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Excerpt: The Christian Roots of Zionism

By Shalom Goldman

…ournal attributed President Truman’s decision to recognize Israel to ‘‘the New York vote’’—code for the Jewish vote. Reading the Christian Century’s articles in the light of later developments, it seems that these reservations about creating a Jewish state were the opinions of a small elite. As Truman biographer David McCullough has noted, Truman’s motives in granting Israel diplomatic recognition were both political and religious. Writing of the…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ation’s capital, police arrested 141 men in a raid on a gay club. From the New York Times: Analysts said the arrests in Jakarta were part of enforcement efforts by the police before Ramadan, the monthlong holiday in which observant Muslims fast throughout the day. Tobias Basuki, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta, said the police appeared to be formally taking on a role that had previously been held by hard…

Founder of Liberal Mosque in Germany Under Guard After Death Threats; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he-clock protection from German police after threats on her life,” reports Newsweek: In the days since her Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque opened last month, Ates said, she was asked while crossing the street by three men if she headed the “perverse” mosque where “men, women, lesbians and gays” pray together. When she responded to the men, she said, one shouted: “You’ll die!” Ates also accused Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan for stirring up hatred…

Pete Seeger Was No Saint

By Gwynne Watkins

Last Sunday, I saw a few new faces at my church in Beacon, New York. They came not because of a sudden call to Presbyterianism, but to mourn the death of Pete Seeger, the town’s most beloved resident. As you may have read in every single obituary, the revolutionary folk singer lived in this Hudson Valley town for forty years, on the side of a mountain, in a home he built himself. Everyone in Beacon is indebted to him for one reason or another, be…

Trump’s Yiddish Trash Talk Launches the Great ‘Schlong’ Debate of 2015

By Peter Manseau

…d on his use of words, Trump may yet claim to have seen video. As a native New Yorker, Trump is likely more aware of this ritual, and has probably heard more Yiddish, than many Americans. He may have even heard the verb “shlog” used in the context of “beating.” If “schlonged” has indeed become “commonplace” for getting beaten in Trump’s hometown, this may be the reason why. In 1972, for example, when food prices soared across the United States, th…

When a Pride March Means Owning the Shame of Racial and Economic Injustice

By Peter Laarman

…ntretemps around the opening of the new REBAR in the old G Lounge space in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood is (again) quite typical. Evidently aware that G had finally, after many years, become a rare welcoming downtown space for people of color, the new management made a point of making REBAR distinctly unwelcoming to African American patrons. With Pride month upon us, I want to call out what should be recognized as the Gay Shame in the persisten…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ograms next. In 2022, the court dealt a devastating blow to gun control in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, where the 6-3 majority opinion, written by Clarence Thomas, showed the might of the conservative super majority by broadening the scope of the Second Amendment, with Thomas claiming that gun laws must be rooted in the country’s “history and tradition” in order to be constitutional. The fallout from this case is potentially…

As Cambodia Erupts in Protest, a Stolen Buddhist Relic Ignites Anger

By Joe Freeman

…heft of a golden urn, believed to hold ashes of the Buddha himself. As the New York Times reported last week, monks blame a government more concerned with its own protection than that of Cambodia’s cultural and religious heritage. The priceless item, gifted by Sri Lanka in 1957 to commemorate the 2,500-year anniversary of Buddha’s birth, was taken during a windy night in mid-December from its resting place in Oudong, Cambodia’s former capital. It…

Jerusalem Honors Right-Wing Mogul Sheldon Adelson

By Diane Winston

…tics that shaped the Jerusalem Post’s coverage of the luncheon? Unlike the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, both of which highlighted Adelson’s inflammatory descriptions of Palestinians and his attacks on peacemaking efforts, the Jerusalem paper offered a sentimental tribute to a “globally respected tourism icon,” focusing exclusively on Adelson’s business smarts and devotion to Israel. The article’s closer: A tough businessman and a phil…

The Heresies of Christopher Hitchens

By Austin Dacey

…tchens recounts a scene caused by Susan Sontag at a left-wing gathering in New York City in 1982. The purpose of the event was to stand in solidarity with the Solidarity movement, begun by dockworkers at the Lenin shipyards of Gdansk, Poland, calling for better wages, prices, and the legalization of trade unions independent of the Communist Party. Sontag shocked those assembled by denouncing all communism: I repeat; not only is Fascism (and overt…