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5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (402+ words) MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ — Over 600 people came together at the end of September for SukkahFest, the region's largest family celebration of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Held on Sept. 30 at Congress Hill Farm in Monroe (home to Camp Gan Israel), the…...

11+ hour, 32+ min ago   (1451+ words) “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” — Isaiah 43:18-19b Allen Iverson got caught up in a huge brawl at a bowling alley…...

7+ hour, 33+ min ago   (368+ words) mySteinbach.ca Thanksgiving traditionally has been a celebration of harvest time in our agricultural communities. I grew up in a church where a large percentage of families made their living on a farm, so the annual cycle of planting, growing,…...

1+ hour, 58+ min ago   (131+ words) Oct 12, 2026, 14:34 ET More than four decades of trusted Catholic journalism enters a new chapter as EWTN brings its Spanish-language news operation fully into the global EWTN News family WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- EWTN Global Catholic Network announced today the rebranding of…...

3+ hour, 41+ min ago   (639+ words) Andrew Lapin | JTA Levels of engagement in Jewish life have risen overall, establishing a “new normal” three years after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, according to a survey released Thursday by the Jewish Federations of North America. Thirty-eight percent of Jewish respondents…...

5+ hour, 6+ min ago   (498+ words) Belief in Jesus’ virgin birth has fallen below half of Americans, crossing a troubling threshold for a nation whose history and values bear the deep imprint of Christianity. The finding raises a question far larger than public opinion: What happens…...

5+ hour, 11+ min ago   (1047+ words) OpinionBraxton Wade | October 12, 2026 I am tired. And I need the church to hear me when I say that. I am tired in a way that a good night’s sleep will not fix. Tired of waking up wondering what this administration…...

6+ hour, 49+ min ago   (79+ words) Posek Hador HaGaon HaRav Moshe Sternbuch, who is spending several days resting in Netanya, davened Shacharis on Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan overlooking the sea. Photographer Shuki Lerner captured the tefillah against the backdrop of the waves and the fresh sea air....

6+ hour, 22+ min ago   (108+ words) When I came out as a lesbian in 1994, toward the end of my first year of rabbinical school, my mother was apprehensive, observing, “It will already be so hard for you as a woman rabbi. How much more so as…...

7+ hour, 17+ min ago   (316+ words) That’s what makes adult baptism so meaningful. It wasn’t something someone did for me — it was something I chose. After hearing, learning, questioning, and praying, I stepped into the water because truth had gripped my heart, not because tradition said to....