Having practiced as a prosecutor and defense attorney for decades, I thought that Hanna Liebman Dershowitz's column, “Our Country Grapples With Deepest Challenges Around Sentencing,” raises important ...

While we can probably all agree that the criminal justice system needs reform, recent budget-cutting initiatives in Florida and elsewhere have added to the influence of religious organizations and the ...

A people who had been enslaved for hundreds of years, and for a period of time had their newborn sons drowned, was instructed -- by Moses in the name of God, no less -- not to hate the people who had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The White House cited a nonexistent law and the Bible to defend the government’s controversial policy of separating undocumented ...

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, preached a sermon on March 6, 2022, in which he suggested the violation of “God’s law” provided divine license for the war against Ukraine.

One of the most remarkable laws in the Bible is in the Book of Deuteronomy: "Do not hate an Egyptian." It is remarkable because it was given to the generation of Israelites that had just been ...