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Next stop, marriage: Man proposes on NJ Transit bus, knowing she'd never suspect it. Commuters might start calling this one the Love Bus.

Jewish retiree creates stir by taking Vatican's side in dispute over Pope Pius' wartime role. In the long and painful debate over whether he should have done more to halt the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators in World War II, Pope Pius XII has an unusual defender.

A diplomat whose deft paperwork saved lives casts fresh light on Holocaust. It took Ina Polak 35 years to discover the dusty piece of paper that probably saved her and her family in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Confusion over teen passenger's Jewish prayer ritual leads pilot to divert Ky. flight to Pa.. A Jewish teenager trying to pray on a New York-to-Kentucky flight caused a scare Thursday when he pulled out a set of small boxes containing holy scrolls, leading the captain to divert the flight to Philadelphia, where the commuter plane was greeted by police, bomb-sniffing dogs and federal agents.

Confusion over teen passenger's Jewish prayer ritual leads pilot to divert Ky. flight to Pa.. A Jewish teenager trying to pray on a New York-to-Kentucky flight caused a scare Thursday when he pulled out a set of small boxes containing holy scrolls, leading the captain to divert the flight to Philadelphia, where the commuter plane was greeted by police, bomb-sniffing dogs and federal agents.

Confusion over Jewish prayer ritual leads pilot to divert Kentucky flight to Philadelphia. A teenage airplane passenger using a Jewish prayer object caused a misunderstanding that led the captain to divert a Kentucky-bound plane to Philadelphia and prompted a visit from a bomb squad.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's top economic adviser said on Sunday that the United States is a "long way from the point" where merit trumps background in higher education, adding that scholarship assistance is crucial to leveling the playing field.

In rare decisions, judges allow suits to advance against former Bush administration officials. High-ranking government officials are usually protected from claims that they violated a person's civil rights. In lawsuits stemming from law enforcement and intelligence efforts after the Sept. 11 attacks, three federal courts have left open the possibility that former Attorney General John Ashcroft and a lieutenant may be held personally liable.

Courts let 3 post-9/11 lawsuits try to hold Bush officials personally liable for terror policy. Former Attorney General John Ashcroft and one of his hardline lieutenants face the rare prospect of being held personally liable for alleged violations of individuals' rights in the aggressive aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Citing Madoff scandal, Jewish leaders calling for ethical renewal in Rosh Hashana messages. Jewish leaders are calling on U.S. rabbis to emphasize the faith's ethical requirements in their sermons during Rosh Hashana in response to recent financial scandals involving its members, including Bernard Madoff.

After Shulamith Soloveitchik Meiselman immigrated to this country from Warsaw in 1930, she took a job at a hat factory on New York's Lower East Side to help her family weather the Great Depression. Because she knew no English, her next step was to sign up for classes. Soon afterward, she enrolled at New York University, but would continue her job of putting trim on women's hats throughout college. She missed taking home her degree in history from NYU in 1936 because she had to work. Education, specifically Jewish education, was Mrs. Meiselman's lifelong mission. She was descended from a dynasty of rabbis and, as she wrote in a memoir, ``a long line of Talmudic sages extending from generation to generation to our own time.'' Both her father and brother were rabbis. Her son is a rabbi. Her brother, the late Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, founded the Maimonides Jewish Day School in Brookline in 1937. With his sister as a leading founder and developer, Maimonides was New England's first Heb

In the fateful year 1776, Adam Smith took aim at Britain's heavy-handed rule of the American Colonies.

Report says immigration officials entered homes illegally, violated rights in raids in NY, NJ. Immigration agents raiding homes for suspected illegal immigrants violated the U.S. Constitution by entering without proper consent and may have used racial profiling, a report analyzing arrest records found.

Weingarten, president of American Federation of Teachers, resigns from NY teachers union. The president of the nation's largest teachers union announced Wednesday that she is resigning from her other job as head of New York's United Federation of Teachers.

Susan B. Jordan, activist lawyer who represented SLA member, killed in plane crash in Utah. Susan B. Jordan, an activist lawyer who represented high-profile clients such as Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson, has been killed in a plane crash in southern Utah, authorities said.

Would Sonia Sotomayor be the first Hispanic justice? Some say it was Benjamin Cardozo. Benjamin Cardozo was indisputably the second Jewish justice on the Supreme Court. Was he also the first Hispanic? There is no conclusive answer.

Merkin agrees to give up control of funds that funneled $2.4B to Madoff's ponzi scheme. J. Ezra Merkin, the hedge fund manager who invested billions of dollars of his clients' money with Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff, has agreed to relenquish control of his funds to court-appointed trustees.