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Yonat Shimron

Yonat Shimron is a national reporter and senior editor at Religion News Service.

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Church membership may be declining, but many churchgoers are double-dosing

After Becky Hope left the evangelical church she had been attending in Portland, Oregon, four years ago, she began watching online services at an ecumenical church in New York City—just for a littl...
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ELCA elects first Black presiding bishop, calls Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elected its first Black leader on Wednesday at its churchwide assembly meeting in Phoenix....
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Well-known nonviolent Palestinian activist killed by an Israeli settler

Awdah Hathaleen had a hard time sleeping. Every time his phone vibrated at night, he said, his heart would begin to race. Are the settlers rampaging? Is another home getting demolished?...
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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...
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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...
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'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...

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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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....

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