On behalf of Reform Movement, we commend Obama Administration for ensuring both access to contraception for all women and the protection of autonomy, said Rabbi David Saperstein, director of Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in statement, following the administration's announced..…
Pew Research Center . When researchers study religion, they usually classify U.S. adults based on their religious denomination or group – the Catholic, Jewish, Baptist, Muslim and assorted other categories familiar to most Americans. ..…
It seems like every day now, and headlines that young American Jews do not support Israel's increasingly racist and xenophobic policies, and do not hold the state at the center of their Jewish identities.. ... I also think that in the long term, it's fundamentally unnatural and..…
Josephinum, Ethics, Collections and History of Medicine, MedUni Vienna Hans Asperger, bottom right, with the staff of Vienna Children's Hospital, 1933 Long-deceased Viennese doctors, unless they're called Freud, make newspaper headlines. ..…
And, in the end, they run directly counter to Zionism as a whole: the project of placing the state of Israel at the center of Jewish life depends on devaluing and erasing diasporic cultures and histories, reducing two millennia of Jewish life to a lacuna punctuated only by mass murder and..…
'It is one of many documents, and there is no Jewish denomination today that takes ...' . ... Appignani Humanist Legal Center . Atheist Advertising . Atheist Demographics . ..…
Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Jews and secular (Hiloni) Jews not only have mostly Jewish friends, but those friends are overwhelmingly within their own segments of Jewish society, according to a Pew Research Center survey that examined the views of 5,601 Israelis. . ..…
Among the small proportion of Jews who say they are on the left side of the spectrum, 86% think way can be found for Israel and Palestinian state to coexist peacefully together, compared with 29% of those on the political right and 46% of those in the center.. In this report, the 4% of..…
Nearly all Jews in United States and Israel say they are proud to be Jewish, and large majorities in both countries say they feel strong sense of belonging to Jewish people. But Jewish communities do not always agree about what it means to be Jewish, according to Pew Research..…
In February, just weeks after the Charlie murders, three soldiers defending a Jewish center in Nice were stabbed by a Muslim man, and in November a jihadist network in Saint-Denis and Lyon was discovered and dismantled. ..…
He's the mayor of this development town of 35,000, member of Sephardic Torah Guardians, the political party of ultra-Orthodox Jews of Arab and North Africa descent known as Shas.. ..…
But the shooting this week of five people at a Jewish community center in Los Angeles gave urgency to the discussion. ... In an appearance earlier in the day at the Agriculture Department, Clinton called the shootings at the Jewish community center 'another compelling..…
Furrow, 37-year-old from Washington state, faces murder charges in the shooting death of Filipino American carrier and attempted murder charges for shooting three children, counselor and receptionist at the North Valley Jewish Community Center Los Angeles San Fernando Valley.. ..…
These findings are broadly similar to results from the Pew Research Center’s 2013 survey of Jewish Americans.15 . ... Pew Research Center’s 2013 report “A Portrait of Jewish Americans” includes detailed information on the size and characteristics of the Jewish..…
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/. ↩ . . . . . . ..…
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