The Onion said it best. It always does.

"'Seriously, can we wrap this up already?' Maryland resident James Alderman told reporters, echoing the thoughts of all 311 million Americans, who have just about reached their weekly goddamned quota for carnage, misery, confusion, heartbreak, and rage. "Because,...

One of Hurricane Sandy's consequences is surprisingly heartening: in the most affected communities, people fear more for the welfare of their families and neighbors than for the rarefied concerns that occupy most of our time. It is possible to pull out of this natural disaster deep and true observations about...

This country may be founded upon freedom of religion, but religion has been nothing but a burden in this election. For the most part, religious institutions have been at the forefront of the fire that dominates our political climate. Though illegal, the support of various religious institutions for their candidate...

The recent study by HUC/JIR's Dr. Steven Cohen of rabbinical students at Jewish Theological Seminary proves it: young rabbis and current rabbinical students remain deeply committed to Israel.

For those of us who fall into either category, the JTS survey provides the kind of recognition and response...

If asked, even synagogue-going Jews will acknowledge a reality: most do not pray. This reality is disturbing, not just because it questions the purpose of the many hours each has spent in services (each Shabbat service is two to three hours long), but because the absence of sincere prayer occasions...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a column exploring the lack of participation of men in American religion. Much to my surprise, I received two kinds of comments again and again about the article.

The first category of commentator was pleased by the news that men were...

There was, in my first full year living in Israel, a point when I began to get frightened. The year was 2005, and the disengagement from Gaza was rapidly approaching. In the media, on the buses, in public places I started to hear a repeated phrase in the mouths of...

To the endangered species of our world, let us add another: the vanishing American religious male. While he's not near extinction, he's definitely PBS-special worthy. His disappearance isn't just within Judaism -- his lack of participation extends to every religion in the American landscape. And rabbis, priests, pastors, imams, demographers...