Israel’s domestic culture war between religious communities and the secular courts took to the streets on Thursday as tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi Jews paralyzed the streets of Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak in a protest march. The target of their outrage was the imprisonment of 43 couples for refusing to allow their daughters to attend a religious school where they would have to mix with the daughters of religious Mizrahi Jews .
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The Alternative Jesus: Psychedelic Christ
WANTED JESUS CHRIST ALIAS: THE MESSIAH, THE SON OF GOD, KING OF KINGS, LORD OF LORDS, PRINCE OF PEACE, ETC. > Notorious leader of an underground liberation movement > Wanted for the following charges: —Practicing medicine, winemaking and food distribution without a license.
Afghanistan: Victims’ Families Denounce U.S. ‘Kill Team’
Details of the gruesome crimes in Afghanistan that have resulted in 12 U.S. Army soldiers facing trial at a base near Seattle have been slowly making their way into the public domain
Miss California USA sued over breast implant money
Miss California USA officials want Carrie Prejean to repay $5,200 they say she borrowed to have her breasts augmented last year. The demand was a response to a lawsuit filed by Prejean in which she claimed pageant officials violated the former beauty queen’s privacy by acknowledging to reporters that her breasts were fake
High court to decide if war memorial violates Constitution
Driving along a pockmarked road amid rocks and Joshua trees in a lonely southern California desert, religious controversy might be the last thing you’d expect to encounter. And if you don’t look too closely, you’re likely to zip right past the focus of a hotly contested Supreme Court battle.
Source: Feds seek about a dozen people in terror investigation
Investigators are looking for about a dozen more people in connection with a wide-ranging terror investigation that has already netted arrests in Colorado and New York City, a source familiar with the investigation said Tuesday. Federal agents arrested three men late Saturday in connection with what the Justice Department has said was a plot to detonate bombs in the United States
Chief: Yale slaying an instance of ‘workplace violence’
New Haven Police Chief James Lewis on Thursday described the killing of Yale graduate student Annie Le as an instance of “workplace violence,” but he did not elaborate. Raymond J.
Somali refugee conditions ‘appalling’
Somalis forced to flee war and drought are living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at home and in neighboring countries, including in Kenya and Ethiopia, an aid agency said Thursday.
Hamas leader: Captured Israeli soldier alive and well
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Middle East hungry for TV during Ramadan
Ramadan, that holy month of fasting and dawn-to-dusk abstinence, is a key period in the Muslim calendar apart from its standing as one of the five Pillars of Islam. More typically associated with praying, fasting and religious contemplation, it’s also the month that Muslims are more glued to the tube than at any other time during the year, much like Thanksgiving or Christmas in the United States.