An opponent of Joe Straus, the Jewish speaker of the Texas state Legislature, defended an e-mail in which he said he wanted “a true Christian, conservative running it.”
Eve Pell, the five-times-great-granddaughter of John Jay, first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, recalls her family’s prejudices against Jews and Catholics and what it means for a third Jew to take a seat on a court with no WASPs.
Two days after the pope’s visit to a Rome synagogue, the Vatican issued a document citing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as one of the main challenges facing Christians in the Middle East.