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Life What the Bible Says About Contraception
Last week the Supreme Court agreed to hear Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. v. Sebelius and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius, two cases about the conflict between Obamacare mandates and religion. Specifically, they examine whether for-profit corporations can refuse to provide employees with certain types of contraception (those that prevent fertilized eggs from implanting), which…
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News Family Faults Obama Inaction as Alan Gross Marks Four Years in Cuban Prison
The chants of “Free Alan Gross!” were unlikely to reach the ears of President Barack Obama in the Oval Office. But the gathering of several dozen activists outside the White House — on the fourth anniversary of the arrest of the Jewish American contractor in Cuba — highlighted a tactical shift in the movement for…
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Fast Forward Award-Winning Hungarian Jewish Writer Gets Political Asylum in Canada
Akos Kertesz, an award-winning Hungarian Jewish writer, was granted political asylum in Canada. Kertesz, 80, who fled last year to Canada from Hungary, was given refugee status even though Ottawa in a move that stirred controversy a year ago placed Hungary on a list of “safe countries.” The author said he was the victim of…
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Life When Miss World Was Raped
Linor Abargil, of Netanya, Israel, was 18 years old when an Israeli travel agent raped her in the car on the ride to the train station in Milan, where she had been for a modeling event. Seven weeks later, she won the 1998 Miss World beauty pageant in the Seychelles. She reported the crime to…
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Opinion DIY Bris
(JTA) — Natan Zaidenweber thought the mohel was kidding. His wife, Linda Raab, thought it was some kind of religious formality and didn’t give it a second thought. But the mohel, Cantor Philip Sherman, was serious. Though most fathers demur when he invites them to perform the bris on their sons by clipping their foreskin, preferring…
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Fast Forward 2000-Year-Old House from Hasmonean Period Uncovered Near Temple Mount
A house dating to the Hasmonean period was uncovered in eastern Jerusalem near the Temple Mount. The building, which was discovered a few months ago but announced for the first time on Tuesday, is located in the the City of David area, a few dozen yards from the Temple Mount. It was the first time…
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Fast Forward Alan Gross Makes Personal Appeal to President Obama In a Letter
A U.S. government contractor jailed for four years in Cuba appealed to President Barack Obama on Tuesday to take any steps necessary to secure his release. “Why am I still here? With the utmost respect, Mr. President, I fear that my government – the very government I was serving when I began this nightmare –…
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Life Sexism and Yearbook Photos
When many of his students looked unusually well-groomed, New York City high school teacher Steven Mazie wondered why. Mazie, an associate professor of political studies at Manhattan’s uber-competitive Bard High School Early College (where kids spend two of their high school years on a college curriculum, hence their teachers’ professor titles), soon learned that it…
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