First rabbis ordained in flashpoint German city since WWII
Four rabbis were ordained on Thursday for the first time since the Holocaust in the German city where a court ruling has touched off an emotional debate about religious circumcision.
The ceremony hel
First rabbis ordained in flashpoint German city since WWII
Four rabbis were ordained on Thursday for the first time since the Holocaust in the German city where a court ruling has touched off an emotional debate about religious circumcision.
The ceremony hel
Obama and Romney compete for Jewish voters
On a trip to Israel, Mitt Romney is trying to win over a tiny sliver of a small — but powerful — section of the American electorate. President Barack Obama is doing the same at home.
But while Romney
German court rules religious circumcision on boys an assault
Circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm, a German court ruled on Tuesday in a landmark decision that the Jewish community said trampled on parents' religious right
French school killer may have filmed shootings
A gunman who killed four people at a French Jewish school may have filmed the attack, the interior minister said on Tuesday, as hundreds of police combed southern France for the killer, suspected in t