Jessi Dodge
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Why the closing prayers of Judaism’s holiest holiday focus on repairing relationships with each other (opens the original)
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Get RNS’ thoughtful, essential religion reporting every morning. Sign up for free! (The Conversation) — Each Passover, as Jewish families start the Seder meal, a child asks, “Why is this night different from all other nights?” And each Yom Kippur, as worshippers attend the last prayers of the day, they might well ask: “Why is this closing service different from all other services?” Throughout the High Holidays, the 10-day period that begins with Rosh Hashanah and ends with Yom Kippur, Jews pray
The ethical cases for immigration as a human right (opens the original)
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Get RNS’ thoughtful, essential religion reporting every morning. Sign up for free! (The Conversation) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested roughly 50,000 immigrants in July and August 2026; almost 80% of those migrants did not have a criminal record. Until the end of the Biden administration, federal authorities did not expect migrants to leave the country while their visa renewal was pending. The Trump administration has changed that policy. ICE has defended itself for the overal
Michigan city defends itself against accusations of favoring Muslim holidays over other faiths (opens the original)
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Get RNS’ thoughtful, essential religion reporting every morning. Sign up for free! DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — The city of Dearborn responded Saturday to a lawsuit accusing it of celebrating Muslim holidays and ignoring religious holidays of other faiths by blaming attacks against it on its diversity and “welcoming nature.” A statement from the Detroit suburb issued by a spokesperson came in response to a lawsuit on Thursday that accused the city and its mayor of spending thousands of dollars to cele
New laws trigger a fresh legal fight over Nazi-looted art in Los Angeles and Auschwitz museums (opens the original)
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Get RNS’ thoughtful, essential religion reporting every morning. Sign up for free! LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jewish heirs of Holocaust victims and their representatives have filed two lawsuits in California staking their claims to Nazi-looted paintings that still hang on the walls of prominent museums in Los Angeles and Auschwitz. This pair of lawsuits are the first to be filed after the recent passage of laws by California and Congress, which strengthen U.S.-based claims to artwork that were forcibly
Jehovah’s Witnesses allow blood-derived products but keep ban on whole-blood transfusions (opens the original)
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Get RNS’ thoughtful, essential religion reporting every morning. Sign up for free! The Jehovah’s Witnesses have partly eased their longstanding prohibition on the medical use of donated blood, allowing members to receive products derived from blood but maintaining a ban on transfusions of whole blood. The policy, announced Friday, is the second revision this year in what has long been one of the most controversial and distinctive teachings of the religious organization. The new policy says that
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