Rabbi Avi Olitzky was 26 when he started working at Beth El Synagogue in Minneapolis straight out of seminary.
Super Bowl Betting Is a $7.6 Billion Problem Fewer Evangelicals Care About
The 1990s were a busy time for Christians combatting gambling at local levels: fighting a casino here or lottery expansions there.
Gunman fires shots at Jewish candidate for Louisville mayor
A gunman opened fire on a Jewish Democrat who is running for mayor of Louisville, Kentucky. Craig Greenberg, the candidate, said he is safe, and the police said one possible motive was the fact that the target is Jewish.
New academic journal will challenge notion that religions hate queer and trans people
In an effort to counter the assumption that religions hate queer and trans people, a pair of religion professors is launching a new academic journal exploring the connections between religion, gender and sexuality.
Adams says ‘God’ told him he’d be mayor
Mayor Eric Adams declared that his rise to the mayoralty was driven by God as he launched a new City Hall office for faith-based initiatives Thursday.
Black Muslim life honored in new online portrait exhibit
A new online exhibit featuring portraits of Black Muslims was launched by Sapelo Square, a Black Muslim education and media collective, on Feb. 2. Captured in dramatic lighting and paired with audio clips of the subjects speaking, the portraits aim to…
Virginia Senate Democrats defeat 20-week abortion ban
A Democrat-controlled Virginia Senate committee defeated a bill Thursday that would have prohibited abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy in most circumstances.
Princeton University scraps exhibit of Jewish American artists with Confederate ties
Last summer, Princeton University agreed to organize an exhibit of works by American Jewish artists in the second half of the 19th century.
Fordham names first woman and first layperson as president
fFordham University, a Jesuit institution in New York, has named Tania Tetlow as its new president. She is the first woman and first layperson to lead the school in its 181-year history.
The Most Dangerous Form of Deconstruction
With all this talk of deconstruction these days, one problem is that very few people mean precisely the same thing when they use that word.
Conservative PAC sues Biden administration, targeting nuns, liberal Catholics in records request
Conservative political action committee CatholicVote is suing President Joe Biden’s administration in an effort to secure records of communication between the U.S. government and Catholic groups in regard to two hot-button issues: humanitarian aid at the Southern border and recent…
Jefferson Quran returns to US as Dubai Expo 2020 winds down
A rare, two-volume Quran owned by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson found itself carefully packed away Wednesday for a return flight to America after being on display at Dubai’s Expo 2020, a sign that the pandemic-affected world’s fair is beginning to…