a lot of the synagogues and places of worship are in residential districts. it has not impacted them, but there are far more people in other religions and their places of worship are not -- have to be in commercial districts in areas where people cannot live. -- do not live. god said anyone should go up or ship and have spirituality and stay out of trouble. what you are doing, you are asking uhim to put 10 plagues on you. >> thank you very much. i am a former member of the board of supervisors. you refer my namesake, david brown. -- you heard from my name's sake, david brown. i am amos brown. the prophet. the profit has come to prophesy. -- prophet has come to prophesy. it is unimaginable that you will would have the gall in this city to come up with a measure that would adversely impact the quality of life -- of life in the city. my wife had to get up and go out to feed the meter. it is sexist against women to have this kind of a measure. 60% of the membership in faith communities are women. i am appealing to you to have a heart today. new york city has 8 mi

synagogues being bombed and school children being killed with missiles. if your responsibility is to protect the american people from that and you have someone in another country that you cannot possibly bring to justice before that crime or that mass act of terrorism is committed and the -- it is -- you're unable to go to those places and bring them to justice in a courtroom, you're not going to be able to bring the witnesses to put them on trial. and you have the capability of preventing that disaster from happening. so, you now are thinking about the civil rights of this individual, who is preparing and -- anthony says, well, maybe he -- the moment before the missile strikes, he's having a conversion. but maybe he has killed lots of americans already. and he has equipped other individuals to kill lots of americans. and you can't stop that. that's already under way. that's going on. now you have the rights of that individual to something that antmy calls judicial process, which you cannot possibly bring about. >> is the aargument that this should be dec

in line with what many faith houses are doing now- and i guess i was being at the synagogue because i was getting ahead of myself. i went to a seder, an open seder this past december, and the rabbi made the statement after we should take the prayer books- the haggadahs- with us, because they were getting new ones, and they were going to not only just mention the patriarchs at this point, every time the patriarchs are mentioned, the matriarchs were also going to be mentioned. so that's sort of a roundabout way to ask, in islam, is there some such movement? are women coming into parity with men in this faith home? and in your particular, you know, kind of islam, is this true? is this happening also? >> yes. well, again, we look at the real worth of a human person with the intellect and focus and the moral life- the intellect and the moral life is the most important focus for us. and in terms of the moral life and intellect, according to our religion, male and female are one creation- one creation. that's why prophet muhammad insisted that the women be free to be educated, and he gave an

the building opened in 1908, and it was home to a synagogue for 45 years, and then when they relocated, the building became home to turner memorial ame church. then after hey rely indicated the building was put up for sale and the highest bid was someone who wanted to buy and it turn it into a nightclub. thankfully that did not happen, and it was turned into a nondenominational, nonmembership, and nontraditional synagogue and a host for culture to host events like this one tonight. we have great lineup of authors stopping here on their book tours this season. next weekend will be a new cookbook, a.j. jacobs is copping, madeline albright, and john irving among others. we're so happy to have jonathan haidt here tonight and i want to congratulate him on the release of "the righteous mind: why good people are divided by politics and religion." it's always fitting to have an author speak about politics here given we're in d.c., and i say the same being an author speaking about religion given this is a synagogue. so i feel like we have hit the bull's eye in having you here. "the rich chows m

at this year's holocaust commemoration at beth el synagogue, governor martin o'malley acknowledged the humanity of survivors as a dwindling group. >> we should shift responsibility to prevent genocide in our own time and we should take action by the creed of "never again." >> there were a number of young people who attended. >> i love america. america gave me a new life, a new home. >> the telling of the story is new for him. silent about it for years, he plans to share it as long as his health allows. he has just written a book called "from thorns to stars and stripes, memoirs of a penis holocaust survivor." -- memoirs of a teenage holocaust survivor." nearly a year ago, a tornado tore apart a joplin high school. tore apart a joplin high school. you can always expect more. like more on demand shows and movies than ever. and more ways to discover them too. plus more speed from america's fastest internet provider. so you can run more devices at the same time. ♪ feel a firework [ female announcer ] and best of all, it keeps getting better. no wonder more people choose xfinity over any ot

