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The Jewish Daily Forward is Neither Jewish, Nor Daily (But Still Forward). Discuss!

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…always thought of the paper, for short, anyway, much like people call The New York Times just “The Times.” But then I started to think about it, and I realized that for me, the word “Jewish” has started to come with unspoken assumptions; who is “Jewish” enough becomes aligned with who is “pro-Israel” enough. The Forward reports on Israel, of course, but it seems to manage to do so in a way that commands respect. And that is no easy maneuver in th…

The Problem We All Live With: Bearing Witness, But Never Finding Justice

By Emilie M. Townes

…s become a halting democracy rather than a vibrant one. We are living in a world and a nation in which we have to say over and over again that #blacklivesmatter as we view the videos of Alton B. Sterling’s death at the hands of two Baton Rouge police officers or Philando Castile’s death at the hand of one police officer in Falcon Heights. It is a shame that Black folk and our allies have been saying this since this country became a republic and un…

The “Good Guy With a Gun” Myth

By Carlos Wilton

…l mission and blow up the bad guy in a kamikaze attack. Viral social-media videos thrust the Baton Rouge and St. Paul images into the consciousness of millions. In quick succession, the raw, unedited smartphone videos gave America something Hollywood has never shown us: a man’s actual death by gunshot. It wasn’t epic. It wasn’t honorable. It was simply horrifying. Far more shocking than even the exploding fake-blood packets of a Quentin Tarantino…

The Year in Reproductive Justice: 2015 Summary

By Harry F. Knox

…tal liberties, which was once a shield to protect us against government intrusion, into a sword aimed at harming others. It would be easy to think that 2015 was a year of faith versus reproductive justice, but that is simply not true. While conservative Christians might believe they have a monopoly on religion in America, justice-seeking people of faith, including many Christians, spent 2015 struggling for reproductive justice. In July, I joined d…

Reza Aslan’s Viral Fox News Interview Reveals More Than Just Christian Privilege

By Jeffrey Scholes

…barrasses herself by primarily asking Aslan not about the substance of his new book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, but why he, a Muslim, could and would write a book about Jesus. After Aslan calmly provides his credentials as a scholar of religions, Green, apparently unsatisfied with his answer asks, “But it still begs the question, though, why you would be interested in the founder of Christianity?” Again, Aslan informs Green…

Hell, in Rob Bell’s Own Words: State of Belief Radio

By The Editors

…en, Hell and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived” debuted at #2 on the New York Times best-seller list. Here’s the description: “Rob Bell addresses one of the most controversial issues of faith-the afterlife-arguing, would a loving God send people to eternal torment forever…? Bell puts hell on trial, and his message is decidedly hopeful-eternal life doesn’t start when we die; it starts right now. And ultimately, Love Wins.” Pastor Bell I know…

How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics

By Christopher Douglas

…ostmodernism and hippie New Ageism as origins of America’s post-truth fake news world, and makes the mistake—in my view—of downplaying religion. What, after all, are the lines of influence from academic postmodernism and hippie New Ageism to what David Brooks called the “alternative-reality right”? In Andersen’s account, these ideas sort of enter the American milieu, where they cook in the stew of American individualism until they become adopted b…

How to Slow Down the Rush to War: What Obama Should Do About Syria

By Aryeh Cohen

…Assad government. If President Obama were to use this moment to teach the world and the US about a new direction in dealing with the forces of evil, he could take his place among the great peacemakers of the human race. In the fierce urgency of this moment we must look beyond the tired options and rhetoric that have brought us to this place. The options are only limited by the narrow visions of the elite and the powerful. The options are only l…

Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

By Rachel Wagner

…nity, formed of people from different cultures and with different beliefs (New World Notes). The opportunity to explore new religious “territory” is aptly seen in the case of the Muslim woman who attended synagogue in Second Life because she had been curious about Judaism but felt too self-conscious to attend a real-life temple service. The woman chose to wear her hijab in Second Life while attending the virtual synagogue, presumably so closely id…

International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…He implied the state Supreme Court judges are being bribed by agents of a new world order: Russia, China and the Arab world have now escaped from their hands. They don’t dominate them, but in Western countries they want to establish a single government and they want to use it to destroy the family, the Catholic Church, which are in their way, as well as the true national governments. And one of the means for destroying the family is to pervert th…