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Former Iraq hostage Norman Kember has confirmed he has helped fund bail for Muslim cleric Abu Qatada. Mr Kember, 77, said he was supporting the man described as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man ...

Posted on: Friday, 9 May 2008, 00:00 CDT By Jim Wasserman, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. May 8--Land Park's Second Church of Christ, Scientist, has the happy ending it has been seeking. At last, the chu...

Posted on: Friday, 9 May 2008, 00:00 CDT By Kristy Locklin The year was 1917. Three children in Fatima, Portugal, reported receiving monthly visits from the Virgin Mary, who told them to recite the r...

Guests who attend Congregation Shaarey Tikvah’s “A Kosher Taste of Cleveland” on Sunday, May 18, will have to forget portion control for one night.In its fifth year, the fundraiser a...

“It is frankly quite odd for the American Jewish community to make common cause with mainline protestants on so many issues for 40 years,” he says. “On what matters most to us n...

Beachwood resident Ivan Soclof has been intimately involved in Jewish education ever since he and his (late) twin brother Alan were members of The Hebrew Academy of Cleveland’s first kindergarte...

Even before Sen. Barack Obama unequivocally denounced the Rev. Jeremiah Wright as the loon he is, I was willing to take the senator’s word for the fact that his erstwhile pastor’s rantings...

-- A Taiwanese Buddhist leader said Friday that Myanmar was promptly dispatching food and medical materials to cyclone survivors even though the reclusive country has been slow to let foreign aid work...

For 50 years, The Union for Reform Judaism's ("URJ") Eisner Camp has provided meaningful, transformative experiences to more than 20,000 young people who have entered its gates. Beginni...

The Messianic Times, nearing its twenty year anniversary as the only Messianic newspaper serving the Messianic Jewish community, has now launched a new interactive website and e-paper. Niagara F...