Religious tolerance in Bahrain? Perhaps. For the 36 Jews living there, at least in 2009. In the tense landscape of the Middle East, there is little room left for Jewish Arabs, a tiny minority in this country as well as in places like Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. But in Bahrain, the king, Hamad bin Isa [...]
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Poor girl. [a] man who claims he returned to his Catholic roots after divorcing a Jewish woman was granted permission to take his 3-year-old daughter to Catholic church, despite his ex-wife’s wishes.Joseph Reyes, who baptized his 3-year-old daughter without her mother’s permission, faced jail time after a Cook County judge granted his ex a temporary [...]
Eerily reminiscent of an episode from Law and Order but without the murder. One Torah, said to have been in Auschwitz, has been in the ark at one of New York’s most prominent synagogues since 2008. A second Torah joined it on Monday night, as the synagogue, Central Synagogue in Manhattan, observed Holocaust Remembrance Week. [...]
Jewish roots remain in Los Angeles neighborhood
4 Jan, 2010 in Judaism, Religion Blog, Religious Belief, Religious Celebrations, RitualsThis story from the LA Times is calling out for a sociologist or anthropologist to study. The old man with the Santa Claus beard pulled a black yarmulke from the trunk of his Cadillac and limped across the street. Hundreds of people had gathered outside an old synagogue in Boyle Heights for a program that [...]