2011年8月24日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


'Jewish Indiana Jones' charged in NY Torah fraud (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:43 PM PDT

Menachem Youlus leaves federal court in New York after appearing on mail and wire fraud charges, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. Calling himself a “Jewish Indiana Jones' Youlus is accused of duping contributors to 'Save a Torah,' a charity her co-founded, by fabricating stories of crisscrossing the globe to “rescue” Torahs. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)AP - A Jewish charity co-founder who claimed he crisscrossed the globe rescuing Torahs as a "Jewish Indiana Jones" surrendered Wednesday to face mail and wire fraud charges after authorities said he duped benefactors by fabricating dramatic stories about sometimes dangerous trips, including to concentration camp sites in Poland and Germany.


Religion News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:33 AM PDT

AP - Calif. Senate panel OKs statewide rules on male circumcision after ban effort in San Francisco

Duke prof.: American's religious faith waning (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:27 AM PDT

AP - Despite the prominence of religious believers in politics and culture, America has shrinking congregations, growing dissatisfaction with religious leaders and more people who do not think about faith, according to a new study by a Duke University expert.

With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 04:26 PM PDT

In this photo made Aug. 18, 2011, people pass below a New York Police security camera, upper left, situated above a mosque on Fulton St., in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York. After the attacks of Sept. 11, the New York Police Department has dispatched teams of undercover officers into minority neighborhoods and used informants to monitor sermons at mosques, even when there’s no evidence of wrongdoing.   (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the New York Police Department has become one of the nation's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies, targeting ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government, an Associated Press investigation has found.


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