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Clinical Study Considers The Power Of Prayer To Combat COVID-19

"We all believe in science, and we also believe in faith," says the principal investigator.

Esperanza Spalding performs at the 2011 Montreux Jazz festival in Switzerland.

Esperanza Spalding Is The 21st Century's Jazz Genius

The ways in which Spalding's music is the most radical are perhaps the most easily overlooked: how, through her singing and playing, she challenges gender norms across styles.

The thumb of the Rev. Patrick Conroy, chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, is stained from ashes he made this year for Ash Wednesday.

Finding Community Among The Ashes: How Faith Reaches Across Distance

Photographer Greg Miller has spent over 20 years documenting Catholics on Ash Wednesday. As Lent comes to an end, his photos highlight the power of the bonds of faith.

Finding Community Among The Ashes: How Faith Reaches Across Distance

Photographer Greg Miller has spent over 20 years documenting Catholics on Ash Wednesday. As Lent comes to an end, his photos highlight the power of the bonds of faith.

Israeli police officers wearing protective gloves and masks check papers as they enforce restrictions in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem on Tuesday, during a partial lockdown to curb spread of coronavirus infection.

Israel Faces Challenges In Fighting Coronavirus In Ultra-Orthodox Communities

Ultra-Orthodox Jews make up about 12% of Israel's population — but account for many of Israel's COVID-19 cases. This week a senior rabbi finally urged his followers to obey government lockdown orders.

On the facade of the Wittenberg Town Church in Germany, a relief depicting Jews and a large pig is at the heart of controversy and a legal battle.

A German Jew Vows To Fight On To Remove Anti-Semitic Sculpture After Court Defeat

"This is a church, a holy place. You can't mix it with such a shameful assault on the Jews," plaintiff Michael Düllmann says of the medieval work portraying Jews with a pig.

Douglas and Lana Turner dance in a scene from Vincente Minnelli's 1952 film, The Bad and the Beautiful.

Kirk Douglas, Hollywood Tough Guy And 'Spartacus' Superstar, Dies At 103

Douglas was often cast as a troubled tough guy in films, most famously as a rebellious Roman slave named Spartacus. Off-screen, he was devoted to family and to humanitarian causes.

Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly joining a custom called <em>Daf Yomi</em>, Hebrew for "daily page," which involves reading a page a day of the Talmud, a centuries-old, multivolume collection of rabbinic teachings, debates and interpretations of Judaism. Here women read the last pages of the cycle at their first women's mass Talmud celebration in Jerusalem in January.

Orthodox Jewish Women Take A New Lead In Talmud Study In Israel

"I never thought I would live to see this day," said one of the women participating in a recent celebration in Jerusalem.

Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly joining a custom called Daf Yomi, Hebrew for "daily page," which involves reading a page a day of the Talmud, a centuries-old, multivolume collection of rabbinic teachings, debates and interpretations of Judaism. Here women read the last pages of the cycle at their first women's mass Talmud celebration in Jerusalem in January.

Orthodox Jewish Women Take A New Lead In Talmud Study In Israel

"I never thought I would live to see this day," said one of the women participating in a recent celebration in Jerusalem.

The walls of the Golden Rose restaurant in Lviv, Ukraine, are covered with collages that tell detailed stories about the Jewish legacy of the city.

Reflections From A Jew At A Mock-Jewish Restaurant

On a trip to explore her Jewish-Ukrainian roots, one writer made a stop at a controversial Jewish-themed restaurant, where guests are served matzo at every meal and invited to haggle over the check.

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