Gutting anti-discrimination policies for most minority groups while supercharging them for Jews is hypocritical. The hypocrisy is the point. It turns civil rights law into a political protection ...

Only 38% of American Jews believe in an afterlife, far fewer than in Israel, according to a new study of spiritual practices around the world. That share was lower than the 83% of U.S. Christians ...

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(RNS) — What does a Jewish text message usually say? “Start worrying … details to follow.” That is the way it has been lately. So, Jews — and in this particular case, Reform Jews — are overdue for ...

Mr. Lemann is the former dean of the Columbia Journalism School and the author of “Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries.” I have a letter that my father wrote to the rabbi at Temple ...

A trip bringing back Jews who left Poland during a government-sponsored antisemitic campaign exposed a dark open wound in the country’s history. In March 1968, Rachelle Halpern walked into her ...

Among the most bizarre phenomena in the world of sports is Ajax, the most accomplished club in the storied history of Dutch soccer. Its fans—blond-haired men with beer guts, boys with blue eyes—sing ...

The news that most Jewish adults don’t feel comfortable in either major political party is not a death knell for American Jewish political participation. It’s a rallying cry. Most American Jews ...

The U.S. bishops this week underscored the “deep spiritual bonds” between Catholics and Jews and the need to build “genuine ...