Rise of secularism

The decline in Bible engagement is accompanied by societal concern about the Bible's role in shaping character.

The free market in ideas demands that the haredim accept the consequences of allowing their youth to encounter the full range of possibilities of the human experience.

As Yom Kippur concluded in Tel Aviv, it's imperative to contemplate the emotions that engulfed the demonstration—emotions that ranged from frustration to anger and even hatred.

The issue of intermarriage, viewed as a complex reality of Jewish life, prompts questions about how communities should treat the resulting children.

Statistics do not lie. The reality is that the haredi sector is expanding, and will likely eventually become the majority in Israel.

Though brief, the exchange illustrated the starkly different perspectives on religious expression in France, the United States and elsewhere in the western world.

America today is engulfed in a culture war between those who believe that religion is backward and primitive and those who understand that faith in God is the foundation of American democracy.

The European “secular religion” is missionary, aggressive and exclusive and “mono-atheistic.” It also doesn't work.

A Gallup poll reveals that fewer than half of Americans reported belonging to a house of worship. America, the most religious of Western countries, is losing its religion.