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The Battle for the Meaning of Religious Freedom Day

By Frederick Clarkson

…ign called Project Blitz. Their model resolution for Religious Freedom Day celebrates a day devoted to something they oppose: religious freedom. Yes, the authors mouth many of the right things, including boilerplate platitudes and cherrypicked historical artifacts as recommended by Project Blitz. But what’s omitted illuminates the intentions of the theocratic Dominionists (notably, David Barton, as we reported in our original story) who have led P…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…er’s remorse,” or are they getting what they expected out of Team Obama? Recently, some Christian evangelicals have expressed their disappointment in Obama’s approach to the issue of abortion. In a USA Today column dated March 16 and titled “Mr. President, we need more than lip service,” David P. Gushee wrote: I knew from the beginning that if Obama took typical Democratic positions on abortion-related issues, this centrist evangelical friendlines…

The Belly of the Beast: NYC’s Shiny New Transit Hub Is All Wrong for the 9/11 Site

By Carolyn Bratnober

…he dead illustrate poignant principles for the living, but the World Trade Center Transportation Hub’s architectural centerpiece, named the “Oculus,” is an unsightly and inappropriate monument. The space is part of the newly-constructed campus—the WTC Hub—that has been in development since the attack that destroyed the World Trade Center in 2001. But what the Oculus brings to the memorial area bears no emotional awareness of the attack at all. The…

Papal Retirement: A Matter of Conscience

By Mary E. Hunt

…o take over. I applaud his move and read it as a sign of hope in a dreary ecclesial scene. Speculation about his health is rampant. As with many elders whose offspring plot to take away the car keys, I suspect there was some backdoor lobbying to make this retirement happen. But I dare to hope that it was at least in part the considered judgment of an octogenarian who saw his predecessor propped up long after his prime and did not want the same for…

Israel Votes to Limit Sheldon Adelson

By Sarah Posner

…ext generations, the American Jewish community, and the State of Israel”) accused Jewish Daily Forward reporter Nathan Guttman of lacking professionalism in journalism, and intimated that he is anti-Israel. Speaking with the IAC co-funder Haim Saban (a Democratic Party donor), Adelson twisted remarks Guttman made during a prior panel on how reporters cover Israel: The two Jewish philanthropists pondered how to save Israel from the local and intern…

Foreclosure, Fraud and Pharaoh

By Daniel Schultz

…special interests. Lux’s approach seems like smart politics, and as Joan McCarter points out, it’s not like Democrats have been silent on the issue. They should highlight their efforts and make a narrative out of it. Of course, since this involves the Democrats, rather than an organized political party, getting in front of a popular and populist agenda is far too simple. The Obama administration is happy to sit this issue out, even if Congression…

Electionpocalypse, Part II: The Mythical Jewish Vote

By Sarah Posner

…by name (and aided in this regard by Gray), pulling a conservative tactic, claiming that conservative activist Grover Norquist has ties to terrorists. (Norquist’s wife is Palestinian-American.) And we are supposed to conclude what from this? That Jewish Democrats can engage in Islamophobic guilt-by-association tactics as well as Republicans? This was a clumsy attempt at pushback against Republican charges that Obama is insufficiently “pro-Israel.”…

With Kurdish Genocide a Real Danger, How Ethical Was Mattis’ Resignation?

By Ivan Strenski

…ern of exploitation and betrayal. The laborers who sweated over his Atlantic City casino? Stiff ’em. Campaign director Paul Manafort? “Hardly knew him.” Decade-long personal attorney Michael Cohen? “Not my lawyer.” First senator to endorse his candidacy, Jeff Sessions? Just a “dumb southerner.” But betraying the Syrian Kurds will cost more than a good job with the Trump corporation or the administration, it will likely mean the Syrian Kurds becomi…

Sheldon Adelson’s Long Game

By Sarah Posner

…can read a poll just as easily as anyone else. Or last year’s Pew Research Center survey on American Jewish attitudes. His money isn’t about 2016 or even 2020 or 2024, it’s about staving off the shifting views of American Jews about Israel, or at least constraining political dialogue about it. Citizens United enabled Adelson to pour as much of his money as he wants into influencing elections, but that’s really a misnomer. He’s not influencing the…

A King for Jesus: What the Religious Right Sees in Trump

By Roger O. Friedland

…r more than three decades—have formed the bastion of the Christian right? According to a Pew June 2016 survey 89% of evangelical voters wanted a President with strong religious beliefs. Trump cannot even pretend to qualify. A number of analysts, particularly liberal ones, see it as the big reveal, that the Christian right is right, not Christian. The political right has captured the Christians, not the reverse. It’s about politics, class and honor…