Israel-Hamas war
As Netanyahu addresses Congress, protests rock Capitol
By Jack Jenkins — July 24, 2024
WASHINGTON (RNS) — As Netanyahu slammed protesters in front of Congress, thousands gathered outside, many accusing him of war crimes.
As Netanyahu arrives in DC, hundreds of Jews protest for arms embargo against Israel
By Jack Jenkins — July 23, 2024
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The protesters wore red shirts reading ‘Jews say stop arming Israel.’
Their son captive in Gaza, parents dedicate a Torah scroll to 120 remaining hostages
By Michele Chabin — July 19, 2024
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin dedicated the scroll to their son Hersh, the 23-year-old American Israeli wounded at the site of the Re'im music festival before being taken to Gaza by Hamas.
The church is radicalizing over Gaza
By Scott Gustafson — July 12, 2024
(RNS) — Islamists, Zionists and conservative evangelicals are strange extremist bedfellows indeed.
The best rabbi I can be now is a journalist
By Joshua Hammerman — July 11, 2024
(RNS) — Right now, as Jeremiah reminds us, the world needs truth tellers far more than a big hug.
The woman who skipped the Nova music festival on Oct. 7
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 11, 2024
(RNS) — She was supposed to go. She didn’t. Therein lies a story.
Labour wins UK elections in landslide, but suffers losses in heavily Muslim areas
By Catherine Pepinster — July 5, 2024
LONDON (RNS) — Labour lost a handful of former strongholds to independent candidates standing on pro-Palestinian tickets.
In UK, Muslims threaten electoral damage on Labour Party over support for Israel
By Catherine Pepinster — July 1, 2024
LONDON (RNS) — A number of parliamentary seats, once considered safe bets for the Labour Party, could be lost as Muslims organize around Gaza.
LA mayor considers buffer zones at houses of worship after protest at synagogue
By Alejandra Molina — June 27, 2024
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — An ordinance regulating masks at public demonstrations, however, would not ‘withstand judicial scrutiny,' the LA mayor said.
Israel’s High Court rules Haredi men no longer exempt from mandatory military service
By Michele Chabin — June 25, 2024
JERUSALEM (RNS) — While the exemption of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students has long been an issue of contention, it has taken on new urgency since Oct. 7.
In Mecca on Eid al-Adha, carrying the burden of those lost in Gaza
By Omar Suleiman — June 16, 2024
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (RNS) — In my kaffiyeh, I received prayers from random worshippers and even my taxi driver for the Palestinian people.
Muslims start the Hajj against the backdrop of the devastating Israel-Hamas war
By Samy Magdy — June 14, 2024
MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — This year’s Hajj came against the backdrop of the raging war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Palestinian militants, which pushed the Middle East to the brink of a regional war between Israel and its allies on one side and Iran-backed militant groups on the other.
‘The protest is a ritual’: How faith found a place in Palestine solidarity encampments
By Chloë-Arizona Fodor — June 13, 2024
(RNS) – Over the past nine months, student-led Palestine solidarity encampments popped up at universities across the country. For many students, multi-religious programming at the encampments became unexpected sites for religious connection.
Southern Baptist resolutions on war, Oct. 7 fail logical and biblical tests
By Daoud Kuttab — June 12, 2024
(RNS) — A resolution supporting Israel in the wake of Oct. 7 failed to consider fellow Christians in the Middle East.
Netanyahu, an accused criminal at the Hague, becomes an invited guest in Washington
By Omar Suleiman — June 11, 2024
(RNS) — The fiction of a post-World War II Western rules-based, values-based world order is dead.
