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Jews, Judaism  

Pew on Jew Religion in the News, Vol 15, No.2 by Jerome A. Chanes
A Pew survey finds American Jewry more secular and less tied to traditional institutions.

Noah: The Movie Religion in the News, Vol 15, No. 2 by Seth Sanders
Scripture doesn’t offer much guidance on staging the story of Noah and the Flood.

Netanyahu’s Anti-Obama Campaign, Religion in the News, Vol 14, No.2 by Ron Kiener
Israel’s prime minister changes the subject from Palestine to Iran.

Varieties of Dylan’s Religious Experience, Religion in the News, Fall 2012 by Christine McCarthy McMorris
50-plus years of Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.

No Goyim Need Apply Religion in the News, Vol. 13, No. 2 , by Ron Kiener
Israeli rabbis issue restrictive covenant.

Airing the Syrian Laundry Religion in the News, Vol. 12, No. 2 by Ron Kiener
The leadership of an insular Jewish community gets tangled in a gaudy New Jersey corruption scandal.

Our Crowd Religion in the News, Vol. 12, No. 2 by Sarina Roffé
An insider’s look at the Syrian Jews.

The Madoff Disgrace, Religion in the News, Vol. 12, No. 1 by Jerome Chanes
Jewish communal institutions and philanthropies are reeling from Madoff financial losses

The Beat Goes On Religion in the News, Vol. 11, No. 3 by Amory C. Minot
The Army struggles with the anti-Semitic beating of a Jewish recruit.

The Postville Raid, Religion in the News, Fall 2008, by Ron Kiener.
The largest Kosher butcher in the nation cuts too many corners.

Good For the Jews? Religion in the News, Spring 2008, by Ron Kiener
 Jewish skepticism about voting for Obama. 

Borat's Religious Provocations, Religion in the News, Winter 2007, by Christine McCarthy McMorris
The man from Kazakhstan's ill will tour.

The Secular Israeli Jewish Identity, Who Is Secular in the World Today?: a special insert in Religion in the News, Winter 2006, by Benjamin Beit-Halahmi.

The Passion of the DUI, Religion in the News, Fall 2006, by Leslie A. Miller-Dancy.
Mel Gibson's fall from grace.

Presbyterians Divest the Jews, Religion in the News, Fall 2006, Andrew Walsh.
Two sometimes allies butt heads over Israel.

Kabbalah for Dummies, Religion in the News, Summer 2004, by Rachel Claflin.
Doing a number on pop Judaism.

"Jews," Religion in the News, Fall 2003, by Jerome Chanes..
Special Section on Religion and the 2004 Election.

 "Israel's Tele-Rabbi," Religion in the News, Summer 2003, by Michele Rosenthal.
A rabbinic populist torments the Israeli media establishment.

"Choosing Up Sides in the Middle East",  Religion in the News, Fall 2002, by Dennis R. Hoover, associate editor. Civilizations are clashing, and on the home front religions are too.

"The Minister, the Rabbi, and the Baccalaureate", Religion in the News, Summer 2001, [an Atlanta suburb negotiates religious pluralism], 
by Mark Silk, editor

"Superceding the Jews", Religion in the News, Summer 2001, [cartoonist Johnny Hart’s Easter "B.C." cartoon triggers a national debate over "replacement theology"], by Andrew Walsh, managing editor

"Jamming the Jews", Religion in the News, Summer 2001, [Charlie Ward of the Knicks learns a lesson about religious pluralism], by Thomas W. Hambrick-Stowe, editorial assistant

"From the Editor: Sacred is as Sacred Does", Religion in the News, Spring 2001, [the religious dimensions of the Middle East crisis rise into view], by Mark Silk, editor

"Palestinians and Israelis: Rites of Return", Religion in the News, Spring 2001, [the Arab media’s new emphasis on the Palestinians’ "sacred right of return" to Israel bridges an internal religious division], by Rachel Stroumsa, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

"Palestinians and Israelis: Oh, Jerusalem!", Religion in the News, Spring 2001, [anxieties about losing control of the Temple Mount pervade Israeli discussion of the "Al-Aqsa Intifada" and the dimmed prospects for peace], by Yoel Cohen, Netanya College, Israel

"Preacher Joe", Religion in the News, Fall 2000, [Joe Lieberman is first Jew to run on a major party's presidential ticket], by Mark Silk, editor

"Rome Relativism, and Reaction", Religion in the News, Fall 2000, [controversial Vatican statement, Dominus Iesus, generates strong, if confused, journalistic reaction], by Dennis R. Hoover, associate editor

"Two Cheers for the Pilgrimage", Religion in the News, Summer 2000, [reaction of Muslims and Eastern Orthodox Christians to Pope John Paul's pilgrimage to the Holy land], by Andrew Walsh, managing editor

"Covering Israel’s Religious Wars", Religion in the News, Fall 1999, [religion news coverage in Israel], by Yoel Cohen, Netanya Academic College, Israel

"Spiritual Victimology", Religion in the News, Fall 1999, [Jews and evangelicals as targets of hate crime], by Dennis R. Hoover, associate editor

The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1998
Perspectives on the Vatican Statement, "We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah" (with the complete text of "We Remember"), [42-page booklet], edited by Anthony Burke Smith, program associate