Elizabeth Reiner Platt says Jews are part of a long history of faith groups saying that abortion rights are religious rights. (JTA) — The abortion debate is often portrayed as a clash between ...
(JTA) — In her new book, “God, Grades, and Graduation: Religion’s Surprising Impact on Academic Success,” sociologist Ilana Horwitz examines the ways a religious upbringing shape the academic lives of ...
The anti-abortion rights movement is largely faith based. Catholics and evangelical Christians argue that life begins at conception, and that fetuses have souls. On those grounds, they want to prevent ...
WIESBADEN, Germany – When a Jewish teen saw the adult education classes at U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart, he asked former Religious Education Program director Rebecca Powell why they couldn’t have the ...
Months after a Supreme Court deadlock blocked an attempt by a Catholic church to create the nation’s first openly religious, publicly funded charter school, a Jewish group is now advancing a similar ...
Rabbi Laurie Rice serves Congregation Micah. Deborah Oleshansky is communications director of the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee. Rabbi Shana Mackler serves The Temple. The news ...
A legal battle over the creation of the nation’s first religious charter school may wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court again, as a Jewish foundation is hoping to open a religious charter school in ...
For years, Jewish organizations have fought for abortion access as a matter of religious freedom. Jewish law is clear: Life begins at first breath, not fertilization. Until that moment, a pregnancy is ...
Recently, Congregation L'Dor Va-Dor, a synagogue in Palm Beach County, Florida, challenged the constitutionality of Florida's new abortion restriction. I think there are many procedural problems with ...
Three Jewish women from Louisville filed a lawsuit Thursday morning to block Kentucky's laws banning most abortions from remaining in effect, arguing they are a violation of their religious rights ...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent signals that it may allow religious organizations to operate charter schools represent more than a legal turning point — they represent a long-overdue correction in how ...
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