As thousands of Jewish worshipers visit over the holiday, Haredim and religious Zionists spar over religious prohibition on ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — In an ongoing struggle between the Atheist Union of Greece and Greece’s Ministry of Education, Greece’s Council of State ruled this month that Greek Orthodox students cannot be ...

US Air Force judge advocate Rena Winick Weinstein wasn’t quite sure what she wanted to do with her life when she graduated high school. As an Orthodox Jew, Weinstein was certain of one thing: She ...

(AP) — Orthodox Christians packed churches Saturday night for Christmas Eve services, a holiday overshadowed for many believers by conflict. Traditions vary, but typically the main worship service for ...

In 1955, Louis Hartz published a famous and deeply influential book called “The Liberal Tradition in America.” In it, he argued that American politics actually functions on an extraordinarily narrow ...

A torch from Cleveland blazed at the national convention of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America in Manhattan last week. The rabbis there encouraged the flame with the breath of their ...

United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Pindrus caused an uproar on Monday after saying that he cannot support mandatory military service for ultra-Orthodox Jews, and cited the “heavy price” that national ...

Suffolk County now has its first Greek Orthodox Cathedral after the worldwide spiritual leader of that religion bestowed the title on a parish in Southampton. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch ...

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Attendees sing a hymn during a session of General Conference of The Church of Jesus ...

Israeli police scuffle with ultra-Orthodox Jews as they block a main road in Jerusalem during an October 2017 protest against Israeli army conscription. AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File Just when you ...

Ziva Mann remembers how joyful and smiley her daughter was as a child — the family even gave her the nickname “Giggles.” “She was just sunshine,” Mann said. That changed around second grade, when her ...

Faced with a throng of worried parents, Montgomery County Councilmember Kristin Mink met with a few Muslim protesters to hear their objections to the “LGBTQ+-inclusive texts” schoolteachers would be ...