We talk to some of the “rock stars” of First Amendment scholarship: Marci Hamilton, Charles Haynes, Douglas Laycock, David Saperstein, Marc Stern, Jeffrey Toobin, Asma Uddin and others to explore contested issues—from contraception to sharia—and shed light on what they think will happen next. ...
Test your knowledge of Passover trivia, from oldest known complete Haggadah manuscript to Barack Obama's White House seder. ...
The Torah is full of oenophiles: One of Noah’s first actions after emerging from the ark is to plant a
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A visionary to some, a troublemaker to others, Anat Hoffman is leading the charge for women to be allowed to read the Torah at the Western Wall. The executive director of the Israel Reform Action Committee and spokesperson for Women of the Wall has become the face of the fight ...
Thanks to Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, the Jewish state was a pioneer in solar power. Now some of the country’s brightest solar innovators say they are being held back by red tape and a lack of government support. ...
The beliefs of "Judeo-Christian" pro-lifers--aka the American Christian right--do not represent the Jewish theological position. ...
Israel's unexpected political turn means the U.S. should push issues of peace, Palestinians and territory harder than ever. ...
With the new government in place, Israelis are beginning to address the complicated question of what they want their country to look like. ...
Some people can't handle the findings of a study that dares to compare Palestinian and Israeli textbooks. ...
One could argue that Israel is the country where non-Orthodox Jews have the least religious freedom: They can’t marry, divorce
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The Jewish Snitch by Sala Levin Earlier this year, Nechemya Weberman, a member of the Hasidic Satmar community in New
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In counseling end-of-life care, what Jewish principles are most valuable? ...