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Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…roughout the world. But fans of Jerusalem, unlike fans of Paris, Cairo, or New York, are a bitterly divided groups of fans, with fiercely contending understandings of the city’s history and landscape. For Jerusalem, though “united” by Israeli government fiat after the 1967 War, remains a deeply divided city. Its Jewish and Arab citizens live in a very uneasy balance, one easily upset, as the political events of this year, and each of the forty-thr…

‘Late Night With The Devil’ Reflects the Role of Talk Shows in Sensationalizing the Satanic Panic of the 1980s

By Joseph Laycock

…cial, “Exploring Satan’s Underground.” In 1990, John O’Connor, cardinal of New York, gave a sermon warning about the dangers of demons, Satanic crime, and rock music, even reading from The Exorcist in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. In the news cycle that followed, ABC’s 20/20 set to work trying to film an exorcism. This time they got what the networks had long sought. James LeBar, exorcist for the Diocese of New York, found a family in Palm Beach, Flori…

Euthanasia Billboards, Post-Rapture Pet Care, Can You Tell a Burqa from a Hijab?

By Michael J. Altman

…a Qur’an Day” on the anniversary of 9/11. The same Gainesville church made news in the past with its “No Homo Mayor” signs opposing an openly gay mayor. Lt. Governor of South Carolina André Bauer discusses how he uses shoes to save souls. New York Governor David Paterson denied reports that he had swapped Judaism for his Catholic faith. However, Gwyneth Paltrow is taking mystical kabbalah to the Hamptons with her. In other actress news, Jennifer…

Ahmadi Muslim Community Doesn’t Speak For All Muslims

By Hussein Rashid

…he Muslim-American community as “bad.” This theme persisted in bus ads in New York that purport to reveal the truth about Islam and another op-ed against Park51. In the op-ed, Qasim Rashid (no relation) argues that Muhammad said, “Muslims must never practice his faith in a manner that offends his non-Muslim neighbors.” The way he paraphrases the hadith implies that if anyone objects to anything a Muslim does, they should not do it. In other words…

Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…ng people don’t see the need for faith. The European Union’s constitution omits any mention of Christianity, the historic faith of the continent. Yet Europe still controls the leadership roles in the Church. The Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury—leaders of two of Christianity’s largest groupings—are European. The World Council of Churches is headquartered in Geneva, even though there are probably more Christians in a neighborhood of Lagos or N…

Schools Should Compete for Cash, Obama Says

By Peter Laarman

…sized big and fast over well-structured and thoughtful.” And last week the New York Times ran a juicy Page One report on the droves of hustlers and charlatans who have already tried claim a piece of the action: shameless operators who know zero about education but who promise local school agencies quick results. “Many of these companies clearly just smell the money,” noted Jack Jennings of the Center on Education Policy in Washington DC. I want to…

Is “Racist” Jesus Lawsuit Against The Met Already a Success?

By Andre E. Johnson

…ing that the Met receives “millions in taxpayer funds,” Justin Joseph, the New York City resident who filed the federal lawsuit, argues that this makes it “government speech” and that the government should not support speech that is racist. Annie Armstrong, writing for the Creators Project posits: Joseph’s case raises the question of whether museums ought to edit their displays to evolve with the sentiments of contemporary audiences…[This] case ur…

Cooler than Thou: Will Hipsters Wreck Christianity?

By Nicole Greenfield

…rtist ministry says, “that just wouldn’t fly in a post-Christian city like New York.” At Pete’s Candy Store, the bar where Revolution holds its Sunday evening services, Bakker tries to build not just a solid community—through a deep commitment to fighting social injustices, for example—but an egalitarian one as well. He doesn’t want to command all of the attention, and he doesn’t want to be the hand-shaking, holier-than-thou pastor seen at many ev…

Ann Coulter Puts the “Con” in “Homocon 2010”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rvative talking head Ann Coulter will headline its “Homocon 2010” event in New York next month. “The gay left has done their best to take all the fun out of politics, with their endless list of boycotts and protests. Homocon is going to be our annual effort to counter the ‘no-fun police’ on the left,” said Christopher Barron, Chairman of the Board of GOProud. “I can’t think of any conservative more fun to headline our inaugural party then the self…

“One of Us”: Rick Santorum and the Politics of (Very Big) Family

By Kathryn Joyce

…e same sort of logic offered by another Louisiana rally-goer quoted by the New York Times, 18-year-old Haley Harris, part of the Oklahoma family band that created the unofficial Santorum campaign song, “Game On!”: “If he can run his household, he can run the country,” Harris (whose pastor dad is part of her band) told the crowd. “One of the things that kind of caught our eye with Rick was the size of his family,” yet another supporter told the Was…