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How Muslim Civic Activism Helped Pass California’s Prop 47

By Nick Street

…put California at the leading edge of criminal justice reform nationwide. “Most of what’s been in the news about Muslims lately is not great,” said Sarah Jawaid. “What we’re doing is a counter-narrative to all of that.” Jawaid, an LA Voice organizer working with African-American Muslims in South Los Angeles, said that she is encouraged by the linkages across differences of race, generation and religion that activism around Prop 47 has forged. “It’…

On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number

By Ilana E. Strauss

…reasons people around the world have taken March 14th to ponder geometry’s most popular constant. Pi (π), a number used to measure the circumference of circles, is approximately 3.1415. I say approximately because pi is a transcendental number, meaning that its decimal digits actually go on forever, unpredictably. As far as mathematicians can tell, those numbers never settle into any kind of pattern. This numerical lawlessness is quite the thorn i…

The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?

By Patricia Miller

…s a solid majority of Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases. This year there’ve been four stories ignoring the march (before it’s even begun) in the Washington Post alone: one about the upbeat mood at the march in the wake of Donald Trump’s promise to crack down on abortion; an article questioning whether the march can heal the divide in the anti-abortion movement over Trump; a piece from John Gehring about how the march…

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

By Mark Clatterbuck

…t was the voices of civilian preachers like Pastor Burns who delivered the most bellicose speeches of the event, unfailingly leaning into violent religious rhetoric. One by one, they warned that the time for battle is now at hand. In one particularly frenzied tirade, attorney Tricia Lindsay called the crowd to: “Fight for your home! Fight for your life! These are uncircumcised Philistines! They want us to believe that they are winning. Know who yo…

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

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…condemnation through its use of highly confrontational street preaching demonstrations. This group has splintered over the past two decades into offshoots such as IUIC, which are located throughout major American cities and have a considerable presence in social media. Hip hop is no stranger to marginalized iterations of African American religion. Early hip hop was imbedded with Islamic references from Sunni Islam, the Nation of Islam and the Nat…

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

By Shaul Magid

…racist views of African Americans. Of course, he denied he was a racist—as most racists do—even publishing an essay in 1987 in The Jewish Press, a Brooklyn-based weekly he edited, entitled “I Hate Racism.” By the early 1970s, Kahane and the JDL became embroiled in arms-smuggling and other illegal activities for which Kahane was found guilty and given a five-year suspended sentence. Kahane immigrated to Israel in 1971 but returned to the United Sta…

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

By Sarah Posner

…ernment agency that enters a house of worship unwelcomed must be able to demonstrate a greater than usual reason for intrusion. In looking carefully at what happened in Ferguson, what is ethical must be considered every bit as important as what is legal. The police action in question here was allegedly justified as dealing with a zoning violation or some other minor infraction by the church – a rationale for intrusion into a house of worship that…

Barack Obama, Pro-Life Hero

By Eric C. Miller

…ternatives to abortion [which] will make abortions much less likely, since most abortions are economic.” A few weeks later, just thirty-four days before the election, that argument became even stronger. On October 3, researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine published a study with profound implications for policy making in the United States. According to Dr. Jeffery Peipert, the study’s lead author, abortion rates can be expected…

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

…of violence in which “Israel and the Jews are the biggest players” was the most offensive line in the essay. Also troubling to many readers was Gandhi’s assertion that Nazi murder of two-thirds of Europe’s Jews “was the result of the warped mind of an individual.” To reduce a profound historical question—what enables genocide in the context of war?—to a psychological formula seems facile at best. Deborah Howell, the ombudsman of the Washington Pos…