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Trump to Meet with Controversial Televangelist Today

By Anthea Butler

…e down, but he is not completely out of the Republican presidential race. Trump’s prosperity pal and Trump Towers tenant Paula White has arranged for Trump to meet a group of about two dozen Christian pastors in New York today. According to CBN, White arranged the meeting on her own initiative, and the meeting is closed to the public. White herself is no stranger to controversy, as she was a target of the Grassley televangelist investigation (with…

Tattoos, Cremation, Personal Spirituality: The Jewish World in Transformation

By Dana Evan Kaplan

…arguing at the time, I owe much to her enthusiastic debating. If she was alive today, I think she would be somewhat shocked by my changes in orientation. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? We are at a transformative moment in Jewish history and creative leaders can and should respond with an equal amount of transformative zeal. Any such moment of revolutionary transformation is fraught with peril but it doesn’t do us any goo…

Why Did an Antisemitic Christian Zionist Have the Chutzpah to Declare That He’d Be Leading a Holocaust March?

By Ben Lorber and Aidan Orly

…rael, Christian Zionism is one of the largest antisemitic movements in the world today. ‘The soul snatcher of Long Island’ Mike Evans is a prominent U.S. evangelical leader, prolific author, and head of influential Christian Zionist institutions like the Jerusalem-based Friends of Zion Museum and the Jerusalem Prayer Team, a global outreach network with 30 million followers on Facebook. Evans has maintained close relationships with generations of…

The New Age Fantasy of a Celtic Church that Revered Nature and the Divine Feminine Never Existed — So What?

By Ed Simon

…upremacy in those lands, though he’d no doubt be aghast at how the term is today most often associated with druidical quasi-pagans or fans of Enya. Twentieth-century novelist James Joyce, a critic of colonialism and nationalism who would no doubt be despised by someone like Buchanan, also alluded to the need for a separate, muscular Celtic Christianity as distinct from the conservative Irish Catholic Church, describing his native land in Ulysses a…

Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’

By Andrew L. Seidel

…nd Belief is an “intentionally provocative work,” it was, at least to this reader, quite refreshing and reassuring during an era of fake news and alternative facts. Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience Jack N. Rakove Oxford University Press August, 2020 Instead of Virgil guiding us through Dante’s nine circles of hell, it’s Thomas Jefferson and James Madison who walk readers through the intellectual history of religious freedom in America. The sages o…

What Did Kyrie Say That Was So Wrong? When Black Antisemitism Meets White Jewish Privilege

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…lack bigotry—cousins that comprise the foundation of the White supremacist worldview in the ascendancy today. Unsurprisingly and understandably Irving’s tweet and later comments have been largely condemned as antisemitic. I say largely and not completely because there are just as many Black people asking, “What did Kyrie say that was so wrong?” Most Black supporters of Irving see the reaction (including his suspension by the Brooklyn Nets and term…

If Hillary Wins Big It Won’t Be a Moral Victory—And That’s a Crying Shame

By Peter Laarman

…he pundits and prognosticators have been bringing us the good news—and it truly is good news—of Hillary Clinton’s steady march to victory in November. It’s not just that Trump is still flailing and shape shifting; it’s also that Clinton possesses an incredible field operation, an incredible strategic team, and an incredible steely resolve to achieve what she couldn’t quite achieve eight years ago. Clinton’s advantages have definitely put control o…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…onal decision meted out would only be upheld if it didn’t contradict basic Russian law. Speaking at the Russian constitutional court, Judge Sergey Mavrin said “All decisions of the ECHR must be executed only with consideration to the Russian Constitution’s supremacy”. …The country – no stranger to human rights violations – has recently passed laws giving the police power to fine and imprison its citizens for protesting for a period of up to 15 yea…

How a Bill O’Reilly Bestseller Helps Explain the Anti-Semitism Behind the Poway Shooting

By Tony Keddie

…to inflate their military victory over the Jews as legitimation for their rule. It was spread through literary invectives and iconographic representations, such as a series of coins which depicted dejected Jewish captives surrounded by the words “Judea captured.” On top of facing new waves of anti-Judaism as punishment for a minor provincial revolt involving a fraction of the empire’s Jews, Jews across the empire now had to pay a special tax to R…

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men “Stand Up” for “Religious Freedom”… On a Plane

By Kara Loewentheil

…fordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage requirement to find a better job. *Correction: This post originally indicated that gender separation was due to concerns about women’s menstrual cycles. To read more about gender separation among Haredi Jews in Israel and in the U.S. read the Forward’s excellent piece from 2011….