The poet Ben Okri reminded us that “people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.” He felt stories could help to allay fears and, importantly, “make the heart larger.” ...

Hungary broke ranks on Friday, rejecting the Council’s conclusions on access to reliable, free media, arguing that the EU is overstepping its authority and interfering in media freedom. “In our ...

Back in 1991, when I was a 16-year-old junior at Glenbard South High School in suburban Glen Ellyn, my mother suggested to our family that we have biryani for Thanksgiving instead of turkey. Her ...

This is a crisis as serious as any in Harvard’s 400-year history. The university is failing in its duty to make academic freedom real for all. Lara Jirmanus is an instructor in medicine at the Harvard ...

The 515-page 2025 exceptional book “Accepting and Excepting: On Pluralism and Chosenness out of the Sources of Judaism” is by Raphael Jospe, one of the most respected contemporary voices in Jewish ...

Six months after a joint subcommittee of Harvard’s task forces on antisemitism and anti-Arab bias recommended that Harvard establish a campus center for pluralism, the University has yet to enact ...

he importance of an unwavering commitment to pluralism is growing by the day as the world faces more and more problems on account of authoritarianism, democratic backsliding and polarisation.

The rift between different groups of Jews has turned ugly. Prominent rabbis of one denomination have publicly accused rabbis of another of making a mockery of the faith. Other leaders have accused ...

(The Conversation) — Students at elite universities tend to talk a good game when it comes to religious pluralism. Many of them show up on day one already saying all the right things about respecting ...

PDFs remain a common way to share documents because they preserve formatting across devices and platforms. Sometimes, however, you end up with several separate PDFs that would be easier to handle as a ...

In the 19th century, residents of Albany and other upstate cities crossed religious lines to mark the founding of synagogues. Their actions offer lessons for us today. Albany's Congregation Beth El ...

A while back, I had lunch with a friend, during which we lamented how the meaning of — and appreciation for — pluralism seems to be slipping away from the United States. While we agreed that pluralism ...