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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Along with Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, Orthodox Christianity is one of the world’s three major Christian traditions. But unlike the other two large branches of Christianity, which have spread ...

Critics are pushing Mayor de Blasio to force ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools across the city to provide state-mandated secular lessons with a new petition that has gathered 1,500 signatures, the Daily ...