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AMHERST, Mass. (RNS) The National Yiddish Book Center has received an unexpected gift of $3 million from comedy writer Mickey Ross, who died in May without any known connection to the one-of-its-kind library. The gift from Ross, who worked on television shows such as “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons” and “Three’s Company,” was a…

(RNS) American Muslim leaders are criticizing new airport security guidelines they say unfairly profile Muslims. More importantly, they say, the new rules are ineffective. Muslims leaders say the measures, introduced by the Travel Security Administration on Sunday (Jan. 3) after a Nigerian Muslim man nearly blew up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day,…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) While timeouts and other disciplinary methods are encouraged by some child psychologists, a Calvin College psychology professor says her research shows corporal punishment forms more well-adjusted people later in life. Marjorie Gunnoe says the study finds children who remember being spanked on the backside with an open hand do better in…

WASHINGTON – The 89-year-old white supremacist charged in a deadly shooting at Washington’s Holocaust museum died Wednesday in North Carolina, where he’d been held while awaiting trial, authorities said. James von Brunn died at a local hospital in North Carolina, said Denise Simmons, the spokeswoman for the federal prison where von Brunn had been held.…
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