Jonah
Jonah is a prophet for today
By Thomas Reese — January 22, 2024
(RNS) — God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza.
Pope Francis to visit Iraq in March, COVID-19 pandemic permitting
By Frances D'Emilio — December 7, 2020
Pope Francis to make his first overseas trip in more than year, if COVID allows.
Ten books you should be sneaking into synagogue on Yom Kippur
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 26, 2017
(RNS) — This rabbi knows that there are many ways to access God. Some Jews do it through the prayers of the liturgy. But, others get in touch with the sacred, and themselves, through the written word – a literary ladder to God, if you will.
Bernard-Henri Levy is still my main man
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 20, 2017
Bernard-Henri Levy is the coolest Jew in the world. But, can he teach us Judaism?
Gay-to-straight conversion therapy group committed consumer fraud, jury finds
By Rachel Delia Benaim — June 25, 2015
(RNS) A jury awarded the plaintiffs damages for individual and group therapy sessions in which clients were asked to undress and touch themselves in their therapists’ presence and beat effigies of their mothers with a tennis racket.
As a New Jersey court considers conversion therapy, many Orthodox Jews have moved on
By Rachel Delia Benaim — June 3, 2015
(RNS) While a lawsuit against conversion therapy is being argued in New Jersey, many Orthodox Jewish rabbis have already begun to alter their views on homosexuality.
Therapists who say gays can be cured are committing consumer fraud, NJ judge says
By Susan K. Livio — February 17, 2015
TRENTON, N.J. (RNS) In his ruling, Superior Court Judge Peter F. Bariso Jr., wrote that conversion therapy is a violation of the Consumer Fraud Act because it describes homosexuality as a mental illness, or disorder.
Islamic extremists impose reign of terror on Iraq
By Anmar Al Shamary — August 4, 2014
BAGHDAD -- The Islamic State "behaved very nice at the beginning of the takeover of Mosul, but they start to uncover their ugly faces. They blew up three prophets' graves, which opened my eyes," said shopkeeper Omer Othman
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