Author: Staff Writer

Source: Yahoo News

Wire Service: AP

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_re_eu/eu_czech_jewish_cemetery

A Jewish cemetery has been desecrated in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, members of the community there said Tuesday.

Jaroslav Klenovsky of the Jewish community in nearby Brno said 63 tombstones were overturned at the cemetery in Uhersky Ostroh, some...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Yahoo News

Wire Service: AP

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_re_eu/eu_poland_jewish_museum

For the second time in two years, Polish officials began building a new museum of Jewish history in Warsaw on Tuesday that they hope will become a major cultural landmark.

An earlier groundbreaking ceremony for the planned Museum of the History of Polish Jews...

Author: Michael Paulson

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/06/28/at_mosque_opening_tensions_permeate_interfaith_gathering/

The controversy over the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury Crossing has posed one of the biggest challenges to interfaith relations in Boston in years, and the tension was readily on...

Author: Betsey Bruner

Source: Syracuse.com

Wire Service: AP

Author: Michelle Chabin

Source: The Kansas City Star/Religion News Service

http://www.kansascity.com/255/story/1288422.html

Devora, an Orthodox Jewish woman, never felt comfortable in the sleek, revealing bathing suits sold at the stores she frequented in her native France or in her adopted Israel.

While she ordinarily wears fashionable skirts that fall below the knee and blouses that extend to her wrists, Devora, 31, was unable to find a...

Author: Michael Paulson

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/06/26/muslim_community_to_celebrate_mosque8217s_ceremonial_opening/

&amAt midday today, a local Muslim will clamber 185 feet up a ladder inside the narrow minaret atop the domed brick mosque and recite Islam’s haunting call to prayer, starting with the...

Author: Eboo Patel

Source: The Washington Post

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/eboo_patel/2009/06/besa_world_war_ii_re-told.html

"As Muslims we welcomed them all. We welcomed them with bread, salt, and our hearts."

We hear many accounts of what happened during the Holocaust. The atrocities committed; the times and places in which unspeakable acts against humankind occurred; the millions of...

Author: Michael Turnbell

Source: Sun Sentinel

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/content/state/epaper/2009/06/22/0622turnpike.html

It's a clash of religion and ramps. Florida's Turnpike officials say Palmetto Park Road is the best location for a $119 million SunPass interchange to relieve bottlenecks at the Glades Road toll plaza.

But residents who live near the road say officials have overlooked the impact...

Author: Simon Romero

Source: The New York Times

Author: Jeff Brumley

Source: Syracuse.com

Wire Service: AP

Author: Omar Sacirbey

Source: Religion News Service

http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/everyone_in_the_pool_not_you_guys/

&amWhen Zahra Khan arrived at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from her native Ottawa, Canada, in 2005, she looked for a swimming pool where she wouldn’t have to worry about showing too much skin.

The only options were mixed-gender pools, which Khan felt would...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/8103581.stm

A couple have taken legal action after claiming motion sensors installed at their holiday flat in Dorset breached their rights as Orthodox Jews.

Gordon and Dena Coleman said they cannot leave or enter their Bournemouth flat on the Sabbath because the hallway sensors automatically switch on lights.

The couple's religious...

Author: Ann Farmer

Source: The New York Times

Author: Susanna Graham-Pye

Source: The Barnstable Patriot

http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/home2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18192&Itemid=30

This evening at the Cape Cod Synagogue’s 8 o’clock Shabbat service, members will dedicate a beautiful new worship space, and celebrate a renewal of purpose as a religious community dwelling on this slim spit of sand.

“We...

Author: Zaki Cooper

Source: Times Online

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6488692.ece

The new political leader of the British Jewish community, Vivian Wineman leans back in his chair, smiles and tells me: “To do this job you need a thick skin and a supportive wife. I have the second and need to develop the first!” As president of the Board of Deputies since June 1, Wineman is prepared for the intense...