Religion and Faith

Where faith, history, and politics meet
Krista Tippett and the staff of On Being recently spent 10 days in Israel and the West Bank. She joins Kerri Miller to discuss what they learned, and the questions left unanswered.
Novelist illuminates a special time in Rome
David Bezmozgis sets his new novel "The Free World" in the late 1970s, when many Soviet Jews fleeing communist Russia ended up in Rome. There they waited to learn where they would end up: the USA, Canada, Australia, or Israel.
While divisions always exist in communities as large and diverse as Muslims or Arabs, many said they hoped the news of bin Laden's death would pave the way for the kind of unity in their community and with other Americans.