Some interesting law and religion news stories from around the web this week:

• The EEOC sued UPS for violating employees’ religious rights. The suit alleges the company declined to hire applicants and promote employees because their religious dress conflicted with its uniform policy.
• A mayoral advisory committee in Seattle recommended helping the city’s Muslims buy houses by increasing access to Sharia-compliant loan products.
• A 94-year-old German man known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the murder of 300,000 people at the Nazi camp.
• A federal appeals court ruled that the Little Sisters of the Poor cannot receive an exemption from the ACA’s Contraception Mandate because it does not substantially burden their religious exercise.
  • Read the opinion here.
• Three Muslim organizations are campaigning during the holy month of Ramadan to rebuild the black churches in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee that were destroyed in fires. They have raised over $80,000 so far.
• Kuwaiti officials have charged 29 people in the suicide bombing of a Shia mosque last month, claimed by ISIS, that killed 26 people, wounded more than 200, and was the worst in Kuwait’s history.
• The Washington Post reports on Hijras, India’s “third gender.”
• A deputy minister in South Africa alleged that Jewish students who visited Israel recently brought the ruling African National Congress into “disrepute” and said the party would “summon” them to an investigation.
• Israeli Supreme Court Justice Daphne Barak-Erez has written a  book about the history of the country’s “pork laws,” showing how Israeli society has changed.