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Israel

As U.S. robustly debates Iran deal, Western Europe exhibits ‘fatigue’

Written by Alina Dain Sharon and Sean Savage The Iran nuclear deal has dominated the foreign policy debate in the U.S. this summer, with Congress in the midst of a 60-day period to review the agreement. But America is just one piece of the puzzle when it comes to

islam

Q&A: Meet first Jewish American ambassador to Muslims

Bob Silverman, a Jew who spent most of his diplomatic career in Muslim-majority nations, will now reach out to Muslims in his own country. The American Jewish Committee recently hired him as its first U.S. director of Muslim-Jewish relations. As a U.S. Foreign Service officer for 27 years,

Rhode Island

Judge: R.I. congregants can take control of oldest US synagogue

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The congregation that worships at the nation's oldest synagogue prevailed Monday in a bitter legal fight that threatened its existence, as a federal judge ruled it may now control its own destiny and decide what to do with a set of ceremonial bells worth

Harvard University

Memories of a great rabbi

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

Faith

New study sheds light on Latino Jews in US

(RNS) — As a group, Jewish Latinos don't get much attention — either from Jews or Latinos in the U.S. The first detailed survey of Americans who are both Latino and Jewish aims to shed light on this minority within a minority, who number more than 200,000 people.

jewish

Conservative Judaism’s rebranding effort could signal a sea change

Conservative Judaism has always had something akin to middle-child syndrome: squeezed on both sides by the Orthodox and Reform movements. But lately, its identity crisis has become acute. This week, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) — an umbrella body that represents Conservative congregations across North America—is set to

Massachusetts

Massachusetts communities of faith become more diverse

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Catholic

The American religious muddle

The First Amendment famously guards against a government "establishment of religion," while simultaneously protecting "the free exercise thereof." But it says nothing about private religious biases, which are widespread and play an interesting political role in modern America. Anti-Muslim bias, and anti-anti-Muslim bias, have been all