2+ week, 1+ day ago   (688+ words) When Amy-Jill Levine was a child in Massachusetts, a schoolmate in her predominantly Catholic hometown told her she was guilty of killing Christ because she was Jewish. Her mother reassured her that wasn’t the case - and instead of being embittered…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (966+ words) An event Saturday in New York City, featuring the head of a Hindu nationalist group instrumental in putting India’s ruling party in power, is being met with protests, a denunciation from the city’s mayor and a call for sanctions from…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1066+ words) JERUSALEM — The enormous doors were pushed shut, the clanking bolts secured from the outside and several clergy, pilgrims and one journalist - me - were locked for the night inside one of Christianity’s holiest sites in Jerusalem. The Church of the Holy…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (618+ words) “Emma,” a young Jewish woman who we met in 2019, didn’t belong to a synagogue. She didn’t have a Jewish partner. She didn’t observe Jewish rituals regularly. On most surveys about religion, she would not seem very engaged with Judaism. But…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (897+ words) The bill, sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Jamie Eldridge, would create an 11-member commission to advise state leaders on numerous issues impacting the Muslim community. “Nothing wrong with that, but there is something offensive about singling out one religious community…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (303+ words) WASHINGTON — Civil rights advocates on Monday said they asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Texas law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, teeing up a case that could set a new national standard for the limits…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago   (310+ words) KONOTOPIE, Poland — An enormous statue of the Virgin Mary that is believed to be Europe’s tallest was inaugurated on Saturday in a small Polish village, financed by one of Poland’s richest businesspeople. The monument towers 55.6 meters over Konotopie in central…...