if i get up in my synagogue and i don't speak about israel, part of my task as a rabbi is, i mean, has been shirked, that is something that is critical to my community, it is critical to me, it is close to the jewish heart and should be spoken about even though it has clear political implications. so there are such fractured and divided lines in this, that i don't think these bright divisions are either helpful or accurate. and no matter what political position you take, you will find that you have some religious allies in the position, part of the key, of course, is to stay away from candidates and encouraging certain positions in elections. > but if you believe, you believe things and if you believe things you want to see them enacted in the world. >> schieffer: reverend cortez is there too much religion or not enough? >> i think the question is not a valid, is not even a valid question, in a democracy everybody has a right to choose for themselves what will lead them, what will be their lead, whether it be religion, atheism, environment, whatever issue you want to be your lead or wh

embraces both the mind, the body, and the spirit and that it's doable for almost all congregations, synagoguesand mosques. it is doable for almost all congregations. it is doable. it's not something that has to be paid. you can use volunteers. you can find someone who's interested and wants to serve. >> reporter: most parish nurses, in fact, are unpaid and work part-time. some, like diane tieman, are paid partly by a church and partly by a hospital, where they also serve. on this day, tieman has brought a hospitalized parishioner a handmade shawl. >> it is filled with prayers, and this one was actually made by jerri. >> thank jerri for me. >> i will. >> reporter: there are some things a parish nurse can't do, like administer medications or give injections. but they can offer programs other nurses don't, like the queen of the rosary knitting group that makes the shawls -- >> dear lord, bless my hands. >> reporter: -- and prays for those who will receive them. tieman also works with other faith communities setting up events like this labyrinth walk at a nearby methodist church. >> i really feel

it does not affect the synagogue or me, why should i care? i care for two reasons. it affects people in the city. they are my neighbors, colleagues, and france. such an action opens the door to other discriminatory proposals. when one group is affected, it is easy to regulate something which demonstrates -- discriminates against other groups. we're all proud of the diversity that makes san francisco a special place. this action puts that diversity in peril. read the first amendment to the constitution of the united states. do not take this action am. -- action. [applause] >> my name is michael. i'm the executive director of the san francisco interfaith council. i am your to voice opposition to this initiative to institute commuter parking on sundays. it is a violation of due process. the board's failure to invite a single leader to its meetings was an egregious infraction. dusting off an ill-conceived idea that failed to successfully been passed deliberations and giving no voice to those directly impacted was wrong. for the record, the majority of congregations impa

he challenged a 150 year-old synagogue tradition during the sacred holiday of yom kippur war. >> i thought " there are so many people that are hunkering out there ". i will take a risk because i was new and it is always dangerous. >> the oldest jewish congregation west of the mississippi did not solicit donations during there were some services until the rabbi gave the people food for thought. >> i put a bag of groceries on the pulpit and i said " there are people here who are fast and not because they're jewish or that they want to fast but because they don't have any food, they are at risk. i asked them to come back with bags of groceries. and there were several tons that were donated at that time. >> under his leadership the congregation here at temple emanu-el has raised more than 19,500 lbs. of food for the san fransisco food bank. over the years the rabbi has galvanized his congregation of 8000 in a number of service projects. for example a year-round food drive, a turkey dinner drive for thanksgiving and cooking shelter meals. at one point he planted the idea to grow vegetables at t

the salvation army, the local church, synagogue,ç mosqueç, whatever.are little bigger, who else is there? neighbors helping neighbors. ças it gets a little bigger, or even if it is a small house fire, in the neighborhoods of this city and neighborhoods across the country, if something çhappens, there is usually a local business that knows the family and been dealing with for a while and says that will help them out in some way or another. i remember last year i was traveling in the floods of north dakota. there was a family i was talking to at one of the shelters who lost their home. he said the one good thing was he did not lose his car. he had sent it to the shop the day before. the shop where it was getting fixed was not affected by the floods. then he said he went back yesterday to pick up my car. as he picked up hisç car, the y said it is ok. he showed me the bill. it was like $800 bill for repairs. it said "paid in fullñr." he said take care of yourself in your family. he picked up the tab, a small- business garage. that happened every day on

. >> then in november 1938 came a series of attacks on jewishwned businesses and synagogues known as kristallnacht, or night of the broken glass. a non-jewish friend convinced the family they needed to leave. but their father's papers were questionable, and countries like the u.s. had very strict entry requirements. >> however, for many years, shanghai had been designated a treaty port where foreign nationals could live and trade on chinese soil. >> shanghai was the only place in the entire world that had no visa requirement. nothing. all you had to do is book passage. so out of desperation, we had to leave. we choose shanghai. nobody really wanted to come to shanghai, but it was the only place to go. >> the wacs family was able to secure passage on an italian luxury liner. >> the boat was called the "conte biancamane." >> the family boarded the ship in genoa, italy, on august 16th, 1939, just 2 weeks before world war ii started. ilie was 12 and deborah just 3 years old. >> i was told -- and i don't believe i remember that at age 3, but i remember getting a sense of going on this hap

the synagogue we're going to see you know from the start i was preparing for the olympics and was not expecting to face such a strong competition here my aim was to achieve the qualification time required. to do that as well as winning there and it was also a psychological be true for me this trying to get back on track you know. you worship you so. everything is your theory. not lathi charge busy getting ready for the london games this summer some are already thinking about the following games in rio and twenty sixteen that will see golf make its a limb pick return and the search has begun for russian players to compete. as more . rushes because golf and start my river channel is currently taking a break from the sport but more young talent is coming through one promising prospect is russian national runner up about him or possible he's just sixteen and will turn twenty one at the rio olympics the games will see the return of golf after just two appearances early in the twentieth century but to make an olympic dream come true players need to dig deep. and i want to go to the olympics

student groups and churches and synagogues and other places where people are already concerned and care and do believe that we are in some way, shape or form, brothers, sisters keepers, brother's and sister's keeper. so i think the same thing would apply here. that you would want to invest a lot of time in building those local coalitions that as has been the case with what congressman scott has tried to do with this bill, build that slowly, steadily and build those local coalitions to a national coalition and thus a movement and going to those segments of the community, the constituencies of voters that are concerned about these kinds of things and it usually is for these kinds of issues, the religious communities and students, and finding like minded folks who are willing to help put some of those building blocks together for a movement building. there already is the outlines of that and you're a part of it and i think that getting people like hill who has face and name recognition and is able to articulate the answers to some of these issues in such a profound way, in such a personal

and the scene being from author speaking about religion because we are in a synagogue so given that nigh is a combination of the to - like this is a bull's-eye in having you here. the righteous mind is getting great reviews from liberals, conservatives, libertarians and non-partisan and you can see the book review in "the new york times" this coming weekend. jonathan is a professor of psychology at new va and a visiting professor at the nyu school of business and is mentioned in david bloxham column and is probably heard on npr talking about his studies on morrill psychology. jonathan is a popular speaker at the talks and i was launching a video that have over 1 million views. so it's nice to have you in an intimate setting here tonight. his research focuses on morality by a understanding more about the roots, then hopes to conclude to be civil and open-minded. he began his career studying the negative moral demotions but then moved on to the understudy positive emotion like admiration and moral elevation. the move got jonathan involved in positive psychology and led him to write his fir

flew his little plane from tennessee to atlanta to pick up, you know, chinese food for their big synagogue banquet, you know, because it was glatt kosher chinese food. so it was very, very, very specialized. and it's, like the only glatt kosher chinese restaurant within 700 miles. and they would deliver by fed ex, you know? that's, like, pretty hard core. they would, like, you know, cook it, freeze it on dry ice, and then they would, you know, ship it the next day. >> hinojosa: so what is it... you know, i actually... when i was reading your book, and i said to people... it's like, "gosh, you know, i really hadn't..." i mean, i guess if i had thought about it i would have put the fact that chinese food and jewish people... yeah. >> yeah, you're in new york. >> hinojosa: right. but, like, until i read it, i was like, "oh, my gosh, it's really true." and i hadn't thought about the fact that... this other great fact, which is chinese restaurants, their biggest day of sale is... >> christmas, by far, yeah. and it's really funny, because if you watched the hearings for elena kagan the other day

all over the country churches, synagogues, community centers will be having commemorations, as well.t the museum, today through saturday we will be having names readings of victims who were lost during the holocaust. is an opportunity for people from around washington to come to the museum and read the names of those who were lost in the museum's halls. it is a powerful experience and i hope people will take advantage of it. >> on monday a special guest -- president obama coming down. the messages to make sure that nobody ever forget what happened. >> that is correct. we understand he will be talking about preventing genocide in the world today. that is really what this museum was founded for. the museum is not only memorial to those who were lost, but the founders, many of whom were holocaust survivors envisioning an institution that inspires people to prevent genocide today. we hope people come here not just to learn about the past, but to make a difference in the world today. >> it has been almost 70 years until liberation of the concentration camps. the tragic thing now is we're

