Judaism

Freedom is costly, but it's getting harder and harder for the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community to...

A modern-day defense of a long-ago outrage illustrates the Catholic church's drift toward illiberalism.

As much as we might depend on the courts to enforce our rights, those courts...

Trying to stop people from educating themselves is one of the worst crimes there is.

Religious sects and cults that conceive of themselves as serving a higher, sacred purpose will,...

• A Texas homeschooling family has been taken to court after allegedly refusing to teach...

• Oliver Sacks has died. In his final column, "Sabbath", he talks about his humanism...

Last month, a religious fundamentalist attacked a gay-pride parade in Jerusalem, stabbing six people. One...

• Rabbis in a British branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism forbid women from driving - and...

I'm on vacation this week in New England. Yesterday I visited the Touro Synagogue in...

This week, there was a lengthy profile of Bat Sheva Marcus, a Jewish sex counselor...

Here's the latest in the list of mistargeted religious solicitations I've gotten in the mail....

Hemant wrote about a story I also wanted to mention: the Freedom from Religion Foundation...

In 2009, I wrote "The Twisted Moral of Passover", about how this major Jewish holiday...

New York City's mayoral election is approaching, and as the race heats up, more attention...

In Ohio, the state legislature recently approved a plan to build a Holocaust memorial on...

In the Times this week, Israel's ultra-Orthodox rabbis are enforcing gender apartheid by sending their...

After several days, the fragile ceasefire in the latest iteration of Israel and Gaza's endless...

In the Book of Exodus, there's a bizarrely out-of-place story that I've always found hilarious....

(Note: This review was solicited and is written in accordance with my policy for such...

The world is increasingly taking notice of the turmoil brewing in Israel, where a growing...

One hypothesis for the origin of religion is that it's a kind of "costly signaling"...

The other day I came across this article from Bloomberg News, from which I learned...

(Author's Note: The following review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site's...

In the past, I've poked fun at the Catholic church for the logical contortions it...

"And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that...

More pictures from my Spanish trip. Click the link below to see: Our second day...

• Witchcraft is now a recognized profession in Romania, subjecting its practitioners to income tax....

If blogging was my full-time job, I'd probably have written a post about each of...

Since I wrote recently about the evil mullahs of the Middle East who ferociously resist...