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(JNS) - Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, a Chicago native, was elected as the new pope of the Catholic Church on May 8. He will be called Leo XIV. The first U.S.-born pope is also a Peruvian citizen and was previously archbishop of Peru, the Associated Press reported. Most recently, the new pope was prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, "one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church," the AP reported, as "the powerful head...
(JNS) - After 298 Jewish men and women had sat down, randomly paired together in a speed dating event in Crown Heights, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the dating coach Manya Lazaroff called out a question for them to discuss in their two minutes before being reassigned to another date. "How much money does someone need to be financially stable?" Lazaroff, co-director of the Rohr Chabad Jewish Center at Texas A&M University in College Station, asked the couples in the ballroom of the school Oholei Torah....
