Religious Freedom
Seeking to prohibit every kind of “discrimination,” activists in and out of government threaten the free practice of, among other faiths, Judaism.
A new production of an old play stresses the benefits of religious tolerance. But the play itself suggests there might also be costs—and specifically for Jews.
What Jews can teach Christians, and vice-versa.
As Christians in America lose their majority status, they can gain from the experience of a religious minority that’s been here from the start.
The threat to religious liberty has its roots in a progressivist faith that has been steadily gaining momentum in America for at least a century and a half.
Depending on circumstances, American Jews should be prepared to cede some religious-liberty protections in the name of pluralism and anti-discrimination.
The conflict over religious liberty is at once modest in scope and potentially very sweeping.
The threat is not just to individuals but to religious institutions, and the latter are remarkably vulnerable.
America’s “first freedom” is under attack from an ascendant cultural secularism. Christians are its first target, but Jews and Judaism may not be far behind.
Perhaps on paper, but not in reality.
As a simple matter of religious freedom and equal rights, Jews, like Muslims, should be allowed to pray atop Judaism’s holiest site.
Religiously, morally, and legally, Britain is a Christian nation—a fact that should be embraced by all, including British Jews.
In upholding the right of a town board to begin meetings with a prayer, the Supreme Court has reinforced the real meaning of church-state separation.
Should rabbis and priests remove themselves from the civil-marriage business in order to avoid state coercion or persecution? A roundtable discussion.