http://www.mail.com/in-en/subjects/4744-judaism.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/in-en/subjects/4744-judaism.html http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2106126-israel-to-discuss-military-draft-reform-proposal.html JERUSALEM (AP) — An official Israeli committee on Thursday handed the government its proposal for ending a contentious system that grants Jewish ultra-Orthodox seminary students automatic exemptions from military service, setting the stage for what could become the first major conflict in the new Israeli coalition government. These exemptions have generat... Thu, 23 May 2013 19:38:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2106126-israel-to-discuss-military-draft-reform-proposal.html 2013-05-23T19:38:21Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2098210-dept-reports-anti-semitism-increase.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism Monday as a new report documents a global increase in incidents of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Ira Forman, former CEO of the National Jewish Democratic Council, was named special envoy as the State Department released its annual report on religious... Mon, 20 May 2013 18:01:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2098210-dept-reports-anti-semitism-increase.html 2013-05-20T18:01:18Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2097484-vandals-target-israeli-womens-prayer-group.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say vandals have spray-panted slogans on the home of one of the leaders of a liberal Jewish women's group that has angered ultra-Orthodox communities over its demands for equality of worship. Israeli TV footage showed black writing on the hallway and door of the Jerusalem home. Police spokesman Micky Ros... Mon, 20 May 2013 12:42:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2097484-vandals-target-israeli-womens-prayer-group.html 2013-05-20T12:42:54Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2076050-israeli-police-guard-women-praying-jewish-site.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Forming human chains and using metal barriers, Israeli police held back thousands of ultra-Orthodox protesters who tried to prevent a liberal Jewish women's group from praying at a sensitive holy site Friday, the first time police have come down on the side of the women and not the protesters. The reversal followed a court order backing t... Fri, 10 May 2013 21:37:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2076050-israeli-police-guard-women-praying-jewish-site.html 2013-05-10T21:37:37Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2068580-israel-backs-ruling-jewish-womens-prayer.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's attorney general says he will not appeal a court ruling permitting a liberal Jewish women's group to pray freely at a Jerusalem holy site. An Israeli court instructed police last month to stop detaining women for performing religious rituals and wearing garb that Orthodox Judaism reserves for men. The "Women of the Wall" movement... Tue, 07 May 2013 14:53:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2068580-israel-backs-ruling-jewish-womens-prayer.html 2013-05-07T14:53:57Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2067338-biden-asks-clergy-to-moral-argument-guns.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden wants pastors, rabbis and nuns to tell their flocks that enacting gun control is the moral thing to do. But another vote may have to wait until Congress wraps up work on an immigration overhaul. Biden met for two-and-a-half hours Monday with more than a dozen leaders from various faith communities — Christian, Je... Tue, 07 May 2013 01:50:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2067338-biden-asks-clergy-to-moral-argument-guns.html 2013-05-07T01:50:55Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2066306-jewish-meeting-highlights-anti-semitism-hungary.html BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Right-wing extremists shout Nazi salutes and attack a man they believe is Jewish. Black-booted militants frighten aging Holocaust survivors. Writings of authors linked to a pro-Nazi regime are recommended reading for school children. Hungary is seeing a rise in anti-Semitism, something the prime minister is now vowing to fight. Pr... Mon, 06 May 2013 16:14:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2066306-jewish-meeting-highlights-anti-semitism-hungary.html 2013-05-06T16:14:08Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2056142-sex-book-hebrew-israels-orthodox-jews.html JERUSALEM (AP) — A how-to book translated into Hebrew aims to teach Israel's Orthodox Jews about sex, targeting an audience typically mum on the steamy subject. The book, "The Newlywed's Guide to Physical Intimacy," was published in English more than a year ago in the U.S. The Hebrew version is set to come out this month, meant for Israel's Orthodox Jews,... Wed, 01 May 2013 16:12:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2056142-sex-book-hebrew-israels-orthodox-jews.html 2013-05-01T16:12:30Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2048558-jews-ease-tunisia-famed-pilgrimage.html DJERBA, Tunisia (AP) — Under a bright Mediterranean sun Saturday, Jews whose forebears once thronged Tunisia are trekking to a celebrated synagogue under the protection of police — as organizers try to inject new momentum to an annual pilgrimage that's been depleted in recent years by fears of anti-Semitism. Jewish leaders hope the three-day pilgrimage to... Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:43:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2048558-jews-ease-tunisia-famed-pilgrimage.html 2013-04-27T18:43:51Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2047310-israeli-court-detaining-women-holy-site.html JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court has instructed police to stop detaining women for performing religious rituals that ultra-Orthodox Jews say are reserved for men. Members of a liberal women's Jewish group have been trying to break the Orthodox monopoly at the Western Wall in Jerusalem by conducting mixed-gender prayer and wearing religious garb. The West... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:56:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2047310-israeli-court-detaining-women-holy-site.html 2013-04-26T17:56:57Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2045166-culture-war-israel-targets-ultra-orthodox-jews.html JERUSALEM (AP) — A cultural war has erupted between Israel's rising political star and his ultra-Orthodox rivals. Newly minted Finance Minister Yair Lapid, hugely popular for opposing the long-standing preferential treatment enjoyed by the religious minority, is moving swiftly to slash state handouts to large families, compel lifelong seminary students to... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:18:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2045166-culture-war-israel-targets-ultra-orthodox-jews.html 2013-04-25T21:18:05Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2029612-egyptian-jewish-leader-buried-rundown-cemetery.html CAIRO (AP) — The late leader of Egypt's dwindling and aging Jewish community was buried Thursday in one the oldest cemeteries in Egypt, the once-sprawling burial ground she tirelessly worked to restore but which has now suffered looting and is drenched in sewage water and strewn with trash. Because of the sewage water that recently seeped up from undergro... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:44:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2029612-egyptian-jewish-leader-buried-rundown-cemetery.html 2013-04-18T21:44:52Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2018910-israel-65-success-plagued-uncertainty.html JERUSALEM (AP) — In 65 years, Israel has surpassed the dreams of its founders, emerging as the Middle East's strongest military force, a global high-tech powerhouse and a prosperous homeland for the Jewish people. Yet it remains a divided society, and its most intractable problem — peace with its Arab neighbors — has yet to be resolved. On the eve of the ... Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:47:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2018910-israel-65-success-plagued-uncertainty.html 2013-04-14T20:47:43Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2012968-frances-top-rabbi-takes-leave-amid-scandal.html PARIS (AP) — France's top rabbi announced Thursday he is taking leave from his post, hoping to end a scandal that has unsettled the Jewish community after he acknowledged "borrowing" other people's work and lying about his educational pedigree. The Central Consistory of France accepted Rabbi Gilles Bernheim's request for time away at an urgent meeting to ... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:56:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2012968-frances-top-rabbi-takes-leave-amid-scandal.html 2013-04-11T15:56:28Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2012542-israel-detains-5-women-prayer-western-wall.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Thursday detained five women at a Jerusalem holy site for performing religious rituals that ultra-Orthodox Jews say are reserved for men. The detentions came just a day after an Israeli organization proposed a compromise to diffuse tensions over the issue of women's worship at the Western Wall. The proposal, which still ... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:07:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2012542-israel-detains-5-women-prayer-western-wall.html 2013-04-11T13:07:10Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2010216-liberal-jews-victory-proposed-prayer-area.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities have proposed establishing a new section at the Western Wall where men and women can pray together, a groundbreaking initiative that would mark a significant victory by liberal streams of Judaism in their long quest for recognition. The proposal is aimed at ending turmoil surrounding the Orthodox establishment's monopo... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:59:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2010216-liberal-jews-victory-proposed-prayer-area.html 2013-04-10T19:59:11Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/lifestyle/1986628-exhibit-jews-germany-raises-interest-ire.html BERLIN (AP) — "Are there still Jews in Germany?" ''Are the Jews a chosen people?" Nearly 70 years after the Holocaust, there is no more sensitive an issue in German life as the role of Jews. With fewer than 200,000 Jews among Germany's 82 million people, few Germans born after World War II know any Jews or much about them. To help educ... Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:41:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/entertainment/lifestyle/1986628-exhibit-jews-germany-raises-interest-ire.html 2013-03-29T14:41:36Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1977970-israelis-kosher-cigarettes-passover.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Observant Jews in Israel craving a smoke during the week-long Passover holiday that starts at sundown Monday can now enjoy a rabbi-approved puff. It's the first time cigarettes have joined the long list of goods stringently checked to ensure they comply with Passover rules on what items are allowed, or kosher for the holiday — meaning the... Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:31:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1977970-israelis-kosher-cigarettes-passover.html 2013-03-25T17:31:48Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1971360-nc-scraps-proposed-pink-striped-license.html RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina said Thursday it is abandoning its plan to issue pink-striped driver's licenses to certain illegal immigrants, beset by mounting criticism of the specially designed IDs. The state learned that such licenses are easier and more efficient to produce if they're similar to the traditional licenses issued to other drivers, s... Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:18:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1971360-nc-scraps-proposed-pink-striped-license.html 2013-03-22T00:18:10Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1963492-pope-francis-lauded-interfaith-dialogue.html BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The election of Pope Francis has thrilled Jewish leaders in Argentina, who predict that their friend will continue to foster warm relations and open dialogue between Catholicism and other faiths during his pontificate. They've seen it firsthand as recently as December, when then-Buenos Aires Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio ... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:48:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1963492-pope-francis-lauded-interfaith-dialogue.html 2013-03-18T22:48:03Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1962050-pope-installation-draws-world-religious-leaders.html VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis' diplomatic skills will be put to the test on Tuesday as he hosts political leaders from 130 nations and religious representatives from a variety of faiths who are descending on Rome for his installation Mass, with Latin America strongly represented to celebrate the first pope from the New World. Among the VIPs expected is... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:20:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1962050-pope-installation-draws-world-religious-leaders.html 2013-03-18T22:20:21Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1961980-orthodox-patriarch-to-rome-popes-installation.html ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, will attend Pope Francis' installation Mass — the first time a patriarch from the Istanbul-based church has attended a papal investiture since the two branches of Christianity split nearly 1,000 years ago. Bartholomew said he is doing that to underscore the impor... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:55:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1961980-orthodox-patriarch-to-rome-popes-installation.html 2013-03-18T21:55:39Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1959912-israeli-president-handed-lineup-government.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister has notified the country's president that he has succeeded in forming a government. Benjamin Netanyahu presented the lineup to President Shimon Peres on Saturday, a day after a coalition deal was signed ending weeks of deadlock. Netanyahu says this is a decisive year for the economy, security and promoting peace. ... Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:17:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1959912-israeli-president-handed-lineup-government.html 2013-03-16T19:17:31Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1957136-netanyahu-faces-rocky-future-coalition.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Forced to rely on the support of two fast-rising rivals in his new governing coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now faces a reshaped and rocky landscape that could spell trouble ahead: An unwanted culture war with the country's ultra-Orthodox minority as well as pressure to make peace overtures to the Palestinians. After weeks o... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:47:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1957136-netanyahu-faces-rocky-future-coalition.html 2013-03-15T19:47:42Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/1956996-pope-francis-reaches-to-jews.html VATICAN CITY (AP) — Like his predecessor, Pope Francis reached out to Rome's Jewish community at the very start of his pontificate, pledging to continue to strengthen the increasingly close ties between Catholics and Jews. Just hours after he was elected the first Latin American pope in history, Francis sent a letter to Rome's chief Rabbi Riccardo di Segn... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:28:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/1956996-pope-francis-reaches-to-jews.html 2013-03-15T19:28:18Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1953826-last-minute-snag-stalls-israeli-coalition-deal.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached a deal Thursday to form a new coalition government, but a last-minute snag over the title of his new partners kept the plan from being formalized for at least one more day. The new government is expected to try to curb years of preferential treatment for the country's ultra-Orthodox minori... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:17:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1953826-last-minute-snag-stalls-israeli-coalition-deal.html 2013-03-14T21:17:48Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1954750-makeup-israeli-government.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Four parties will make up the new Israeli coalition government, adding up to a 68-seat majority in the 120-seat parliament. It is the first Israeli government in decades not to include any ultra-Orthodox parties and includes some staunch secularists. On security matters, its members range from hard-line hawks to the center-left. Here is a look at their main ... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:09:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/1954750-makeup-israeli-government.html 2013-03-14T16:09:28Z