The first person I encountered at GAAP weekend, an introduction to campus for admitted students, was the Orthodox Christian chaplain at Georgetown University. My conversation with him about the ...

The introduction to my speech sounded like an apology. I was invited to address a memorial held for Nelson Mandela in Montreal, along with several prominent anti-apartheid activists and leaders in the ...

‘People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.’ – Maya Angelou (1928–2014) (Haaretz) — To me, this beautiful quote from the ...

Rabbi Obadia Yosef with members of his staff during a rally of the ultra-orthodox Shas party in Jerusalem (AP) In a schoolroom in the heart of the growing immigrant town of Beit Shemesh – its Jewish ...

What is it like being an Orthodox Jew? Up until last week my answer would have been extremely limited. Information on Orthodox Judaism is nebulous at best. Most common hearsay includes anti-woman and ...

Running my habitual ten minutes late (hey, it’s Standard Jewish Time), I tried to slip quietly into a packed Islamophobia seminar on the UC Berkeley campus. I shuffled my way to a seat, attracting a ...

A woman lights a prayer candle at an Orthodox church in Moscow. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Orthodoxy is the third-largest branch of Christianity, after Catholicism and Protestantism. Today, there ...