Henry Goldschmidt, director of programs at the Interfaith Center of New York, is a cultural anthropologist and religion scholar. He wrote Race and Religion Among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights and co-edited Race, Nation and Religion in the Americas.

Rabbi Marc Schneier is founder and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding and a leading figure in building up relationships between the Jewish community and African-Americans, Latinos, Christians and Muslims. He wrote Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King Jr. & the Jewish Community.

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen wrote Love in Black and White: A Memoir of Race, Religion and Romance with his wife, Janet Langhart. Cohen is white and the son of a Jewish father and a Protestant Irish mother, while Langhart is African-American and the daughter of a Southern Baptist mother, a single parent. Contact […]

A March 2004 paper by the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California which details the history of faith groups’ involvement in adoption.

Article from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice’s website about views on abortion in Judaism.

How do religion writers cope with organizational, stylistic and cultural differences in the people they write about? By Ira Rifkin Freelance Writer My first experience with Messianic Jews occurred soon after I started on the religion beat. What I lacked in sensitivity at the time I made up for with arrogance. Messianic Judaism offended my […]

Judaism 101 provides a summary page on marriage. The page describes Jewish beliefs on topics including soul mates, a typical wedding and the marital relationship.

JewishEncyclopedia.com provides a summary page on marriage.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life provides provides a resources page listing religious groups’ official positions on same-sex marriage.