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anti-semitism
MARSEILLE, FRANCE – A Jewish man was attacked with a machete by a teenager in Marseille, France, on Monday in an apparent anti-Semitic incident. The attack occurred just after 9 a.m. The victim, who could be identified as Jewish because he was wearing a yarmulke, is a school teacher who
Israel
A recently released report by Israel's National Insurance Institute shows that 1.7 million Israelis live under the poverty line, including 23 percent of the country's seniors and 13.7 percent of working families, up from 7 percent in 1999. Those are the numbers that push
Massachusetts
Ezra Schwartz's body was buried in the United States. But the way his family sees it, his soul remains in Israel. "The goal was to come and see the places that Ezra was, where he hung out, what he enjoyed, how he spent his time with his
Catholic
Following the Vatican's recent release of its latest document on Jewish-Christian relations, the takeaways for most mainstream media were manifested in headlines making such pronouncements as, "Vatican says Catholics should not try to convert Jews," or "Jews don't need Christ to be saved.
islam
(JNS.org) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that the ongoing wave of Palestinian terror attacks in Israel is a "justified popular uprising." The violence has come due to "the despair of young Palestinians over the lack of a political horizon for the two-state solution, the [Israeli]
Faith
While Christians in Iraq and Syria face the threat of extinction at the hands of the Islamic State terror group, the U.S. State Department remains silent on the prospect of publicly designating the atrocities against Christians and other Mideast religious minorities as "genocide." According to a recent
Faith
What do Jan. 7 and 9, 2016, mean to you? Unless these dates have some personal significance to we who live in the relative security of the United States, these dates probably conjure up nothing significant in our minds.
Faith
Scouts with their colorful uniforms gather. More than 20 Armenian bishops and priests stand in Manger Square in Bethlehem to greet the Armenian Patriarch, His Beatitude Archbishop Nourhan Manougian. With the sounds of trumpets, bagpipes, and music, the voices of young choir singers and shouts of joy, the Armenian Christmas