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Prosecutors say the 19-year-old suspect targeted Jews in an ISIS-inspired attack that left a Spanish tourist gravely wounded.
“A person in this situation has nothing around them. All that’s left is to believe. That’s it. Faith. When you believe in something you have something to lean on,” said Segev Kalfon, who spent two years in captivity in the Strip.
Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama gave its chairman three days to resign over inviting U.S. academic Peter Berkowitz to an event.
There are no signs yet that Iran has returned to enriching uranium, but it is cleaning up the sites damaged by Israel and reconstructing the infrastructure surrounding its nuclear program.
Rabbi Arthur Schneier, 95, who leads the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, is a Holocaust survivor who saw his synagogue burn on Kristallnacht.
“It’s not just a display of the scrolls, which of course in and of themselves would be powerful,” but other “wow objects” leave viewers in awe, the museum’s director of exhibits told JNS.
The Rt. Rev. Alexei Smith, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, told JNS that “people can overcome animosities and hatreds and disrespect.”
“It’s perhaps among the most challenging in a series of moments in Catholic-Jewish relations over the last 60 years,” Rabbi Noam Marans told JNS.
“The U.S. Constitution’s religious protections provide no authority for religious courts to skirt state and federal laws,” the Texas governor wrote.
New data reveals Israeli youth are adopting more religious practices, increasing prayer and belief in God, as right-wing political identification also rises.
Though unflavored beers have historically been considered kosher, new approaches can “compromise” the kosher status of even “seemingly straightforward brews,” the Orthodox Union stated.
“There is a big effort underway now in Africa to support Israel,” Ugandan Pastor Robert Kayanja told JNS.
