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6 Years Later, Arab Spring May Only Have Just Begun

By Haroon Moghul

…abandon his Iranian ally in the event of potential war, in exchange for a freer hand in Eastern Europe. The genocides in Eastern Europe, which overwhelmingly targeted Muslims and then Catholics, were only stopped by a combination of NATO intervention and the promise of European integration. What happens now? Those who supported Trump may be emboldened by his rhetoric against Muslims; in the Balkans, that may mean renewed war. Elsewhere supporters…

Dear Governor Kasich, Will You Come Lead My Passover Seder?

By Michael Schulson

…ut I’m totally at a loss when it comes to the story of Israel’s sojourn in Egypt and return to the Promised Land. With Passover coming so soon, I’m in the market for a Jewish ritual expert. A wise child, if you will. And apparently you’ve got it covered. I very much enjoyed the video of you explaining the story of Joseph to a group of Talmudic scholars. I keep coming back to this one statement of yours about Joseph: “They threw him in that ditch,…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…in total number, the fastest growing religious population in North America today (after Islam) is NOT the “nones” It’s “other religion,” a category that includes anything from Baha’i and Taosim to Wicca and Zoroastrianism. Part of the growth in “other religion” segment is being fueled by religion-switching. Nearly 2 million people are expected to be added to the “other religion” category over the next generation or so by switching their allegiance…

David Brooks’ Rant on Emptiness of Secularism is Poppycock

By Daniel C. Maguire

…ities woven together with literary freedom. “There was no mass Exodus from Egypt,” write historians Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman. Forget the fictional frogs and the sea engulfing the bad guys. What happened from 1250 to 1050 B.C.E. was not history but a psycho-political, epochal breakthrough of social imagination.* Outstripping Homer and Virgil in wit and wisdom, these Hebrew poets imagined a move from the one-percent rule of Egypt to the…

Christian Passover, Yes or No?: A Response to Rabbi Moffic

By David Greenspoon

…observances. The biblical commandment to commemorate the liberation out of Egypt understood that the non-Israelite community who joined the Israelites were required to undergo circumcision before eating the paschal offering. So, clearly the Bible in Exodus understands that this is indeed an exclusive, even tribal, celebration and experience. More importantly is that the seder itself is a rabbinic institution, not a biblical one. Suggesting that th…

Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing

By Jonathan Schorsch

…Jewish foodies. Kashrut comes within a dense, rich, long-standing culture promoting, ideally, upright, prudent, modest living, including, reverence for and balanced coexistence with the natural world. The final, and perhaps greatest irony to the dismissal of kashrut, is that Jews through the ages have adopted the local cuisines and food cultures of all of their homelands—whether Persia, Greece, Morocco, Poland, or India—and adapted them all quite…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…ur thumb for decades? It is easy for Americans to forget that we supported Egypt’s dictator for thirty years, and happily welcomed Qaddafi back into ‘civilization’ when he realigned his policies with our own—not in the area of human rights, but ‘counterterrorism’. (And by ‘our’ I mean certain governments.) The next best response to Dawkins will come, if it does at all, with how Muslims deal with a multipolar world, in which the West is not the onl…

A Long History of Blaming the Jews

By Gordon Haber

…ed. He begins, surprisingly, in ancient Egypt. In the fourth century BCE, Egyptian counter-narratives to Exodus began to appear, in which the Jews were not freed through divine agency but were expelled due to their “nastiness,” as Nirenberg puts it. Many such narratives feature a Moses figure, a rigid leader of a rebellious people; Josephus himself recounts a third-century story about an isolationist group that conquered Egypt, “attacking the tem…

Forget History Channel’s The Bible, Meet Omar

By Haroon Moghul

…standard Arabic, but very accessibly subtitled into English, and available free on YouTube. It’s an insightful perspective into how Muslim heritage and history are celebrated by Muslims today. Rather than focus on differences (though those are interesting too), consider the common threads and approaches. Islam is a living tradition. Just as in Jewish, Christian, and other faith traditions, contemporary Muslims struggle with (the word is jihad, by…

The General’s Son Recounts Very Different Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By Ira Chernus

…against Egypt and other Arab nations determined to destroy it. But in fact Egypt massed troops on Israel’s border only because the Egyptians believed (from faulty intelligence) that Israel was preparing to invade its ally, Syria. Though that wasn’t true, it is true that Israeli military leaders were urging their civilian government to fight a war sooner rather than later. The Israelis knew that the Egyptian army was far too weak to resist the Jewi…