Mormon church apologizes for baptizing Simon Wiesenthal’s parents
Posthumous ceremony performed on famed Nazi hunter’s parents
View Article‘Gay’ revenge for Mormon conversions
After controversy over reports that the Mormon Church has conducted posthumous conversions of Holocaust victims, a new website allows users to turn dead Mormons ‘gay for eternity’
View ArticleMurdered Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl converted by Mormon Church
Reporters’ parents call news of baptism ‘disturbing’
View ArticleMormons cut database access
Move serves to prevent people from monitoring whether posthumous baptisms of Holocaust victims continue, critics say
View ArticleA new America, where opinion seems to matter more than race or identity
Between conventions, in this contentious election year, glimmers of a nation comfortable with its diversity
View ArticleVideo of Romney defending Mormonism raises ire on Left
Clip from 2007 shows Republican candidate explaining his church’s end-of-days doctrine that sees Jesus stopping a war against the Jews
View ArticleThe war over intermarriage has been lost. Now what?
Across the spectrum of observance, Jewish leaders are embracing rather than shunning Jews and their gentile partners
View ArticleWhy the Book of Mormon is the Great American Novel
When a Jewish author sets off on quest to understand the fantastical foundational text of Mormonism, he ends up learning more about himself
View ArticleA Mormon Reuben worshipper builds a temple in Salt Lake
Randy Harmsen first sampled deli food as a teenager in 1963 at a Dutch-born Holocaust survivor’s delicatessen. It was love at first bite
View ArticleSatirical musical ‘The Book of Mormon’ finally reaches Utah
Creators of show mocking Mormons compare arrival in ‘Mormonlandia’ to playing ‘Fiddler on the Roof to a bunch of Jews’
View Article1st glimpse of stone that ‘translated’ Book of Mormon
New book of revealing pictures of formerly secretive religion’s heritage aims to counter online interest and misinformation
View ArticleMormons tell followers ‘blood moon’ is not sign of the apocalypse
Widespread fear of celestial event prompts Church to issue statement cautioning faithful to avoid ‘getting caught up in visions of disaster’
View ArticleAhead of rare ‘blood moon’ Sunday night, NASA says no cause for concern
Some Christian leaders believe God sending signs in the sky, but Mormon church has told faithful to avoid ‘getting caught up in visions of disaster’
View ArticleIt’s definitely not raining men, says ‘Date-Onomics’ author
In his ‘by the numbers, wonkish take on dating,’ writer Jon Birger finds the demographic quirk that has led to today’s ‘Shidduch Crisis’
View ArticleWATCH: Rare ‘blood moon’ event illuminates night sky
First total eclipse, combined with unusually large moon, since 1982; won’t recur for 18 years
View ArticleAt Brigham Young center, free concerts and remarkable views of Jerusalem
The university’s most noteworthy structure is the auditorium, an enormous window-enclosed room with a Marcussen organ from Denmark reaching to the roof
View ArticleMarco Rubio’s big Jewish backer and 7 other things to know about him
Republican candidate believes Israel merits unconditional US support; wants probe into death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman
View ArticleHybrid identity no contradiction for Jewish Mormons
There’s ‘hardly a Mormon congregation between Boston and D.C.’ without ‘Jewish individuals who have converted to the church,’ says Mormon elder
View ArticleErnest Michel, Auschwitz survivor and Jewish leader, dies, 92
Prominent US community activist met top Nazi Hermann Goering at Nuremberg trials but refused to talk to him
View ArticleTrump entertains notion he could lose to Clinton
Citing a ‘tremendous problem in Utah’ and with polls slipping in other red states, GOP contender warns loss ‘could cost us the Supreme Court’
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