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For years, Beth Lesser and her husband had longed to care for foster children at their home in Greenville, South Carolina. But when she attended a training session for a child-mentoring program, Lesser found out that the largest state-funded foster care program in the area only works with prospective parents and mentors who are Protestant…
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Fast Forward Young Jews Are Just As Religious As Their Parents, Bucking Global Trends
(JTA) — Jewish young adults in the U.S. and Israel are, on average, just as religious as their elders, even though young people worldwide are largely less religious than their parents, a new study has found. The study, released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, also found that Israelis are far less religious than citizens…
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Fast Forward French Imams Say They Are Ready To Help Counter Muslim Extremism
(JTA) — Thirty imams in France signed an open letter calling on their colleagues to help counter Muslim extremism. The letter, which appeared Tuesday in the daily LeMonde, expressed “compassion for all our fellow citizens who have been directly or indirectly affected by terrorism and by the anti-Semitic crimes that have blindly struck our country.”…
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