ONENESS BLESSING: The Unity Spiritual Centre, 1226 Naylor Lloyd Road, Liberty, will host a Oneness Blessing at 12:30 p.m. Sunday given by Paul Christian. The On
Fr Victor Edwin SJ, writes: I spent Christmas at a small Jesuit parish in Behror, on the way to the pink Jaipur (India). A day before Christmas, I read the 19th chapter of the Quran and the first chapter of Mathew s Gospel. Something beautiful struck me: how God cares fo.
A self-professed good Jewish boy from New Jersey, Rabbi Michael Elkohen had come a long way.
In the ultra-Orthodox enclave in Jerusalem where Elkohen now lives, he was often called on to perform marriages, circumcisions and other sacred Jewish rituals. He was even hired to write Torah scrolls, handwritten copies of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, in a task typically reserved for the most devout and highly trained scribes.
But for 15 years, Elkohen was apparently living a lie. The father of five with the black hat, beard and side curls was fluent in Judaic texts and traditions but living a double life: Born Michael Elk in Salem County, he was actually a Christian missionary sent to the Holy Land to convert Jews, according to two anti-missionary groups whose accusations have captivated Israelis in recent days.