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Stones supposedly taken from the Kotel in Jerusalem are being offered for sale on internet auction site eBay, as talismans for good luck and health.

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Too many of the images of women in Israel these days are disturbing - a girl spat on because of her dress, an esteemed scientist denied the stage, a commuter forced to the back of the bus.

San Francisco, California.- The Contemporary Jewish Museum is pleased to present "Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought", an exhibition and the Dorothy Saxe invitational, on view at the museum from February 16th through May 28th.

Built to specifications revealed by God to Moses at Mount Sinai , it accompanied the Israelites on their wanderings in the wilderness and their conquest of the Promised Land , and was eventually placed in the First Temple in Jerusalem , which superseded it as the dwelling-place of God among the Israelites.

"Zionism is racism," Dr. Mark Braverman says to a circle of religious faculty, students and professors at a speech sponsored by the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies ( The center, who invited Mark Braverman to speak about peace in the Middle East, instead opened a forum for anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hostilities at the University ... (more)

Prostitution is violence against women. Everything should be done to diminish, if not completely eradicate, this horrible phenomenon, dubbed inappropriately "the world's oldest profession," as if its long history somehow gives it respectability.

Stick an average alumnus of the Israeli public school system into a synagogue during morning prayers, and chances are they would be bewildered.

The heads of Partners in Torah, a phone-based Jewish learning system, have built MySiyum.com as a springboard which will bring Jews from different backgrounds together, in person, to honor both Judaism and Jewish learning at this summer's Siyum HaShas, a celebration of Jewish learning that will host close to 100,000 participants.

Please forget one of the great fallacies of our time: Israel did not steal Palestinian land.

'It is evil for Christians to try to convert Jews with this dreck. Why don't you people leave us in peace?" So wrote one Amazon reviewer of the new "Jewish Annotated New Testament" , a magisterial volume of Jewish commentaries, essays and scholarly notes on the second half of the Christian Bible.

To accommodate the crowd expected at Monday's Zoning Board of Adjustment hearing for the proposed Chai Center, the meeting has been moved to the auditorium of Millburn High School.

It was a cool, calm day, that Oct. 19, 1971, but as we gathered outside the Soviet embassy in Ottawa the tension was palpable.

Ancient Greek kylix showing a hoplite offering a sacrifice before an altar, around 480 BC.

Monday, February 13th from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM. The dialogue is the third in a series of five held by Virginia Wesleyan College's Center for the Study of Religious Freedom .

My husband told his art students to produce a full-color drawing as their next assignment.

When I was a graduate student in the late 1960s and early '70s, we learned of a new American holiday that was about to be born: Earth Day.

The Greater Altoona Jewish Federation will present its 13th annual film festival, beginning Thursday.

The meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment scheduled for Monday, Feb. 13, is being moved to the Millburn High School auditorium.

The youth rabbi at Chabad Community Center will be featured Sunday, Feb. 12 on "Oprah's Next Chapter" - both for his art and for mounting an impromptu one-week exhibit of Chassidic art in Brooklyn's Crown Heights this past fall.