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Israel’s Immigration Debate: “Where is the Jewish Spirit?”

By Mati Wagner

…Jewish state must address both sets of concerns. It has an obligation to foster a strong Jewish identity and it must also show empathy to the plight of the stranger. Most of the children up for scrutiny (839, to be precise) would be allowed to stay, along with their families. The rest would be deported after being given the right of appeal, which many are attempting to do right now. A Xenophobic Israel? Tasked as it is with realizing the self-dete…

RDBook: Apocalypse Without God

By Nathan Schneider

…to bring the ideas of Jacques Derrida into American theology and religious studies. Starting in the late 90s, though, Taylor ventured far afield with books on architecture, computer networks, economic markets, and even Las Vegas. In 2006, he released a book of photographs of animal skeletons in the desert. Taylor’s most recent book, After God, gathers these pieces together into a wide-ranging manifesto. He insists that the major social, ecological…

Doubt v. Predator: A Vatican II Parable

By Gabriel Mckee

…o arguments of Father Flynn and Sister Aloysius. The event, or nonevent, must be a mystery of faith. Which is where the title comes in. In his introduction to the play, Shanley describes the existential question that was the seed of the play: Have you ever held a position in an argument past the point of comfort? Have you ever defended a way of life you were on the verge of exhausting? Have you ever given service to a creed you no longer utterly b…

Pop-Eye: Meat The Wrestler

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…red baby dolls and slabs of meat. The cover was deemed offensive by US industry standards and replaced by a decidedly neutral cover. The controversy was picked up by fiction writer Mark Shipper in his satirical novel, Paperback Writer: The Life and Times of the Beatles, the Spurious Chronicle of Their Rise to Stardom, Their Triumphs and Disasters, Plus the Amazing Story of Their Ultimate Reunion (1977). Shipper twists the story in his recounting,…

Of Zionism and Anti-Zionism: The Ultra Orthodox and the Settler Movement in Israel

By Shaul Magid

…untries, Israeli citizens, or inhabitants of the West Bank. Finally, and most interestingly, the Haredim, or Ultra Orthodox. This group, mostly descended from Eastern European Jews, were traditionally (and confusingly to outsiders) actually anti-Zionist and not engaged in Israeli politics at all. The Haredi accepted that it was Zionism that had allowed them to settle in the Holy Land, yet they maintained Israel had no theological status; and this…

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…has in the past, I’d go along with that. But they are political propagandists first and foremost. That they do it entertainingly just comes with the job, really. There’s nothing more ineffective than propagandists who bore people. Maybe that’s been the left’s problem. And being an entertainer has never been an excuse for indulging in hateful, dehumanizing rhetoric that reduces people to the status of disposable vermin fit only for elimination. Wh…

National Association of Evangelicals Supports Immigration Reform, But Elsewhere Discord Reigns

By Donna Schaper

…tholic parish, CIS Fellow James R. Edwards Jr., and CIS Senior Policy Analyst Stephen Steinlight. Each presented a paper explicating scriptural and other religious teachings as they bear on immigration—from Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish viewpoints, respectively. The theme of all three papers was that leaders of all the mainstream religious groups are misinterpreting scripture and religious traditions when they issue policy statements that urge…

Build the Muslim Community Center at Ground Zero

By Donna Schaper

…s organization planted at Ground Zero would give people hope that there is still a chance that we could still and yet learn to get along across culture or religious lines. When someone dies a terrible death, as did so many at Ground Zero, the grief issue is about how we go on, once we know how bad violence can be. The Jewish dead were particularly bereft because there was no burial and because the bodies exploded. Others experienced the same horro…

Why Taxing the Rich is the Godly Thing

By Peter Laarman

…e was actually quoting Daniel Webster and upholding federal supremacy against states that were then attempting to tax the Bank of the United States out of existence. But anti-tax conservatives blithely ignore the historical context and still recite the Marshall mantra as they go to bed. They raise their children up to think of all taxation as a vicious incubus. Thanks to the oracles of conservative demigods like Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman…

Playing Hooky: Will Boycott of Catholic Church Spur Reform?

By Nathan Schneider

…We need it, and it is us. If we Catholics want to help make our church better reflect the hope and faith within us, the first step is to show up….