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A bill passed the state legislature that will require state-funded institutions to provide halal and kosher meals on requestAs a student at Sullivan high school in Chicago, Ridwan Rashid frequently skipped lunch and was distracted by hunger, even thoug…
1,100-year-old Codex Sassoon, one of world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, will be donated to museum in IsraelA 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible that is one of the world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts sold for $38m in New York on Wednesday…
Critics say collection derives from fortune made by buying businesses from Jews who were forced to sell in Nazi GermanyChristie’s, the famed British auction house, has said it will go ahead with an auction of £120m of jewels on Wednesday despite calls …
May Golan has insulted Africans in Israel and disparaged the Reform movement, the largest Jewish denomination in the USIsrael’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has nominated a far-right politician who once boasted that she is “proud to be a racist”…
New organisation will represent about 30% of British Jews who are affiliated to synagoguesTwo bodies representing progressive Judaism in the UK have joined forces to give their movement greater reach and a stronger voice.The Movement for Reform Judaism…
Al-Aqsa mosque closed to non-Muslims and tourists after gunmen who shot at an army post killed by security forcesIsrael has halted visits by non-Muslims and tourists to a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site, as its military said soldiers had shot dead two P…
THE GRIEVING father of the two British sisters who were shot and killed in the West Bank has made a teary tribute to his slain daughters.
Rabbi Leo Dee made an emotional speech at his daughters joint funerals, held in the settlement of Kfar Etzion.
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Exclusive: More than a third of people from ethnic and religious minorities have experienced racially motivated assault, data showsSocial barriers faced by Roma, Gypsies and Travellers laid bare in equality survey More than a third of people from ethni…
New law bans people from taking leavened food made from grain into medical centres during Jewish holidayPassover celebrations in Israel this year are once again being overshadowed by a row over the consumption of leavened food such as bread in public b…
Israeli settler movement is making life harder for Jerusalem’s Palestinians and erasing Christian character of holy cityEven in a city as storied as Jerusalem, some places are holier than others. The Mount of Olives – studded with churches marking even…