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The change will take place at the urging of President Barack Obama, who is eager to help reduce racial and religious tensions. Washington, September 22 – A spike in antisemitic incidents in the last eighteen months has led the Department ...

“It would be an excellent first step toward establishing the kind of relations we might want to develop with Israel and the larger Jewish world.” Dubai, September 22 – New strategic alignments and a growing appreciation of geopolitical realities around the ...

By Melody Connors, USA Today reader The news coming out of Syria is heartbreaking. All those suffering people, including children, denied basic necessities and care because of a bombing by Assad-backing-Russian jets. When is the world going to wake up ...

Jews are barred from expressions of religious devotion on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, while Muslims are free to behave there as they wish. Jerusalem, September 21 – An investigative commission on the activities of the newly-established Apartheid Implementation Agency has ...

As a technical matter the sentence can be translated in a literal fashion, but the result in Hebrew, though grammatically correct, would be nonsense. Jerusalem, September 20 – The Academy for the Hebrew Language voted this week to eliminate from ...

The situation poses a challenge for Islamic theologians, who remain divided on how to handle the impending violation. Washington, September 19 – Islamic scholars are weighing in on the proper course of action in advance of upcoming US presidential elections, ...

“It makes me and my colleagues look like fools,  which is no way to treat the press.” Tel Aviv, September 19 – Defense observers were horrified to discover today that this many decades into the religious dimension animating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ...

The Clintons’ daughter Chelsea was not in the vicinity of the explosion and was not harmed. New York, September 18 – A bomb detonated in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood Saturday, leading Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to voice her assessment that ...

They wonder what the early-twenty-first-century youth population has against them. Ur, September 18 – Residents of this Mesopotamian city-state admitted consternation today over the common use of their location’s name in online communication, most commonly when teens and other young ...

By Carly Morrison, Feminist Activist