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Yonat Shimron

Yonat Shimron is a national reporter and senior editor at Religion News Service.

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Two admins at Harvard Divinity School leave, one cites anti-Muslim bias

A program at Harvard Divinity School is the latest casualty of the ongoing tensions related to the Israel-Hamas war, with the departure of two administrators and the cancellation of a class on Isra...
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Harvard agrees to controversial definition of antisemitism in settling lawsuits

Harvard University has settled two lawsuits with Jewish groups that claimed the school had not taken appropriate steps to keep its campus from becoming a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli ...
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Jewish leaders decry Pope Francis's criticism of Israel as 'incendiary'

A group representing the leaders of the United States’s largest Jewish organizations has written ...
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From DC to the Vatican, baby Jesus is wearing a keffiyeh

The scene representing the birth of Jesus is a common December sight, artfully arranged on church lawns or entryways across the country....
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War in Gaza casts shadow over DNC opening

Flush with excitement at the nomination of Kamala Harris to the top of its presidential ticket, the Democratic National Convention opened at Chicago’s United Center on Monday, projecting energy and...
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Kamala Harris’s multi-religious identity is a map of the future

President Joe Biden made history on Sunday by withdrawing his candidacy for a second term....
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PCUSA votes to divest from Israel bonds

The general assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted Monday to divest from Israel bonds and begin the process of encouraging two companies it believes are contributing to human rights abu...
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1,200 Jewish professors call on Senate to reject controversial antisemitism definition

Some 1,200 Jewish university professors have signed a statement rejecting a controversial antisemitism definition that the US Senate is considering codifying in federal law....
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Other Jewish voices

“When unqualified support for Israel is categorized as Jewish,” says historian Marjorie Feld, “it erases dissent and flattens Jewish life.”
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United Methodists strike down ban on ordination of gay clergy

United Methodists meeting for their top legislative assembly May 1 overwhelmingly overturned a measure that barred gay clergy from ordination in the denomination, a historic step for the nation’s s...

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United Methodists vote to restructure worldwide church

The top legislative body of the United Methodist Church passed a series of measures Thursday to restructure the worldwide denomination to give each region greater equity in tailoring church life to...
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Why Hamas is selling its assault on Israel as a holy war

When Hamas, the Islamic Palestinian terrorist group, stormed into southern Israel on October 7, took over military bases, massacred more than 1,300 Israelis—most of them civilians—and kidnapped 150...
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Faith-based health organizations defend at-risk AIDS initiative from Republicans

Like all organizations controlled by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Relief Services opposes abortion in any form....
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Harvard Divinity School selects first Black woman as dean

A cultural anthropologist of the Black religious experience has been named dean of the Harvard Divinity School beginning January 1....
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Supreme Court ruling in favor of mail carrier celebrated across religious spectrum

In siding with an evangelical Christian mail carrier who quit the US Postal Service after he was forced to deliver packages on Sundays, his Sabbath, the Supreme Court on Thursday did something rare...
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Faith-based refugee resettlement agencies denounce new asylum rule

Many faith-based refugee agencies have long called for the end of the emergency health rule that allowed the government to quickly expel undocumented immigrants crossing the border....

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