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51+ min ago   (857+ words) The reach of artificial intelligence does not end with secular occupations, though. A December report found that 61 percent of pastors use AI weekly or daily, up from 43 percent in 2024. What does all this mean for our churches? For pastors? What…...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (543+ words) Jewish St. Louis native Michael Wielansky just won MVP on one of baseball's wildest stages They watched one student fall through the cracks " then built a free system to stop it Why Jews are watching the fight to bring prayer…...

1+ hour, 46+ min ago   (572+ words) By Arno Rosenfeld February 11, 2026 For years, leaders of the nation's largest Jewish organizations have insisted that the overwhelming majority of Jews " often as high as 95% " are Zionists, powerful evidence that anti-Zionism was a form of antisemitism. But there was a…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago   (942+ words) After "douard Manet caused a firestorm in the late 1860s with his politically provocative paintings The Execution of Maximilian, he got a consoling note from his friend, the poet and critic Charles Baudelaire. "Monsieur," Baudelaire wrote, "it seems you have the…...

2+ hour, 23+ min ago   (354+ words) By Kasey Miller, staff Join Catholic Life at any of the four worship opportunities on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. On Ash Wednesday, Catholics and fellow Christians observe a solemn day of prayer and fasting. While abstaining from meat and fasting, many…...

2+ hour, 52+ min ago   (379+ words) If you really care and you really listen, the approach works; you can figure it out together in most cases," says Mieke van der Wansem, director of programs for the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy and Climate Policy…...

3+ hour, 55+ min ago   (873+ words) NewsJeff Brumley "|" February 11, 2026 A bid to launch Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School as a taxpayer-funded religious charter school in Oklahoma was rejected by the state Feb. 9. In turning down the application, some members of the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board…...

4+ hour, 19+ min ago   (507+ words) A Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) poll has Zionists mourning and anti-Zionists rejoicing. Only 37% of American Jews call themselves "Zionist." That will perpetuate the false claims that young American Jews are a "lost generation" giving up on Israel. Zionism,…...

4+ hour, 30+ min ago   (871+ words) Rabbi Menachem Creditor serves as Scholar-in-Residence at UJA-Federation New York and is the founder of Rabbis Against Gun Violence. Rabbi Creditor has authored and edited over thirty books, including A Rabbi's Heart, and After October 7: Essays. With millions of views…...

4+ hour, 30+ min ago   (970+ words) Since October 7, a quiet arithmetic has begun to haunt the Israeli imagination: not the familiar tally of dead and wounded, not the daily count of rockets, sirens, minutes in shelters, but the more discreet sum of departures. The suitcases that…...