Religious tolerance

A turning point in religious history - opinion

The Fourth of July also commemorates a turning point in Western religious history that was a blessing to the Jews.

The Battle of Long Island in the US Revolutionary War.
Multiethnic western and middle eastern business team working together in an office of Dubai. Sales people and employees at work on new projects

What Abu Dhabi taught me about tolerance

JORDAN’S QUEEN RANIA: She argued in a CNN interview in November 2023 that ‘Israel uses antisemitism to deflect criticism,’ the writers note.

Queen Rania and manifestations of antisemitism in Jordan - opinion

EVYATAR DAVID, a 24-year-old hostage, is seen in a Hamas video released last month. While our hostages starve in tunnels, the world remains blind to their suffering, the writer charges.

Extremism and antisemitism are becoming mainstream - opinion


Jerusalem Municipality set to vote on closing First Station on Shabbat

Despite the vote, the Regional Committee for Planning is likely to vote to keep the popular site open on Shabbat.

First Station

Colombian Jewish news anchor refused to cross herself, forced to resign

Channel 1’s Cathy Bekerman was asked to resign after refusing the order by Yamid Amat, newscast director of the CM& broadcast network.

An Argentine soccer fan dressed up as Pope Francis holds a cross

A day for agunot

For well over a decade now Jewish women’s rights organizations have marked the Fast of Esther, which proceeds Purim and falls this year on Wednesday, as International Agunah Day.

THE AUTHOR has created tales of religious and personal conflict in the 15th century and today.

Chabad offers ethics, religious classes to international doctors, lawyers

For six nights a year, thousands of Jewish mental health professionals, lawyers, and physicians from around the world participate in courses delivered by Chabad rabbis.

Professionals from a variety of Jewish backgrounds celebrate the completion of their Jewish Learning Institute course at Chabad of Potomac last year.

Bnei David’s real message

The educators at Bnei David should reconnect with their original messages of synthesis and pragmatism that have proved so successful and leave the religious zealotry to others.

Rabbi Yigal Levenstein‏

Religious persecution must stop, US envoy says

Vice President Mike Pence was supposed to address the issue during his recent trip to the Middle East, but he made few strides during his visit.

Then-Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback chats with a group from the Young Jewish Conservatives at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland in 2015

French lawmakers banned from wearing religious symbols in parliament

In an effort to 'maintain an atmosphere of neutrality' in the parliament does not permit the wearing of religious symbols.

A man wears a kippa.