Topic: Judaism
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - There are no computers at Maoz Hatorah, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys school on the outskirts of Israel's bustling high-tech commercial hub, Tel Aviv.In the classrooms, English, mathematics and science lessons are kept to a minimum."If we devote our time ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Young Jewish settlers behind attacks on Palestinian mosques have shaken Israel by turning violent against its most revered institution, the conscript military.The zealots' escalation from anti-Arab vandalism and arson to a rampage at an Israeli garrison in the occupied ...
A leading Democratic lawmaker criticized Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich on Saturday for deriding the Palestinians as an "invented people" and questioning their right to statehood.Senator Carl Levin said Gingrich's comments in an interview to be aired by the Jewish Channel television ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has cancelled government-sponsored television advertisements calling on expatriates to return, after some American Jews complained that the message denigrated their lifestyles.The spots, aired on Israeli channels that are often viewed by emigrants, featured dramatized scenes of Jewish assimilation ...
Six out of 10 Jewish settlers were drafted into combat units for their compulsory military service, an Israeli army study showed on Friday, indicating a sharp rise in numbers.According to a study on draft trends which was published by the military's personnel ...
Annihilated by Nazi Germany and largely forgotten by Poles, lost Jewish culture is re-emerging in Poland as youngsters scour their communities, searching for traces of Jewish life as it once existed.In Konskie, a small town of 20,000 people located 130 kilometres (80 ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The women turned heads as they got on Jerusalem's number 56 bus.Startled ultra-Orthodox Jewish men looked away as the group mounted a challenge to growing gender segregation in the holy city by boarding the public vehicle from the front ...
Germany on Wednesday marked the 73rd anniversary of the Nazi pogrom that paved the way to the Holocaust with solemn ceremonies throughout the country and the opening of a new synagogue.The Kristallnacht pogrom, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, saw ...
Gilles Jacob Lellouche, a member of Tunisia's small Jewish minority, shrugs as he contemplates the future under a government run by the Islamic party that swept the country's first free polls."We will wait and see," he said about fears that minority freedoms ...
Amer Musa Nasim, once one of the last seven remaining Jews in Baghdad, says he finally had to leave violence-stricken Iraq to live a peaceful life even though he loves his country."I have always tried to hide my identity to avoid trouble," ...
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