American Jewish Committee

New York City sues Orthodox shops over dress codes

By Michele Chabin — February 28, 2013
(RNS) The New York City Commission on Human Rights is suing ultra-Orthodox Jewish business owners in Brooklyn because they posted signs calling on customers to dress modestly in their stores.

Jews and Muslims applaud German vote to protect circumcision

By Lauren Markoe — December 12, 2012

(RNS) Jews and Muslims in Germany are relieved that a tumultuous political controversy over circumcision in Germany has ended with passage of a law that allows the practice for religious reasons. By Lauren Markoe. 

Jewish and Christian leaders try to revive at-risk interfaith group

By Lauren Markoe — November 29, 2012

(RNS) Jewish and Christian leaders are trying to revive a decade-old roundtable on Israel that's now in danger of falling apart after 15 Christian clergy asked Congress to investigate U.S. aid to Israel. By Lauren Markoe.

Why we have to take the Saudis’ interfaith offer seriously

By David Rosen — November 27, 2012
(RNS) — The King Abdullah Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue has come from the very heart of the Muslim world.

Jewish and Christian groups at impasse over U.S. aid to Israel

By Lauren Markoe — October 17, 2012

WASHINGTON (RNS) An established interfaith group is in danger of disintegrating as major American Jewish groups and prominent mainline Protestant churches differ over U.S. aid for Israel -- a long-standing argument that the group was established, in part, to diffuse. By Lauren Markoe.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Presbyterians on the precipice (again)

By Noam E. Marans — June 19, 2012

NEW YORK (RNS) Regardless of whether the Presbyterian Church (USA) decides to reopen the fight over divesting from Israel, the fact that so much time and energy are expended threatens interfaith comity, and not only between Jews and Presbyterians. By Noam E. Marans.

ADL criticizes new bullying guidelines

By Lauren Markoe — May 24, 2012

WASHINGTON (RNS) The Anti-Defamation League is taking issue with new guidelines on bullying and religious speech in public schools that was spear-headed by other Jewish groups. By Lauren Markoe.

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