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Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi is a psychology professor emeritus at the University of Haifa in Israel. His areas of expertise include the psychology of religion. He wrote an article titled “Scientology: Religion or racket?” that was published in September 2003 by the Marburg Journal of Religion.

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Zoo Torah

Zoo Torah is the blog of Israeli Rabbi Natan Slifkin, who uses the Jewish scriptures to teach about Judaism and its relation to animals.

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Diane Bloomfield

Diane Bloomfield is the author of Torah Yoga, a Jewish-themed yoga book and program that she teaches in the U.S. and Israel. She also founded the Torah Yoga Association. She gave a Beliefnet.com interview on the intersection of Judaism and yoga.

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Tamar Ross

Tamar Ross is a professor of Jewish philosophy at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. She writes about Orthodoxy and feminism.

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“YU ethics expert censures rabbis over brain-stem death”

A conference in Jerusalem in early January 2011 debated the brain-versus-breathing parameter. The issue has been in the news in Israel since Israeli soccer legend Avi Cohen was left brain dead after a December motorcycle accident. His bodily functions ceased after eight days, and his family retreated from a previous commitment to donate his organs despite being […]

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How can a religion writer get more religion news stories into the paper or on air? By Michael Paulson The Boston Globe* In my experience, editors are always hungry for good stories about any subject, and religion is no exception. To get more religion stories into the paper, apply the same rigorous reporting and writing […]

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