The 1939 Yiddish-language film "Tevye," shot on a Long Island potato farm, was adapted from Sholom Aleichem's short-story collection "Tevye the Dairyman," first published in 1894. Aleichem's stories ...

Once upon a time, not so long ago, atheism was the belief system that dared not speak its name. Even the most ardent skeptic paid lip service to faith, or at least to the blessings that mankind ...

Those who believe in a higher being are instinctively considered more moral, a new study claims Atheists "are broadly perceived as potentially morally depraved and dangerous" - even in secular ...

Getting into discussions about religion can be really tricky sometimes. If you’re a Christian, you’ve probably had friends or family who don’t believe in God ask you some pretty tough ...

Being an atheist in Pakistan can be life-threatening. But behind closed doors, non-believers are getting together to support one another. How do they survive in a nation where blasphemy carries a ...

The notion that atheists lack a moral compass is a prevalent stereotype across many cultures. This stereotype suggests that ...

Jokes aside, Alexander is preparing to take on one of the greatest bearded, Jewish roles in the theatrical canon: Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, the culmination of a lifelong love of musical theater.

The heyday of the new atheism in Western life, when anti-God tracts by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens bestrode best-seller lists, did not arrive because brilliant new arguments for God ...

Although atheism is often stereotyped as exclusively physicalistic (“atoms swirling in the void”), many contemporary atheists have developed a Platonic atheism. Platonic atheism affirms abstract ...

Jason Alexander laughs when asked how he landed the role of Tevye in a new production of the musical “Fiddler on the Roof” at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. It’s a laugh that ...

Anxiety about the threat of atheism was rampant in the early modern period, yet fully documented examples of openly expressed irreligious opinion are surprisingly rare. England and Scotland saw only a ...