Amid Cease-Fire Negotiations, Israel Has Found New Ways to Pressure Hamas
Jerusalem’ strategic calculus.
March 3, 2025
And Jews still outnumber Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus.
In addition to the good news for Judaism in Australia, there’s also good news for Christianity in America. Here in Mosaic, we’ve devoted some attention to declining religiosity and its deleterious social effects, but the Pew Research Center’s just-released 2023–2204 Religious Landscape Study notes an unexpected finding. Gregory A. Smith, Alan Cooperman, Becka A. Alper, et al. write:
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Criticism of Israeli tactics suggests a special law directed solely at Israel, rather than a standard applied universally.
And why hasn’t it done so already?
“The events of October 7 have acted as a catalyst for people who were on the fence.”
And Jews still outnumber Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus.