A push for religious symbols in the public square is “bad for having a culture in which lots of different religious traditions including Judaism are allowed to flourish.” One week after Louisiana Gov.

Like many Jewish Louisianans, I followed with interest the so-called “Ten Commandments” bill which Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law this week. It requires public schools, including ...

Tradition says it was the moment Jews became a chosen “holy nation,” not just by ancestry, belief or geography, but by covenant. Many faiths, including Christians, Muslims and Hindus, claim a sacred ...

A granite monument of the Ten Commandments on Texas State Capitol grounds in Austin, Texas. (Photo via Library of Congress. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA>org.) Jackie Hajdenberg Three Jewish ...

Earlier this summer, Republican Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law a requirement that all public classrooms display the Ten Commandments. Broadly similar laws are moving through ...

For artists who take on the challenge of depicting scenes from the Torah – particularly Moses and the giving of the Ten ...

Texans dodged a religious bullet. In the most recent state legislative session, legislators almost passed a bill, Senate Bill 1515, that would have required the display of the Ten Commandments in ...

A Texas statute mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state had been blocked by a federal ...

(JTA) — Three Jewish families are among a group of nine Louisiana families with children in public schools who have filed a suit in federal court challenging a new state law that requires the Ten ...