synagogues being bombed and school children being killed with missiles. if your responsibility is to protect the american people from that and you have someone that is in another country that you cannot possibly bring to justice before that crime or that mass act of terrorism is committed and you are unable to go to those places and bring them to justice in a court room they're not going to be able to bring the witnesses to put them on trial and you have the capability of preventing that disaster from happening. so you are now thinking about civil-rights of this individual who is preparing. anthony says the moment before the missile strikes he is having a conversion but maybe he has killed lots of americans already. he is equipped other individuals to kill lots of americans and you can't stop that. that is already underway. that is going on. now you have the rights of that individual to something that anthony calls judicial process which you cannot possibly bring about. >> the argument that this should be decided by the generals? >> i am getting to the di

move around the world, that can help enormously private things about you whether you have gone to a synagogue or church or aids clinic or if you're at a location of a competitor for your employer. so even something where you are can show something that could be used against you. the old max jim by people used to be, i don't do anything wrong so i don't have anything to worry about. what you're suggesting is the most everyday things can look nefarious,. >> guest: the most everyday thing. so one woman was in a workplace injury. she had to go through four spinal injuries, pins in her neck, and when she sued, in a legitimate suit, the judge included into evidence anything on her myspace page or facebook page, and the judge said, she is smiling. she couldn't possibly be harmed. so, who would think that a smiling photo that maybe was taken before the accident, would come back to haunt her. or in los angeles, where we are now, the penalties for young people can be enhanced if they're wearing gang colors on the facebook page. what's a gang color? i looked up the l.a.p.d. rules and it's plaid. i have

. >> when rabbi steven pierce became the senior rabbi in 1993, he challenged a 150 year-old synagogue tradition during the sacred holiday of yom kippur war. >> i thought " there are some people are hungry out there, i'm going to take a rest ". >> the oldest jewish congregation west of the mississippi did not solicit donations during their worship services until this rabbi gave the people food for thought. >> i put a bag of groceries on the pulpit and i said " there are people here who are fasting, not because they're jewish or because they want to fast, but because they do not have any food ". i asked them to come back with bags of groceries, and there were several tons that were donated at that time. >> under his leadership the congregation here at the temple has raised more than 19,500 lbs. of food for the san fransisco food bank. over the years rabbi tears has galvanized his congregation of 8000 in a number of service projects. for example a year-round food drive, a turkey dinner dry for thanksgiving and cooking meals. at one point he planted the idea to grow vegetables at the temp

. >>> we can senior rabbi in 1993, he challenged a synagogue tradition during the sixth holiday of yom kippur. >>> there's only people that agree out there, i will take risks which it was always dangerous. >>> the ooldest jewish congregations west mississippi gave the people food for thought. at birth at the packer trees on the pavement and said their people here who are fasting not because they're jewish or they want to fast because they have no food and they're at risk. i ask them to come back and the recent purchase. several tons were donated at the time. >>> the congregation here at temple emanuel has raised more than 90,500 lbs. of food for the sentences of food bank. over the years, rabbi pierce has organized his congregation to of thousands of project. he's a year-round food drives and cooking it sheltered meals. at one time he planted the idea up to grow vegetables at temple cemetery. it generated thousands of pounds of fresh produce for the food bank each year. >>> he leads by personal example. >>> rabbi pierce inspires people to serve >>> of course you can contribute money an

he was always among the people and he wasn't held nup the synagogue or temple.e was walking with the people and reaching out to the people and touching them and making them better than when they were before. that is kind much what i feel like our message does. we are not denying we can do wrong, but focusing on what woo can do right it is it the goodness of god that leads people. 92 you generally stay away from politics certainly more than preachers do. i want to grow the people who listen to me and i don't want to divide and subtract. you are here in washington this week preach meeting with politicians. i will and you about some of the issues that confront the country. there is it a lot of hispanics in your congregation and houston. how should we deal with the illegal immigrants. >> i am on the side of mercy, but i think we have to secure borders and i know both sides of the argument. i don't know the answer, but i am always going to fall on the side of mercy. especially those who grew up here. i don't know what the right thing is to do. >> chris: amnesty is no

as the church separated itself from the synagogue, so aspects of jewish observance were lost and allommunion of eating the bread and drinking the wine in remembrance of jesus' life. >> reporter: the word "christian" was not used until more than 30 years after jesus died and simply meanings those who believe jesus was christ, the jewish messiah. >> they forgot their origins and roots are in you. >> differently and forgot jesus was a jew and the followers were jews and saw themselves as loyal jesus and only in recent times has the church begun to rediscover its you jewish roots and its origin. >> reporter: there are other rediscoveries, as well, for instance the final steps jesus took to his crucifixion but did he actually pass this way? 20th century archaeology disputes that. we'll tell you more, after this. eat good fats. avoid bad. don't go over 2000... 1200 calories a day. carbs are bad. carbs are good. the story keeps changing. so i'm not listening... to anyone but myself. i know better nutrition when i see it: great grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole. see th

