Source: Religion News Service By Michele Chabin (RNS) Two hundred people demonstrated outside Israel’s Supreme Rabbinical Court on Wednesday (July 6) to protest the court’s refusal to recognize the authority […]
Source: Forward BY Sam Kestenbaum The doors are open to everyone at Shabbat services held on the ground floor of this Nostrand Avenue building in Brooklyn. But, unlike most Orthodox spaces, here it’s the women who lead prayers. Men? They can sit in the back. “Men are welcome,” said Nechama […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor A Swedish nun credited with sheltering Jewish families in her convent during the Holocaust is now a saint of the Catholic Church. […]
Source: Washington Post By ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — The Israeli police briefly detained a leader of a Jewish women’s rights group on Tuesday for bringing a Torah scroll to the […]
Source: Associated Press By KAREN MATTHEWS and RACHELLE BLIDNER NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City municipal pool that maintains female-only hours so that Hasidic Jewish women can swim […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer In Syria, Mostafa Hassoun was told that Jews were the enemy of Syrians and that Israel was out to occupy and oppress his […]
Source: The Times of Israel The city of Amsterdam will give its Jewish community $11 million as compensation for taxes imposed on Holocaust survivors who returned home to the Dutch […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY MICHAEL LIPKA Israel has been a Jewish-majority country since its founding in 1948, and its treatment of religious and ethnic minorities – including some groups within the Jewish community – has persisted as a hotly debated topic throughout the nation’s history. That debate continues today. For […]
Source: Forward By Seth Kaplan and Naftuli Moster The New York State Legislature is currently considering two bills, one introduced by Assembly woman Ellen Jaffee in early May , the other by Sen. David Carlucci and Assembly man Kenneth Zebrowski in January , to strengthen existing legislation requiring nonpublic schools to […]
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (RNS) Bob Silverman, a Jew who spent most of his diplomatic career in Muslim-majority nations, will now reach out to Muslims in his own country. […]
Source: The Guardian By Josh Halliday North of England correspondent Vandals have destroyed 14 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Manchester, in what police called a sickening act of antisemitism. The […]
Source: Forward By Marcy Oster JERUSALEM ( JTA ) — Some 71.5 percent of Jewish Israelis say they do not view Israel’s control of the West Bank as “occupation,” a monthly survey found. The same percentage of Arab respondents to the survey called it an occupation, according to the May Peace […]
Source: The Washington Post By James McAuley PARIS — France is home to the largest Jewish community in Europe, and its most troubled. A wave of anti-Semitic violence in recent […]
Source: Associated Press By SHAWN POGATCHNIK DUBLIN (AP) — London’s newly elected Muslim mayor paid respect Sunday to the millions of Jews slain in the Holocaust as his first public […]
Source: BBC By Lucy Williamson BBC News, Marseille For the first time, a synagogue in Marseille is in the process of being sold to a Muslim organisation, which has plans […]
Source: Cochrane Times By David Feil With the growing fear and need for positive change in the world, six religious experts came to the Ranchehouse on Apr. 19 to take […]
Source: Associated Press By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER BERLIN (AP) — When the leader of Germany’s Jews spoke out against the flow of Muslim migrants to Europe, a rabbinical student denounced his […]
Source: The Washington Post By Susan Sommercamp My first boss right out of college was terrific — ambitious, warm and open to friendly lunches outside the office. Then one day in December, the topic turned to her plans for Christmas. She asked where I would be celebrating the holiday, and […]
Source: Miami Herald A Hollywood man accused of trying to blow up an Aventura synagogue stood in Miami federal court and gave the judge two names — one real, the […]
Source: Time By Rabbi David Wolpe David Wolpe is the Max Webb Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. After several Labour officials made anti-Semitic comments, it’s time for self-examination […]