Fifty-nine percent of American Jews, 51 percent of Israeli Jews and 43 percent of French Jews concurred, with approximately one-quarter of each group responding that Judaism is instead more matter of religion... ... Thirty-three percent of Israeli Jews and 14 percent..…

To make matters even more urgent, the woman was now pregnant, and her baby could be branded a mamzer — a child born from an illicit relationship, who is restricted from marrying other Jews for all future generations — if the Rabbinic Court did not act quickly. . ..…

To be sure, white liberals continue to express favorable views of Jews. What’s different today is that their sympathy toward and concern for Jews has become more conditional. ..…

A dozen years before, as a Polish Jew and one of the leaders of the March 1968 student protests in Poland, Michnik had been distressed to see some of his best friends leave the country. ... Only Jews emigrate – that was how the government had tried to turn Pole against Pole. . ..…

Jews were harassed in 87 countries, reversing a decrease that occurred in 2015. . 5Among the 25 most populous countries in the world, Egypt, Russia, India, Indonesia and Turkey had the highest overall levels of religious restrictions. ..…

They clashed over Lieberman’s insistence that ultra-orthodox Jews be drafted into the army. . ... The gain for Lieberman is that by proposing a bill to draft ultra-orthodox Jews into the army, he appealed to secular Jews. ..…

There were still 10,000 Jews in Paris. Any Jew not in hiding was forced to wear a yellow star. ... “There are stories like this all over France—thousands of people hid Jews—especially Jewish children. ..…

For Orthodox Jews, today about 10% of American Jews, I expect that there will be increased friction with non- Jewish neighbors. The Golden Age of American Jewry, although many American Jews have not noticed. ..…

It's comprised of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, parents, grandparents, social conservatives, populists, and others. ..…

Many ultra- Orthodox Jews reject the public display of homosexuality as an abomination that desecrates the city and flouts Jewish law.. ..…

Virtually no Jews were saved by the war. By the time the war was over, almost all of them were dead. Of course, it should be kept in mind that when Hitler offered to let German Jews leave Germany in the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration, like all other nations around the world, said that..…

That must include Israel with its ' Jews only policy, its over 50 laws. ..…

Nor did Jews in Germany, the Herero in Namibia, Armenians in Turkey, Maya in Guatemala, etc. ..…

As for the Holocaust, 80 percent said it was true that the Nazi regime 'targeted and exterminated six million European Jews.' McLaughlin noted a slight drop-off among younger voters, with about 70 percent of those under 30 acknowledging the genocide of six million Jews as fact. . ..…

The invasion of Iraq is what inspired Houthis to trademark the slogan, God is great, death to the US, death to Israel, curse Jews, and victory for Islam. ..…

To many, it’s especially troubling on streets where the persecution of Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators was so brutal that it moved whole societies in Europe to vow “Never again.” . ... The study by the Berlin-based EVZ foundation claims that there is no connection between..…

'But I refuse to impose it on equally devout Christians and Muslims and Jews. ..…

Shavuot has middle-child syndrome in that it largely is invisible to most liberal American Jews. ... Every Jew knows about Passover, Judaism’s most widely observed holiday of freedom. ..…