NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anti-Semitic attitudes in the United States are at a historic low, with 12 percent of Americans prejudiced toward Jews, an Anti-Defamation League survey found on Thursday. The U.S. civil rights group said the level of anti-Semitism matched that of 1998 as the lowest in the 45-year history of the poll. Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman ...

There is no better cause than that advanced by the Anti-Defamation League, and the local chapter is holding its annual dinner Oct. 17 in Las Vegas. The ADL had quite the spectacle a year ago when then-Las Vegas Sands executive Bill Weidner, long before the town hall crazies were doing it, compared Barack Obama to Hitler in an infl ...

Two smaller, more conservative U.S.-based Lutheran denominations are expressing disappointment in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's decision to open a wider door to gay clergy. The ELCA voted last week to lift a ban that prohibited sexually active gay and lesbian people from serving as ministers. Under the change, congregations will now ...