Since his early days on the bench in Alabama, Roy Moore has been on the radar screens of Jewish organizations that followed, protested, and fought against his positions on issues relating to the role of religion in the public sphere and the separation of church and state. Now, with a victory Tuesday night in the…
A debate over some string and plastic strips has laid bare festering anti-Semitism in Mahwah, New Jersey. A recent controversy over an eruv was compounded when Mahwah’s mayor responded to his constituents’ invocations of ancient anti-Semitic tropes like the dirty Jew. The mayor backtracked on the township’s commitment to allow the Jewish community to build…
On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down a Missouri law that prohibited any state government funding to religious institutions. The decision, in effect, prevents the government from singling out religious institutions for worse treatment based upon their religious status. And, maybe more importantly, it reaffirms the right of every religious institution to receive funds for…
A case before the Supreme Court could mark a major milestone in defining the boundaries of church and state separation, but it also might end with a whimper — and the actions of Eric Greitens, Missouri’s new Jewish Republican governor, could make the difference. The debate started with a 2012 request by the Trinity Lutheran…
President Donald Trump, who first became famous as a wheeler-dealer playboy, came to religion late in life. Yet during his second week in office, between the chaotic rollout of his Muslim immigration ban and his prayer for Arnold Schwarzenegger, he made — and tweeted out the photograph of — a very pious move. After nominating…
The press release from the Orthodox Union arrived in my inbox yesterday, just moments after the U.S. Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos as secretary of education in the closest, most divisive vote for a Cabinet official in U.S. history. Vice President Mike Pence had to cast the deciding ballot for DeVos, handing the administration a wafer-thin…
The Alabama judge famous for installing a monument of the Ten Commandments outside his courthouse may soon be headed to Washington D.C. Judge Roy Moore, whose disregard for separation of church and state has drawn harsh criticism throughout his years on the state bench, is one of eight candidates interviewed so far by Alabama governor…
“We need a president who understands the role of faith,” Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton told a crowd of religious leaders gathered September 8 for the annual National Baptist Convention meeting, “a president who will pray with you and for you.” The next day, in Washington, Donald Trump, her Republican rival, promised the Values Voter Summit…
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