In the last century, a group of religious sages quarreled over whether Jews talking theology with Christians was even permissible

October 7, Trump, Gaza, and the mayoral election seemed to end the golden age of New York Jewry. I went to Lithuania—the home of our last golden age—and found no comfort.

Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 masterpiece has grown into an American scripture—its killers, fathers, and lost highways echoing from the Depression’s folk songs to our own uneasy present.

The God Gap is real. Just look at the numbers.

Jewish leaders keep telling me to “love Israel.” What does that even mean?

AI doomerism as fan fiction

Why the mayoral candidate should lean into his religion more

How Tim Dlugos became a gay Christian poet

From Pam Bondi’s “Anti-Christian Bias” task force to Marco Rubio’s faith-focused State Department, Trump’s second administration is remaking the federal bureaucracy in its own religious image.

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