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How Muslim Civic Activism Helped Pass California’s Prop 47

By Nick Street

…tions. The victory of Proposition 47, for example, makes California the first state in the nation to “de-felonize” drug use. This sentencing-reduction measure won 60 percent of the vote and united a surprising array of supporters, including a conservative evangelical Christian billionaire whose advocacy for criminal justice reform attracted the attention of “some of his friends on the left.” Another story-behind-the-story is the galvanizing effect…

On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number

By Ilana E. Strauss

…the only math object that goes back to the history of clay tablets that’s still studied seriously, 4,000 years later.” Pi draws attention not just on its own, but inside equations. For instance, it’s is an essential part of Euler’s identity, eiπ+1=0, an equation which commonly tops “greatest equations ever” polls. Euler’s identity combines the two most important transcendental numbers with i, which equals the square-root of -1. Leonhard Euler was…

The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?

By Patricia Miller

…r’s march won’t come close to the numbers of the Women’s March, despite guest stars like VP Mike Pence. With only about 100 buses permitted for the city, compared to 1,800 for the Women’s March, organizers are suddenly claiming it’s not about the numbers after all. March for Life President Jeanne Mancini told the Times: I don’t think that these numbers are the most important. The number most important for us is 58 million, which is the number of A…

From Shofars to Hammers: The Spiritual Warriors of MAGA are ‘ReAwakening’ to Political Violence

By Mark Clatterbuck

…any big surprises when I bought my ticket to see some of the NAR’s brightest stars at the ReAwaken rally when it swept through my hometown. I was wrong. While forays into national politics and spiritual warfare rhetoric have long marked the NAR movement, the degree to which the dominionist theology of NAR has co-opted far-right political extremism, conspiracy theory culture, and open calls for violence is both a novel and dangerous development. A…

‘Don’t Call Me Black No More, I’m an Israelite’: Kendrick Lamar, Black Hebrew Religion, and Black Suffering

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…associated with the approaching millennium at the end of the 1990s. Former St. Louis rapper Chingy, who achieved stardom with the hit song “Right Thurr,” later abandoned mainstream hip hop, adopted the Hebrew Israelite faith and recorded the track “King Judah” dedicating his music career to spreading the Hebrew Israelite message. In a social and political climate that has produced the “Black Lives Matter” movement, to witness a rapper of Kendrick…

The Women’s March, Anti-Semitism, and ‘The Jewish Farrakhan’

By Shaul Magid

…ition of antisemitism,” David Engel, Maurice Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies at NYU, traces the way that it originated in the mid-19th century as a label for a very local and limited position among a group of anti-emancipation Germans who held that the rights granted Jews were threatening to the vitality of the German Republic. It was not, Engel argues, a term describing the secularized extension of medieval Christian anti-Judaism. Nor wa…

Where Are “Religious Liberty” Advocates After Police Raid of Ferguson Church?

By Sarah Posner

…tate separation and religious liberty advocate, today sent a letter to the St. Louis County Police Department Chief John Belmar, raising concerns that the police action at Greater St. Mark Family Church might have violated the First Amendment. In a statement yesterday, the police department said its officers visited a building adjacent to the church over claims the church lacked an occupancy permit for people to sleep there. In the letter, the org…

Barack Obama, Pro-Life Hero

By Eric C. Miller

…e conditions that make such a claim possible. Drawing on a sample of 9,000 St. Louis women—many of whom were uninsured—Peipert and his colleagues covered the costs of birth control, making a variety of options available free of charge. Once price was no longer a concern, many of the women opted for relatively expensive intrauterine devices (IUDs) which are among the most effective forms available: The effect on teen pregnancy was striking: There w…

Akin Revival

By Sarah Posner

…aders in Washington. Akin’s campaign, Lane said, represents the fight against establishment politicians, their consultants and “a morally flawed approach to politics.” It was part of the Pastors’ Policy Briefing, organized by the Missouri Renewal Project, a spin-off of an idea Lane first hatched in Texas, when pastors organized for Governor Rick Perry’s reelection in 2006. They’ve been active in several states since that time; Lane told me in 2008…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…particularly in the Holocaust, was historic in its proportions. While we must strive for a future of peace that rejects violence, it is also important not to forget the past, lest we fail to learn from it. Having learned from it, we can then find the path to peace and rejection of violence through forgiveness. Gandhi’s Jewish Interlocutors, 1921-38 Of course much of the incivility of the current Gandhi flap can be understood in terms of the polari…