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People, Places & GlossaryMa'amadMuhammad (محمد Muḥammad; also Mohammed, Muhammed, Mohamet, and other variants) is regarded by Muslims as the last messenger and prophet of God (Arabic:…Read article People, Places & GlossaryMoshe RabbenuMoses (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה Moshe Standar Mošé Tiberian Mōšeh; Arabic: موسى, Mūsā) was an early Biblical Hebrew religious leader, lawgiver, prophet, and…Read article People, Places & GlossaryTaoismTaoism is the English name referring to a variety of related Chinese religious and philosophical traditions and concepts. These traditions influenced East…Read article People, Places & GlossaryPauliciansAlevis (Turkish language: Aleviler or Alevilik) are adherents of an endogamic religious community in Eastern and Southern Turkey, it also has communities…Read article People, Places & GlossaryIdolatryIdolatry is a major sin in the Abrahamic religions regarding image. In Christianity it is defined as worship of an image, idea or object, as opposed to…Read article People, Places & GlossaryReligious conversionThe "Ger."== Term employed generally, though not exclusively, in the Septuagint as a rendering for the Hebrew word "ger," designating a convert from one…Read article People, Places & GlossaryArbitrationArbitration is a method of having a dispute between two or more parties resolved by impartial persons. There are certain laws governing the conduct of an…Read article People, Places & GlossaryPresident Bush betrays Israel speechPRESIDENT BUSH'S SPEECH Thank you. Mr. President, it is my honor to welcome the democratically elected leader of the Palestinian people to the White…Read article People, Places & GlossaryReplacement theologyReplacement theology (sometimes referred to as supersessionism by its adherents) is a belief that Christianity or Islam is the true and rightful and…Read article People, Places & GlossaryGer TzedekConversion to Judaism (Hebrew גיור, giur, "conversion") is the religious conversion of a previously non-Jewish person to the Jewish religion. The…Read article People, Places & GlossarySephirotSephirot (or "enumerations", Sephiroth, Sefiroth (סְפִירוֹת), singular: Sephirah, also Sefirah (סְפִירָה "enumeration" in Hebrew)), in the Kabbalah of…Read article People, Places & GlossaryVayoel MosheWritten by Satmar Grand Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, zt'l Translation of Section 110, Vayoel Moshe, published in 1961, (from the middle of Section 110): Six…Read article People, Places & GlossaryOptional observances for non-JewsIs a Bnei Noah required or forbidden from taking on Jewish observances? This article discusses specific questions concerning: Shabbat, Tefillin, Mezuzah,…Read article People, Places & GlossaryYehuda RibcoYehuda Ribco was born on 5 Elul of the year 5728, a beautiful noon on Thursday, August 29, 1968. At the moment he's living in Montevideo, the capital of…Read article People, Places & GlossaryYarsanismYarsan or Ahl-i Haqq (Kurdish language:Yarsan/Yaresan or Kakeyi, Persian language:اهل حق, Ahl-e Haqq, derived from an Arabic language phrase translatable…Read article People, Places & GlossaryLithuanian JewsLithuanian Jews (known in Yiddish and Haredi Judaism English as Litvish (adjective) or Litvaks (noun)) are Ashkenazi Jews with roots in Lita, a region…Read article People, Places & GlossaryMainlineIn the United States, the mainline (also sometimes called mainstream) Religious denominations are those Protestantism denominations with a potpourri of…Read article People, Places & GlossaryThe "Fitan" Literature and Jewish-Moslem relationsThe Arabic word "fitan" is the plural for "fitnah", meaning sedition. Without further explanations, in Arabic "al-fitan" refers to the period that…Read article People, Places & GlossaryProfessor Vendyl JonesVendyl Jones (born May 29, 1930 in Sudan, Texas) is an United States|American Religion|religious scholar who has directed archaeological searches for…Read article