CANTOR RHODA J. HARRISON At the time of this writing, I am sitting firmly in the Jewish calendar between Tu b’Av (The 15th of Av) and Rosh Chodesh Elul. The lesser known of our two minor Av holidays, Tu b’Av has grown in recognition in recent years. Its first mention appears in the Talmud (B.
Church of England, English national church that traces its history back to the arrival of Christianity in Britain during the 2nd century. It has been the original church of the Anglican Communion since the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. As the successor of the Anglo-Saxon and medieval English church, it has valued and preserved much of the traditional framework of medieval Roman Catholicism in church government, liturgy, and customs, while it also has usually held the fundamentals of Reformation faith. The conversion of the Anglo-Saxons, who began invading Britain after Rome stopped governing the country in the 5th century, was undertaken by
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