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Opening the Door to Hell: Jewish Terrorism in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…e in the West Bank town of Beit Fajjar, setting it on fire and burning at least fifteen Qur’ans. The Israeli army, which has been contending with violent settler activity for decades is taking the incident very seriously. Military spokeswoman Colonel Avital Leibowitz told Reuters that, “this is a very serious incident which we view with utmost gravity and we intend to find those responsible as quickly as possible.” Back on August 31, a few days be…

Changing the Jewish State and the State of Jews: J Street and the Future of Israel

By Mark LeVine

…ewish national movement whose realization demanded the replacement, or at least displacement, of the indigenous Palestinian population—the very opposite of recognizing them as an equal partner for peace and sovereignty. Since the occupation of the West Bank, Israel’s biblical heartland, and the rise of the settlement movement, Israeli, and Jewish identity more broadly, has increasingly been transformed into what Tikkun’s Michael Lerner describes a…

Ground Zero is Sacred Space, But Not Just Because of 9/11

By Randall Balmer

…, and French. English Puritans bracketed Dutch settlement to the north and east, in New England and Long Island. African slaves began arriving in the 1620s, and twenty-three Sephardic Jews, refugees from Recifé, came to New Amsterdam aboard the Sainte Catherine in 1654. Early reports filtering back to the Netherlands, the most tolerant society of the seventeenth century, told of Huguenots, Mennonites, Brownists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics,…

No, CNN, Saudi Arabia and Iran Have Not Been Fighting For “1,000 Years”

By Haroon Moghul

…h regimes are in different ways profoundly odious influences on the Middle East and Muslim politics, or that their involvement of America and Russia, respectively, in their clash of religious authoritarianisms, might contain the ingredients for the next World War. Certainly all of us should be paying close attention. But there’s no reason to become hyperbolic. This feud has lasted 38 years now, which is significantly less than 1,000 years. For one…

Virtual Islam: Peace, Love, and Some Understanding?

By Bill Berkowitz

…tration’s public diplomacy efforts, particularly with regard to the Middle East was that the U.S. didn’t spend enough time listening to the concerns of people in the region. The fact is, the U.S. is in the living rooms of people around the world more so than we are in theirs. Even the War in Iraq seems distant and not as much of a reality in the U.S. as much as it is in the Middle East. Our work was a bona fide listening effort. We went into commu…

COVID-Denying Father Sergei is Just the Latest Example of the Russian Orthodox Church’s ‘Holy Man’ Problem

By Katherine Kelaidis

…monk superstar. Just outside the town of Florence, Arizona, 63 miles southeast of Phoenix, in the middle of the desert, stands St. Anthony’s Monastery. Though built to resemble the great monastic houses of the medieval Christian East, there’s something too clean, too luxurious about St. Anthony’s to pass muster. It’s the mother house of 18 monasteries that, until his death last December, were all more or less under the direct control of one man:…

Jewish State, Islamic State: All States are Religious

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…diplomacy, an approach that is so sorely needed in the contemporary Middle East? I think it does, and I want to suggest one way out of this impasse. Let me say up front that I will call neither for a single-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict nor will I suggest that Israel should “give up” its identity as a Jewish state. The extent to which any particular religious tradition exercises influence over the institutional apparatus of a…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…hat we want no more part of their decades of human rights violations, not least because the blowback affects us, too. Whatever severe mistakes the Brotherhood made in power, it was nevertheless meant to be the beginning of a long experiment, and democratic experiments rarely begin brightly. If they are allowed to begin at all. If the Egyptian military can find alternate sources of support, then fine. Let them. Good for them. They had years and yea…

Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

By Mary Barker

…since 1919. Heavenly Mother Mormonism’s Calvinist heritage is trumped—at least theologically, if not politically—by the United Order and King Benjamin sensitivities. Its Manichean elements have been softened through its coexistence with the flesh and blood faithful from outside the tradition. Other elements of Mormonism similarly cut in more than one way. Central to contemporary debates concerning gender and sexuality, for example, are Mormon nar…

Herman Cain’s Israel Doctrine

By Sarah Posner

…of the notion of the “right of return,” a centerpiece issue in the Middle East peace process. “It would have helped if he would have said Palestinian right of return,” said Cain, adding, “Return to the bar? Return home?” Cain said he was focused in the interview on pronouncing Benjamin Netanyahu’s “name right.” He is currently reading a book on Israel. This is not a surprising reaction from Cain, who is known as a Tea Party favorite but also draw…