Israeli Supreme Court ruling favors women’s prayer at Western Wall
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled in favor of women being allowed to read from the Torah in the women’s section at the Western […]
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Palestinians seek weekend prayers to protest US Embassy move
Source: Associated Press By KARIN LAUB Yesterday RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A senior Palestinian official called Tuesday for mosque and church prayers “from Pakistan to Tehran, from Lebanon to […]
Le Pen slams rival Fillon over use of religion in politics
Source: Reuters By Andrew Callus | PARIS Far-right presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen attacked her main rival Francois Fillon on Tuesday over the link he has made between his political […]
Jeff Sessions Says He Would Not Ban Muslim Immigrants Based On Religion
Source: Buzzfeed News By Talal Ansari BuzzFeed News Reporter Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions said he would not support a ban on Muslim immigrants to the US based solely on […]
The seven ways you are totally unique
Source: BBC By Richard Gray 10 January 2017 At first glance Erin and Audri Nelson look identical. They have the same chocolate coloured hair, they share dark, almond-shaped eyes and […]
Why pain is so hard to measure – and treat
Source: BBC By John Walsh From Mosaic 11 January 2017 One night in May, my wife sat up in bed and said, “I’ve got this awful pain just here.” She […]
How to learn an instrument in six weeks The pianist who says everyone can play Bach in no time
Source: BBC By Clemency Burton-Hill 10 January 2017 Is it ever too late to learn a musical instrument? According to the leading British concert pianist James Rhodes, the answer is […]
Vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr says Trump asked him to lead safety study
Source: BBC Incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer confirmed the pair met to discuss vaccines and immunisations. However, a spokeswoman for Mr Trump, Hope Hicks, told Reuters that “no […]
Obama Uses ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ To Remind Americans Of The Importance Of Empathy
Source: Huffington Post BY Marina Fang Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post President Barack Obama in his farewell address to the nation Tuesday argued that empathy for those who are different […]
Jeff Sessions, US attorney general nominee, denies KKK sympathies
Source: BBC President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the new attorney general has denied sympathising with the Ku Klux Klan, in a tough Senate confirmation hearing. Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, […]
Plants can see, hear and smell and respond
Source: BBC By Josh Gabbatiss 10 January 2017 Plants, according to Jack C Schultz, “are just very slow animals“. This is not a misunderstanding of basic biology. Schultz is a […]
The mysterious masked women of Iran
Source: BBC By Rodolfo Contreras A jumble of cultures The people in Hormozagan province on Iran’s southern cost are known as Bandari (Port People). Once an important stop on the […]
Kabul bombings: Dozens dead after twin blasts near Afghan parliament
Source: BBC The blasts, part of a wave of attacks across Afghanistan on Tuesday, took place during rush hour as staff were leaving the complex. The Taliban said they carried […]
Hundreds join the Rev. William Barber’s ‘Moral March’ in D.C. to protest Jeff Sessions as attorney general
Source: The Washington Post By Paul Duggan The Rev. William J. Barber II, a pastor and activist who has emerged as a leading religious critic of President-elect Donald Trump, was […]
How much do top Mormon leaders make? Leaked pay stubs may surprise you.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By PEGGY FLETCHER STACK Mormons and others who wonder about the salaries of top LDS leaders got a possible peek at those numbers Monday, when […]
In final argument, Roof does not ask jury to spare life
Source: Associated Press By MEG KINNARD and JEFFREY COLLINS CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof told jurors Tuesday that he could ask them for life in prison instead of the […]
Anonymous Bomb Threats Rattle Jewish Centers Across Eastern U.S.
Source: The New York Times By MITCH SMITH The morning rush at the Jewish community center in Columbia, S.C., had subsided when the phone rang on Monday. The caller, an elderly-sounding woman, “in a loud screaming voice kept saying there’s a bomb,” said Barry A. Abels, the center’s executive director. […]
The Obama presidency: ‘War on religion’ or ‘Amazing Grace’?
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) He had done it before, after Tucson, Aurora, Fort Hood and Sandy Hook: taken on the mantle of the pastor-in-chief before a crowd […]
Third of breast cancer patients treated unnecessarily, study says
Source: CNN By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News One in three women with breast cancer detected by a mammogram is treated unnecessarily, because screening tests found tumors that are so […]
How ethnicity and religion can influence financial habits
Source: Phys.org New international research from Macquarie University has found that people with a religious or ethnic background are more likely to save money, quelling the long-held belief that income and financial proficiency are the main determinates of an individual’s ability to save. Alongside a team of international researchers, Associate […]