Yonat Shimron
National teacher's union board rejects member vote to boycott the Anti-Defamation League
The executive committee and board of the largest teachers’ union in the country announced late last week that it would not cut its ties to the Anti-Defamation League, despite a resolution by its me...
Walter Bruggemann, influential biblical scholar, dies at 92
Walter Brueggemann, one of the most widely respected Bible scholars of the past century, died June 5 at his home in Michigan. He was 92.
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After Boulder attack, US Jews are afraid
City leaders lit the iconic Boulder Star on Colorado’s Flagstaff Mountain on Monday to honor the Jewish community and those injured a day earlier in a Molotov cocktail assault on demonstrators marc...
'We don't get to discriminate': How a Raleigh ministry decided to help resettle Afrikaners
The 12×30-foot storage unit in a Raleigh, North Carolina, suburb is crammed full of chairs, tables, mattresses, lamps, pots, and pans.
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These women quilters are giving their legislators a piece of their mind—one quilt square at a time
The card holders on the long dining room table offered guidance to the women assembled around it: “Keep it Constitutional” and “Keep it Kind.”
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Arrest of Palestinian Columbia activist divides US Jews
The arrest of a former Columbia University graduate student who had a leading role on campus criticizing Israel’s war in Gaza has sparked sharp divisions within the US Jewish community.
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Trump admin cancels grants to refugee aid agencies, despite legal battles
President Donald Trump’s administration is making moves to shutter a decades-old partnership between the government and a group of mostly religious organizations to resettle refugees, with the Stat...
Two admins at Harvard Divinity School leave, one cites anti-Muslim bias
A program at Harvard Divinity School is the latest casualty of the ongoing tensions related to the Israel-Hamas war, with the departure of two administrators and the cancellation of a class on Isra...
Harvard agrees to controversial definition of antisemitism in settling lawsuits
Harvard University has settled two lawsuits with Jewish groups that claimed the school had not taken appropriate steps to keep its campus from becoming a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli ...
Jewish leaders decry Pope Francis's criticism of Israel as 'incendiary'
A group representing the leaders of the United States’s largest Jewish organizations has written ...
From DC to the Vatican, baby Jesus is wearing a keffiyeh
The scene representing the birth of Jesus is a common December sight, artfully arranged on church lawns or entryways across the country.
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War in Gaza casts shadow over DNC opening
Flush with excitement at the nomination of Kamala Harris to the top of its presidential ticket, the Democratic National Convention opened at Chicago’s United Center on Monday, projecting energy and...
Kamala Harris’s multi-religious identity is a map of the future
President Joe Biden made history on Sunday by withdrawing his candidacy for a second term....
PCUSA votes to divest from Israel bonds
The general assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted Monday to divest from Israel bonds and begin the process of encouraging two companies it believes are contributing to human rights abu...
1,200 Jewish professors call on Senate to reject controversial antisemitism definition
Some 1,200 Jewish university professors have signed a statement rejecting a controversial antisemitism definition that the US Senate is considering codifying in federal law.
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Other Jewish voices
“When unqualified support for Israel is categorized as Jewish,” says historian Marjorie Feld, “it erases dissent and flattens Jewish life.”
United Methodists strike down ban on ordination of gay clergy
United Methodists meeting for their top legislative assembly May 1 overwhelmingly overturned a measure that barred gay clergy from ordination in the denomination, a historic step for the nation’s s...
United Methodists vote to restructure worldwide church
The top legislative body of the United Methodist Church passed a series of measures Thursday to restructure the worldwide denomination to give each region greater equity in tailoring church life to...
Why Hamas is selling its assault on Israel as a holy war
When Hamas, the Islamic Palestinian terrorist group, stormed into southern Israel on October 7, took over military bases, massacred more than 1,300 Israelis—most of them civilians—and kidnapped 150...
Faith-based health organizations defend at-risk AIDS initiative from Republicans
Like all organizations controlled by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Relief Services opposes abortion in any form.
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