(JTA) — The United States is pulling its personnel from some bases in the Middle East amid simmering tensions and uncertainty over a possible Israeli strike on Iran — and Iran’s threatened response. Israel has long been eager to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and had hoped that President Donald Trump would support such a strike.... […]
What began as a two-minute ritual inside a Florida country club has grown into a federal civil rights case — and the latest flashpoint in a growing debate about religious expression in shared spaces. Isaac Scharf, an Orthodox Jewish father of five, was suspended in March from the clubhouse of Boca Grove, a gated community... […]