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Yonat Shimron

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National Reporter and Senior Editor at Religion News Service

National Reporter/Senior Editor, @RNS.

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  • 1 day ago | religionnews.com | Yonat Shimron

    (RNS) — Shortly before the November elections, President Donald Trump promised American Jews, “I will be the best friend Jewish Americans have ever had in the White House.”As president, he has moved to deport pro-Palestinian activists on college campuses and cut billions of dollars to elite universities for failing to combat antisemitism on campus. But a new poll out Wednesday (May 14) shows American Jewish voters are not impressed.

  • 2 days ago | religionnews.com | Yonat Shimron

    (RNS) — Nearly six months ago, Ben Boswell gave a sermon begging members of his Charlotte, North Carolina, church not to give up after Donald Trump’s election. “We may not have been able to stop the darkness from coming,” he told members of his liberal church on Nov. 10. “But that does not mean the fight is over. It has only just begun.”Two weeks after giving that sermon, he was forced to resign as senior pastor of Myers Park Baptist Church, in Charlotte’s toniest neighborhood.

  • 3 days ago | religionnews.com | Yonat Shimron

    (RNS) — Brother Joe Ruiz always felt a certain restlessness in life. After graduating from a Catholic college in Austin, Texas, he has worked as an electronics technician for a computer company, a folklore dancer and as an extra for the opera “Carmen.”But he was always drawn to a life of prayer and intimacy with God.

  • 1 week ago | anabaptistworld.org | Yonat Shimron

    The card holders on the long dining room table offered guidance to the women assembled around it: “Keep it Constitutional” and “Keep it Kind.” With those themes in mind, about 10 women, using beige or light blue fabric pieces and colorful markers, sat down to craft messages to their state representative or senator: “Checks and balances are vital to protect the power of Congress.” “We the People” “Rule of law for all” “Everyone deserves due process” Their 10×10 fabric pieces were later...

  • 1 week ago | sltrib.com | Yonat Shimron

    Durham, N.C. * The cardholders on the long dining room table offered guidance to the women assembled around it: "Keep It Constitutional" and "Keep It Kind." With those themes in mind, about 10 women, using beige or light blue fabric pieces and colorful markers, sat down to craft messages to their U.S. representative or senator: * "Checks and balances are vital to protect the power of Congress." * "We the People." * "Rule of law for all." * "Everyone deserves due process." Their 10-by-10...

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13 May 25

RT @ClaireGiangrave: Curious about what the Augustinians, the religious order of #PopeLeoXIV , are all about? @YonatShimron has the story @…

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RT @mboorstein: “Can’t you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It’s not too late for life, for the living” - Israeli Jewis…

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11 Oct 24

On Yom Kippur (Oct. 12), the holiest day of the Jewish year, hundreds of Jews will gather at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza to publicly mourn the lives of Palestinians killed by Israelis over the past year. https://t.co/21F0wHvGHa