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The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used lethal chemical weapons, mostly sarin gas, against armed rebels several times in the past few weeks, and is continuing to do so, the head of...
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Jack Lew, Obama’s pick for Treasury secretary, is the highest-ranking Orthodox Jew in U.S. government history
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Rabbis for Human Rights — an organization of rabbis from across the denominational spectrum that promotes human rights in Israel — has fought some tough battles.
The group, led by Rabbi Arik Ascher...
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NEW YORK — Sunday, May 13, 1945, five days after the end of World War II in Europe, was Mother’s Day in the United States.
But at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, my mother had nothing ...
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The Los Angeles-based Kabbalah Centre is under investigation by the Internal Revenue Service's criminal division.
The probe reportedly also involves two charities that are connected with Madonna, ...
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JERUSALEM – Israel's Supreme Court has postponed the date that former President Moshe Katsav must begin serving his prison sentence on rape and sexual assault convictions.
Katsav had been schedule...
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JERUSALEM -- Palestinian rival factions Fatah and Hamas in a formal ceremony signed a unity agreement, repairing a four-year rift.
The ceremony Wednesday in Cairo was delayed for two hours after a...
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White Ho...
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NEW YORK – For years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, many Americans waited in fear for the next strike by al-Qaida on U.S. soil. But the ensuing decade has seen no more major terrorist attacks...
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Singer-songwriter Phoebe Snow, whose 1974 hit “Poetry Man” defined her career but not her life, died April 26 at 60.
Snow’s burgeoning singing career virtually ended five years later when she larg...
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A second woman will be ordained under the title "rabba."
The Academy of Jewish Religion, a pluralistic rabbinical school in Riverdale, N.Y., is set to ordain Kaya Stern-Kaufman, 47, of Great Barri...
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