JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy is a comprehensive website affiliated with the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. JewishGen provides links to numerous resources, including a database of 400,000 surnames and towns, a Family Tree of the Jewish People that has nearly 4 million listings, and some local genealogical societies. Warren […]

The popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, the so-called “Arab Spring” that endured through the summer of 2011, had for some in the West recast Muslims and Islamic societies as promoters of democracy and values that resonate with Americans.

The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies provides links to dozens of U.S. genealogical groups. Michael Goldstein is president of the international group.

Read an April 24, 2013, column on CNN’s website about the Boston marathon bombing and how terrorist acts are quickly and inaccurately categorized as “Muslim extremism.”

The website ReligiousTolerance.org explores the diversity of beliefs about human sexuality among faith groups and the unaffiliated.

The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute offers reference works, databases and workshops for researching family histories. The institute is in the Center for Jewish History in New York City.

A Gallup Poll published in August 2011 showed the views of members of different religious communities to the question of whether terrorist violence is ever justified. Nearly nine in 10 Muslim Americans said violent attacks on civilians are never justified, the highest level of disapproval among the groups surveyed.

The United Methodist Church web page on human sexuality.

Former Secretary of Education (2005-2009) under President George W. Bush. She was one of the main supporters of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act. She now works at the education consulting firm she founded, Margaret Spellings and Company.