New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose outspoken criticism of Israel has made him a frequent target of Jewish and pro-Israel advocates, is viewed more favorably by American Jews than Israeli Prime ...

Do the world's religions and contemplative traditions send people to the same place—compassion, bliss, awe, a sense of God, awareness or the universe? We conducted a study that asked a smaller version ...

Do the world’s religions and contemplative traditions send people to the same place – compassion, bliss, awe, a sense of God, awareness, or the universe? We conducted a study that asked a smaller ...

We don't think religious worship should play any part in the formal business of the state. We want to see parliamentary and local government meetings conducted in a manner equally welcoming to all ...

When wildfires blazed through Los Angeles last year, displacing tens of thousands of people, the local National Council of Jewish Women affiliate was well positioned to help. The national nonprofit’s ...

What Christian philosophers—and my daughter’s birth—taught me about petitionary prayer. On the day of my daughter’s birth, I felt abandoned by God. My wife had been induced the night before and had ...

Across religions and cultures, prayer is often imagined in a familiar posture: hands folded, head slightly bowed, and eyes gently closed. It is a gesture so universal that many people perform it ...

Large crowds of worshippers across the UAE continue to attend mosques for prayers during Ramadan despite continued Iranian attacks on the country. In Abu Dhabi and Dubai overnight, worshippers ...

A "yes" vote supports amending the Alabama Constitution to require public schools to: conduct the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of the school day; and allow for student-initiated, student-led ...

The relationship between a married person and a stepparent is so often the stuff of adversarial cinematic stereotyping that we tend to look past such pairings of characters as opportunities for love, ...

I remember as a child telling my mother about a camping scene I had just read in a book. I described the scent of the evergreens and the soft crush of dried pine needles beneath brown suede shoes. “It ...