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halacha: see halakah halakah or halacha (both: hälä`khä, häläkhä`) [Heb. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Common in Los Angeles and most big American cities, the eruv -- a thin monofilament line strung from light pole to light pole to symbolically extend a Jew's private domain to everything within the loop -- would enable Jews to carry keys and push strollers on the Sabbath without violating Halacha, or Jewish law. This is pluralism, which simultaneously calls for preserving and honoring differences, including ongoing disagreements (about the balance of grace and works, whether God incarnates literally, the role of halacha, that is, Jewish law, in religion, etc. According to Sergio Della Pergola, head of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University in Israel, of the 30,000 immigrants from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and South America who arrived in Israel last year, over half of those arriving under the 1950 Law of Return were not considered Jewish according to halacha, or Orthodox rabbinical law. |
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