Jewish Groups Irked by Cross on Republican Podium
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Speakers at this week's Republican convention make their remarks at a wooden podium that some Jewish groups find offensive because its decorative panels appear to form the shape of a Christian cross.
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The Christian Science Monitor - After two days of wooing by all the Republican presidential candidates, religious conservatives appear no more in agreement on whom to support than they did going in.
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A public school has stirred debate over whether it can teach Hebrew without violating the church-state divide.
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Keith Ellison, who will become the first Muslim member of Congress next month, has offended some conservatives with his plan to use the Quran during his ceremonial swearing-in. The decision by Ellison, D-Minn., to use the Muslim holy book for the ceremony instead of the Bible triggered an angry column by Dennis Prager on the Web site Townhall.com this week.
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There are signs that the furor over the Congressional page scandal is sapping the enthusiasm of religious conservatives.
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Jewish groups and lawmakers criticized Prince Harry on Thursday for wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party, with one group urging him to visit the Auschwitz death camp, despite an apology from the grandson ...
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A little known but pivotal group of Christian conservatives is dissatisfied with the Republican presidential field and uncertain where to turn.
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In a Chroncle editorial titled "The Jews", Trinity senior Philip Kurian has created a global uproar.  The editorial complains that Jews are, as a community of special interest, stifling free speech.  The response of the Jewish community to this oped has been to stifle free speech.
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Republican lawmakers, liberal Christians and evangelical talk shows all criticized the government for creating a list of acceptable religious books.
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A panel of lawmakers have called for government and others to urgently join forces to fight a rising tide of anti-Semitism, which they said surged again during Israel's war in Lebanon.
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The Republican National Committee acknowledged this week that it distributed campaign literature in West Virginia and Arkansas warning voters that liberals want to ban the Bible.
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JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, described by aides as more angry than embarrassed over the Parliament&#39;s symbolic repudiation of his term-opening speech, moved Tuesday to renew discussions with opposition parties over reshaping his minority
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Flag-burning and the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance are about to join gay marriage among the volatile issues that congressional Republicans have pushed to votes ahead of the election to remind the public how the GOP and Democrats differ.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6 -- A panel of rabbis opened the way Wednesday to allow same-sex commitment ceremonies and the ordination of gays within Conservative Judaism, which occupies a difficult middle ground between orthodoxy and liberalism in American Judaism.
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Don&#39;t expect to see the reverends Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson or Franklin Graham at the podium during next week&#39;s Republican National Convention, whose planners hope to keep fire, brimstone and the Christian Right offstage at Madison Square Garden.
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Religious and cultural conservatives, a political force skeptical of the leading Republican presidential candidates, are caught in a tug of war between pragmatism and ideology.
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A major Jewish religious leader urged North America's Muslims on Friday to keep condemning violence committed in the name of Islam until the message sinks in.