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Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder And Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination

By Arthur Waskow

…tian radical A. J. Muste calling Moses the organizer of “Brickmakers Union Number 1” and a pacifist Russian rabbi named Tamaret—wove them all into a new Telling of the tale of freedom. In that Telling, the then ongoing, even now unfinished, struggle of Black America for freedom was interwoven with the ancient story of the Israelites’ struggle to end their slavery under Pharaoh. Where the old Haggadah had what seemed to me a silly argument about ho…

A Muslim Reflects on Christian Theologian (and UCLA Coach) John Wooden

By Amir Hussain

…er of the amazing things about him. He was approachable, answering his own phone and mail, meeting with complete nobodies like me. I thanked him for the basketball lessons that I had learned from him, but more importantly for the life lessons. His beloved wife Nellie had passed away in 1985 after 53 years of marriage, and my wife had died suddenly in 1992. Coach gave me a powerful model for dealing with that loss, a reminder that those we loved we…

Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

By Kaya Oakes

…mpaigns in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. In 2005, they printed 800,000 postcards in Canada “in a campaign that [argued] that the redefinition of marriage to include gay and lesbian couples would promote pedophilia, pornography and unsafe sex.” As Marianne Duddy-Burke of the LGBTQ Catholic organization Dignity USA commented in a press release, “The Knights are deeply invested in advancing a particular brand of Catholicism, and I am con…

Hajj Journal: M & M

By Amina Wadud

…though this, the men would hover around the tent entries, send notes, make phone calls, actually get their phone cords recharged, and send food and drink through every possible opening in the tent. As far as I could tell, it was always the men hanging around our tent and not the women hanging around the men’s tent. Pretty funny if you think about it. They were like lost puppies without their women. Yet patriarchy would have us think they are the m…

Searching in Vain for a “Pure” Elie Wiesel

By Martin Kavka

…ask me, a traumatized Jew, to be pro-Palestinian. I totally identify with Israel and cannot go along with leftist intellectuals who reject it. Perhaps another generation will be free enough to criticize Israel; I cannot. [Italics added.] Was this a betrayal of his other broadly humanist commitments? Absolutely. There is no reason why critics should not continue to take Wiesel to task for what he said about Palestinians, or why they should not poi…

A Neoconservative Jesus, Certified Kosher

By Ira Chernus

…fight against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.” Of course the obligatory myth of Israel’s insecurity plays its part here: “Israel is being delegitimized by hateful enemies the world over and is besieged by enraged enemies.” Jews should “capitalize on Christian overtures of goodwill so as to remain strong in the face of adversity.” But this is not a typical “any friend of right-wing Israel is a friend of mine” argument. Boteach has a more complex case to…

Will Getting Rid of Bryan Fischer Get Rid of the AFA’s Problem?

By Sarah Posner

…ressure, Fischer was never fired–or even reigned in. Why now? This trip to Israel puts the AFA in the spotlight as never before, because of the participation of one-third of the Republican National Committee in a trip intended to prove evangelical “love” for Israel. Perhaps they realized that peddling conspiracy theories about gay people creating Nazism wouldn’t go over that well with the Jews–not to mention the mountain of other racist and homoph…

5 Most Important Quotes from Trump’s Evangelical Summit

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…assault. You can’t say ‘Happy Holidays.’ We’re becoming so politically correct that we can’t function as a country anymore. We’re going to be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again, and we’re going to be saying a lot of other things.” 5. On being pro-Israel, and bringing Israel back fast: “I’m 100 percent for Israel. I have been forever. It is an amazing country. It has been shunned by the United States, in favor of Iran and others.” “Israel’s almost like…

Dilemmas of American Empire: Can Obama Pull Off a Game-Changer in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan?

By Gary Dorrien

…illary Clinton and Dennis Ross. And he will have to risk offending most of Israel’s political establishment, to get something that is actually better for Israel. Regardless of what Obama does or does not do, we need a defiantly anti-imperial peace movement that rejects the American obsession with supremacy and dominance. Forty years ago, Senator William Fulbright warned that the U.S. was well on its way to becoming an empire that exercised power f…

In Gaza Siege, Atheist Author Sam Harris Finds Yet Another Opportunity to Disparage Islam

By Usaid Siddiqui

…is spearheads an irrational view of the occupation. The Jewish people according to him are administrating an occupation for the protection of its people; and therefore, the settlements, the blockade and Israeli violence makes sense. Besides a rote condemnation of Israel’s actions, Harris’s raison d’être for Israeli aggression ultimately boils down to Palestinian hatred, which if left alone, will annihilate the Jews. And the roots of this hatred? T…