Anti-Semitism is on the rise at an alarming frequency. “Kill all Jews” and “No Jews” have appeared on synagogues, Jewish graves and homes and school campuses, terrorising their targets the BBC reported. Nearly a third of Jews avoid identifying themselves as Jewish publicly or refrain from carrying items that would identify them as Jewish in…

Shoshana Hebshi, who describes herself as “half-Arab, half Jewish,” was at the center of an in-flight scare that made headlines Sunday. The self-described housewife was arrested at gunpoint at the end of a Frontier Airlines flight after other passengers reported her behavior with two male passengers as being “suspicious.” Security was heightened since America was…

Lisa Shimel, who is not Jewish, used to celebrate Christmas with her Jewish husband until their first child was born; now they’ve added Chanukah, reports Deb Morandi works at Jewish Family Services, where she introduces intermarried families to Judaism, though she is not Jewish. Pat Luftman was a committee co-chair in her son’s Jewish preschool,…

By DEBRA RUBIN c. 2011 Religion News Service SILVER SPRING, Md. (RNS) Saraleah was 19 and a part-time student when she discovered she was pregnant. She didn’t know how it could have happened — until she flashed back to a party nine weeks earlier where she was given a drink, realized it was vodka and…

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