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A Pair of Exhibitions Demonstrate How Biases Color the History of Jerusalem

By Gordon Haber

…“Jerusalem 1000-1400” runs until January 8; “Faith and Photography” until February 5. Salzmann runs until until February 5th. A Christian-themed vase with painted enamel agricultural scenes. Two-handed steel swords. A 1274 marble plaque from the tomb of Abu Hurayra, a companion of Muhammed. An Egyptian-made brass pen box inlaid with gold. A page from a 1232 Bible in Samaritan Hebrew. The show opens with images of the famous rooftops of present-da…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…threat of arrest. The court has scheduled the first procedural hearing for February 23. As we have previously reported, conservative Christian activists from the U.S. and the U.K. have worked to rally resistance to decriminalization of homosexuality in Jamaica. The new suit is being brought by Maurice Tomlinson, a gay Jamaican attorney who received death threats after a local newspaper published a photograph of his marriage to his Canadian partner…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nding in the way of LGBT voters actually voting for Marine Le Pen in large numbers. But her anti-immigrant, anti-EU position — coupled with a more center-left economic policy that supports France’s robust social safety net — is pulling voters from left-wing constituencies to her side. Courting LGBT voters remains a high-wire act, because beneath Le Pen’s march to victory is a simmering internal battle that could build into a true revolt from withi…

Bangladesh’s Atheist Blogger Still Wants to Talk

By Austin Dacey

…at, bent on sabotaging the country’s strides towards secular democracy. In February 2013, after the long-sought International Crimes Tribunal convicted Abdul Quader Mollah and others of war crimes, mass protests denounced the sentences as overly lenient and demanded death sentences and the banning of Jamaat-e-Islami from politics. Jamaat-aligned counterprotests resulted in violent clashes. On February 15, one of Asif’s fellow bloggers, Ahmed Rajib…

Did the “Science Guy” Bill Nye Single-Handedly Revive Noah’s Ark Theme Park?

By Mike Greer

…Ham has admitted that the high-profile evolution debate he had with Nye in February revived his floundering Ark project. Aside from the undisclosed financial returns from the debate itself Ham has gathered in $60+ million from wealthy donors who were motivated by the spectacle to invest in the Ark Encounter project in northern Kentucky. When asked, Nye brushes off questions about whether he may rightly be criticized for taking part in a debate tha…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…y canceled a state visit by President Jonathan that had been scheduled for February. Also this week, a Nigerian state governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, defended the law while he was in Ireland to accept an international leadership award given by Metro Eireann, a multicultural newspaper. “I am sure no one here in this country would accept a condition in which an adult can sleep with a 10-year-old girl,” he said. “If that situation is not acceptable, we…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…calling for a system of law based on vengeance. This letter was written in February, 1939 and sent to Gandhi’s ashram a month later. Buber wrote from Palestine where he had recently arrived as a refugee from Nazi Germany. When Gandhi did not reply, the letter was made public. At the end of 1939, Buber and his colleague Judah Magnes, American-born Reform Rabbi and first president of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, published their letters to Gan…

The Tebow Effect

By Sarah Posner

…previous appearance by the late Mother Teresa at the prayer breakfast: In February of 1994, the speaker here was Mother Teresa. She gave, as everyone who remembers that occasion will certainly recall, a strong address against abortion. And then she asked to see me. And I thought, “Oh, dear.” (Laughter.) And after the breakfast, we went behind that curtain and we sat on folding chairs, and I remember being struck by how small she was and how power…

Frank Gaffney Appointed to Clarion Fund Board

By Sarah Posner

…Aish spin-offs, including Clarion’s president and two vice presidents. Clarion’s address is also the same as that of Aish HaTorah International, a fundraising arm of Aish HaTorah. In addition to being available on DVD, Iranium will be shown in limited release in theaters starting February 8, and will be screened on Capitol Hill in conjunction with a Heritage Foundation event on February 1, according Shore’s fundraising email. “Several notable Con…

What Religion Looks Like, Wisconsin Edition

By Kim Bobo

…igious leaders who marched into Wisconsin’s Capitol in Madison on Tuesday, February 22, in support of the state workers who are opposing Governor Walker’s proposal to strip public sector workers of collective bargaining rights under the guise of balancing the budget. The workers have already agreed to many of the proposed salary and benefit reductions—they’re fighting to retain a voice in decisions through their unions and the collective bargainin…