WATCH: Global Okanagan News at 5:30 p.m. – Aug. 30, 2024
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WATCH: Global Okanagan News at 5:30 p.m. – Aug. 30, 2024

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Top Stories Tamfitronics By StaffGlobal NewsPosted August 30, 2024 8:00 pmUpdated August 30, 2024 9:06 pm1 min read 11:13Global Okanagan News at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 30, 2024Watch the online edition of the Global Okanagan at 5:30A suspicious house fire in Kelowna. The Okanagan’s economy is looking up and we find out why. And a look at the kids and animals in the spotlight at the IPE in Armstrong.Get breaking National newsFor news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.Click here to view more Global News videos.Trending Now&copy 2024 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
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In new book, journalist Joshua Leifer offers a scathing take on American Judaism
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In new book, journalist Joshua Leifer offers a scathing take on American Judaism

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Top Stories Tamfitronics (RNS) — In journalist Joshua Leifer’s new book, a sweeping historical account of American Judaism, is an impassioned indictment of a fractured and contentious religious tradition. His central charge is that Judaism is hampered by its embrace of Zionism, which has become a substitute for the faith itself.It was therefore ironic that last week, a Brooklyn bookstore canceled a book talk with Leifer, where he was slated to discuss “Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life,” with a prominent Reform rabbi. The reason for the cancellation? The rabbi’s professed Zionism. (The book talk was later rescheduled and took place earlier this week at another venue.)In his book, which spans an entire century, Leifer, 30, now a Ph.D. candidate in history at Yale University, describes...
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Montgomery County, Maryland, was most religiously diverse US county in 2023
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Montgomery County, Maryland, was most religiously diverse US county in 2023

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Top Stories Tamfitronics (RNS) — Montgomery County, Maryland, a Washington suburb, was the most religiously diverse county in the U.S. last year, according to a census released Thursday (Aug. 29) by the Public Religion Research Institute.When PRRI did a similar study in 2020, Montgomery County came in third behind the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. In 2023 those boroughs were relegated to second and 10th, respectively.PRRI’s Census of American Religion, which focuses on U.S. adults age 18 and over, calculates religious diversity by analyzing 18 different religious and racial groups in counties with more than 10,000 residents.In the index used to rank counties, 1 signifies complete diversity, where every religious group is of equal size, whereas 0 signifies a homogenous religious population. Montgomery County received a score of 0.886.Montgomery County, with a...
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