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February 4, 2013
2:41 am

Women wearing burkas. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/FLASH90)

Fatwa causes outrage on Twitter

Saudi cleric posits that baby girls should wear the Islamic headscarf to prevent sexual assault

By Michal Shmulovich

January 3, 2013
3:05 am

Karen Allali of the Jewish Guides and Scouts of France and Jean-Charles Zerbib (far right), an official of the Unified Jewish Social Fund, speak in Marseille, where Jewish groups are struggling to absorb cutbacks in government funding. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)

French Jews pay a price for government effort to curb extremism

Attempts to cut off funding to radical Muslim groups are harming Jewish organizations, while Christian groups haven’t been affected

By Cnaan Liphshiz