Author: Greg Garrison

Source: The Pew Forum on Religion...

Author: Erin Quinn

Source: The Tennesean

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110117/NEWS01/101170326/Nashville+Red+Cross+to+cater+to+religious+dietary+needs

The American Red Cross learned a few lessons from last year's catastrophic flood, including the growing religious diversity of Middle Tennessee and the food needed to honor those different ways of worship.

Author: Raja Abdulrahim

Source: The Los Angeles Times

Author: Dina Newman

Source: BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12112913

Avielah Barclay is an Orthodox Jewish woman who aims to live "sincerely and 100%" inside the traditions of her faith.

She leads a fastidiously observant life, wears a head covering and a long skirt - in line with Orthodox views on female modesty - and keeps a kosher kitchen.

Yet she is, in many ways, a most unorthodox...

Author: Shane Dixon Kavanaugh

Source: The Tribeca Tribune

http://www.tribecatrib.com/news/2010/december/849_kind-strangers.html

For Norman H. Gershman, it seemed like an unimaginable story. Which was why he had to see it for himself.

“Muslims that saved Jews during World War II?” Gershman said in a recent interview from his home in Basalt, Colo., just south of Aspen. “Whoever heard of that?...

Author: Ari Altstedter

Source: The Globe and Mail

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/the-appeal-of-orthodoxy-to-young-...

Author: Tara Bahrampour

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/22/AR2010122202919.html

As Erum Ikramullah prepared to head to Reagan National Airport on Thursday for a flight, she mulled over two distasteful choices: the body scanner or the pat-down?

Ever since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a trip to the airport has been fraught for...

Author: Bahrampour

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/14/AR2010121407206.html

Muslim employees of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington said they felt discriminated against after being barred over the weekend from floors where an Israeli delegation was staying, a Muslim advocacy group said.

One hotel worker whose duties involve going to...

Author: Paul Vitello

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/nyregion/13burial.html?ref=religionandbelief

The volunteers are taught to begin at the head, washing the face before proceeding to the neck and right shoulder. The right side is to be washed before the left side, the front before the back. There are prayers to say. Small talk is forbidden.

The Jewish protocol for tending to the dead...

Author: Spencer S. Hsu

Source: The Washington Post

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/spencer-s-hsu/rabbi-sues-army-over-beard-rul.html

An Orthodox Jewish rabbi from Brooklyn sued the U.S. Army Wednesday for denying him a commission to serve as an Army chaplain because his faith prohibits him from shaving his beard.

Author: Lauren Markoe

Source: Beliefnet

Wire Service: RNS

https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/news/2010/12/international-adoptions-changi

Like so many...

Author: Malina Saval

Source: Chabad Jewish News

http://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/1370413/jewish/Vandals-Rock-to-Support-Menorah.htm

In the redemptive spirit of Chanukah, the eight-day Festival of Light that begins Wednesday night, members of the Chabad House Jewish Student Center at Indiana University Bloomington are responding to a recent act of vandalism with a collective message of freedom,...

Author: Joshunda Sanders

Source: The Statesman

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/youths-to-join-in-interfaith-celebration-of-hanukkah-1086871.html

Hanukkah, a holiday that many believe commemorates religious freedom, begins today, and for the first time, Congregation Beth Israel has extended an invitation for the Muslim Youth of North America's Austin chapter to join its celebration.

Author: Jennifer Lipman

Source: The Jewish Chronicle

http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/41836/uganda-rabbi-hopes-be-first-jew-parliament

A Ugandan Jew who grew up under Idi Amin is aiming to become the first member of his community to be elected to the country's parliament.

When Ugandans go to the polls in February Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, 41, hopes to be chosen to represent the mostly Muslim area of...

Author: Norimitsu Onishi

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/world/asia/23indo.html?ref=religion_and_belief

A new, 62-foot-tall menorah, possibly the world’s largest, rises from a mountain overlooking this Indonesian city, courtesy of the local government. Flags of Israel can be spotted on motorcycle taxi stands, one near a six-year-old synagogue that has received a face-lift, including a...