Why A War With Iran Means Confronting Radical Evil (RNS) — This evening in synagogues all over the world, Jews will gather for Purim and read the scroll of Esther....
Purim’s parallels to our political moment (RNS) — As luck would have it, the outbreak of war between the United States, Israel and Iran took place shortly before...
Hundreds of corrections being issued for Texas’ Bible-infused curriculum A Bible-infused curriculum that Texas approved for public schools over pushback in 2024 will undergo corrections to fix hundreds of errors caught...
Minneapolis united when federal immigration operations surged – reflecting a... (The Conversation) — I’ve been living in Minneapolis and working on my doctoral dissertation about local religious communities since 2019. It’s given...
Iran’s reprisals shutter Israel’s houses of worship during Ramadan and... JERUSALEM (RNS) — Early Saturday morning (Feb. 27), as Israeli and American fighter jets began striking targets in Iran, every Israeli cell...
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, theocratic leader of Iran since 1989, is... DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its top leader and...
America’s moral power is the first casualty in Iran (RNS) — The most famous quote about war has it that the first casualty of war is the truth, but for Muslims...
The Epstein Files as a Mirror, With Rabbi Jay Michaelson As exhausted as many of us are by the ever more sordid revelations in the Epstein scandal, author and journalist Rabbi...
Who is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the leader of Iran and target... (The Conversation) — Ali Khamenei was born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1939, as the second son of a local religious leader, Javad...
Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgement’ gets clean up as tide of visitors... VATICAN CITY (RNS) – “The Last Judgement,” Michelangelo’s vast fresco painted into the plaster of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel is undergoing an...