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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…

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…

Turn On The News: Ending Zoom Church is a Great Idea for a Column — Provided You Completely Ignore the Disability Perspective

By Daniel Schultz

…ous about what could be learned, and deeply indifferent to the potential misery sponsored by the author’s ideas. Tish Harrison Warren might be entirely right that the world would be a better place if churches returned to entirely in-person worship. I think the world would be better off if New York Times opinion editors concentrated less on what might spark conversation and more on what needs to be said at the present moment. This isn’t it. ### The…

The Religious Lives of Soldiers

By Jonathan Ebel

…uck me as I was reading excerpts from Sunday’s sermons and articles in the New York Times that we know a great deal about Sunday’s thoughts and the thoughts of clergymen and editorial boards of denominational periodicals, but that little was written about the religious thoughts and lives of the men and women who went over to Europe to wage the war. This is one instance of a broader problem that spans any historical discipline—certain voices, usual…

Are Tea Partiers Pro-Gay and Pro-Choice?

By Sarah Posner

…eira showed in this further dissection of the poll: Findings from a recent New York Times/CBS News poll make this point very clearly. The poll finds that the general public remains stalwart in its support for the Roe v. Wade decision establishing the right to obtain a legal abortion: 58 percent say this decision was a good thing, compared to just 34 percent who say it was a bad thing. But among Tea Party supporters, sentiment is just the reverse:…

French Theologian Urges Islam to Self-Critique, Fails to Notice Log in Own Eye

By Daniel J. Schultz

…the immigrant dominated Parisian suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, reported the New York Times, teacher Éric Bettancourt told the television channel France 2 that a majority of his students did not observe the silence. He went on to say the students “considered that it was forbidden to make blasphemies or insult the prophet through drawings or speech.” Many teachers – shocked and speechless – found themselves unable to engage. These new measures, which…

Goat Head Found in Brooklyn. Who Cares?

By Joseph Laycock

…y the Internet is abuzz with speculation about insidious forces lurking in New York. Law enforcement frequently assumes, unfairly, that whenever dead animal parts appear in unusual places that Santeria practitioners are to blame, but The Gothamist has done this theory one better by suggesting that the number “93”—which appears on a tag on the goat’s ear—is linked to Aleister Crowley’s philosophy of Thelema. (One wonders how much time the alleged T…

Sex Miseducation: Prof Fired for Pushing Catholic ‘Natural Law’

By Janine Giordano Drake

…rican Religious Debates over Birth Control, 1907-1937, Archbishop Hayes of New York worked very hard to shut down the activities of Margaret Sanger because he believed that such technology violated the “natural” connection between sexuality and new life. In November 1921, he literally contacted the police to stop Sanger from using a public town hall for the American Birth Control Conference, telling the New York Times: Heinous is the sin committed…

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…