Florida
Faithful Black descendants hope reparations after Florida massacre will be a model
By Adelle M. Banks — December 23, 2020
(RNS) — ‘They left with nothing,’ said the leader of a Rosewood-related foundation. ‘Livestock was gone, houses burned to the ground, couldn’t go to church.’
In battleground states, American Jews prefer Biden over Trump by a wide margin
By Yonat Shimron — October 21, 2020
(RNS) — A pair of surveys of likely Jewish voters in Florida and Pennsylvania shows that former Vice President Joe Biden has a massive lead over Donald Trump.
Dear AOC: You blew it
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 26, 2020
(RNS) — US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made a huge mistake. There is still time to correct it.
Is Trump killing his supporters?
By Thomas Reese — April 2, 2020
(RNS) — Data from the Pew Research Center indicates that Republicans may have risked their lives because they trusted the president’s views on the pandemic.
Florida pastor arrested for refusing to halt worship amid outbreak
By Jack Jenkins — March 30, 2020
(RNS) — ‘I believe there is nothing more important than faith in a time like this,’ the Hillsborough County Sheriff said. ‘But practicing those beliefs has to be done safely.’
Why Jews like Mike
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 28, 2020
(RNS) — There are two Jewish presidential hopefuls. They are very different people.
To the Jews who applauded Trump
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 10, 2019
(RNS) — Trump uses anti-Semitic themes and Jews love it. What is wrong with this picture? Everything.
Are white evangelicals the missing piece for Southern Dems?
By Mark I. Pinsky — September 25, 2019
(RNS) — An anti-abortion Democrat who is unafraid of faith issues could lure enough evangelicals and turn some key Southern swing states — if the party's secular base will let them.
Judge freezes accounts of Florida church caught up in alleged Ponzi scheme
By Jack Jenkins — May 24, 2019
(RNS) — The lawyer representing the pastors and the West Palm Beach church argued that the church can’t be forced to turn over money given as donations because it’s a nonprofit religious institution.
‘Brewery church’ is the latest in craft of luring folks to church
By Ken Chitwood — February 12, 2019
ORLANDO, Fla. (RNS) — What its founders call their town's 'newest premier destination brewery' is also a spiritual community known as Castle Church.
Florida’s ag commissioner sworn in on nation’s first Hebrew Bible
By Yonat Shimron — January 8, 2019
(RNS) — Nikki Fried, the first Jewish woman to serve as commissioner of agriculture in the Sunshine State, called her alma mater to ask if there was a special Bible she could use for the occasion.
Seven states launch investigations in wake of Pennsylvania clergy sex abuse report
By Jack Jenkins — September 6, 2018
(RNS) — Law enforcement officials in at least seven states appear to be launching their own inquiries of their Catholic dioceses, focusing on church files thought to contain decades of allegations of child sex abuse by priests.
Catholics and lawmakers respond to sex abuse report
By Jack Jenkins — August 16, 2018
(RNS) — Two days after Pennsylvania's 'catastrophic' report on clergy sex abuse, questions remain about its effect on American Catholics and how states will prosecute such crimes in the future.
For American Muslims, family border separations are personal
By Aysha Khan — July 18, 2018
(RNS) — They say it takes a village to raise a child. In Tampa, Fla., a community of Muslims wants to raise 2,300 migrant children until they can be reunited with their families. Here's why.
The kid who didn’t attend the march because of his bar mitzvah
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 25, 2018
(RNS) — Every revolution starts with the young. This one resonated from the lips of a bar mitzvah boy.
