New Jersey – Bert Ellentuck watched the adolescent boys with tzistzis and yarmulkes shooting hoops next door and sighed. “The people who settled this town were Jews; oh, they were socialists, communists and anti-religion, but they were Jews,” Ellentuck said. “I’m a Jew, those kids are Jews, and the biggest problem facing this town in…

New York – With British publication in doubt for Sherry Jones’ “The Jewel of Medina,” the U.S. publisher of her controversial novel about the Prophet Muhammad has moved up the release date from Oct. 15 to Monday. “By speeding up the publication, we wanted to reduce or eliminate the chance of violence,” Eric Kampmann, president…

When the Rev. John Edgar cast his ballot Tuesday (Sept. 30) as part of Ohio’s early voting program, he had two things in mind: his faith and the economy. He checked the box for Sen. Barack Obama. “Particularly with his background as a community organizer, (Obama) will be concerned about what happens to the least…

WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. – They are largely invisible, sometimes as simple as a small, plastic marker affixed to a utility pole. There’s one around the White House and one in Manhattan that sprawls from the East River to the Hudson. Now, in a village at the gateway to the Hamptons, the eastern Long Island playground…

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