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Liz Truss' campaign have distanced her from the eye-popping suggestions she co-authored in 2009, from axing 'gimmick' pensioner payments to hiking the pension age and building fewer hospitals. Here's what the report said

Her recommendation for cutting £28bn in a single year included introducing user charges to see a GP

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas' liberal Reform Party announced on Friday it reached an agreement to form a majority coalition in the parliament, following a month of negotiations.

Recently, Congregation L'Dor Va-Dor, a synagogue in Palm Beach County, Florida, challenged the constitutionality of Florida's new abortion restriction. I think there are many procedural problems with the complaint, including standing and the scope of the proposed remedy. (See my post here.) But here I'd like to address the merits…

"Someone needs to own the problem" said Karin Smyth

Fifty years ago, on June 3, 1972, as Sally J. Priesand became the first woman ordained a rabbi by a Jewish seminary, her 35 male classmates spontaneously rose to their feet to acknowledge her historic feat.

Israel’s new government has taken aim at the country’s powerful religious establishment with a pair of reforms that would chip away at the tight grip of the country’s chief rabbinate on many aspects of daily life. The reforms, which address rules on kosher food and conversions to Judaism, make only…

Israel’s new government has taken aim at the country’s powerful rabbinical authorities with a pair of religious reforms that would chip away at the tight grip of the country’s chief rabbinate on many aspects of daily life

Among his students at Congregation Bene Shalom, the Reform Jewish synagogue he established half a century ago, he helped Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin study for her bat mitzvah.

Like every major Labour reform previously, National will angrily oppose income insurance from the opposition benches, then quietly adopt it in government.