NEW YORK (JTA) — Belief in God is at the core of my very being. But that belief is sometimes challenged by the scores of innocents killed over the millennia in God’s name, from biblical times to...
In a mixed-up Jewish calendar year when Chanukah falls on Thanksgiving, did Yom Kippur fall twice? In the first weeks of October, with the government on partial shutdown and the debt clock ticking, we felt that some...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Last week, the Pew Research Center released the first national demographic study of Jewish Americans in more than a decade. Like all such studies, there are disagreements at the edges about the accuracy...
Go figure. In a week that the Pew Research Center announced there are 6.8 million Jews in America, it was also reported that Hobby Lobby, a national chain of 561 craft goods stores does not carry any...
It seems like almost everyone in the American-Jewish community – with the exception of a few on the extreme right and the far left – supports the two-state solution as the only way to solve the conflict...
The federal budget for fiscal year 2013 expires September 30, and a new one is nowhere in sight. The arbitrary and capricious cuts of the sequester begun in March are slated to continue for ten years...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The scene is familiar to us all. Women of the Wall come to the Kotel to worship in the shadow of the Temple Mount. Haredi Orthodox worshippers respond by disrupting their prayers, sometimes pelting...