he wasn't held up in the synagogue or in the temple. he was always walking among the people. he was always reaching out to people. he was always touching them and making them better than when they were before. that is kind of what i feel like our message does is we are not denying that we can do wrong but we are focusing on what can we do right. it is the goodness of god the bible says that leads people. >> chris: you generally stay away from politics certainly more than a lot of preachers do. last time you said i want to grow the people who listen to me, i don't want to divide them and subtract. you are here in washington this week and meeting with poll texs. i will ask you about the issues that confront the country. there are a lot of hispanics in our congregation in houston. what do you think? how should we deal with the illegal immigrants in this country? >> i wish i knew the answer, are chris. it is so complicated. i'm on the side of mercy but i think we have to secure our borders and i know both sides of the argument. i don't know the answer. but i'm always going to fol

formed alliances with financiers like ezra merkin, president of new york's prestigious fifth avenue synagogue; stanley chais of beverly hills, who worked the hollywood crowd; and bob jaffe of boston and palm beach. >> people who had access to madoff, whether they were advisors or accountants or attorneys or... or fund-to-funds built sort of a cottage industry of just feeding money to bernie and it sort of mushroomed. >> smith: madoff was also being courted by private bankers, mostly from greenwich, connecticut, the capital of the hedge fund business. one of the first to knock on his door was jeffrey tucker, a former sec lawyer with a love for horse racing. he joined private banker walter noel to found fairfield greenwich group. >> fairfield greenwich started as a small-scale investment advisory business led by a gentleman, walter noel, who had a pretty good reputation on wall street. not just in us money circles, but in foreign money circles, as well. he attracted a partner who also had a... a good track record, jeffrey tucker. they joined forces and got fairfield greenwich up and going. >> s

do americans believe you have to be a member of a church or synagogue to get the full benefits of faithdo they believe in god but just not religion? >> there is some evidence that we have an engrained biological need for faith, that is inherited, that varies on some degree with the individual depending on the dna that we've inherited. and that can be reflected in attending a church in a very traditional way, but it can also find expression in other forms of spirituality or even secular things. i think there are secular activities that provide a community, that provide some sense of ethical obligation that to some degree fulfill this inner desire for something quasi spiritual. >> nick, it's great to talk to you. if you would like to check out nick's column, you you can find it at new yo"new york times"s.c. pick, have a great day. thank you. >> and you. take care. >>> well, snow is pretty much a given in alaska, right some but one city will has seen more snow that season than anytime in the last 57 years. you can guess how much some is it 33 inches, 133 inches, 233 inches? oh, my. we'll t

gps tracking can be an invasion of privacy because it tells things like whether you have gone to a synagogue or a church or whether you're at an aids treatment center or abortion clinic. you can't find that out through gps. we may be our own worst enemy in terms of what we buy in terms of applications and so forth. >> in your book the details that make it so concrete for me was the school story with a send out the computers. the girl who notices that the computer, the light is blinking after. she thinks, why is it doing that. >> yes. so now i have a posted on the laptop camera in my hotel room. >> in principle why couldn't you just do that across the board? if you get ads on amazon ignore them. to what i do every time a guy in a pickup truck pulls up next to me listening to rush, roll up the window. >> most of us don't know it's occurring. >> change the channel. >> but it's not a matter of changing the channel when this is on the back and so that when my web searches and used without my knowing it in terms of whether i get a credit card or not. so under the fair credit reporting act if the c

birth control and you can have total freedom as an individual without having to coerce a church or synagogue into doing something against its religious beliefs. is the government of the united states have the power to coerce religious institutions against their religious beliefs. that's a pretty fundamental question. >> schieffer: you are you know, i want to talk a little politics and personal politics about you. >> all right. >> schieffer: and i'm going to say in the beginning, i have learned my lesson about counting you out in this campaign. i think i declared you dead about twice, and both times you came back alive and were still in there. but right now, it looks to me like it's going to be very difficult for you. i mean, sheldon addleson, who give you $10 million or gave your super pac-10 million said the other day, he thinks you have reached the end of the line. where do you go from here? >> i think we keep campaigning and governor romney, as he himself said in the clip that you used, says he has to earn the 1144. we're not going to concede it to him. kansas last night set the second re