Transcendence. Experiencing the divine. Tasting that sweet essence of God. For the Sikh, God has no form. God has no shape, age, race, or gender. God was never born, and will never cease to be. God...
It is interesting that the idea of interfaith dialogue is coming to the forefront now. People are just realizing what it is and acknowledging its tributes. What more people don't know is that the...
At many universities, the wave to achieve academic merit can often sweep students away. In many instances, advancement in today's modern world becomes a domineering focus in many aspects of life....
There is a deluge of references to water in the Jewish Bible: water purifies; water is punishment; water is salvation; Divine wisdom will cover the earth like water. Total immersion in a properly...
Hinduism has thousands, if not millions, of sacred spaces where a devotee can go to worship his or her ishtadevata, or personal god. For example, there are places like Chidambaram, one of the most...
Yom Hashoah (鈥渢he Day of the Shoah鈥) was established in 1951 by the Knesset, the Parliament of Israel, as a day of commemoration for the roughly six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. In...
I remember vividly the account given by Elie Wiesel, in his book Night.1 He described the execution of three Jews at Auschwitz, including a child. They stood on three chairs and the nooses were...