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Anniversaries are often occasions to celebrate, and this week marked the one year anniversary of President Obama's nomination of Dawn Johnsen to head the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice.

While many college students slept off their New Year's festivities, Gaby Pacheco, Juan Rodriguez, Felipe Matos, and Carlos Roa began the decade on a more agile note.

Our coverage of the Women of the Wall, the monthly Rosh Chodesh prayer group, continues, with the latest news on the police interrogation of Anat Hoffman in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Hoffman is the Director of the Israel Religious Action Center and chairwoman of

Diversity is a potent agent of growth and change in nearly any field.

When my husband and I visited Vienna several times in the 1990s, the gemeinde (official Jewish community) would not publish the schedule of services at the Progressive Congregation Or Chadasch in its communal newspaper or even allow the congregation to buy an

Last week, Fox News reporter Brit Hume spoke about Tiger Woods' infidelity problems, saying the golfer's recovery would depend upon his faith. "He is said to be a Buddhist," Hume said.

Hesham A. Hassaballa is a Chicago doctor and writer who maintains the blog God, Faith and a Pen. He is a Beliefnet columnist and a guest blogger for The Chicago Tribune who co-authored of The Beliefnet Guide to Islam (Doubleday).

New York State has banned discrimination against the transgender community in the workplace and the District of Columbia legalized same-sex marriage in the past few weeks.

As 2009 drew to a close, PBS' Religion & Ethics Newsweekly took to the proverbial streets to interview clergy, academics and faith leaders across the country to ask what topics they're keeping an eye on in 2010. In this video compilation, you'll recognize a