Judaism
Study: Pro-Israel Jewish students pay a growing social price
By Yonat Shimron — September 5, 2024
(RNS) — In 2024, more than half of Jewish students said they paid a social penalty for supporting Israel’s existence, up from 34% in 2022, a new report from a Tufts University researcher finds.
Time for a cease-fire in the childhood culture wars
By Joshua Hammerman — September 4, 2024
What to know about the rescued hostage’s Bedouin community in Israel
By Mariam Fam — September 3, 2024
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I weep for the hostages and their families. I weep for all of us.
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 2, 2024
(RNS) — Our pain. Our rage. Our losses.
In new book, journalist Joshua Leifer offers a scathing take on American Judaism
By Yonat Shimron — August 30, 2024
(RNS) — 'Tablets Shattered' is a sweeping historical account of a fractured and contentious religious establishment — much of it hampered by its embrace of Zionism.
Montgomery County, Maryland, was most religiously diverse US county in 2023
By Aleja Hertzler-McCain — August 30, 2024
(RNS) — Beyond the religiously unaffiliated, which represent slightly less than 2 in 10 (17.8%) residents, the largest religious group in the county was Black Protestants, who make up 10% of the population.
‘Between the Temples’ needs to get its head on straight about clergy misconduct
By Michael Woolf — August 30, 2024
(RNS) — Grieving clergy deserve grace, but even the grieving need to respect the dangers of spiritual power.
Once a beacon of the Yiddish speaking world, Lithuania’s Jews work to keep it alive
By David I. Klein — August 28, 2024
VILNIUS, Lithuania (RNS) — If one city could be said to be the home of Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jewry, many would point to Vilnius, the capital of modern-day Lithuania, where a program hopes to preserve and expand it.
Harris-Walz campaign hires the Rev. Jen Butler, longtime activist, to lead faith outreach
By Jack Jenkins — August 28, 2024
(RNS) — A familiar face among Washington’s faith-based activists, Butler said she brings ‘a broad set of relationships that I think can help, very quickly, pull a broad coalition together’ in a foreshortened Harris campaign.
Israeli Cabinet minister draws rebuke for saying he would build a synagogue at holy site
By Michele Chabin — August 28, 2024
JERUSALEM (RNS) — The far-right minister’s latest remarks have sparked outrage from Muslim authorities, concern from the U.S. State Department, and Israeli assurances that the ‘status quo’ will remain.
Each Jewish couple’s story starts long before the wedding − and so does the celebration of their life together
By Shulamit Reinharz — August 28, 2024
(The Conversation) — Jewish traditions to mark a marriage often involve ceremonies and celebrations before the big day, whether it’s a ritual bath or even a fiance’s conversion to Judaism.
In the face of Palestinian suffering, interfaith groups offer a protective presence
By Yonat Shimron — August 27, 2024
(RNS) — An interfaith delegation to Israel aims to provide support and accompaniment to Palestinians facing home demolitions, dislocation and violence from West Bank settlers.
Remembering the Peekskill riots, a caution for the right and left
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 27, 2024
(RNS) — Decades before Charlottesville, there was Peekskill. You can still hear its echoes.
The UN’s ‘memories’ of antisemitic terrorism are painfully faulty
By Avi Shafran — August 26, 2024
(RNS) — A tribute to the victims of terrorism at the world body's New York headquarters fails to mention attacks on Jews.
The war comes home — to a Brooklyn bookstore
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 23, 2024
(RNS) — It is the antisemitism of the cool, the chic, the beautiful people. We need to call it out.
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