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NYTimes PARIS — It is a measure of France's confusion about Islam and its own Muslim citizens that in the political furor here over &quo...

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Bartley Kulp wrote: Does anybody have any comment on the Geula resident who was murdered Motzei Shabbat and was taken for autopsy sparkin...

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There are a number of conflicting versions of this story circulating. But so far it would seem that there is a major halachic problem - not ...

Igros Moshe(C.M. 2:68): … The Torah reserves capital punishment for those sins which are very serious such as murder, kidnapping, sexually ...

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This is a guest posting. Web 2.0, The Aliyah Revolution, and Nefesh B'Nefesh "I told her we were planning on making Aliyah. do y...

JPost The publicly funded Multicultural Center's (Werkstatt der Kulturen) decision to remove educational panels of the Grand Mufti of Je...

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