David Klein

1 month ago | christiancentury.org | Liz Charlotte Grant |Mac Loftin |Phil Christman |David Klein

The small African Hebrew Israelite community in Israel’s Negev Desert last month celebrated a major milestone in its struggle for recognition in the Jewish state, as more than 100 members seem to have avoided deportation. In a court battle spanning decades, Israeli judicial authorities ruled a majority of residents with undocumented or unclear status in the country will be placed on a pathway toward permanent residency and potential citizenship. “It’s been really rough.

Feb 18, 2025 | sightmagazine.com.au | David Klein |David Adams

DAVID I KLEIN, of Religion News Service, reports that bill proponents argue it would prevent extremism, while critics say it could worsen tensions between ethnic Estonians and ethnic Russians…United StatesRNS Lawmakers in Estonia’s Parliament are debating a draft bill that would effectively require the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Russian Orthodox Church’s presence in the country, to cut ties with Moscow and its Patriarch Kirill or face liquidation by the government.

Dec 2, 2024 | religionnews.com | David Klein

(RNS) — Even as thousands of rabbis affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic sect crowded into a group photograph at their annual conference in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, the absence of one of their colleagues was palpable. Rabbi Zvi Kogan, an emissary of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, was murdered last week in an apparent antisemitic attack in the United Arab Emirates. He was laid to rest last Monday (Nov. 25) in Israel.

Nov 22, 2024 | religionnews.com | David Klein

(RNS) — As many local media outlets around the world are struggling, the Yiddish press is experiencing a rebirth, surprising many who not long ago pronounced the Jewish language as doomed after millions of its core speakers died in the Holocaust. “Since 2000, over 30 Yiddish print media have been founded, almost exclusively in the Orthodox Jewish milieu of New York and the surrounding area,” said Bjorn Akstinat, a German media researcher who recently compiled a directory of Yiddish media outlets.

Nov 22, 2024 | flipboard.com | David Klein

Schools can receive money for using the materials. The Texas Board of Education approved a new K-5 curriculum that allows Bible teachings in …