(JTA) — After a German court criminalized the nonmedical circumcision of boys in 2012, Angela Merkel did something very out of character for the “rule-of-law chancellor,” as she has been nicknamed.

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Angela Merkel had offered to help Nicolas Sarkozy, now her aides are putting feelers out to the reportedly 'risk-averse' Socialist frontrunner, Françoise Hollande ...

Two women have thoroughly dominated the politics of their respective northern European countries in living memory. Beyond their gender, Angela Merkel and Margaret Thatcher are often lumped together as ...

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Telluride: A comprehensive look at the former German chancellor follows her indirect path to becoming the most powerful woman in the world. If Germans are notoriously stoic, then Angela Merkel is ...

If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy voters have soured on. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Berlin A chorus of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...