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Meet Sadaf Jaffer, America’s first female Muslim mayor
By Simran Jeet Singh — February 14, 2019
(RNS) — 'I hope my example helps provide a different vision of what it means to be a Muslim woman in America today,' she says.
Jerusalem mayoral race exposes religious-secular rift
By Michele Chabin — November 12, 2018
JERUSALEM (RNS) — A fight over nightclub closures on the sabbath represents a larger tug-of-war over whose values will prevail — the ultra-Orthodox Jews' or those of their more mainstream Jewish neighbors.
Londoners elect Sadiq Khan as first Muslim mayor
By Yonat Shimron — May 6, 2016
LONDON (RNS) Khan strongly denied links with Islamists or claims that he had ever been anti-Jewish.
COMMENTARY: In Bethlehem, Pope Francis can show his support for peace, justice
By Vera Baboun — May 22, 2014
(RNS) On the eve of a papal visit, the mayor of Bethlehem says Pope Francis can restore hope to Palestinian youth and the “excluded” Palestinian nation as a whole.
Seeking a comeback, Eliot Spitzer says ‘I sinned’
By Catalina Camia — July 8, 2013
(RNS) Seeking a political comeback five years after he resigned in a prostitution scandal, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer says he's seeking forgiveness for voters. "I sinned, I owned up to it," he said.
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