Fifteen years ago, when my older children were in preschool at our synagogue, I participated in a focus group. The synagogue’s leadership wanted to understand why they were having trouble getting young families to attend services and become members—even if their kids were enrolled—and also why, once their kids finished preschool, the families didn’t come
The Catholic Church saw incredible growth in the United States this past year, especially among young people (men, in particular). If you’re tuned into the online discourse about this trend, you’ll be familiar with the tradition-oriented, conservative kind of Catholic who might look down his nose at new, inexperienced converts or those who aren’t as
Bob Spitz has compiled a press-cuttings history of the Rolling Stones. Like much of their music, it is hacked together from other people’s work, though Spitz at least gives attribution. The Rolling Stones is conventional rockographical stuff: a heroic legend, sensibly frontloaded. The first 350 of Spitz’s 600 pages carry the band from postwar English
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)—whose claims about detained Palestinian journalists being sexually assaulted by Israeli troops were a linchpin of a lurid New York Times report—has been caught quietly removing terrorists’ names from its widely cited list of journalists killed in Gaza. This latest blow to the CPJ’s credibility further undermines the Times piece,
Donald Trump is a teetotaler, but his fondness for the original Cuba Libre is impossible to ignore. On Wednesday, he commemorated Cuba’s Independence Day with a statement reinforcing CIA director John Ratcliffe’s earlier message to Havana that time is running out to address his concerns. The same day, the Nimitz aircraft carrier group arrived in
Key GOP senator says he is crafting new legislation to stop Tehran from netting $2 million profit per ship Tom Cotton (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) is pressing the Trump administration to immediately sanction any country or entity helping Iran establish a “toll booth” in the Strait of Hormuz that could net
Multnomah County, Oregon, which includes the majority of Portland, plans to spend nearly $300 million on explicitly race-conscious programs over the next year, documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show, including a program that aims to house minority veterans “at rates equal to or greater than their white peers.” The documents, which include the