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Though originating and celebrated widely in the Sephardic community (Jews of Mediterranean background), a small number of North American Ashkenazi Jews (those of Eastern European background) have started celebrating this festival in recent years. Theories...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOVdnG2rwpY&feature=youtu.be The Yad Vashem holocaust memorial center on Wednesday urged White House press secretary Sean Spicer to visit its website after his comments on Hitler sparked outrage. Spicer apologised Tuesday for "insensitive" remarks in which he...

At a Shabbat service in Tel Aviv on Friday evening, congregants recited the mourner’s prayer for those killed in Syria’s civil war. Standing before a mural of the Tree of Life, the rabbi of the...

Since its independence from the Soviet Union, an arduous and painful process in itself, Lithuania has gone to great lengths to take its place among the democracies of Europe. Securing both NATO and European...

Anger over the actions of Indonesian illustrator Ardian Syaf, who created a comic book controversy of epic proportions after local fans found out he had snuck references to his support for the hardline movement...

The US has dropped the "mother of all bombs" - the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the US military - on an area of eastern Afghanistan known to be populated by...

Historically, Americans’ response to hate speech has been more speech. The focus has been on defeating bigotry in the marketplace of ideas and to leave government out of the struggle. This model has guided...

Beautiful — part biography, part jukebox musical — opened in San Francisco in 2013 before transferring to Broadway the following year. The show has netted two Tony awards and a further five nominations. It also...

Since its independence from the Soviet Union, an arduous and painful process in itself, Lithuania has gone to great lengths to take its place among the democracies of Europe. Securing both NATO and European...

Adolf Hitler gassed and killed 6 million Jews during World War II — a genocide that makes his reluctance to use sarin against his military adversaries an enduring mystery. It wasn’t because he was less...