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NJ Gymnast, 7, Balances Religious Faith, Sports

NEWARK, N.J. -- When 7-year-old Amalya Knapp took the beam at the New Jersey state gymnastics finals last month, her excellent performance symbolized a far more complicated balancing act. Although she would have ranked fifth in her age group, eligible for a medal, her individual scores were discounted. She was unable to...

Mossad's Seductive 'Honey Trap' Is Kosher, Rabbi Finds

JERUSALEM (Oct. 4) -- Female Mossad agents can relax. That classic spy tool, the honey trap, is kosher after all. Rabbi Ari Shvat, an expert on Jewish law and modern politics, says Israeli women can sleep with the enemy in the interests of national security. The scholar has found that it is not a breach of Jewish law for...

Slain Jewish Convert Had Traded Violence for Prayer

NEW YORK (Aug. 24) -- The first time Ari Schwartz brought Yoseph Robinson home for Sabbath dinner, his family was taken aback. After all, it wasn't every day that a black man -- a Jamaican wearing the broad black hat often used by Orthodox Jews -- arrived on their Brooklyn doorstep. But when Schwartz learned that the...

Background on orthodox jews

Orthodox Judaism is the approach to Judaism which adheres to the traditional interpretation and application of the laws and ethics of the Torah as legislated in the Talmudic texts by the Sanhedrin ("Oral Torah") and subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim.

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