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Former London Fashion Week designer pivots to modest fashion market

By Joseph Hammond — December 22, 2021
(RNS) — After being wrongfully imprisoned for two years in the U.K., Elle B. Mambetov has taken her once famed luxury brand and focused it on modest fashion, aimed at Muslim women.

Arrest made in suspected antisemitic attack in LA as Jewish community remains on edge

By Alejandra Molina — May 24, 2021
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Xavier Pabon, 30, was taken into custody around 10:15 p.m. Friday (May 21) and was released on $275,000 bond early Sunday, according to jail records.

Trump made us ask, again: Who are the Jews, anyway?

By Jeffrey Salkin — December 18, 2019
(RNS) — The president's executive order seeks to protect Jewish kids on campus. But we have to do our part as well.

The Jewish counterculture loses a founder

By Yonat Shimron — July 17, 2018
(RNS) — Some lives help change Jewish history. Richard Siegel's was one of them.

Michael Douglas has a very Jewish “basic instinct”

By Jeffrey Salkin — March 17, 2015
Michael Douglas stood up against anti-Semitism. Time for other Jewish entertainment figures to do the same.

Brunei’s new Shariah penal code is awful—and about to get even worse

By Brian Pellot — May 1, 2014
Miss Friday prayer? Get knocked up? That might cost you a fine or jail time under Brunei’s new Shariah penal code. Seem harsh? Just wait until the sultanate debuts flogging, limb-severing and death by stoning…
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