The New York Times

Does the Constitution depend on morality and religion?

By Mark Silk — January 16, 2024
(RNS) — A cautionary tale from John Adams.

Is American media coverage of the Israel-Hamas war biased?

By Mark Silk — November 21, 2023
(RNS) — The difference between U.S. outlets and Israeli ones is a matter of hope.

Colleagues mourn the loss of Richard Gustav Niebuhr, religion journalist and professor

By Bob Smietana — November 10, 2023
(RNS) — A former national religion reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and New York Times, Niebuhr is remembered as a careful reporter and generous colleague.

Two cheers for David French

By Mark Silk — February 24, 2023
(RNS) — The new New York Times columnist upholds principles his conservative tribe has abandoned.

Haredi Jewish organization lashes back at New York Times over reporting on schools

By Yonat Shimron — January 4, 2023
(RNS) — Agudath Israel accuses the newspaper’s investigation of yeshiva schools with threatening Haredi Jews’ safety and way of life at a time when antisemitism is rising.

Evangelical Christians’ abortion strategy may have cost them more than an election

By Valerie Cooper — November 21, 2022
(RNS) — Having lost their children as voters, they look likely to lose their young people as co-religionists.

Confessions of a post-Vatican II Reform rabbi

By Jeffrey Salkin — November 14, 2022
(RNS) — When we make religion easier and more convenient, what evaporates in the process?

When Jewish leaders say “I was wrong”

By Jeffrey Salkin — October 1, 2022
It takes moral courage to say that you were wrong. 'Tis the season to do so.

Holding Hasidic schools to account

By Mark Silk — September 25, 2022
(RNS) — The current Supreme Court, where a new New York law is likely to end up, isn't prone to do so.

What The New York Times’ story on Hasidic schools misses

By Avi Shafran — September 13, 2022
(RNS) — The vast majority of Hasidic parents and students cherish the education offered by their yeshivas.

The scandal of Hasidic education — a cry from the heart

By Jeffrey Salkin — September 13, 2022
(RNS) — We are reeling from the report on Hasidic education. We needed to hear about this and we need to help repair it.

Getting hip to Dimes Square Catholicism is the latest way to own the libs

By Jacob Lupfer — August 11, 2022
(RNS) — Rome, packaged as a trend item for the trust-fund literary set, will never win converts.

Is American conservatism de-Christianizing?

By Mark Silk — June 8, 2022
(RNS) — No more than usual.

Hey, New York Times — leave my God alone!

By Jeffrey Salkin — April 18, 2022
(RNS) — I like snark. But theo-snark? Not so much.

Ross Douthat: Lyme disease, Catholic suffering and the frontiers of medicine and faith

By Jana Riess — February 18, 2022
(RNS) — Seven years ago, Ross Douthat began a sudden descent to a hellish nightmare of chronic pain. He recounts his experiences of illness and faith in the beautiful memoir "Deep Places."
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