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Elie Wiesel Distorts Bible in Controversial “Child Sacrifice” Ad

By Seth Sanders

…in the Bible the only ones accused of killing children for Moloch are the Israelites themselves. Indeed, God’s rage at the Judahites’ child sacrifice is one of the reasons He destroys Jerusalem: Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger… they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, where they offered up their sons and daughters to Molec…

Sheldon Adelson’s Long Game

By Sarah Posner

…s Haaretz reported yesterday, Adelson’s “right-hand man is to assume a key position at Taglit-Birthright, in a move that could signal the conservative billionaire’s desire to wield more influence on policy-making at the organization, which brings tens of thousand of young Jewish adults to Israel on free 10-day trips each year.” His goals are probably more than religious and cultural, of course, as he likely views Birthright kids as future Republic…

Na’vi and Goliath: Palestinian Protesters Dress as Avatar Underdogs

By Shalom Goldman

…were the outsiders, interlopers. As the West Bank Settlers (and the large number of Israeli supporters) understand themselves to be the true ‘indigenous population’—the descendants of the ancient Israelites to whom the Land was promised—this media critique cut to the bone. A few weeks before the Bilin demonstration, the analogy between the film and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was made explicit in a recent article by James Wall, former editor…

Does the Multifaith Model Work?

By Jas Chana

…e. The strongly worded piece attacked the Muslim Leadership Initiative, an Israeli interfaith program that invited a collection of American Muslim leaders to visit Israel to learn more about the prickly topic of Zionism. The writer, Sana Saeed, dismissed the program as an attempt at “faith-washing,” or the sanitizing of a particular conflict’s narrative in order to blur the line between the oppressed and oppressing parties involved. She argued tha…

Jewish Leader Blasts Exclusion of J Street from Umbrella Group

By Sarah Posner

…resident of the Conference, and the Conference itself (“join us in thanking Malcolm Hoenlein for for clarifying this situation and revealing to all what we’ve long known: a new voice is needed to represent the true majority of American Jews—and non-Jewish supporters of an Israel at peace.”) DEAR MALCOLM, Thank you for finally making it clear that the Conference of Presidents is not representative of the voice of the Jewish community. We recognize…

The Sad Saga of a Compromised Rabbi

By Shaul Magid

…r, a right-leaning think-tank in Jerusalem, contends that Beinart “detests Israel.” Any honest reader of A Crisis of Zionism will not come away thinking its author detests Israel. I won’t burden readers with Gordis’ argument (I encourage those interested to read it and judge for themselves); my point here is not to engage these claims, in large part because we all know that little of what we say is likely to convince anybody of anything they don’t…

Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Just two days before the parade, Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich stated on Israeli radio that homosexuality is “dangerous and destructive to [Israeli] society.” Smotrich in part of a list of homophobic Jewish Home MKs. “This [homosexuality] is a recipe for the end of our people,” said Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan. “Homosexuality is worthy of our pity, not encouragement,” declared MK Moti Yogev and party Rabbi Shmuel Eliahu stated that“we…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…Stop Same-Sex Marriage’ and ‘Gays Out: Homosexuals have no human rights.’” Israel: Islamic leader stirs outrage with anti-gay op-ed; government rejects anti-discrimination law The deputy head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Kamal Khatib, “launched a scathing attack on homosexuality in an op-ed titled ‘You make me sick,’ published in a website associated with the group, Yaffa48.com,” reports Elhanan Miller at the Times of Israel. “Western…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…ar: If any city needs a nonjudgmental space, it’s Jerusalem. Both sides of Israel’s capital—the Muslim eastern half and the Jewish western half—have in common large numbers of socially conservative residents who look down on homosexuality. “In the west, you have Orthodox Jews, and in the east you have Arabs—and the Arabs are so homophobic,” says Khaled Alqam, a gay Arab, while sitting under a heater on the patio of the Video Pub in Jerusalem. “The…

Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…was contrary to God’s law, would prove divisive and lead to resignations.” Israel: ‘Pinkwashing’ and other debates on Israel in LGBT community In the Forward, author and RD contributor Jay Michaelson addresses activists from both sides of the “pinkwashing” controversy and other divides on Israel from within the LGBT community. Gambia: US criticized president’s threats; media spotlight on Rubio backer We reported last week on threats by viciously a…