finding it more practical or cheaper to handle ashes instead of a body. Others might be squeamish about the idea of decay and are attracted to the "sanitizing" effect of flames, while some people find it fitting with their spiritual beliefs. Whatever the reason, more and more people are cho...
In the United States, the federal government recognizes 11 public holidays (also known as bank holidays). While this doesn’t mean that every worker will have those days off, many businesses are closed on federal holidays. These days are as follows: New Year’s Day: January 1 Martin Luther...
just two months after thefall of the dictatorial Bashar al-Assad regime. The group said it was the first official Jewish delegation to visit Syria, a country that once was home to as many as 100,000 Jews, in over three decades.
A small religious sect that worships death is now fighting the Mexican government for recognition. AP Photo/Marco Ugarte Before you can have the Grim Reaper -- a personification of death -- you have to have death itself. In almost all cultures and religions, humans were first created...
"Shalom Mahmoud" are not words I'd ever thought I would see from an official White House social media account – certainly not when used to announce the government's arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a recen...
“They will fund the process as their children are becoming socioeconomically stable or being educated (such as at university).” “Whenever you have a big investment in life, there is a means of getting there,” she says. How many eggs can you harvest? It depends on the per...
But what did surprise us as we dug deeper for this article was the extent to whichfaith leaders were pursued to push the COVID-19 vaccines and the inappropriate – if not unconstitutional – manner in which government officials persuaded these faith leaders to pus...
Government action, even from the top, can change policy, but it cannot necessarily change minds – at least not immediately. It will take far more than an executive order to dismantle the conformity and coerciveness that has made DEI so fearsome for those, like Jews, who fall outside its ...
On Monday, Jews around the world will begin celebrating the weeklong Passover holiday, recounting the biblical story of their exodus from Egypt after hundreds of years of slavery. But for many Israelis, it’s hard to fathom a celebration of freedom when friends ...
Aiello spent many years at synagogues in Florida, and also as a Hebrew teacher at a synagogue in St. Thomas, one of the Virgin Islands. So how did she end up relocating to Milan over two decades ago? “It was circumstances that found me rather than me creating the circumstance,” Aiell...