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US President Donald Trump addresses the White House Religious Liberty Commission during an event at the Museum of the Bible, September 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
May 10, 2026, 3:50 am
Trump’s religious liberty commission hopes to do away with separation of church and state
17-member panel seeing eye-to-eye on most matters, with exception of one member who was ousted after defending Candace Owens at contentious antisemitism hearing
By Peter Smith
Illustrative: A family celebrates Hanukkah. (Drazen Zigic/iStock Images)
December 17, 2025, 5:24 pm
Study shows 76% of Americans raised as Jews continue to be Jewish as adults
Nationwide, 56% of all Americans still identify with their childhood religion; Jews cite different reasons than other groups in Pew survey
By Zev Stub
Women light Shabbat candles, in Tel Aviv, on June 20, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
November 21, 2025, 6:13 am
In wake of October 7, young Israelis embracing Jewish traditions, new survey shows
By contrast, among secular Israelis, the largest community in the country, faith in God has decreased since the Hamas attack, the Jewish People Policy Institute poll finds
By Rossella Tercatin
A Star of David mosaic. (Wikimedia / Creative Commons)
October 31, 2025, 1:44 am
After October 7, some seek healing from kabbalah-informed psychedelic retreats
Founded by California Rabbi Zac Kamenetz, Shefa Jewish Psychedelic Support turned from an education-only organization to an experiential one after seeing need following the Hamas-led massacre
By Kathryn Post
Mika Majzner and Elad Dubnov get married for the second time, at the synagogue of Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel, on August 23, 2024. (Courtesy)
October 23, 2025, 2:49 am
What hath God wrought? After Oct. 7, many Israelis respond with turn to spirituality
Data shows that as many as half of Israelis may have reexamined their bond with religion, with some finding new meaning in Jewish beliefs and others turning away
By Rossella Tercatin
This photo illustration shows the "Text With Jesus" chatbot app displayed on an iPhone on October 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (AFP)
October 3, 2025, 8:50 am
Faith communities, including Jews, experiment with AI tools — to mixed feedback
Some love their virtual study partners, but Rabbi Gilah Langner warns ’emotional connection’ is missing in AI’s advice
By AFP
Hostage families and mothers praying at Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem in the West Bank in November 2024. (David Weill)
August 2, 2025, 7:57 am
‘Shabbat kept me’: Many hostages and families have turned to faith in the face of trauma
For October 7 captives and their relatives, Jewish rituals have often become lifelines. Psychologists say religion offers meaning — but warn of vulnerabilities
By Rossella Tercatin
A woman and a boy sit by debris and destroyed tents following overnight Israeli bombardment at a camp sheltering in displaced in the northwest of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 28, 2025. (AFP)
July 30, 2025, 3:22 am
As images from Gaza spread, US rabbis wrestle with war’s morality from the pulpit
Amid pressure on Jewish institutions to reckon with ongoing war, clergy ask Israel to alleviate suffering in Gaza, employing a Jewish moral vocabulary in a moment of despair
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Ultra-Orthodox pilgrims pray at the grave of Rabbi Naphtali Hakohen Katz, a 17th-century Kabbalist, in the Ortakoy neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey, January 17, 2023. (David I. Klein/JTA)
May 7, 2025, 10:13 pm
Survey finds 38% of American Jews believe in afterlife
Figure far lower than 83% of American Christians and 58% of Israeli Jews who believe in life after death; Pew poll also finds US Jews follow religious practices at higher rate than others
By Ben Sales
Comic books are displayed in Gene Yang's home on April 1, 2025, in San Jose, California (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
April 18, 2025, 7:59 pm
As Superman turns 87, scholars reflect on hero’s religious undertones
The Man of Steel, dreamed up by Jewish teens in the 1930s, still inspires a unique reverence around the world that seems to border on the transcendent
By DEEPA BHARATH and BOB SMIETANA
Ultra-Orthodox Jews at Citi Field in New York gather to discuss Internet usage. (photo credit: AP/VosIzNeias.com
March 26, 2025, 5:38 pm
Pew Research Center survey: A quarter of US adults raised Jewish no longer identify as Jews
Survey of 78,000 people in 36 countries on ‘religious switching’ in the world also shows that 20% of the US Muslim population are converts
By Rossella Tercatin
Muhsin Hendricks, 'the world's first openly gay imam,' speaks in a 2023 interview. (Screen capture via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 16, 2025, 3:13 pm
‘First openly gay imam’ shot dead in South Africa, cops say motive unknown
Muhsin Hendricks, subject of 2022 documentary ‘The Radical,’ ran a mosque intended as a safe haven for gay and other marginalized Muslims near his birth place of Cape Town
By AFP
Rachel Laser, the president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, speaks at an event the organization held at St John's Episcopal Cathedral in Los Angeles on November 21, 2024. (Courtesy of Evan Clark, Atheists United)
January 4, 2025, 8:40 pm
The Jewish woman leading the fight against American Christian nationalism
Since 2018, Rachel Laser, the first Jew to lead Americans United for Separation of Church and State, has worked with Christian allies to keep religion from influencing US laws
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Faith leaders at the UN climate conference COP29 in Baku Azerbaijan on November 12, 2024. From left: Rabbi Yonatan Neril, director of the Jerusalem-based Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development; Reverend Melanie Mullen, Director of Reconciliation, Justice and Creation Care at the US Episcopal Church' Metropolitan Serafim Kykotis, Lisa Graumlich; and Rebecca Paulsen Edwards, an atmospheric scientist training to be a Methodist deacon. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
November 13, 2024, 5:27 am
Scientist turned deacon urges faith leaders to implore followers to act on climate
At annual UN climate confab, speakers at event organized by Jerusalem-based interfaith group say scientific proof of crisis is necessary, but it’s not motivating humanity to change
By Sue Surkes
A woman argues with Rosh Yehudi activists at a mass street prayer for Yom Kippur on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)
October 9, 2024, 5:00 am
High Court to rule on public Tel Aviv Yom Kippur prayer amid fears of repeat clashes
On Wednesday morning, judges are set to weigh in on a controversial service that underscores deep rifts in Israeli society and saw violent confrontations when it was held last year
By Mati Wagner
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