by Bill Fancher
WASHINGTON, DC (AgapePress) – Rabbi Yehuda Levin has grown tired of the school shootings that continue to plague the American education scene — and he has taken action.
Levin, the Director of Jews for Morality, has called for censorship of the entertainment industry, which he says has “run amuck with violence.” According to the rabbi, he is not alone in these feelings. He says many observers are calling for action against an industry that is regularly charged with being a major factor in encouraging violent acts.
“As people get desperate enough and realize what's going on, I think that more and more people are going to be willing to see some of these issues revisited,” Levin says.
The rabbi insists that many kinds of censorship are at work in our society already. As an example, he says law does not allow someone to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater without facing repercussions. He says the same should hold true for the entertainment industry and its glorification of sex and violence.
He says just as there has to be a mechanism which stops environmental pollution, there has to a mechanism “to stop the psychological and spiritual pollution which is creating a generation of 15-year-old killers.”
Rabbi Levin, who wants to see the industry's products regulated by law, says censorship of content is not a terrible thing as long as it saves the lives of our children.
(This update courtesy of Agape Press.)
Networks to Present New Image of Jesus Christ
by Fred Jackson
(AgapePress) – The Discovery Channel and the British Broadcasting Corporation are getting set to air a program on Easter Sunday entitled Jesus: The Complete Story.
Among the highlights of the three-hour special is the presentation of a new image of Jesus Christ, based, the networks say, on extensive research they did using archaeology, forensics, history, and art. The broadcasters say what that led them to was a computer-generated image of Christ, based, among other things, on a two-thousand-year-old skull of a man who once lived in Israel.
The Washington Times quotes executive producer Gaynelle Evans, who says the image is not what you would expect. Contrary to many artist renderings over the years which have shown Christ with almost feminine features, Evans says this depiction shows a man with a more weathered look, considering the harsh climate in the region.
Also, the experts actually used a passage in Corinthians to deduce that Christ had short hair — not the long hair that many people have accepted.
