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Just before Passover Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold died at the age of 92. The longtime director of Harvard Hillel, he had grown up in a Hasidic community in central Poland and was sometimes referred to as the Harvarder rebbe — a semi-joke that conveyed a truth about the man. I first got
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(RNS) — I'm Jewish. And while it's true I wasn't born in New York City to native New York parents, which according to English common law precludes my being considered a natural-born New Yorker, I grew up in Montclair, N.J., from which my father
campaign 2016
By rights, Ted Cruz should be locking up the evangelical vote in Iowa. Donald Trump is a mainline Protestant who barely goes to church. Ben Carson's 15 minutes of fame is over. Marco Rubio's faith journey has taken him from Catholicism to Mormonism to evangelicalism and
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(RNS) — The Little Sisters will lose. In the Supreme Court, that is. How do I know this? OK, let's back up. In the biggest decision of its 2013-2014 term, the Supreme Court decided 5-4 that a for-profit corporation that objects to provisions of a federal law as impairing