Anti-Semitism tops American Jewish concerns in latest survey
RNS A first-of-its-kind survey from the American Jewish Committee finds that 88 per cent of American Jews say anti-Semitism is a problem in the US today and nearly a third report they avoid publicly wearing, carrying or displaying objects or symbols that might help people identify them as Jewish. The Jewish advocacy organisation released the survey last […]
ESSAY: HOW A NATIONAL EMERGENCY ORDER IN THE US ENDANGERS THE “OTHER”
US rabbi JONATHAN PERLMAN and pastor ERIC SC MANNING express their concern about US President Donald Trump’s recent declaration of a national emergency on the country’s southern border…
ESSAY: HOW SAFE IS YOUR PLACE OF WORSHIP?
CHRISTOPHER P SCHEITLE, of West Virginia University and JEFFERY T ULMER, of Pennsylvania State University, look at what their research reveals about congregations in the US in this article first published on The Conversation…
A week after Pittsburgh shooting, hundreds #ShowUpForShabbat
RNS At 9:52am, they stood in silence in the cavernous sanctuary of Congregation Beth Shalom in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood here, less than a mile from the Tree of Life synagogue, where at 9:52 last Saturday (27th October), a gunman had begun shooting. Then they sat down to continue the litany of prayers and Torah […]
Pittsburgh suspect’s hatred of Jews, HIAS part of larger anti-immigrant surge
RNS No one knows yet why a gunman singled out the Tree of Life Congregation, out of all of Pittsburgh’s synagogues, as the site for a virulently anti-Semitic shooting spree. But Robert Bowers, the man accused of gunning down 11 congregants in a rampage Saturday in the city’s Squirrel Hill neighbourhood, was known to hate Jews […]
ESSAY: WHY PITTSBURGH MATTERS
Rabbi JEFFREY SALKIN, in an article for his column first published on Religion News Service, says the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh was not only an attack on Jews or Judaism but an attack “on all that we hold sacred”…