JERUSALEM (RNS) — Israel’s minister of national security dreams of building a synagogue on the Temple Mount, where the ancient Jewish temples once stood. But the site, which Muslims call Haram al-Sharif, is now the home of the Al-Aqsa Mosque,...
(RNS) — An alluring young woman sporting a 1950s-style polka-dot halter dress leans toward the camera across the kitchen counter, the epitome of retro chic. In a soothing, gentle voice, she informs us that a relative is in town and...
SOLINGEN, Germany (AP) — A Syrian man on Sunday was ordered held on suspicion of murder and membership in a terrorist organization in connection with the Solingen knife attack that left three dead and eight wounded at a festival marking...
(RNS) — What the parties have to say — and not say — on the subject as the 2024 campaign heads into the homestretch. The post Platforming religion: The Dems’ and GOP’s official positions compared appeared first on Religion News...
(The Conversation) — Anita Diamant, the prolific writer and Jewish feminist activist, begins her book “The Jewish Wedding Now” with a simple statement: “According to Jewish law, the requirements for a kosher wedding can be summed up in a few...
(The Conversation) — I was walking through the Kensington neighborhood in North Philadelphia when I noticed a shrine made from scraps of lumber and old furniture. Empty liquor bottles were arranged inside. A menagerie of stuffed animals, their fur matted...
(RNS) — Elizabeth Oldfield spends a lot of time thinking about sin. Not the finger-pointing, fire and brimstone, shape-up-or-go-to-hell approach to human failings. Instead, Oldfield considers sin a way of talking about all the things that keep us from living...
(RNS) — When the Israel-Hamas war broke out after Oct. 7, Beth Brockman wasn’t sure she wanted to go back to Israel to protest its ongoing violence against Palestinians. On a trip 16 years ago with a Catholic group, she...
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — A march in honor of an Afro-Brazilian deity drew some 150,000 people in São Paulo on Aug. 18, shocking many in this historically Catholic country that has witnessed the growing numbers and political power of evangelical...
(RNS) — Twenty years before Woodstock and 75 years ago on Tuesday (Aug. 27) was the anti-Woodstock. In the small city of Peekskill, New York, in the bucolic northwestern corner of Westchester County, the Black singer and actor Paul Robeson,...
