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Critics of Hasidic Schools Exposé Missed the Point: It Wasn’t Antisemitic or the Product of Secular Bias — It’s a Story of Corruption

By Shaul Magid

…the money was for a summer program run by the yeshiva to teach English to new Russian immigrants. I knew nothing about this program and didn’t sign the forms. When I returned and the Rosh Yeshiva asked why I’d refused to sign the forms I asked him about the program. He told me no such program existed. When I asked, “How can we take public money for a program that doesn’t exist?” he smiled and looked at me as though I’d landed from another planet….

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…100 percent.” As we’ve moved from an election dominated by fake news to a new Trump administration run on the principle of “alternative facts,” it’s worth taking some time to ponder what seems to be contemporary conservative credulity. We should certainly be reminded of the term “truthiness” that Stephen Colbert invented in October 2005 to capture some of the pronouncements of the George W. Bush administration. As he explained then, truthiness wa…

Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

By Peter Montgomery

…e Day Protests Against Buggery Law We have reported on U.S. evangelicals backing resistance to the repeal of Jamaica’s colonial era “buggery” law. Last week, on Jamaica’s Independence Day, equality activists protested the country’s anti-gay laws in Jamaica, London, and New York. Vietnam: US Embassy Hosts Harvey Milk Foundation as Pride Celebrated LGBT activists in Hanoi held their third Pride celebration. On August 4, the U.S. Embassy hosted a for…

“Reconciliation” With Indigenous People is Comforting For Many Canadians, But is a Christian Concept Up To The Task?

By Pamela Klassen and Joseph Wiebe

…ey spoke two different languages—Cree and Low German—and yet they shared a mutual love of the land. They knew the land, learned from it, and spent their days working on it. Out of their commitment to nurturing creation and new life came respect, laughter, and friendship. Being treaty people requires challenging the falsehoods seeded by stories that tell of “civilization” emerging from tamed wilderness; it also requires listening to and reading the…

Escape From Manhattan: Tech, Tragedy and Storytelling in Sandy’s Wake

By Rachel Wagner

…tion-driven investment in other worlds. Then Hurricane Sandy arrived, blew New York away, and as the convention center where Comic Con had been held drained of water from the Hudson River; and as the lower half of Manhattan met Halloween in utter darkness, I found myself shuttered in without electricity in southern Connecticut, watching the world fall apart in New York City, where even today people are scrambling for gasoline to power their genera…

Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…mes hesitatingly, as “unconfirmed”) by NPR, ABC News, The Huffington Post, New York Daily News, the Houston Chronicle, and many other local news outlets and blogs. The real Joel Osteen Ministries began to receive inquiries. The earliest official denial came from the real Joel Osteen’s Twitter account on April 8 in response to a tweet: “It is a false rumor. Pastor Joel is not leaving the church. -JOM Team,” it read. The media coverage then shifted…

It’s Up to You, New York… To Oppose Islamophobia

By Randall Balmer

…what I find deeply disquieting is a recent poll showing that a majority of New Yorkers oppose the project. Such sentiment is not worthy of New Yorkers, and it violates this city’s long tradition of religious tolerance, dating back to the early decades of the seventeenth century. When Jonas Michaëlius, the first Dutch minister in New Netherland, convened the first religious gathering in New Amsterdam in 1628, he commented on the religious diversity…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…GBT people living in ‘choked’ situations In a commentary for the Hindustan Times, Dhrubo Jyoti calls Delhi’s price celebration a “short gasp of breath in a choked environment.” Jyoti notes that the LGBT community in India “has stumbled in the courts but has made impressive strides in turning the tide in social opinion, especially with younger people who don’t view queer people with a mix of suspicion of hatred like their parents did.” Jyoti notes…

The New York Times Sunday Review has a Mormon Problem

By Joanna Brooks

…nism and its fascinating position in American political life: experts like Kathleen Flake of Vanderbilt (who is LDS) and Sarah Gordon of the University of Pennsylvania (who is not). It continues to be acceptable editorial practice at the New York Times to talk about Mormons as if we are not participants in national conversation—as if we’re not even in the room. Celebrity cultural critics with little to no working knowledge of Mormonism have acce…

What Good Is It for Union to Gain the World, But Forfeit Its Soul?

By Yazmine Nichols

…like the one I presently attend, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. And, again, on the subject of the word “liberal,” Shakur is worth quoting at length: As far as I’m concerned, ‘liberal’ is the most meaningless word in the dictionary. History has shown me that as long as some white middle-class people can live high on the hog, take vacations to Europe, send their children to private schools, and reap the benefits of their white s…