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“I’m still saying Kaddish for my mother.” Jerusalem, July 14 – A stalwart supporter of this city’s Premier League team, known for the jingoistic, often-racist, and sometimes-violent passion of its core demographic, plans to return from this evening’s match too ...

“I’m a little busy now trying to locate my monster.” Geneva, July 6 – A scientist and his assistant whose work has required them to come into contact with human remains, and thus to contract what the Bible considers spiritual ...

“It’s a small price to pay for sustainability,” he explained. “We can afford it, and they can make the sacrifice for something that worthwhile.” Tel Aviv, June 27 – An activist who rails against his people’s spiritual heritage, calling it ...

“Who are Westerners to call the elimination of urine from the body on top of a holy shrine a show of disrespect?” Jerusalem, June 8 – Video of a militant Islamist relieving himself on the roof of Islam’s third-holiest site ...

“The place was packed before that, easily eighty or ninety people.” Jerusalem, May 26 – Friday evening services this past weekend saw a dramatic occurrence at a local house of worship, when manifest dissatisfaction evident in the steady stream of ...

“The Jews who came from Europe aren’t real Jews because their ancestors weren’t from here. Please ignore that my family name means ‘the Kurd.'” Jerusalem, May 17 – Activists stressed the important distinction today between the lack of ancestral legitimacy ...

“I’m still having trouble wrapping my head around the idea that something happens if it hasn’t been recorded and uploaded to the cloud.” Jerusalem, May 5 – A local tweenager whose family and community will mark his transition into Jewish ...

“We wish to clarify that the eternal truth of the land’s rightful possessors remains Islamic-Palestinian, regardless of every other piece of the mountainous evidence demonstrating to any honest observer that He made it the eternal Jewish homeland.” Land of the ...

“God should know better, is what I’m saying.” Jerusalem, April 14 – This weekend will see the Holy Temple crowded with pilgrims bringing the special annual Passover sacrifice and its associated rituals, but one worshiper finds fault with the Creator ...

The article attempts to reconstruct a Bible that contains such lost literary and spiritual treasures. Jerusalem, April 5 – Critical scholars have concluded that the foundational texts of the world’s major faiths feature the glaring absence of material from non-cisgender marginalized ...