NY woman accused of slashing husband’s neck says he forced her to violate Muslim beliefs
NY wife: Religious friction led to spouse slashing NY woman accused of slashing husband’s neck says he forced her to violate her Muslim beliefs
Lawyer: NYer forced wife to violate Muslim beliefs Muslim woman urges French parliamentary panel to press for laws that would ban burqasPARIS — Her voice trembling with emotion, the leader of an advocacy group for Muslim women and girls urged a French parliamentary panel on Wednesday to press for laws that would ban the wearing of Islamic body- and face-covering veils. Mother-in-law takes stand-up comedian to court for making fun of her in her actLOS ANGELES — “Take my mother-in-law — please,” isn’t a joke you’re likely to hear often these days from Sunda Croonquist. The veteran comic is being sued by her mother-in-law after making her the punchline of too many jokes. Airport chapels open arms to growing cross-section of the faithfulATLANTA — Ordained a United Methodist minister, the Rev. Chester Cook has now become a jack of all faiths. Matchmaker, Sabbath cook, spiritual guide _ a gay rabbi leads a Jewish revival in PolandWARSAW, Poland — When Rabbi Aaron Katz walks the streets of Warsaw’s former Jewish quarter, scenes of that lost world fill his imagination: Families headed to synagogue, women in their kitchens cooking Sabbath meals, his father as a boy with the sidecurls of an Orthodox Jew. Struggle for survival: Yemen’s ancient Jewish community feels growing Muslim hostilityKHARIF, Yemen — In this village in northern Yemen, where a kosher butcher slaughters chickens and the school bus carries young boys in side curls along a dirt track to their Hebrew studies, one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Arab world is fighting for its survival. |