Israel's supreme rabbinical court of appeals has upheld a life sentence against a man who has refused for 10 years to give his wife a divorce. Meir Gorodetzki has been jailed since 2001 for refusing to grant a bill of divorce, called a get, to his wife Tzviya Esther. Rabbinical courts have sole authority in the country over marriage and divorce. The court has previously ordered Gorodetzki to be denied visitors, including his children, and letters or phone calls in jail. "If the appellant is released from prison before he has divorced his wife, she will remain an agunah (a woman bound to her husband) for ever ... Anyone who allows this would be considered as if they had shed her blood," said Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger.
It's going to get harder for Prime Minister Harper and his ministers to keep boasting that Canada is No. 1 among economic rivals.
As the year unfolds, analysts say it will become increasingly apparent that Canada no longer leads the G7 in economic growth and job creation.
And as unlikely as it seems, it's the United States -- the land of crippling trade deficits, high unemployment and government debt -- that's likely to relegate Canada to second place, if not third behind Germany.
Don't look now, they say, but the U.S. is likely to beat out Canada in economic growth this year and leave its northern neighbour at the starting gate in terms of jobs creation.
Two cars and a stone fence near the Valley of the Cross Monastery in Jerusalem were vandalized overnight Monday in a suspected 'price tag' attack.
The cars and fence, discovered Tuesday morning, were covered with anti-Jesus graffiti. The words "Migron", "Death to Christians" and Jewish Stars of David were spray-painted on them, and the car's tires were slashed.
"I am a priest and I forgive," Father Claudio of the monastery, which is administered by the Greek Orthodox church, told Reuters. The monastery is also believed to be built on the spot where the tree from which Jesus's cross was made stood.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the words "price tag" were also painted by the vandals in the rare attack on a Christian shrine in Jerusalem. read more
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who leads the Roman Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, wrote a letter to be read at all Sunday Masses for U.S. military personnel around the world that said that a regulation issued by the Obama Administration under the new federal health care law was "a blow" to a freedom that U.S. troops have not only fought to defend but for which some have recently died in battle.
"It is a blow to a freedom that you have fought to defend and for which you have seen your buddies fall in battle," the archbishop wrote.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the most impressive surge for the job market since early last year, the United States added 243,000 jobs in January, far more than economists expected. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years.
Hiring accelerated across the economy and up and down the pay scale. The high-salary professional services industry added 70,000 jobs, the most in 10 months. Manufacturing added 50,000, the most in a year.
"This is a very positive employment report from almost any angle," said Brian Bethune, an economics professor at Amherst College.
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