A host of voices from throughout the religious spectrum condemned the Dec. 28 knife attack at the suburban New York City home of a Hasidic rabbi that wounded five, one of them critically.

Unlike many other Christian families in the Bethlehem area, none of the Hosh siblings have moved abroad.

Hate crimes, particularly directed at the Jewish community, are stubbornly persistent both worldwide and in the United States, the editors write.

Representatives from the Catholic and Orthodox churches and the Muslim and Jewish faiths signed a joint declaration at the Vatican reaffirming each religion's clear opposition to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

Every citizen, whether aligned with the political right or the left, must denounce these crimes against our Jewish brothers and sisters.

The long pilgrimage of David Brooks has led him to explore Christianity and embrace a life lived in tension.