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Death of Mo. gubernatorial candidate roils state GOP
By Deirdre Shesgreen — March 5, 2015
(RNS) Right before his death, Tom Schweich called reporters saying he was going to go public with allegations that Missouri GOP Chairman John Hancock had been telling people Schweich was Jewish.
Anti-Semitism a big problem at US colleges, report says
By Lauren Markoe — February 26, 2015
(RNS) More than half of American Jewish college students said they had experienced anti-Semitism over a six-month period.
Conservative Jews question notions on dating, marrying only Jews
By Lauren Markoe — January 8, 2015
(RNS) Reform Jews already allow their rabbis to preside at weddings between Jews and non-Jews. Is the Conservative movement next?
American Jewish coalition wants to break Israel’s Chief Rabbinate monopoly
By Lauren Markoe — December 23, 2014
(RNS) A broad coalition of American Jews is mobilizing to lobby against the Orthodox religious establishment in Israel.
Alan Gross release hailed as Hanukkah ‘miracle,’ first step in ‘normalized’ U.S.-Cuba relations
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 17, 2014
(RNS) The return of the aid worker may also lead to "normalizing" relations after a 54-year trade and tourism embargo with Cuba.
Why Jews skipped Hanukkah and wrote the most beloved Christmas songs
By Lauren Markoe — December 11, 2014
(RNS) Jews are so good at writing and singing Christmas songs. But we found at least one man who can make that dreidel song swing.
Combating anti-Semitism on campus? There’s an app for that
By Lauren Markoe — November 26, 2014
(RNS) A new app helps college students act against anti-Semitism.
Are Jews better off outside Israel? Alan Wolfe reconsiders the Diaspora
By Lauren Markoe — November 21, 2014
(RNS) In the Diaspora, writes Alan Wolfe, Jewish can embrace universalism -- applying Jewish values to make the world a better place. "Jewish particularism" better describes the defensive, inward posture of Jews in Israel.
The ‘Splainer: blood libel and the synagogue massacre
By Lauren Markoe — November 19, 2014
(RNS) Hours after two Palestinians, armed with guns and hatchets, killed four Jewish worshippers and a Druze police officer at a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday (Nov. 18), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the attack a "blood libel." Why, and what did he mean?
The ‘Splainer: What is a mikvah, and does it have anything to do with sex?
By Lauren Markoe — October 29, 2014
(RNS) A mikvah has to do with the soul . . . and sex.
Suicide rates among Jewish teens drop as religious devotion grows, study finds
By Lauren Markoe — October 2, 2014
(RNS) A new study finds that more religious Jewish teens are less suicidal than secular Jewish teens, bolstering previous research that suggests faith offers a degree of protection.
FEATURE VIDEO: The substance of Hasidic style
By Sally Morrow — October 1, 2014
A visually intriguing and informative explanation of Hasidic Jewish traditions based in clothing, fashion and styles for men and women.
Steven Sotloff’s Jewish values shaped a life seeing godliness in every face
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — September 5, 2014
(RNS) Terrorists ended a life spent trying to "bring more dignity and more light into the world."
Jewish life before the Holocaust in thousands of never-seen photos
By Lauren Markoe — August 29, 2014
(RNS) The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum hopes the world will look at photography of Roman Vishniac, and that some viewers will be able to identify people they knew in the faces he captured.
In her own words: Lauren Bacall talks about her Jewish identity
By Lauren Markoe — August 13, 2014
(RNS) The screen icon had a conflicted relationship with her Jewishness that characterized post-World War II Hollywood.
