Pennsylvania
Polling places inside synagogues are being moved for Pennsylvania’s April primary during Passover
By Mark Scolforo — March 25, 2024
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, election officials relocated 16 polling places from six locations — synagogues as well as a Jewish community center
Black Muslims will play a big role in the next election. Join us.
By Salima Suswell — August 30, 2023
(RNS) — Black Muslims helped elect Joe Biden president and are gearing up for 2024.
Authorities charge 5 more in probe of child sexual abuse among Jehovah’s Witnesses in Pennsylvania
By Maryclaire Dale and Peter Smith — July 10, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Critics say that Jehovah's Witnesses elders have treated child sexual abuse as a sin rather than a crime, documenting complaints in internal files but not reporting them to authorities.
Charges put focus on Jehovah’s Witnesses’ handling of abuse
By Mark Scolforo and Peter Smith — April 19, 2023
YORK HAVEN, Pa. (AP) — In the charges against nine Pennsylvania men, court records state that all the defendants have ties to the Jehovah’s Witnesses faith, though in some cases it’s unclear how their faith might relate to the criminal allegations.
Five Jehovah’s Witnesses charged with sexually abusing children in Pennsylvania
By Kathryn Post — February 7, 2023
(RNS) — The Pennsylvania attorney general's office describes the defendants as having used their religion to access the reported abuse survivors.
Shapiro’s big win is a high note amid antisemitism surge
By Peter Smith — December 27, 2022
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Josh Shapiro will be taking office as Pennsylvania's next governor in January after running a campaign in which he spoke early and often about his Jewish religious heritage.
Josh Shapiro and me
By Beth Kissileff — November 11, 2022
(RNS) — Pennsylvania's governor-elect bravely ran on inclusiveness against a candidate who leveraged Christian nationalism.
Despite Mastriano’s loss, don’t count out Christian nationalism
By Jack Jenkins — November 8, 2022
(RNS) — ‘Winning a race like Mastriano’s in Pennsylvania, leaning on Christian nationalism, is harder than, perhaps, a congressional seat in the South,’ said sociologist Andrew Whitehead.
Leo Frank’s ghost still haunts American Jews
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 7, 2022
(RNS) — This is not only about antisemitism. This is about political violence. This is a story for today.
How Christian nationalism won Pennsylvania’s GOP primary
By Jacob Lupfer — May 18, 2022
(RNS) — And why it will bring losses in the fall.
‘Reprehensible’: Oz condemns GOP opponent’s tweet on Islam
By Steve Peoples — May 15, 2022
CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — Oz, who would be the nation’s first Muslim senator, described the comments as “disqualifying."
My rabbinical role model has died
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 1, 2022
He added one crucial word to Reform Jewish vocabulary. It is a word that we need to hear, again and again.
Muslims win office in US municipal elections in 2021
By Joseph Hammond — November 10, 2021
(RNS) — Three years after the first Muslim women were elected to Congress, successful campaigns in Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey and Pennsylvania put Muslims in key local offices.
Police say accused synagogue shooter talked of killing Jews
By Ramesh Santanam — October 12, 2021
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh police officers who responded to the synagogue building during a shooting three years ago that killed 11 people told a judge Tuesday that defendant Robert Bowers made several references to killing Jews. Officer Stephen Mescan was the first to testify in what is expected to be a two-day hearing into whether […]
Coroner says buried Amish teen had been strangled, stabbed
By Associated Press — April 24, 2021
(AP) — Linda Stoltzfoos was last seen walking home from church in the Bird-in-Hand area on June 21, 2020.
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