It's not only Israel's deputy health minister who wants swine flu renamed because of religious sensitivities. Representatives of Britain's pig famers also want the appellation dropped because they fear it may damage pork sales.
Among the Orthodox press here, Hamodia refers to it as "swine flu" but it's "Mexican flu" in the Jewish Tribune.
A survey has found that that American Jews must apply to 24.2 per cent more jobs to hear back from the same number of employers as someone signalling Western European heritage
Nature abhors a vacuum and Syria is now a power vacuum. Let us hope it is filled with something positive
This week I had two unexpectedly uplifting moments which revolved around cemeteries
If one message has emerged in intelligence circles in recent weeks it is that Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’ is not all it was cracked up to be. The Ayatollah is sitting atop a papier mâché fort
When it comes to couples no longer together, my mother’s maxim is paramount: when you’ve got children, there’s no such thing as divorce
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