Norway’s ombudsman for children\’s rights has proposed that Jews and Muslim replace male circumcision with a symbolic, nonsurgical ritual.
Set back from the Main Road behind the tall and majestic trees is the splendid mansion of Devon House. This stately mansion a regal tribute to the craftsmanship of Jamaica, and it also stands as a proud symbol of Jamaican Jewish history. Sitting on the aptly named Hope Road, this magnificent mansion is now open to the public.
Heightened ethnic and religious hatred might be rearing its ugly head in California — but some politicians are eager to stand in its way.
There was a time when a half-moon K on a carton of cottage cheese didn\’t mean much to someone who kept strictly kosher. Conventional wisdom held that the heksher (the kosher symbol) was not all that reliable.
Today, things are changing at Kosher Overseers (KO), which supervises about 1,000 companies worldwide and has its bulging K on more than 1 million products.
A kosher menorah can be fashioned out of any material, so why not get creative?
It is not common for the mayor of Jerusalem to write to a 7-year-old and a 5-year-old. But it is similarly not the norm for them to write to him.
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