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Decadence, Sickness, and Death: Mourning and the Israel-Hamas War

By Shaul Magid

…them, believe the government is threatening genocide). ‘Yad Vashem with an air force’ And that’s not all. There’s something that continues to haunt Israel’s collective psyche, so to speak; its unwillingness to abandon the position of victimhood, despite its tremendous power and years of sovereignty. This is certainly understandable in this moment of crisis. I ask, however, echoing Hannah Arendt’s skepticism over the potential for a state founded i…

I Know Why a Rain Dance Won’t End The Drought

By Johnny P. Flynn

…he Coconino Plateau (7000’) and the San Francisco Peaks (13,000’+) the hot air off the desert and the cool air of the high mountains cause thunderstorms to form. These storms move from the southwest to the northeast right toward the Hopi reservation in north-central Arizona. The weather pattern, called the ‘monsoon’ in Arizona, is predictable (monsoon actually comes from the Arabic word for season). Arizona’s monsoon may deposit only a few tenths…

Not God’s Army: The Front Lines of the Fight Against Proselytizing in the U.S. Military

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…military. We represent 28,522 active duty U.S. Marines, sailors, soldiers, airmen, cadets, midshipman at West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy, National Guard, reservists, Coast Guard, and veterans. Around 96% of our clients are practicing Protestants or Roman Catholics. About three-fourths are Protestants of almost every denomination including 21 different variety of Baptists alone. The other one-fourth are Roman Catholic. The other 4%…

At Moms for Liberty Summit, ‘Mama Bears’ Declare Spiritual War on the ‘Radical Left’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…fought back, peacefully, by staging 3-day long protests despite the smoky air, which made it hard to breathe. While Moms for Liberty celebrated bigotry, protesters stood up, loudly, for LGBTQ rights. Among the protestors were doctors, librarians and community organizers, all of whom see the politics peddled by Moms for Liberty as a mortal threat to the LGBTQ community (as well as to the fight against White supremacy). Elizabeth, a librarian and a…

Do Not Have Sex with This Man

By Sarah Sentilles

…eversal. I am not decadent, nor am I exhausted—though I do tend toward despair. It is not the present I am privileging. It is the future of this fragile planet we call home. A planet we share with other living beings. I can hear birds now as I type this—cranes, flying, their v-shape slicing through the air, beating their wings to travel away from me. Listen. Can you hear them? Can you hear the spider spinning a web at the corner of my window? Can…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…exuality is illegal in Uganda and publishable by up to 14 years in jail. A number of laws have attempted to punish homosexuality with more severe consequences including death, but those bills have folded under international pressure. While activists say the foundation of the bill is fundamentally discriminatory, they also say that successful lobbying campaigns have helped introduce possible amendments that strip the bill of its restrictive backbon…

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…of discussion, and to no one’s surprise, the group decided to shelve their reservations about John McCain and endorse him in the fall campaign. “The alternative is so bad,” Phyllis Schlafly declared, “we must support John McCain.” The meeting was called by Mathew Staver, dean of the law school at Liberty University. Those in attendance included Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values in Ohio, Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther Ki…

What’s the Matter With Jewish Studies? Sexism, Harassment, and Neoliberalism For Starters

By Gilah Kletenik and Rafael Rachel Neis

…Rather than studying how people live Jewish lives, the emphasis is on the numbers of bodies that “count” as Jewish. More disturbing still are the legacies of scientific racism evident in the language of “intermarriage,” “in-marriage,” and “out-marriage.” We suspect that such constructs may unintentionally amplify intra-Jewish prejudice and discrimination towards non-Ashkenazi and non-white Jews. This shapes an academic field in which people of ce…

The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself

By Shane Burley

…n Israeli poet Abba Kovner, a member of the socialist Zionist Hashomer Hatzair and partisan fighter who founded Nakam. Returning home from displaced person’s camps, many Jewish internees found their entire families massacred, their houses occupied by the same neighbors who had turned them in, and some even feared the pogroms would continue unabated. For many, the Holocaust had crushed the utopian foolishness of the socialists, the faith of the dem…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…The seducer is about to go to work: “Come all you pretty women, with your hair a hangin down, open up your window cause the Candyman’s in town…” The song is an attempt to tradition a blues idiom, and the realities and truths the blues explore. The Candyman has learned to talk “jive,” the language of duplicity and manipulation. The ethos of the U.S. government, business, and “underground” can be interpreted as an evolving habit and an exercise in s…