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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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