13+ hour, 30+ min ago   (56+ words) Hasidic leaders visit Trump: A delegation of Hasidic leaders from the New York area met with President Donald Trump in the White House this afternoon. Plans of the meeting had drawn criticism from some Jewish Trump supporters because they included…...

12+ hour, 52+ min ago   (449+ words) Gloria Steinem, a feminist journalist and women’s rights activist, died on Wednesday at 92 years of age. Born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1934, Steinem was raised in an interfaith family — her father Jewish and mother Protestant. And while she generally did not…...

13+ hour, 2+ min ago   (29+ words) Zholia Parsi bounced on a blue-and-white Noxon mountain bike as she rode laps around the fieldstone sanctuary of St. Petri Kirche, speaking to family on the phone and laughing....

16+ hour, 1+ min ago   (132+ words) A nonprofit housing-justice organization filed a lawsuit to force federal agencies to disclose how they are using an immigration-related database to track benefits given poor and working Americans. Democracy Forward announced the litigation filed Aug. 26 in the U.S. District Court for…...

16+ hour, 14+ min ago   (536+ words) It’s time to pick up a shovel and stop complaining about the impending death of democracy in America, according to Skye Perryman. The president of Democracy Forward in Washington, D.C., is well known to BNG readers because she is frequently…...