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The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain 's Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself.

Students and university officials started getting e-mails last year in which a prominent Judaic studies scholar seemed to make a startling confession: He had committed plagiarism.

The exterior of the D'Amore-Braver home glows with sparkling Christmas lights, adding a festive flair to their street in a Troy, Mich., subdivision.

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Mildred Kravitz and Ken Levine, with fifth-graders Benjamin Loeb and Zachary Lipstein, take part in an intergenerational program.

No place is women's evolving role in Judaism more evident than in Riverdale. Over the last few years, women have sprouted up at the heads of congregations across the spectrum of religious practice, taking on roles that would have once been forbidden.

Rapper SHYNE has denied rumours he converted to Judaism behind bars, insisting his 2006 name change only symbolised a desire to turn his life around.

Absorption Minister Sofa Landver on Tuesday criticized the media's "racist generalization" of olim from the Former Soviet Union following the arrest and confession of Oshrenko homicide suspect Dimitry Kirilik.

About 1,000 people gathered in support of the nation's oldest institution for training rabbis, cantors and educators of Reform Judaism.

A leading Jewish school asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that it racially discriminated against a boy when it refused to accept him as a pupil, because it did not recognize his mother as Jewish.

In the chapel of Congregation B'nai Israel, Rabbi Edward Garsek carefully wrapped leather straps around his arm and forehead, demonstrating the Jewish ritual of putting on tefillin, while across the hall Cantor Evan Rubin taught a lesson on the Book of Genesis.

Message to Israelis disgruntled with President Barack Obama's Middle East policies: you've got used to U.S. presidents pouring affection on you.

Israel has never recovered from Yitzhak Rabin's assassination. Sadly, the firebrand rhetoric that led to his death is still prevalent In Jewish communities throughout Israel and the Diaspora, everyone remembers where they were the night Yitzhak Rabin was killed .

A A Judaism Jews pray at the Mount of Olives, matzoh is baked in Brooklyn, and thousands of rabbis pose for a group photo.

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An unlikely relationship between different faiths is setting an example in northern Virginia.

Britain's most successful Jewish school told the supreme court today it had discriminated against a 12-year-old boy on religious rather than racial grounds.

Sometimes embracing a faith is easier than living with the people who profess that faith.

According to People , Ivanka Trump converted to Judaism before getting married. I know several of these "converts" to Judaism.

In this photo taken Oct. 22, 2009 two religious Jewish women wait for the elevator at the Mamilla mall just outside Jerusalem's Old City.