Finding the faith

These days it's fairly common to have parents of different religious denominations. While no one could argue that it makes life any simpler, it is not unusual to identify with two faiths. But what about three? Sadia Shepard grew up in Boston, raised by a white Protestant father, Pakistani Muslim mother, and her beloved maternal grandmother Nana who, when Shepard was 13, revealed that she was originally from the tiny Bene Israel community in India.

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Michael Sophocles clicks into the lies of e-dating

The former contestant on BBC1's hit reality show The Apprentice investigates why so many people are less than honest when they date online - and reveals a few home truths of his own

Finding love in the 21st century can be a tricky business. With longer working hours and more hectic lifestyles, it is easy to feel despondent about the prospect of discovering your soulmate. But rather than despairing, millions of us have turned to online dating.

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The dead poet riding on the Tube

An anti-war poem war by the late Isaac Rosenberg is to be displayed on the Underground.

When poet Isaac Rosenberg wrote On Receiving News of the War, he certainly would not have expected, that 90 years later, three-and-a-half million Tube passengers a day would be reading his work. But from Monday, the poem will be one of six displayed in 3,000 carriages across London's Underground network, as part of this year's autumn season of the Poems on the Underground scheme, which displays poetry on Tube trains for more than six months every year.

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This is the text of the 1998 Stanmore Accords in full

A statement to the Jewish Community

As lay leaders of different sections of the Jewish Community and for ourselves we, like many members of Anglo-Jewry, have been perturbed and distressed by the divisions and dissension which have become the more apparent since the death of Rabbi Hugo Gryn, of blessed memory.

It is inevitable that with different principles and practices there exist profound differences of brief calculated to stir deep emotions and impatience.

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Football in Israel, the not-so-beautiful game

I went on TV to find love

Dan Shell agreed to let an ITV camera crew follow his attempts at internet dating. Any regrets?

Finding true love can be a tricky and unpredictable journey. It is a process that most people like to conduct with a degree of privacy. However, 38-year-old Dan Shell has decided to allow the television-viewing public to follow his romantic progress.

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