LUCKNOW, India (AP) — An Indian state has approved an unprecedented uniform code for marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance for Hindus, Muslims and other religious communities under new legislation that also requires couples that live together to register with the government or face punishment. Northern Uttarakhand state lawmakers passed the legislation on Wednesday and its […]
Uttarakhand, a small northern Indian state governed by prime minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party, passed a bill to replace religion-specific civil laws with a Uniform Civil Code, which could be used as a template by other states. The bill, debated by Uttarakhand’s legislature on Wednesday, sailed through as Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) commands […]
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Jews and Muslims from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica on Saturday to jointly observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day and to promote compassion and dialogue amid the Israel-Hamas war. The gathering was organized by the center preserving memory of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust — the massacre in the […]
Dilawar Mondal gently bends the stems of a centuries-old myrtle plant to examine its aromatic leaves, used in the Jewish ritual bath for the dead. It is among the myriad plants, shrubs, and trees that he has tended to for the last eight years in Kolkata’s only Jewish cemetery, established in the early 19th century […]
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Thursday he felt members of the Muslim and Arab communities in the tech industry were uncomfortable speaking about their recent experiences, in an apparent reference to the impact of the ongoing war in Gaza. “Muslim and arab (especially palestinian) colleagues in the tech […]
Mazi Melesa Pilip is the GOP candidate in the special election to replace George Santos. She recently suggested some Muslims “won’t like” her campaign because she’s Israeli. Pilip served in the Israeli Defense Forces before moving to the United States. Mazi Melesa Pilip, the GOP’s chosen replacement for the recently expelled George Santos, suggested that […]