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GMO or No: Problematic Intersections of Religion, Biotechnology, and Food

By Brittany Shoot

…l controversy over the potential for unknown harm. Particularly in Europe, Japan, and parts of Africa, the uproar over untested, unlabeled GM foods in the food supply has been dramatic. Some of the controversy can simply be labeled Luddite resistance. Yet legitimate concerns about food allergens, environmental degradation, crop homogeneity, and the unfair burden placed on small farmers to keep up in a quickly evolving economy defy the impulse to c…

Can Poetry Heal the Planet?

By Gary Gach

…umankind’s earliest rain-bringers and tribal healers. In the Edo period of Japan, for instance, Kikaku, a close disciple of Zen haiku master Basho, reputedly ended drought by reciting poetry. The flipside of drought is water, and the book continues elementally, in sections which I take to pertain to earth (incarnation), air (devotion), fire (death and dying), and the human (teachers along the path). To appreciate the grace with which the poet trea…

Virtual Islam: Peace, Love, and Some Understanding?

By Bill Berkowitz

…, the Russian province of north Ossetia, Indonesia, South Africa, Morocco, Japan, Israel, Jordan, Italy, and Spain. They took us into their virtual communities, houses, and mosques, invited us to fatwas, took us on a virtual Hajj to Mecca, and discussed their perceptions of extremism, integration, creative collaboration, and cultural values. Is the pool of participants limited by: a) Those who have access to computers, and/or b) Those with the ski…

When Words Kill: A Health Care Glossary

By Ann Neumann

…Washington, and Montana (and, in some form, in Belgium, Columbia, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, and Great Britain) advocates resist use of “suicide” and prefer “aid in dying” or “Death with Dignity,” the names of the bills in Oregon and Washington (Montana’s law was established by the court and not by vote, and is currently being challenged). As one affiliate of Compassion & Choices, the country’s largest end-of-life advocacy organization, told me,…

Besides a Love of Chinese Food on Christmas, Why “JewAsian” Unions Work

By Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt

…e what they think of the questions we asked them for JewAsian, do an international comparative study of JewAsian households in a variety of countries (the U.S., England, Israel, and Japan are on the top of that list), or look at other racially-mixed Jewish households inside the US in a similar way (Jewtino? Jewskimo?)….

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…articles—one for each youth—on protecting, respecting, and establishing a number of things. But if you had listened carefully, everything would have started to sound a bit off. The text being read was in fact not the 1989 human rights treaty but instead “A Declaration on the Rights of Children and Their Families: A Call From the Children of the World.” The subject of the event was not as the protection of children as such but the “protection of t…

The Mystic in the Rye: JD Salinger’s Religious Fiction

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…and Walker were, respectively, an accidental casualty of the occupation of Japan and a Jesuit priest working in South America. Zooey (Zachary Martin Glass) was an aspiring actor in 1955, and the youngest daughter, Franny, was on leave from her college due to a spiritual malaise that brought her to the brink of a nervous breakdown. An intensely neurotic family. Also intensely brilliant, intensely attuned, and intensely committed to one another. Wha…

Ian Buruma on the Political Excesses of Religion

By Lisa Webster

…mmenting on the scope of the book. Buruma, best known for his expertise on Japan, told me he’d written partly to contest the idea that religion doesn’t matter in the political life of East Asia. “It’s a different kind of religion,” he explained, “the idea of spiritual authority still plays a big role.” And, while it operates more subtly than the dogmas and conventions of monotheistic religion, this spiritual authority is still a factor in what Bur…

The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right

By Shane Burley

…port came from the election of far-right parties in places like Europe and Japan, not from the Left’s anti-war movements. The ADL’s Antisemitism Audit made headlines for showing an alleged spike in antisemitism related to left-wing Palestine protests, but in fact even their data reveal something entirely different. The overwhelming majority of incidents come from White nationalist groups, like the hundreds of incidents from the neo-Nazi Goyim Defe…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…sion talking about the LGBT people being less than human. For example, the number two person in the state broadcasting company – actually now he’s the number one person – hosted a show devoted to the question of whether it was enough to protect our children to ban homosexual propaganda or whether more needed to be done. He argued that more needed to be done. He said and we need to outlaw blood and sperm donations by them. And if they die in car ac…