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‘Soul of Yoga’ at Stake in Texas Regulation Push

By Andrea R. Jain

…gis aren’t the only ones fighting this battle. In Virginia, Wisconsin, and New York, state governments have required vocational licensing for programs training yoga teachers. Some opposition to such attempts has been successful. After the New York State Education Department tried to assess fines on and to require permits from yoga teacher training programs, a group of yogis responded with legislation that successfully exempted yoga teacher trainin…

How to Meet Muslims: A (Cinematic) Primer

By Haroon Moghul

…not distributed evenly across the country, but concentrated in places like New York City, where almost one million Muslims live in our nation’s most crowded metropolitan area. (There is, astonishingly, no major cluster in Oklahoma, despite the obvious importance of that state to the global campaign to install Shari’ah law in random places.) Short of putting Muslims on buses and driving them around the country to be gawked at, talked to, and intera…

Deception, Doubt and Divinity (School)

By Meghan Florian

…eate in her role at Harvard. Now it turns out the credentials cited in her New York Times profile were falsified. “Ah!” we cry with glee. “She did not actually graduate from Duke Divinity School!” As if attending divinity school, at Duke or elsewhere, would have solved the problem. Here, in the words of DDS Dean Richard Hays, from a letter to the community: Ms. MacBain, who has recently been appointed the Director of an organization called the Hum…

Pope Francis: Culture Warriors Out, “Collaboration and Consultation” In

By Patricia Miller

…people of diverse backgrounds, people with differing opinion,” he told the New York Times before his appointment. He told priests to refrain from appearing at protests at abortion clinics and wrote an essay in America magazine that sought to find common ground between the Obama administration and the bishops on the contentious issue of the contraception mandate, while warning that the church’s opposition could backfire: I believe that an even grea…

What We Still Don’t Know About Islam

By Hussein Rashid

…evolution. Donald Rumsfeld has his infamous photo with Saddam Hussein. Now New York Gov. Paterson is using the same simple constructions, comparing sufis and Shi’ah Muslims, as thought they are mutually exclusive categories. One can be sufi and Shi’ah or sufi and Sunni. For example, Khomeini, leader of the Iranian Revolution, had sufi leanings. Paterson’s ignorance conflates current concerns about Iran with the Park51 issue, and shows no understan…

Who Says The “Partly Jewish” Are Bad For The Jews?

By Susan Katz Miller

…tion for interfaith children. In interfaith family communities in Chicago, New York, and Washington, Jewish and Christian educators are working side by side in dual-faith classrooms, comparing and contrasting, and noting points of historical connection. They teach texts and rituals and history, not creed or dogma. In response to the Pew report, Jewish leaders continue to express concern that such interfaith children will break the chain of Jewish…

Reimagining Twentieth Century Harlem as a Jewish Mecca

By Jeffrey Gurock

…nings of Jewish return to Harlem during this present-day gentrification of New York City. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? There has never been one Jewish voice or vision nor one African American voice or opinion about the textured and complicated relationship between these two American minority groups. The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline and Revival of a Jewish Community Jeffrey Gurock NYU Press November 2016 Is there an…

How Mario Cuomo Made the World Safe for Pro-Choice Catholics

By Patricia Miller

…ter Mondale, conservative elements of the Catholic hierarchy, most notably New York Archbishop John O’Connor, started to push back against attempts by Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin to remove abortion as a point of leverage with Catholics for the Republican Party. Bernardin famously asserted that Catholics should consider all “life” issues—abortion, nuclear war, poverty—when considering which candidate to vote for. But at a news conference in J…

What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…here’s one, Ulrich von Gienanth. And I wonder—do these guys show up in the New York Times? [It turns out that] their deportation made banner headlines. They were running the SS operations in the United States, probably participating in far more extensive sabotage within the United States leading up to the war. Then, much more contemporary memory hits: Nazis were blowing shit up in America and recruiting folks. That’s who this organization brought…

Public Prayer Verdict Shows Its True Colors

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…e Justice Kennedy, who voiced hope that Greece “would welcome a prayer by any minister or layman who wished to give one.” No such luck. With the Brevard verdict, it is Justice Kagan who looks prescient, when she wrote in her dissenting opinion, that the majority decision reflects an erroneous reading of religion itself: “I have no doubt that every member of this Court believes as firmly as I that our institutions of government belong equally to al…