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September 21, 2007: Amish Forgiveness
Bob Abernethy interviews author Steven Nolt, a history professor at Goshen College in Indiana, about the one year anniversary of the tragedy in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, where a gunman murdered five girls and severely wounded five others before killing himself.
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September 14, 2007: Praying with the Sound of the Shofar
Whether they are Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstructionist or Reform, whether they gather on a California beach or in a New York City synagogue, Jews share at least one common element at their Rosh Hashanah observances: the shofar.
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September 7, 2007: Children’s Shofar Factory
"Judaism is packed with symbols. The shofar is one of the main symbols that people identify with, you know, in terms of the High Holidays" says Rabbi Chaim Hershkowitz of Chabad's Jewish Children's Museum.
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July 20, 2007: Buddhist Ash Interment
A segment about the Chinese Buddhist tradition of honoring deceased family members at the place where their ashes are interred. Harry Leong of New York City was our guide as he and his mother remembered his late father at the Chuang Yen monastery in Carmel, New York.
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Catholics of a certain age grew up hearing the Mass only in Latin. But since the 1960s, priests have been allowed to say the Mass in Latin only with the permission of their bishop. The Vatican is now loosening those restrictions, so the Latin Mass may soon become more widely available.
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March 30, 2007: Preparing for Passover
Monday night (April 2) Jews begin observing Passover, the commemoration of their ancestors' deliverance from slavery in Egypt when they got out so fast there was no time for bread to rise.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Monu Harnal describes the Hindu holiday of Diwali celebrating the end of the year and many events in the lives of the some of Hinduism's most important deities
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Every year in New York's Central Park, the Buddhist magazine TRICYCLE sponsors a demonstration of Buddhist practices called "Change Your Mind Day."
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BELIEF & PRACTICE . Kosher Certification
In Israel, there is a new flap about what's kosher -- in this case, whether hummus, the popular chickpea spread, conforms to Jewish law as set forth in the Torah.
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October 29, 2004: Ramadan Fasting
As Muslims around the world observe the holy month of Ramadan until mid-November, we wondered what it is like to fast during daylight hours for a month -- eating and drinking nothing, not even water. We spent a day with Imam Yahya Hendi, the Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University in Washington and also the leader of the Islamic Society of Frederick, Maryland.
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