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Israeli Forest Fire as Divine Punishment, Religious Leaders (From Both Sides) Agree

By Ira Chernus

…Nevertheless, Ovadia Yosef is among the most powerful political leaders in Israel. In fact an Israeli columnist recently labeled him “Israel’s No. 1 Politician… a religious dictator who divides the world into good guys and bad guys in line with conservative, religious worldviews, and who within Israel’s democracy holds greater decision-making power than any minister elected by the public.” Ovadia wields his political power through the Shas party,…

Israeli Right Demonizes Israeli Left, With American Money

By Diane Winston

…liberals. Many of these American liberals prefer not to publicly criticize Israel (not just about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but also on issues of human and civil rights, economic justice, immigration, and the environment). Instead they support NIF, which promotes on-the-ground change. But the attack by Im Tirtzu signals an end to business as usual. Following the Money Im Tirtzu calls itself a centrist organization that wants to strengthen p…

The Faith that Faith Produced

By Haroon Moghul

…ou’ll read an excerpt below—has surprised me, too. I wish I could find my airline companion and give him this book, to surprise him, too—in a good way. (I would accept Lakers tickets in lieu of apologies, but I think that particular era is done.) This whole book is a result of a profound evolution, and needs to be seen as such. American Muslims have gone through a lot over the last few decades. We were never the caricature Islamophobes made us ou…

Herman Cain’s Israel Doctrine

By Sarah Posner

…I noted last week, the seminal Bible verse for evangelical “supporters” of Israel is Genesis 12:3 — which they claim dictates that God will curse the United States if it doesn’t “support” Israel. In this view, the right of the return would unquestionably be a curse-worthy act, as these true believers insist that God gave that land to the Jews exclusively. I can’t emphasize this enough: in these circles, the idea that Palestinians are human beings…

Netanyahu Patriarch Dies at 102, Leaves Hawkish Legacy

By Shalom Goldman

…u. Not only was he the father of my friend Benjamin, the Prime Minister of Israel, and the father of Israel’s hero of the Entebbe raid, Yonatan Netanyahu, he was also a distinguished historian and leader in his own right. This is a loss for all of Israel and for all who care about Israel. And thus the news Monday of the elder Netanyahu’s death was quickly folded into the US presidential campaign. Recently, Mitt Romney has been referring to the Is…

Corporations Have Consciences and Contraceptives Are Cheap: Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

By Sarah Posner

At oral argument in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties, Inc. v. Sebelius this morning, the Supreme Court justices spent a great deal of time questioning the lawyers in the case about whether corporations have a religious conscience, and whether Congress intended to protect it when enacting the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). What was most striking, though, was how all three female justices, Sonia So…

Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…te segregation and economic favoritism. When I spoke with Rothstein on the phone, he underscored the long-term effects of this last policy. During the 1940s and 1950s, suburban subdivisions were built in St. Louis, and throughout the country, using federal loans stipulating that no homes be sold to African Americans. Priced at about $125,000 in today’s dollars, these were affordable—with a mortgage—to working class families, black or white. Yet bl…

Taking Evangelical Support of Israel at Face Value Is a Terrible Idea: A Response

By Chrissy Stroop

…th understanding why evangelicals support precisely his kind of vision for Israel. Can such “support for Israel” really be equated to “love for the Jews,” as Best would have it? In my view, the idea is nonsensical on its face, as it’s impossible for anyone to love an entire people, which is, after all, an abstraction. For authoritarian evangelicals, however, the term “love” is often applied to abstract situations in which evangelicals’ responses a…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…tioned view of Jerusalem favors the perception that Jerusalem “belongs” to Israel. Israel’s leadership, beginning with its first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, has always been acutely aware of this “biblical” worldview of Jerusalem and cultivates it continually. In 2000, at the United Nations “Millennium Summit,” then Prime Minister Ehud Barak made the case for continued Israeli control over all of the holy city, east and west. Very astutely, a…

‘Do You Want Columbia to be Cursed by God?’ — Alarming Exchanges in Congress and Beyond Highlight the Desperate Need for Religious Literacy

By Chance Bonar

…well-established in Jewish tradition between the Am Yisrael (the people of Israel), the Eretz Yisrael (a geographical name given to the southern Levant), and the Medinat Yisrael (the modern-day State of Israel). Christians have, themselves, historically laid claim to being the “people of Israel” in supersessionist fashion, and have often conflated various Israels: the historical political entity, the ancient people-group, the modern nation-state,…