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Why Antisemitism is an Insufficient (and Risky) Explanation for Hamas’s October 7 Attack on Israel

By Shane Burley

…rically, an attack on Jews, which reinforces the notion that Israel is the center of the Jewish people. On October 25th, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under the Law demanded that universities investigate Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) over their alleged support for Hamas and antisemitism at ceasefire rallies and in statements. Then, after Jewish Voice for Peace led a historic 5,000-attendee…

“As Orthodox As They Come”: A Backstage Conversation With Rob Bell

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…doesn’t. Think about Galileo, like, “Hey, by the way, the Earth isn’t the center.” That blew people’s minds. There was a very nice hierarchy to everything. Actually the Earth isn’t the center. It absolutely rattled people, and we survived. If we discovered that there were lots of universes, and there was a god present in each one who was somehow capable, and it blew people’s minds—we have had a history of this, and we’ve somehow recovered. Do you…

Australia’s Harsh Refugee Policies Stirring Backlash; Malawi Court Sides With Pastors To Lift Moratorium on Sodomy Prosecutions; Uzbek President Says God Has Taken Gays’ Reason Away; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…es that “our borders are secure.” Conditions at the Manus Island detention center are so bad that human rights advocates have alleged they violate international law. Amnesty International described it as “resembling a combination of a prison and a military camp.” Human Rights Watch compared it to Guantanamo Bay. The center even included a shower block that guards had allegedly nicknamed the “rape dungeon,” according to an account from someone who…

Podcast: Rabbi David Saperstein on Authentic Religion

By Robert P. Jones

…Saperstein Rabbi David Saperstein is the Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. Described in a The Washington Post profile as the “quintessential religious lobbyist on Capitol Hill,” he represents the national Reform Jewish Movement to Congress and the administration. The Center advocates on a broad range of social justice issues, provides legislative and programmatic materials used by the Jewish community nationwide, and coor…

Conservative Christians Oppose New ‘Inter-Religious’ University

By Philip Clayton

…Of course, Claremont is not alone. Hartford Seminary boasts the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, the country’s oldest center of its kind. A second imam training program is being launched by the once all-Christian Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley; its website calls it “the largest and most diverse partnership of seminaries and graduate schools in the United States, pursuing interreligious collaboration…

Religious Right to Newsweek: ‘Woe to [You] for Even Printing This’

By Bill Berkowitz

…favor a systematic study of the general practice of contracting out public services.” However, it appears that Dionne and Rogers punt on at least one vexing issue: the question of religious organizations’ hiring practices. Should a religious organization that receives government funding to provide social services be allowed to discriminate in its hiring practices? Dionne and Rogers’ answer to this vexing question is a recommendation that Obama set…

Protesting Yoga in Schools, But Welcoming Bible Study

By Katherine Stewart

…well-organized conservative Christian proselytism that is already making deep inroads into public education. *This article originally identified the National Center for Law & Policy as the National Center for Policy and Law. RD regrets the error. …

Mormonism in 92 languages

By Joanna Brooks

…receive hundreds of thousands of visitors this weekend. The new Conference Center, just north of historic Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake, will seat 22,000 conference goers for each of five Conference sessions. And around the world, millions of Mormons will have church on television or internet—watching or listening to the satellite and cable-transmitted voices of Church leaders. During Conference, my thoughts inevitably wander to the transl…

What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’?

By Shalom Goldman

…nderstanding.” *Correction: An earlier version of this article attributed the Holocaust reference in the Huffington Post to the ADL’s official statement on the Islamic Center and characterized the ADL statement as a “demand” that the Center be relocated. RD regrets the errors….

Republicans Claim Shari’ah Law Threatens Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…before Thanksgiving last year, Islamophobic agitator Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy put on a panel of speakers, including Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), who urged Congress to investigate how shari’ah law poses a dire threat to the Constitution. Gaffney’s “Team B” report on shari’ah law, released earlier last fall, found favor with Republicans like Rep. Trent Franks (AZ), Rep. Pete Hoekstra (MI), and Rep. Michelle Bachmann (MN). As Mat…