United States

Poll: Americans more apt to back Jewish candidates than evangelicals, Muslims or atheists

Ninety-one percent of Americans said they would vote for a presidential candidate who is Jewish,

3 teens charged for allegedly throwing rock at kippah wearer in N.Y.

The teens reportedly surrounded the Staten Island man a few blocks from an Orthodox synagogue in the borough, threatened to beat and kill him, and made derogatory references to his yarmulke.

Ideas

Op-Ed: Don’t whitewash Charleston’s troubled racial history

The present-day economic and social success of Charleston’s Jews is inextricably linked with this past exclusion of others, the former director of a center for Southern Jewish culture at the College of Charleston writes.