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The Hypocrisy in Protests against Ultra-Orthodox in Israel

By Shaul Magid

…mmodationist religiosity. The modern religious community claims the haredi readings are antiquated. That may be true. But they fail to see the ways in which the Judaism they defend is structurally, albeit not always practically, identical to the Judaism they criticize. Many of the same individuals protesting against the segregationist beliefs of the Beit Shemesh haredim pray in synagogues where women are segregated from men, and where women cannot…

4 (More) Nails in Discovery Institute’s Coffin

By Lauri Lebo

…volutionary precursors to the Cambrian fauna.” The entire piece is worth a read, but if you only have time for a quick scan, I suggest the section, Did the Cambrian Explosion Require an Intelligent Designer? As a matter of fact, it would be terrific if someone sent a link to Don McLeroy to read. Last year, the Texas Board of Education member and ardent young earth creationist successfully led efforts to insert language into his state’s science cur…

Comparing Gender Transition and Surrogacy to War and Human Trafficking, Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is an Intellectually Embarrassing and Harmful Mess

By Mary E. Hunt

…celibate clerics opining about surrogacy that makes me glad so few people read these documents. I suggest instead reading Professor of Ethics Grace Y. Kao’s recent book My Body, Their Baby: A Progressive Christian Vision for Surrogacy (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023). Professor Kao, tenured at Claremont School of Theology, describes her experience acting as a surrogate. Vatican officials might not like it, but at least they would h…

Why Don’t Muslims Condemn Terrorism?

By Hussein Rashid

…is NO divine command to kill Jews, and despite what Hamas may argue, it is politics being read into texts. MJ Rosenberg comments that reading the Mumbai attack as an attack on Israel is dangerous for Israel. However, the people who do not live in Israel, whose lives are not challenged daily, are the first to encourage Israel to respond with violence. We need to move beyond the rhetoric of Muslims must kill and/or convert everyone. Looking at India…

Mike Huckabee’s Army of Anti-Gay Zealots

By Sarah Posner

…recommended the movie Fireproof in the video; for the roots of that film, read Julie’s feature, out today, on a Christian dominionist film festival, where that film won an award.) Don Wildmon, then the president of the American Family Association, was one of the only religious right leaders to offer an early endorsement of Huckabee’s 2008 presidential campaign, back when Huckabee was complaining about the others much like he is complaining about…

Peter Beinart’s Controversial The Crisis of Zionism: Right Diagnosis, Wrong Treatment

By Shaul Magid

…eligion conference comparing Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Jewish Reconstructionism, to Baruch Spinoza, the quintessential modern Jewish heretic. A senior scholar stood up after my paper and offered the following criticism: “The difference between Spinoza and Kaplan is that the former was a great thinker while the latter was an important one. The two are not identical.” He was right. And I would say the same about Crisis. It’s not a great book,…

A Secret Family History Shows “Regular” Life Under the Reich: Sarah Wildman on Paper Love

By Sarah Posner and Sarah Wildman

…or your aunt know anything at all? Well she called Valy my grandfather’s “true love,” which certainly made me curious. DId that mean they had argued over her? It sounded a bit like that. had she read letters? had she known the story? I think she knew a fair amount. Perhaps he shared with her this sense of impotence in his inability to bring Valy to America after he left Vienna. I don’t know what my grandmother knew, exactly, but whatever she did k…

Was Prof Wrong to Ask Students to Not Thank God?

By Hollis Phelps

…dents themselves, both last year and this year, were not the ones actually reading the statements. Although the media’s discussion of the incident tended to assume otherwise, the job of reading the statements fell to a third party; a source close to the situation confirmed that other professors were responsible for reading the statements. This is why, in the email obtained by Campus Reform, Hvastkovs also requests of his students, “Provide me some…

The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ilar is happening to Christianity, or to the three scriptural monotheisms, today? Something is clearly up (or down) with religious affiliation; how to read that data is the real question, and that calls for the art for interpretation, not mathematical modeling. That’s what makes this story far more interesting—and far less funny. It turns out that this same model was applied in 2003 to the phenomenon of “extinct” languages. As fewer and fewer peop…

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

By The Editors

…ey continue laughing“), Reuters notes that “[the Russian] Parliament has already rushed through laws increasing fines for protesters, tightening controls on the Internet, and imposing stricter rules on defamation.” Essentially, it is not three singers from Pussy Riot who are on trial here. If that were the case, what’s happening would be totally insignificant. It is the entire state system of the Russian Federation which is on trial and which, unf…