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Norway Massacre Suspect Anders Behring Breivik, Hitler, & the Jerusalem Post Editorial

By Sarah Posner

…of the UK and France) as we only have 1 million in Western Europe, whereas 800,000 out of these 1 million live in France and the UK. The US on the other hand, with more than 6 million Jews (600% more than Europe) actually has a considerable Jewish problem. But please learn the difference between a nation-wrecking multiculturalist Jew and a conservative Jew. He then offers clues as to why he targeted fellow Norwegians, even though he claims to lov…

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…mportant marker of Eastern Christian identity—particularly as increasingly numbers of Eastern Christians became the simultaneous targets of Western crusaders and Islamic conquerors. In this context, rigid adherence to liturgical customs became a means by which to assert and preserve identity in the face of colonization and oppression. Conversely, adherence to Christian practices abandoned by the Christian West—if not in the Middle Ages then certai…

Air Kissing the Mezuzah: Religion and Science Collide in Fight Against Virus

By Shalom Goldman

…e findings, Chief Rabbi Amar stated that he would follow the advice of the Ministry of Health. If the ministry recommended a ban on kissing the mezuzahs, he would suggest that they “air kiss” it, without touching it, thus preserving the custom without endangering the public health. Within a few days of the Chief Rabbi’s announcement there was continuing evidence of the spread of A(H1N1) in Israel. Rabbi Amar and his colleagues decided on a more tr…

Lifestyles of the Rich and Pious

By Patricia Miller

…d too much time worrying about social justice issues, lives alone in a charming three-story brick Victorian home valued at $3.84 million. • Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, head of the bishop’s Committee on Religious Liberty—the epicenter of the church’s opposition to same-sex marriage and the contraception mandate—and the man supposedly behind the investigation of the LCWR, lives in a 11,5000-square foot historic mansion that dates back to the…

Play to Extinction: Religious Groups Unite Against Predatory Gambling

By Frederick Clarkson

…(from 24 to 75) in the first two years after casinos opened” in Gulfport, Mississippi. “Such numbers,” he wrote, “are replicated elsewhere.” In a powerful video recently posted by Casino Free Mass in anticipation of the next round of debate over introducing casinos in the state, a prominent medical researcher compares a multicolored brain scan of a cocaine addict about to receive a fix and that of someone sitting at a slot machine. The same secti…

Did the Pope Embrace the Prosperity Gospel?

By Sarah Posner

…tigating the activities of six televangelists, including Copeland, to determine whether they were misusing their tax-exempt ministries for profit. Copeland didn’t cooperate with the investigation, and used his connections to fight back, claiming that then-presidential candidate Mike Huckabee provided assurances he would “stand with” him. Copeland had long enjoyed relationships with Republican candidates, including former presidents George H.W. Bus…

Normalization is Control: Telling Stories to Survive

By Mariam Durrani

…hat fixated on his personal feelings about becoming president, “repeatedly minimizing Trump’s most dangerous promises as mere campaign talk.” The description of the media’s treatment of president-elect Trump as a normalizing tactic leads me to ask: why would they do this? How can they say that the anti-Trump protesters just don’t understand who Trump is, which is what he said to Stahl when asked about the people protesting him. Exactly how are his…

Gay Marriage to End “Culture Wars”?

By Bill Berkowitz

…es the Center for Law & Policy, a conservative legal operation, American Family Radio, American Family News Network’s OneNewsNow (formerly Agape Press), and a legislative action arm, AFA Action. The re-birth of anti-same-sex marriage initiatives Anti-same-sex marriage initiatives thought to be buried in the wake of voters concern over the Iraq War, a crumbling economy, rising gas prices, and a record number of housing foreclosures, are making a co…

Conservative Christians Oppose New ‘Inter-Religious’ University

By Philip Clayton

…mpathy with one leader or another, committed to one position or the other. Middle ground collapses.” Admittedly, the inter-religious university at Claremont will face challenges. Can the school maintain high standards for rigorous religious education? Will graduates continue to be well-versed in their own traditions? Or will the result be a syncretistic blending that pulls the new university away from any clear Christian (or Jewish or Muslim) iden…

“Stress Test” a Con: Obama Still Coddling Banks

By Peter Laarman

…the next bubble was launched, inasmuch as the White House is clearly determined to keep Finance in its dominant role in the economy—the very outcome that sane people, and particularly sane people of faith, should be seeking to avoid. And if you have any doubt that Obama is giving banking special rules, just consider the very different rules being applied, still, to the auto sector: forced bankruptcy in Chrysler’s case, and a very probable breakup…