All over the world, and especially in North America, Jewish millennials are raising doubts that their parents and grandparents never raised...If present trends persist, young Jews might not acquiesce to an affiliation with a nation that discriminates against non-Orthodox Jews, non-Jewish..…

The Orthodox Chief Rabbinate controls Jewish conversion, marriage, divorce and burial in Israel, but not immigration matters. ... Yet, one quarter were not considered Jewish under Jewish law, which requires that one is born to a Jewish mother or undergoes an..…

There was also Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Orthodox Jewish rabbi .. ..…

Ultra-Orthodox Jews and Jews have Jewish friends, and those friends are overwhelmingly within their own segments of Jewish society, 601 Israelis.. ... Nine-in-ten Jews say all or most of their friends are also secular, and similar share of ultra-Orthodox Jews say all or most of..…

Only in Israel, where roughly 22% of all Jewish adults self-identify as Orthodox, does a higher percentage of men than women report engaging in daily prayer. ... In Israel and the United States, Orthodox Jewish men report higher rates of synagogue attendance than..…

Many of the largest U.S. religious institutions have remained firmly against allowing same-sex marriage, including the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Jewish movement and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as the Southern Baptist Convention and other..…

The Satmar Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel, an Orthodox Jewish community, was set up in 1977 in Monroe, N.Y., with its own local government. . ..…

Legislation that sought to allow divorced Orthodox Jewish women to remarry within their faith died in General Assembly.. ..…

By hundreds of thousands of his, Schach, was buried in the religious enclave B'nei Brak, near Tel Aviv, before the sunset start of Jewish Sabbath in attended ultra-Orthodox followers.. ... Schach had early success in 1984, when he urged his Sephardic Jewish followers to form..…

And many, including some Protestant denominations, Catholic Church, Mormon and Orthodox Jewish groups, oppose marriage on religious grounds.. ..…

Are you Protestant, Roman Catholic, Mormon, Orthodox such as Greek or Russian Orthodox, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, agnostic, something else, or nothing in particular?”..…

The difficulty of seeing, for example, thousands of Jewish corpses marked the transcendence of conventional morality. ..…

”  ↩ . . 49 Halfway through the cartoon, Balool offers a white dove to an Orthodox Jewish settler who before his eyes has murdered and drunk the blood of Palestinian children. ..…

For example, in Greece, the government allows only Orthodox Christian, Jewish and Muslim organizations to own, bequeath and inherit property as well as to have an official legal identity as a religion. ... The government recognizes only Orthodox Jewish religious..…

But it is this very parochialism—a deep commitment to Jewish concerns, which often outweighs more universal ones—that gives Orthodox Jewish Zionism a distinctly illiberal cast. ... Orthodox Judaism has great virtues, including a communal warmth and a commitment to..…

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..…

Bulgarian PM Borissov holds talks in New York with American Jewish organisations . . . Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates 140th anniversary of the birth of Exarch Stefan . . . ..…