A lessons learned review of a controversial policy to allow some traditional barns in the Yorkshire Dales to be converted into housing has found “a general lack of consensus” persists over how, where ...

The Jewish community has been welcoming and celebrating converts to Judaism since at least the time of Ruth, the paradigmatic convert whose story is celebrated on Shavuot. However, in recent years, ...

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The plane lands on the tarmac to a rousing round of applause. As the passengers exit, they walk down the stairs and kiss the ground at Ben Gurion Airport. Flight after flight, year after year, Jews ...