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Orthodox Jews flock to SD, support leader on trial
- In the musty conference room of a South Dakota hotel, Sholom Rubashkin helps a disheveled man in a hooded sweat shirt wrap black bands around his left arm and head. Attached to each is a black box containing inscriptions from the Torah.
- In the musty conference room of a South Dakota hotel, Sholom Rubashkin helps a disheveled man in a hooded sweat shirt wrap black bands around his left arm and head. Attached to each is a black box containing inscriptions from the Torah.
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NY case spotlights Dead Sea Scrolls, fake e-mails
- Students and university officials started getting e-mails last year in which a prominent Judaic studies scholar seemed to make a startling confession: He had committed plagiarism.
Another attack leaves US Muslims fearing backlash
- As word spread that a gunman had opened fire at Fort Hood leaving a trail of carnage, a chilling realization swept across the U.S. Muslim community: He has an Islamic name.
UK Jewish school denies racial discrimination
- A leading Jewish school asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that said it racially discriminated against a boy when it refused to accept him as a pupil because it did not recognize his mother as Jewish.
- A leading Jewish school asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that said it racially discriminated against a boy when it refused to accept him as a pupil because it did not recognize his mother as Jewish.
Rabbinical ruling causes havoc on elevators
- The Jewish day of rest has become a bit more labor-intensive for Yosef Ball.
- The Jewish day of rest has become a bit more labor-intensive for Yosef Ball.
Violent clashes erupt at Jerusalem's holiest site
- Israeli police firing stun grenades faced off Sunday against masked Palestinian protesters hurling stones and plastic chairs outside the Holy Land's most volatile shrine, where past violence has escalated into prolonged conflict.
- Israeli police firing stun grenades faced off Sunday against masked Palestinian protesters hurling stones and plastic chairs outside the Holy Land's most volatile shrine, where past violence has escalated into prolonged conflict.
Israeli police storm Jerusalem's holiest site
- Israeli forces stormed Jerusalem's holiest shrine Sunday, firing stun grenades to disperse hundreds of stone-throwing Palestinian protesters in a fresh eruption of violence at the most volatile spot in the Holy Land.
- Israeli forces stormed Jerusalem's holiest shrine Sunday, firing stun grenades to disperse hundreds of stone-throwing Palestinian protesters in a fresh eruption of violence at the most volatile spot in the Holy Land.
Israeli police storm Jerusalem holy site
- Israeli forces stormed Jerusalem's holiest shrine Sunday, firing stun grenades to disperse hundreds of Palestinian protesters who were pelting them with stones.
- Israeli forces stormed Jerusalem's holiest shrine Sunday, firing stun grenades to disperse hundreds of Palestinian protesters who were pelting them with stones.
In Mideast, marriage too can be a battlefield
- The two couples had never met each other, and probably never would. They had come from opposite sides of a border between longtime enemies.
- The two couples had never met each other, and probably never would. They had come from opposite sides of a border between longtime enemies.
Seniors mark coming-of-age at Jewish holy site
- A 96-year-old woman and 12 other residents of an Ohio retirement community celebrated a Jewish coming-of-age ceremony in Jerusalem on Thursday - decades late, perhaps, but with a spirit that only a lifetime of experience can bring.
Ohio woman, 96, will have her bat mitzvah
- Jewish girls rarely had a bat mitzvah ceremony when Helen Kaplan came of age in Price Hill.
Book from the Jewish Museum of Maryland shows community’s legacy
- Since the first Jewish resident emigrated to Baltimore in the mid-1700s, the Jewish community has grown to almost 100,000. A once-insular East Baltimore group has grown to a community that spans all areas and facets of the Greater Baltimore area.
Robert Holland: Bias, politics distort history lessons
- Modern textbooks shy away from presenting a positive picture of Christianity and Judaism as important influences in molding the United States of America. Thanks to multicultural activism, that caution does not hold for the way many K-12 history textbooks now present non-Western religions, particularly Islam.
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