(JTA) — A Connecticut church is showing its support for the local Jewish community after several bomb threats. The Mandell JCC of Greater Hartford and the JCC of Greater New Haven in Woodbridge, Connecticut, as well as the Hebrew High School of New England in West Hartford, Connecticut have been the victims of called-in bomb…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An historic church in northern Israel has reopened more than a year after an arson and vandalism attack. The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes, where Christians believe Jesus performed a miracle in which he fed thousands of people, reopened on Sunday after renovations costing about $1 million. The…
On a recent Sunday morning, a white Jewish guy wearing a backpack entered the First African Methodist Episcopal Church: Bethel in Harlem, without a problem. A black usher wearing white gloves greeted him warmly at the door and gave him a service pamphlet. The young man found a seat on a plush green bench and,…
The Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops overwhelmingly rejected a motion to divest from company doing business with Israel in the West Bank. The body, meeting at the church’s General Convention, this year taking place in Salt Lake City, on Thursday rejected in a voice vote the proposal to divest from businesses that have operations in…
It is an uphill battle for a social movement to bring about change, but once a tipping point is reached in public opinion, the victories come quickly. After decades of activism, the gay rights movement won a historic victory last week with the Supreme Court’s decision that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right. Not very…
The U.S. Episcopal Church was expected to debate divestment from Israel and elect a new presiding bishop on Saturday at its general conference in Salt Lake City, where members gathered to also discuss the religion’s position on same-sex marriage, gun violence and outrage. Faith leaders of the Episcopal Church, a branch of the 80-million member…
JTA) — The unspeakable murder of nine accomplished, beloved and respected African-American Charlestonians of faith in their own church on Wednesday has hit our city like an earthquake. These murders occurred in my neighborhood, across the street from Buist Academy, the public magnet school my daughter and son attended with their white, black and Hispanic classmates….
An arson attack on Thursday gutted part of a church at the traditional site of what Christianity reveres as Jesus’s miracle of the feeding of the 5,000 on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, the Israeli fire brigade said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service to launch a top-priority…
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