New York City
At trial’s start, prosecutor says Brooklyn preacher lied to get rich, a claim his lawyer disputes
By Larry Neumeister — February 27, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — In Manhattan federal court, Greenwood called Miller-Whitehead a “con man who told lie after lie to victim after victim, committing crime after crime.”
Why my uncle left Judaism
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 26, 2024
(RNS) — Let's be careful how we treat people in our religious institutions. It matters — sometimes across the generations.
NYC will add Diwali as a public school holiday. But there’s a catch this year
By Associated Press — June 27, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) — The push for official recognition of Diwali comes as South Asians have gained numbers and clout in New York and nationally.
What was it about Tim Keller?
By Joshua Chatraw — May 23, 2023
(RNS) — Before anything else vocationally, Tim was a pastor.
How New York has answered religiously motivated hate crime
By Tori Luecking — January 17, 2023
NEW YORK (RNS) — A wildly diverse city takes a multifaceted, interagency and interfaith approach to faith-based security efforts.
Hasidic nonprofit brings shoes to greet asylum-seekers arriving in NYC from Texas
By Kathryn Post — September 19, 2022
(RNS) — 'It’s like a little pop-up Ellis Island,' said Alexander Rapaport, whose Jewish nonprofit volunteers at a triage center at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
NYPD: Preacher, wife robbed of $1M in jewelry during sermon
By Michael R. Sisak — July 26, 2022
NEW YORK (AP) — Three robbers showed guns and demanded property from Miller-Whitehead and his wife, Asia K. DosReis-Whitehead, police said.
Church destroyed during 9/11 attacks consecrated as national shrine
By Marika Proctor — July 5, 2022
(RNS) — St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine, in addition to Orthodox services, will also feature dedicated interfaith and nonsectarian spaces.
Middle Church to begin meeting in synagogue on Easter as it awaits restored building
By Adelle M. Banks — April 7, 2022
(RNS) — The Rev. Jacqui Lewis said East End Temple displays ‘an incredible act of generosity and trust to make space in their community for us to tabernacle with them.’
African Catholics in NYC find community at French Mass
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu — March 14, 2022
(AP) — Although the Catholic rituals are the same, regardless of language, for many the ability to worship in French is spiritual.
Throwing away fairness for special needs children
By Charles C. Camosy — February 10, 2022
(RNS) — New York City's decision on who adjudicates the education of disabled kids defies an ethic of hospitality.
Am I a New Yorker Yet?
By Roxanne Stone — December 15, 2021
There's nothing like going home for the holidays to make a person wonder where they really belong. Katelyn and Roxy are joined by Elizabeth Passarella, a southern evangelical transplant who moved to NYC more than 20 years ago
JewBelong goes digital — and hot pink — in campaign to sound alarm on antisemitism
By Yonat Shimron and Renée Roden — July 13, 2021
(RNS) — Seven such billboards have been flashing at Times Square for more than a month. Beginning this week, they are going up in four other cities.
Putting Black at the center of interfaith
By Frederick A. Davie — June 11, 2021
(RNS) — Interfaith partners have often ignored the struggle for racial justice facing Black and brown neighbors and their religious leaders.
Slowing Down in the City That Never Sleeps
By Jonathan Woodward — April 28, 2021
It's tough to do your devotions when there's so much distraction. Katelyn and Roxy talk to the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest, about finding some peace and quiet in a city that won't shut up.
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