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11+ hour, 13+ min ago  (230+ words) What could be worse than a groom being stood up by his bride on their wedding day? A Muslim wedding in Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat on 17 May went smoothly but all hell broke loose the next day when the groom and…...

48+ min ago  (204+ words) THE concept of a "rules-based order" was something of a joke long before Israel embarked on the latest phase of its genocide in October 2023. The violence of the oppressed on Oct 7 that year was almost welcomed as an excuse to…...

2+ hour, 23+ min ago  (128+ words) TAPinto Temple Sholom Celebrates Clergy's 18th Ordination Anniversaries with a Special Shabbat Weekend All Are Welcome! Fri. , June 12, 2026 Temple Sholom of Scotch Plains invites its congregation and the wider local community to a special Shabbat of Celebration honoring the 18th ordination anniversaries…...

6+ hour, 37+ min ago  (205+ words) For the third consecutive year, dozens of young yeshiva students from the Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva in Istra, near Moscow, headed by Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Moshe Lerman and Director Rabbi Moshe Weber, have embarked on a unique summer mission to more…...

2+ hour ago  (854+ words) About 30 minutes west of downtown St. Louis, in the suburb of Chesterfield, resides the United Hebrew Congregation, St. Louis's first Jewish congregation and the oldest congregation in the United States west of the Mississippi. The United Hebrew Congregation is a…...

2+ hour, 47+ min ago  (68+ words) Methodists "strongly condemn" any attempt to inflame tensions in Northern Ireland Pope Leo speaks in Catalan and welcomes young people in Barcelona Bishops protest at Palestinian Christian student snatched at gunpoint by Israeli forces Southern Baptists consider banning churches with…...

6+ hour, 5+ min ago  (106+ words) The Canadian Jewish News We're Not Particular: Understanding Judaism's Universalist Roots Judaism is often cast as a religion that focuses on the legalistic, ritualistic, and narrow interests of the elected people of Israel. Early Jewish sources, however, present a very…...

23+ hour ago  (102+ words) Elias Sacks publishes a new article in the Journal of Textual Reasoning University of Colorado Boulder Elias Sacks published "Can God Reject the Jewish People? : Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik, Supersessionism, and Modern Jewish Thought" in the'Journal of Textual Reasoning. The article…...

6+ hour, 54+ min ago  (354+ words) The talmidim of Oholei Torah celebrated the culmination of months of dedication and achievement with the annual Pirkei Avos Chidon, the grand finale of a school wide learning initiative that inspired hundreds of talmidim to strengthen their knowledge of Pirkei…...

5+ hour, 24+ min ago  (704+ words) Knowing Sifry to be on the cutting edge of tech, government, and organizing, I was interested in digging into his book, When Doves Try, which retraces his interviews with Israel's Peace Now movement from 1978 to 1983. I had also seen his…...