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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 341

secularism

File: Workers repaint a Ten Commandments billboard off of Interstate 71 on Election Day near Chenoweth, Ohio, November 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
June 20, 2024, 5:38 pm
Louisiana passes law requiring public schools to display Ten Commandments
Law’s supporters say its purpose is not solely religious, but intended to teach that edicts are ‘foundational document’ of US government; critics say law unconstitutional
By Sara Cline
Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)
October 1, 2023, 11:45 pm
Sephardic chief rabbi claims secular Jews who eat non-kosher food ‘get stupid’
In latest inflammatory remarks, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef also says non-religious Jews ‘don’t find fulfillment in life’ and are ‘jealous’ of the ultra-Orthodox
By ToI Staff
FILE - Residents watch jets from the Patrouille de France flying over Paris suburb Nanterre during the Bastille Day military parade on July 14, 2023 in Nanterre (AP Photo/Youcef Bounab, File)
September 5, 2023, 1:01 pm
French schools refuse entry to dozens of girls wearing Muslim dress, minister says
Month after ban was announced, nearly 300 girls showed up wearing an abaya; 67 sent home after they refused to change, says education minister
By AFP
Archbishop of York Stephen Geoffrey Cottrell, left, and The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby walk in central London, Sept. 14, 2022 ahead of the ceremonial procession of the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, London. (Justin Tallis/Pool Photo via AP)
November 29, 2022, 4:27 pm
UK census: Under 50% of population identify as Christian; Buddhists overtake Jews
Those identifying as Muslim and those with no religion increase since 2011 census; archbishop of York says it is ‘no great surprise’ the Christian proportion is declining over time
By AFP
A woman wearing a burkini at the beach in Marseille, southern France. (AP Photo)
May 26, 2022, 12:57 am
French court overturns council move to allow burkinis in city pools
Invoking country’s ‘Islamist separatism’ law, judges strike down local law enabling women to wear full-body swimwear
By AFP
Illustrative. Young American Jews participating in a Birthright event in Jerusalem. (Dudi Vaknin/ Flash90)
August 30, 2018, 1:47 am
Nearly half of US Jews don’t identify with organized religion, study finds
Jews are the only religious group in America found to have substantial contingents on both the very religious and not at all religious ends of the spectrum
By JTA
Covers of the 72-year-old Jewish Currents magazine. (JTA collage)
April 27, 2018, 2:10 am
72-year-old left-wing magazine Jewish Currents aims for millennials
With communism and atheism looking antiquated to the younger crowd, the secular publication shifts its stance to a ‘non-Zionist’ platform focusing on Diaspora social activism
By Josefin Dolsten
Ari Mandel
November 14, 2017, 12:53 pm
Ari Mandel
Who is rich? This truck-driving former hasid
For years I had a burning desire to be wealthy and change the world, now I am content with what I have
French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech about democracy and terrorism on September 8, 2016 in Paris. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Christophe Ena)
September 8, 2016, 4:07 pm
Hollande: France’s secular laws can accommodate Islam
French president says state allows ‘the right to believe or not to believe’ provided there is no disruption of ‘public order’
By AFP
People, gathered for New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) summer meeting, hold a banner reading "Against forbidding the wearing of the burkini" as they march in front of Port-Leucate city hall to protest against the municipal ban forbidding the wearing of Burkinis, on August 25, 2016. (Raymond Roig/AFP)
August 26, 2016, 6:21 pm
France’s top court suspends controversial burkini ban
Amnesty welcomes ruling, blasts ‘pretense that such measures protect rights of women’; Muslim group hails ‘victory for common sense’
By Aurelia End
Women on beach with one, left, wearing a burkini, a full-body swimsuit designed for Muslim women. (AFP/FETHI BELAID)
August 24, 2016, 10:17 am
Beach burkinis stoke France’s long debate on secularism
Opponents of ban on Islam-conforming beachwear say secular cause is being used as an excuse to control Muslims
By Elaine Ganley
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