Jason Grant
Jason Grant is an author at Religion News Service.
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Brothers admit role in Jewish divorce extortion scheme
By Jason Grant — March 12, 2014
TRENTON, N.J. (RNS) Two brothers have admitted to playing roles in a bizarre plot to kidnap, beat and torture a recalcitrant Orthodox Jewish husband to convince him to give his wife a religious divorce, authorities said.
2,711 pages later, Orthodox Jews mark end of 7-year Talmud study
By Jason Grant and Mark Mueller — August 2, 2012
Billed as the largest celebration of shared Jewish learning in history, some 90,000 Orthodox Jews crowded into a New Jersey stadium to read portions of the Talmud’s 2,711th — and final — page. By Mark Mueller and Jason Grant.
Former U.S. solider sues NYPD over Muslim surveillance
By Jason Grant — July 11, 2012
(RNS) Syed Farhaj Hassan took a lot of pride in being one of the relatively few Muslim Americans to join the military and then go to war in Iraq. But Hassan said that he’s been “betrayed” by the New York City police department's spying on Muslim communities. By Jason Grant.
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