"This is a new wave of activism through what one eats, that what we eat and what we buy is a vote of confidence in our highest values," says Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz.

“Have we healed? Yes, healed with a hole. It’s never a complete healing, but at least there a willingness to write a new chapter of life,” says Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, a New York Fire Department chaplain.

A decade after 9/11, we talk again with a minister and a rabbi who revisit the conversation they had in September 2001 and who offer some theological thoughts about violence, justice, revenge, forgiveness, evil, and hope.

What is the common denominator when it comes to the melodies of Jewish klezmer music and African-American gospel music? Soul.

The Jewish holiday of Shavuot, says Rabbi Shira Stutman, is a time of “rejoicing in the harvest, rejoicing in this gift of Torah that God has given us, and rejoicing in the ability to learn from Torah in each and every generation.”

Watch more of our interview about the meaning of Shavuot with the director of community engagement at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC.

During World War II, conductor Rafael Schaechter led Jewish musicians in performances of Verdi's Requiem before Nazi audiences at the Terezin concentration camp and said, "We can sing to them what we cannot say to them."

This week Congress authorized a new memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to honor 13 fallen Jewish military chaplains.

Christians, Jews, and Muslims have a sacred connection to the city of Jerusalem, says author James Carroll, and “that sacred connection, even though at the present moment it’s a source of contention, is actually a profound source of union.”

Rabbi Sharon Brous, founder of IKAR, a Jewish spiritual community in Los Angeles, says Passover is "the centerpiece of the Jewish moral imagination and the Jewish collective memory."