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Ariel Weintraub, an Argentinian-Israeli who has been living in the country for the past 20 years, decided to fully convert to ...

Ari and Lauren Douglas’ wedding had many of the hallmarks of a traditional Jewish ceremony. The couple stood under a traditional covering called a chuppah, as a cantor recited a series of blessings.

This heartfelt work is a candid, absorbing memoir that explores how faith is shaped not only by belief, but by resistance, inheritance, and choice. Rather than presenting a straight line toward ...

And although most Jews share a common gene pool, they are becoming more diverse because any non-Jew who converts to Judaism will be recognized as being Jewish by all those rabbis who share a ...

JERUSALEM — At first, it seemed like the kind of shooting that has become all too common in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. A Palestinian aroused suspicions and an Israeli soldier killed him. But then ...

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