Two-hundred-fifty years ago today, a procession in Newport, R.I., carried three Torah scrolls to what is now the oldest synagogue building in the United States.

A 1998 act committing the United States to the promotion of religious freedom abroad might have been effective had it been properly implemented—but it hasn’t been.

On Thanksgiving 1789, Rabbi Gershom Mendes Seixas called upon Jews to thank God for the gift of life in a country “where no exception is. . .

Despite the ultra-Orthodox stranglehold on the chief rabbinate, religious pluralism in Israel is growing—and shifting the balance of power.

The women’s prayer protests at Jerusalem’s Western Wall have nothing to do with religious freedom, or any sane kind of feminism, or rational political protest.. . .