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CUFI Entices Donors for Israel with Christmas Ornament

By Sarah Posner

…l evidence to the contrary — that it is primarily motivated by concern for Israel and the Jews, not by Hagee’s apocalyptic vision for the return of Jesus at Armageddon. In its fundraising solicitation, though, in which CUFI “invite[s] you to give a gift that will make a difference for Israel and the Jewish people,” the organization offers a incentive of “a special Christmas ornament that will remind you and all who see it of the connection between…

The Hypocrisy in Protests against Ultra-Orthodox in Israel

By Shaul Magid

…s against their ostensibly compromised practice and standards, as when the Israeli Rabbinate rejected a Modern Orthodox conversion from the Diaspora. The national religious movement in Israel has undergone a haredization process, largely in the settlements, creating what has become known as Hardal (haredi dati leumi—ultra-Orthodox religious nationalists). Although Hardal’s aggressive piety is not nearly as uncompromising as that of the haredim in…

Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK

By Marion Grau

…alse—swept through the terminals, sending passengers, law-enforcement, and airline workers scrambling for cover and eventually onto the tarmac. The responding authorities found neither shooters nor evidence of any shots fired. The most likely explanation offered for the panic was that the cheering of Olympics fans for Usain Bolt’s performance in the 100 meters sounded like gunfire. In an episode titled “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” from…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…ual recompense. In the video message that was played before my last United Airlines flight, you expressed your desire to greet each and every passenger; you invited us to sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight. If I could greet you now, I would want to know: were you unaware of the monstrosity that was about to follow? There, rising above the hiss of the pressurized air, as the video monitors snapped to the image of an engorged sun bursting from be…

Invited by Allah

By Amina Wadud

…ccurred to me it would be a very easy to make hajj from there. I bought an airline ticket and was in contact with the family of one of my graduate school friends. They would pick me up from the airport and host me during my stay and the days of ritual. Nice plan. So I went to the embassy to get the visa and was denied because (as an American) I needed proof that I was Muslim. How do I prove I have been a practicing Muslim for a decade? I went to t…

FOX News. Israel. Palestine. What Could Go Wrong?

By Haroon Moghul

…was a guest on a Kelly File segment about the increasing violence between Israelis and Palestinians. I went on in a theological frame of mind. You can watch me, and co-panelist Brooke Goldstein, “debate” a question that has already been answered (there was no mention, by the network, of Israeli incitement): But I went on nonetheless, not only because I’d like to reach FOX viewers and be part of conversations I would not otherwise be part of, but…

An Israeli and a Palestinian American Imam Exchange Letters on Disturbing Viral Video

By Yakir Englander and Omar Suleiman

…entioned, was the allegation that the boy had, moments earlier stabbed two Israelis (along with his cousin, who was killed by Israeli police). On his Facebook page, Imam Omar Suleiman posted a link to the video with a comment: Watch this video of this Palestinian kid dying while being cursed at and tell me who the savages really are(The video… Posted by Omar Suleiman on Monday, October 12, 2015 When Israeli peace activist Yakir Englander saw the p…

Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…l structures, called millets, were continued by the British mandate. After Israel’s 1948 independence, Israel too maintained the system, citing among other considerations its obligations to the country’s minorities. As a consequence, marriages in Israel are performed only through religious institutions. Jewish couples must marry through the Chief Rabbinate, and Catholics, Druze and Muslims all marry through their own state-sanctioned and publicly…

On Eve of Sudan Split Clashes Continue

By Ashley Makar

…rds took him to immigration prison. Months later, he was handed over to an Israeli employment agency to be a source of cheap labor in Eilat—the bottom tip of the country, where the Negev meets the Red Sea, and where Sudanese and Eritrean refugees do the service jobs that support the tourism industry. William’s people are no strangers to exploitation. He told me that much of Northern Sudan was built by the Southern Sudanese. To illustrate the syste…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…married in first month; Lutheran priests barred from officiating More than 800 same-sex couples were married in March after marriage equality went into effect on the first of the month; 770 had already been in civil partnerships. The Lutheran Evangelical Church has decreed that priests are not permitted to marry same-sex couples and some bishops warned that those who do would face “consequences.” From a March 1 story: In spite of the church rulin…