‘displacing centuries-old traditions,’ as claimed by the Pashtuns.
One of the aspects that [...]
‘The systemic destruction of Kashgar’s iconic buildings in the Xinjian region, and the much-publicized assault on the Muslim Uighur culture’ are just some examples of how China wages a grand campaign of cultural assimilation that it deems it badly needs for the creation of a ‘more stable’ China.
This is ‘a state that can only be [...]