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Are They Jewish Bones? Battle for Separation of Synagogue & State in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…ni’s sentiments when they wrote on March 29 that “the time has come to do away with the Chief Rabbinate. This is the only conclusion any clear-headed observer, concerned about the way Judaism is being represented in the public domain, can draw.” Hilonim, especially the more vocal and militant among them In seeming to accede to the demands of his coalition’s Ultra-Orthodox constiuents, Benjamin Netanyahu (busy with international affairs in general…

Rejecting the Binary: Why Left v. Right Doesn’t Work

By Eric C. Miller

…hem and generate more campaign funds. Yet “winning” is not possible in the way they imagine, as differences of opinion will always exist. Some writers do seek some middle ground, such as Steven Waldman’s Founding Faith, David Hollenbachs’ The Common Good and Christian Ethics, and even to some degree, Richard Land’s The Divided States of America? Surprisingly, Barack Obama’s treatment of the issues in Audacity of Hope are very well informed. Yet, h…

Watching Man of Steel in Istanbul

By Haroon Moghul

…out. The dialogue was utterly embarrassing and unconvincing—“this ends one way, either you die or I die” (that’s two ways as I count it); or “I have so many questions,” Kal-El says, when he meets Jor-El, and you kind of die inside. The plot development was nonexistent, the animating tensions absent (we never feel why Superman is allegedly caught between worlds, or why he loves humans), the pacing rushed and languorous, accelerating when it needed…

The ‘White Lie’ Connecting Trump’s Pardon of Arsonists, Immigration Fiasco, and Charlottesville

By Jonathan Russell

…Refuge in 2016, offers a perspective from which to view the very specific way Trump has actively traded on the close kinship between Whiteness and the ritualistic (re)enactment of land, resource, and space dominion in American culture. Perhaps more than any other scholar to date, George Lipsitz has explored what he calls the “the racialization of space and the spatialization of race,” and the ways in which the possessive investment in Whiteness f…

Step Right Up And Get Your Low-Priced ‘Pro-God Content’! Donald Trump Enters the Bible Business

By Karen E. Park

…ham style. But instead he held it at chest level, displaying it first this way, then that, like any other thing he was hawking. At the time I compared it to the way the Price is Right models used to display cans of Turtle Wax, as if asking “How much is this worth to you?” Well now, almost four years later, we know exactly how much without going over: $59.99. Trump’s “God Bless the USA Bible” isn’t simply the “trusted King James Version translation…

To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…ter protesters across the nation). It did not and does not have to be this way. There’s still time to choose solidarity over sacrifice. Our national conversation has been diminished by a false choice between saving lives and saving the economy. The road to this moral and spiritual cul-de-sac began with Trump’s declaration that the “cure cannot be worse than the disease.” Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and conservative radio host Glenn Beck…

More Than Big Hair and Money: Jim, Tammy Faye and the Media “Holy Wars” of the 80s

By John Wigger

…hard to forget Tammy’s makeup streaming down her face as she cried or the way the Bakkers flaunted their wealth. Bakker raised about $158 million between 1984 and 1987 from his “lifetime partners,” but still managed to leave the ministry teetering on the edge of bankruptcy when the scandal broke. But there was more to it than just big hair and money. Before PTL could become a front-page scandal it had to have an outsized presence in American cult…

8: The Mormon Proposition Gets It Right

By Joanna Brooks

…have dismissed the film as blatantly false. But what I’m hearing from a number of Mormons deeply familiar with the Proposition 8 campaign is that the film gets it mostly right. [See also Holly Welker’s review here. – Eds] Some take exception to editing choices that sequence events out of context for dramatic effect; others wish that the filmmakers had not been so cartoonish in their depictions of anti-gay-marriage standpoints, using only notori…

Debate Heats Up Over “Francis Effect”

By Patricia Miller

…aniel Burke at CNN.com in a lengthy, mostly anecdotal piece, “there’s more way than one to measure the pontiff’s influence” than, say, actual metrics like the number of people going to mass or returning to the church. According to Burke, you just have to “ask around” Boston to find folks who know someone who’s thinking about returning to the church or who feels less horrible about the church than in the darkest days of the U.S. clerical sex abuse…

Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…fully, no Black person should ever be expected to describe in totality the ways in which they wish to be treated fairly. It’s exhausting to explain and tiring to unpack. After all, we don’t exactly have a racism-free America to compare it to since, sadly, such a nation has never existed. Besides, how does one person teach another to treat human beings like human beings? But I can tell you without a doubt that a start would have been not being able…