Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Christian hard line on abortion dooms the GOP
By Mark Silk — November 9, 2023
(RNS) — It’s no longer a political question, but a summons to spiritual warfare.
New Capital Jewish Museum ‘connects the past to the present’ in downtown DC
By Adelle M. Banks — June 2, 2023
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The museum will house a collection — rooted in the archive of the former Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington — of more than 24,000 photographs and more than 1,000 objects.
For ‘sandwich generation’ women, make this Labor Day weekend a Labor ‘sabbath’
By Amy Laura Hall — September 3, 2022
(RNS) — Women need labor unions to secure time for all of our work, as mothers, daughters and employees.
Religion at the Supreme Court: 3 essential reads
By Matt Williams — July 2, 2021
(The Conversation) — Religion was a common theme in some of the cases to come before the nine justices in the recently concluded Supreme Court term. Three experts help explain what is at stake.
The top Jewish stories of 2020
By A. James Rudin — December 30, 2020
(RNS) — As for all the world, COVID-19 dominated Jewish life in 2020, but not all the news in the Jewish world was about the virus — and even some events driven by the pandemic were not without a silver lining.
Faith leaders and religion influencers who died in 2020
By Adelle M. Banks — December 29, 2020
(RNS) — Losses in the religion world included people known for their contributions to preaching, civil rights or music.
Jordan Peterson: The RBG of the young, white and hyper-online
By Tara Isabella Burton — December 3, 2020
(RNS) — Few of his fans, one imagines, are guided by his ‘rules for life.’ Instead they idealize Peterson himself, a shield against the insidious forces of the social-justice-industrial-complex.
The difference between heroes and martyrs
By Russell P. Johnson — October 8, 2020
(Sightings) — When we memorialize victims of police violence, their past actions are irrelevant.
Amy Coney Barrett and the American wars of religion
By Eboo Patel — September 30, 2020
(Interfaith America) — Support for the diverse faith and philosophical convictions that shape American public life should be a matter of bipartisan pride.
In death, as in life, Ruth Bader Ginsburg balanced being American and Jewish
By Jonathan D. Sarna — September 26, 2020
(RNS) — If Justice Ginsburg’s family did not follow Jewish tradition by delaying her burial, in other respects they honored that tradition to the hilt.
Franklin Graham borrows a tactic from the left with his Saturday prayer march
By Yonat Shimron — September 25, 2020
(RNS) — He insists the march is not an effort to encourage voting or to rally evangelicals to the polls ahead of the Nov. 3 election. But his choice of speakers suggests otherwise.
With ‘profound sorrow’: Ginsburg lies in state at US Capitol
By Lisa Mascaro — September 25, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is lying in state Friday at the U.S. Capitol, the first woman in American history to do so, in commemoration of her extraordinary life.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an incrementalist, not a revolutionary, once questioned Roe v. Wade
By Thomas Reese — September 23, 2020
(RNS) — As we honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we may take to heart her advice on maintaining stability and faith in our institutions.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg first woman and first Jew to lie in state at US Capitol
By Yonat Shimron — September 22, 2020
(RNS) — No woman, let alone a Jew, has received the honor of lying in state at the U.S. Capitol. For Jews, however, the tradition of lying in state is a difficult one.
Faith leaders respond to death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By Jack Jenkins — September 20, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — People of all faiths mourned Ginsburg, the person and the public figure, as news of her death spread Friday night (Sept. 18).
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