Michele Chabin
Michele Chabin writes for Religion News Service.
Blog Posts by Michele Chabin
Posted by Michele Chabin 2 weeks 5 days ago
JERUSALEM — Religious leaders from around the world have stepped up their pleas for the safe return of two Syrian bishops who were kidnapped April 22 by armed men as they were driving near the war-...
Posted by Michele Chabin 3 weeks 3 days ago
JERUSALEM — Women who want to wear prayer shawls while praying in the women’s section of the Western Wall are not breaking the law, according to a landmark decision handed down Thursday by the...
Posted by Michele Chabin 6 weeks 3 days ago
JERUSALEM — The ultra-Orthodox rabbi in charge of the sacred Western Wall assured a government emissary on Thursday that Jewish women will not be arrested if they try to recite the mourner’s prayer...
Posted by Michele Chabin 11 weeks 2 days ago
The New York City Commissionon Human Rights is suing ultra-Orthodox Jewish business owners in Brooklyn because they posted signs calling on customers to dress modestly in their stores....
Posted by Michele Chabin 29 weeks 5 days ago
JERUSALEM -- Jews from Manhattan to Mozambique held prayer vigils on Monday to protest the arrest and incarceration of an Israeli feminist as she was leading 250 American Jewish women in prayer at...
