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Doctors in Israel say that former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "already critical medical condition is deteriorating further as key bodily organs continue to decline," . Dr. Zeev Rotstein, director of Tel Hashomer hospital near Tel Aviv, told reporters that members of the 85-year-old Sharon's family are by his bedside, the AP adds. The news that Sharon, who has been in a coma since suffering a stroke in 2006, was suffering additional problems.

Questions for a Rabbi or Talmudic scholar In recent days there have been posts on the subject of how Judaism views Christianity.  My Christian teachers have taught me a number of interpretations that I accept because I trust my teachers.  However, that doesn't mean that they are right.  In fact one of the principle reasons I trust these particular teachers is that they stress over and over again that we are not to take them at their word, but we are strenuously instructed to research, study, and think for ourselves and pray about our questions in order that we might...