Congregation Beth Shalom concluded its search for a new rabbi and selected Rabbi Roger Lerner to begin leading services and overseeing the congregation starting in July. “We’ve had amazing board ...

A North Side synagogue is asking Edgewater residents to support a plan that would transform its lakefront site into a 12-story apartment complex with hundreds of units and a new, smaller synagogue.

Every human community has norms (unwritten, unspoken, and often unconscious rules about the "way things should be done") that govern the behavior of its members. In congregations, norms may develop as ...

On any given Sunday, you’ll likely hear immigration, poverty, race, or injustice mentioned in the sermon at our church—not because of the latest headlines but because of our commitment to connect ...

A Jewish congregation in Brooklyn is fighting to save their historic house of worship.

Editors note: The Jesuit General Congregation is currently meeting in Rome to elect a new general to succeed Peter-Hans Kolvenbach. S.J. In 1983 historian John W. OMalley, S.J. took a historical look ...

A view of the old and new buildings by day. The slow but certain rebirth of North Broad Street has seen some surprising transformations and inspired proposals. A former auto showroom, and later a ...

Does this sound familiar? Your congregation has a committee with a name like "Outreach" or "Mission" or "Social Concerns" whose job is to dole out small amounts to an increasingly large number of good ...

All perfect praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad, sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger. "Our ...