But it adds that religious appeals to voters are divisive and contrary to American ideal of including all Americans in the political process... Perhaps because of its ambiguity, ment gained support from 14 organizations -- Christian and Jewish and Muslim, Sikh and Hindu.. ..…

they classify U.S adults based on their denomination or group Catholic, Jewish, Baptist, Muslim and assorted other categories familiar to most Americans. ..…

A new way to categorize Americans by religion . . . Most U.S. adults identify with a particular religious denomination or group. ... Jewish Americans are the only religious group with substantial contingents at each end of the typology. ..…

Remember that the man who drafted the IHRA definition and its associated examples, American Jewish lawyer Kenneth Stern, has publicly regretted their impact, saying that in practice they have severely curbed freedom of speech about Israel. . ..…

In principle, this has never been hard to do because Israel, as we know it, could not survive for long without massive American support, and because the vaunted Israel lobby – the Jewish, not the Christian, part of it — has always been a Paper Tiger. . ... Before the Nazis took power in..…

The stranglehold, of support for Israel's increasingly right-wing policies towards Palestinian people, and of Zionism, is slipping in American Jewish community, especially when you look at younger generations of American Jews like you and I.. ... I also think that in the long..…

Jews to say they go to synagogue either weekly or never, while Jewish Americans are far more likely to attend synagogue on an occasional basis (e.g., a few times a year, such as for the Jewish High Holidays). ..…

This makes LGBT people more likely to be targeted by hate crimes than any of the other minority groups the FBI tracks (Jewish people, Muslims, African Americans, Asians, Hispanic/Latino people, and women). . ..…

The letter from Zilber and Shin Bet follows inquiry into the questioning taking place at Israel's border crossings after American Jewish and prominent of Israeli Peter Beinart was questioned on his political views upon arriving in the country for his niece's bat mitzvah last month.. ..…

Three years earlier, Supreme Court refused to protect two members of the Native American Church. Stern, director of American Jewish Congress, which represents dozens of religious groups fighting to preserve the act... ..…

., who wore beards, an American Indian from Pennsylvania who raised sacred black bears, and a Jewish professor who said she was pushed out of her job for refusing to attend faculty events on Friday evenings and Saturdays, her Sabbath. . ..…

ONE OF the most shameful pages in the history of American justice was the 1915 case of Leo Frank. A Jewish businessman in Georgia, he was accused of murdering a young Christian woman he employed. ..…

Portrait of Jewish Americans  includes detailed information on the size and characteristics of Jewish in United States, including estimate of the number of adults. ..…

For more information on Jews in the United States and changes in Jewish identity, see the Pew Research Center’s 2013 report “A Portrait of Jewish Americans.” http://www.pewforum.org/2013/10/01/jewish-american-beliefs-attitudes-culture-survey/. ↩ . . . . . ...…

Independent Bernie Sanders, is Jewish in the race. Sanders as socialist could hurt him, as half of Americans say they would not vote for someone with that background... ..…

Atheists, Jews and Mormons each make up roughly 2% of the U.S. population, but a majority of Americans say they know someone who is Jewish (61%) or atheist (59%), while significantly fewer know a Mormon (44%). . ... All together, the average American personally knows members of at..…

Guidelines like Hillel's, make American Jewish community closed intellectual space, isolated from the experiences and perspectives of roughly half the people under Israeli control. ... Last year, the Students for Justice Palestine at University of California, San Diego, even declared..…

And Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has noted the defendants’ “desire to commit violent Jihad against Jewish Americans.”7 . ..…

A vocal mixture of people from The Coalition for Palestinian Rights, AWC (Association of World Citizens), WAMM(Women Against Military Madness) Mideast Committee and IJAN (International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network) rallied in front of the Minneapolis Hilton, June 29, 2011 to protest the Minnesota..…

And by downplaying the significance of Avigdor Lieberman, Shas, and the settlers, American Jewish groups allow these older Zionists to continue to identify with that more internally cohesive, more Israel of their youth, Israel that now only exists in their memories.. ... But the message..…

Peter Stark’s case highlights the likelihood of what is going on: there are almost certainly other “cryptic atheists” in Congress, who take advantage of the conventional assumption by Americans that affiliation with a religion connotes theism. . . Hume looks at statistics about belief in God..…

., Dr Joseph Assa, president of Sofia Lodge Carmel 3355 of B'nai B'rith, Viktor Melamed, director of Sofia of American Jewish Committee, the head of Shalom's against antisemitism and hate Robert Djerassy, and Deputy Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev, National Co-ordinator for Combating..…