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Rabbi Ari Segal,head of school at Shalhevet High School, an Orthodox Jewish day school, penned a nearly 2,000-word editorial for the school’s student newspaper on LGBT acceptance within the Orthodox community Something’s eating Rabbi Ari Segal. That...

OCTOBER 22 In History 362: A mysterious fire destroys the temple of Apollo at Daphne outside Antioch. According to one source,the Christians living in Antioch who were angry with the Emperor Julian for the favor he showed to Jewish and pagan rites,...

From time to time I receive comments from Institute members about new “humrot” (stringencies) which are being introduced at their synagogues. In one case, the congregation engaged a new rabbi who promptly raised the mehitza, forbade women’s hakafot on...

 Guest Contributor: Shalom Goldman, Duke University Many Catholics in the US and overseas are hoping that the new Pope, Francis I, will help heal the wounds inflicted on the Church by the sexual abuse scandals of the past few decades. And...

In the Pulitzer prize winning book God: A Biography (1996) by Jack Miles, he presents the different personalities of God depicted in the Bible ranging from the God who walks in the garden to the God who makes promises of universal redemption.  Miles...