High-tech handwritten Bible in the making

March 9, 2006

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. — With the help of computers, calfskins and turkey feathers, Donald Jackson is reviving a lost art form by creating a Bible by

Judge allows marriage amendment to stay on ballot

March 9, 2006

NASHVILLE — A Tennessee state court judge Feb. 23 dismissed a lawsuit by a special interest group in ruling that a proposed state constitutional marriage

Britain no ally to United States on abortions

March 9, 2006

LONDON — Great Britain’s government announced Feb. 6 it would provide funds to abortion-promoting organizations in developing countries in an effort to replace grants withheld

Demolition begins at Tajikistan’s only synagogue

March 9, 2006

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — City authorities demolished the ritual bathhouse, classroom and kosher butchery of the synagogue in the capital city of Dushanbe Jan. 7–20. The

Church of England apologizes for role in slave trade

March 9, 2006

LONDON — Two centuries after profiting from the venture, the Church of England has apologized for its role in the global slave trade, which included

Anti-Semitism suspected in murder of salesman

March 9, 2006

PARIS — The murder of a cell-phone salesman outside Paris has gripped the country’s Jewish community, amid mounting evidence he was tortured and killed partly