Shas secures billions for welfare, healthcare, religious benefits in coalition deal
In its coalition agreement with incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, the ultra-Orthodox Shas party secured billions of shekels in promises to advance its core agendas, including supporting disadvantaged Israelis, benefits to the religious community and its institutions, and improving…
Campus mental health services find home with college religious groups
A Stanford psychiatry professor located herself in a odd posture at the start out of 2017. The Trump administration had just banned vacation to the United States from 7 Muslim-majority countries, and Stanford’s Muslim group was in despair. Acknowledging that…