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Two South African Jews together with an interfaith group are suing The Jewish Board of Deputies (JBD) in Cape Town for alleged gender discrimination. The plaintiffs claimed that the JBD prohibits women from singing at the annual Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony – due to the Orthodox practice of Kol Isha.

Sam Brownback trimmed personal income taxes in 2011, when he became the governor of Kansas, on the vow that tax cuts would fuel recruitment as well as business expansion. Lawmakers in Kansas are more anxious regarding the approval of additional cuts during an election year.

The Jayde Panayiotou murder case is postponed until May 3 for the purpose of having Legal Aid procure copies of the docket. Jayde’s husband, Christopher, along with two co-accused await trial almost a year after the abduction and murder of the popular schoolteacher last April 2015.