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At an age when most kids are contemplating what they’ll do during recess, Alysa Stanton was contemplating which religion was right for her. She was 9 when she called a priest out of the blue to dis...
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Critics, pundits and Jewish leaders have reflected on the question of whether it’s a healthy thing for American Jews to take pleasure in the on-screen brutalization and murder of German soldiers and civilians. But Quentin Tarantino's film is less about the ethics of vengeance than the definition of evil.
Vice President Joe Biden denounced a decision to authorize new Jerusalem housing starts as "undermining the trust" that he needs to advance peace while in Israel.
On the eve of a conference marking the expansion of leadership roles for women within Orthodoxy, the trend's most prominent rabbinic proponent has backtracked from his near-ordination of female rabbis amid intense criticism.
David Kimche, the Israeli spy who played a key role in Israel's 1980s entanglements with Iran and Lebanon, has died.
A Brooklyn rabbi was found guilty of sexually assaulting a male teenager.
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren has penned an open letter to the students of the University of California, Irvine. Oren, who was nearly chased from the stage last month as he tried to give a lecture at the university, says he’d liked to try again.
The Reform movement should encourage interfaith couples to stay in the Jewish community, a task force proposed.
Israel's U.S. ambassador has offered to return to the California university where students interrupted his speech last month.
Israel announced its interest in producing electricity from nuclear energy at a conference in Paris.
Twelve prominent American Latina leaders are visiting Sephardic heritage sites during a mission to Israel.
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