S. Brent Plate is a professor of religious studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He has written about religion, art and visual culture. Religions, he notes, discuss the creation of the world, and films work on re-creating the world. He’s interested in how film has “come down” off the screen and infiltrated rituals. His […]

Eric Michael Mazur is a religion professor at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, where he teaches courses on religion and popular culture and Judaism and film. He is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Film. He is also co-editor of Religion and Outer Space, a volume exploring religion in and on the final […]

John Lyden became editor of the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Journal of Religion and Film in 2011. He was professor of religion at Dana College from 1991-2010 and is now director of the Liberal Arts Core at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. Lyden is the author of Film as Religion: Myths, Morals and Rituals and editor of The Routledge Companion […]

Read a Jan. 31, 2013, article from the Jerusalem Post about attitudes about Israel among young Americans.

Read an August 2010 study by the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University about how American Jews feel about Israel.

Read a Feb. 7, 2013, article about Obama’s planned trip to Israel to revive the peace process and continue to build his relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Read a Feb. 1, 2013, article in the Jerusalem Post about Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid advocating for resuming peace talks with Palestine.

Tucson holds an annual Muslim-Jewish Peace Walk. Read an article in the Tucson Weekly previewing a previous event.

Rabbi Deborah Brin and the Nahalat Shalom Jewish community are involved in peace and reconciliation work in Albuquerque, N.M.