Three Jewish families are among a group of nine Louisiana families with children in public schools who have filed a suit in federal court challenging a new state law that requires the Ten Commandments ...

A push for religious symbols in the public square is “bad for having a culture in which lots of different religious traditions including Judaism are allowed to flourish.” One week after Louisiana Gov.

From ‘The 613,’ by Archie Rand (all images by Archie Rand, courtesy Blue Rider Press) In the year 2000, Brooklyn-born painter Archie Rand embarked on the most ambitious project of his career: He would ...

Where I live in Johannesburg there is a famous story from some decades ago about the conductor of a shul choir who was rehearsing with his choristers. In that synagogue, the Berea Shul, the choir room ...

Last Shabbat, as I stood in the synagogue for the reading of the 10 Commandments, a sudden thought crossed my mind: Something is missing here! The custom of reading aloud the 10 Commandments – the ...

Earlier this summer, Republican Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law a requirement that all public classrooms display the Ten Commandments. Broadly similar laws are moving through ...

One of the great debates in America today is over the role of religion in the public sphere. To what extent is the United States government embracing religion? Are we “one nation under G-d?” Most ...

The Establishment Clause creates a wall that separates church and state. Nowhere is that more important than in public schools.

A granite monument of the Ten Commandments on Texas State Capitol grounds in Austin, Texas. (Photo via Library of Congress. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA>org.) Jackie Hajdenberg Three Jewish ...