'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
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Five women have been detained for questioning at the Western Wall in Jerusalem because they performed a religious ritual that Orthodox Jewish law dictates as for men only.
Israeli police have detained the sister of U.S. comedian Sarah Silver, along with nine other women, for wearing improper religious clothing while praying at a holy site in Jerusalem.
Israeli police Monday detained 10 women, including the sister of American comic Sarah Silverman, as they tried to pray at a Jerusalem holy site, the head of a liberal Jewish women's group said.
Israel's national museum said Tuesday it will open what it calls the world's first exhibition devoted to the architectural legacy of biblical King Herod, the Jewish proxy monarch who ruled Jerusalem and the Holy Land under Roman occupation two millennia ago.
Standing on Israeli soil, U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday declared Jerusalem to be the capital of the Jewish state and said the United States has "a solemn duty and a moral imperative" to block Iran from achieving nuclear weapons capability.
Court records show David Arquette has filed for divorce from actress Courtney Cox Arquette.
Court records show David Arquette has filed for divorce from actress Courtney Cox Arquette.
Five years after being treated for breast cancer, "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts has a new health fight on her hands.
David Arquette got more than he bargained for during his first trip to Israel.
David Arquette got more than he bargained for during his first trip to Israel.
He kneels in prayer at times when many players would be pounding their chest, and is winning with a style the experts insist cannot work for long.
Arnaud de Borchgrave's column "Netanyahu's conundrum" (Commentary, June 8) notes that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech rejecting a return to the 1967 border lines received more standing ovations from a joint session of the U.S. Congress than President Obama received for his last State of the Union message. Unfortunately, the rest of the world is not as sympathetic to Israel's plight.
The line between life and death is always a thin one and never more so - literally and symbolically - than in the tiny state of Israel, which celebrates its 63rd birthday this week. (That's a lot of bar mitzvahs.) No sooner had the sirens sounded across the promised land of milk and honey, marking memorial day for the soldiers who have died fighting for Israel's survival, than fireworks splashed across the heavens, recalling that moment in 1948 when Israel declared its independence. The two commemorations are not unrelated.
