Cremation: Israel's latest religious war
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The charred hut and blackened chimney are all that remain of what was one of Israel's best-kept secrets.
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An underground movement of gay  Orthodox Jews in Israel has created a Web site to help  homosexuals cope with living in a strict, religious community  that is often hostile to their lifestyle.
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In both Israel and America, minorities in the Jewish world are attempting to impose their will on the majority. The outcome of these efforts will do much to determine the future course of Jewish politics.
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In Israel, two suicide bombers have killed at least sixteen people, including a four-year-old child. More than one-hundred others were wounded in the August 31st attacks on two buses in the city of Beersheva.
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Perhaps through his death, Yasser Arafat has created a new opportunity for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. As the former Palestinian leader was buried on Friday, President Bush and British Prime Minister
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Child labor. Forced abortions. Religious persecution. Jailed dissidents. Cultural cleansing in Tibet and ethnic cleansing in Africa.
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An inside look at Israel's extreme right wing
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Comment is free: Karen Koning AbuZayd: Palestinian suffering has reached new depths. Peace cannot be built by reducing 1.5m people to a state of abject destitution
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For the past four years, Middle East peace could safely be filed under the same heading as Santa Claus: nice fantasy. But this Christmas, glimmers of hope have materialized in the Holy Land.
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A Christian video game has become the latest battleground in America's "culture" wars, with its maker claiming it promotes prayer while critics charge it carries a message of violent religious intolerance.
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Understanding the new and lethal logic of violence in the Middle East - and what the world can do to find peace
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JERUSALEM -- It took over half a century to fulfill Theodor Herzl's dream of a Jewish state. But it would take Israel even longer to meet Herzl's more intimate last wishes: to have his children buried next to him.
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Lebanon had not even finished burying the dead from 34 days of war when the country's deep sectarian and political divisions split open again. That has shattered the semblance of unity that held, just barely, through the Israeli attacks against Hezbollah.
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Arguments over where to bury Yasser Arafat&#39;s body leave out opportunities to talk about the future of the Palestinians&#39; soul.
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TONY EASTLEY: Since the death last month of Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat there&#39;s been a relative lull in violence against Israeli forces in the occupied territories.
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An underground movement of gay  Orthodox Jews in Israel has created a website to help  homosexuals cope with living in a strict, religious community  that is often hostile to their lifestyle.
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Wounded in the battle for Jerusalem, Ya'acov Rotblit composed the anthem of Israel's peace movement. Today, his optimism is tempered with bitter realism