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- For Youth Groups, Strength In Numbers (The Jewish Week)
It’s a perennial challenge: how can congregations keep their teens connected to the Jewish community and involved in Jewish life once the bar/bat mitzvah is over? - Uthayakumar to fight on alone (Malaysia Today)
Written by Chua Sue-Ann, The Edge Hindu Rights Action Force’s (Hindraf) legal adviser P Uthayakumar on March 7 declared that his newly formed Human Rights Party (HRP) has “no choice” but to take their battles into their own hands instead of relying on the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition. “We have announced that the Human Rights Party will go on our own. We are here to fight our own battles. We ... - Seeking salvation in Ganga waters (Asia News Network)
Come, wash your sins off! Every 12 years, the Maha Kumbh Mela (mass Hindu pilgrimage) in Haridwar, a pilgrim town on the banks of the Ganges some 200km from Delhi, affords that opportunity to believer ..... - Seeking salvation in Ganga waters (Asia News Network)
Devotees at the mass Hindu pilgrimage. AFP PHOTO Come, wash your sins off! Every 12 years, the Maha Kumbh Mela (mass Hindu pilgrimage) in Haridwar, a pilgrim town on the banks of the Ganges some 200km from Delhi, affords that opportunity to believers among Hindus. - A farewell to Britain's most stylish street (Independent)
Americans love it. Japanese love it. Germans love it. Frenchmen and Italians not only love it but get it subtly and utterly wrong. Everyone loves le style Anglais. Except, perhaps, Englishmen. Maybe we got bored with it. Maybe we ran out of money. Maybe it was too much trouble. - Hindraf and MIC slam Pakatan 'promises' (Malaysian Mirror)
KUAL LUMPUR – The 1.8 million-strong Indian Malaysian community was full of expectations two years ago when it backed the opposition Pakatan Rakyat to capture several key states at the 2008 general election. The rallying call by current Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim in the run-up to the election was 'Makkal Sakti' or the people's power, which stoked the emotions of Indians who then felt ...