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On the Taliban’s Hit List: An Exiled Pakistani Singer’s Plea to Save Music

By Austin Dacey

…r own melodies. That is why they have crafted their own hymns, based on all-time popular Pashto tunes. You identify yourself as a Muslim. What is the connection in your own personal experience between your musical and artistic life and your religious or spiritual life? Islam and music have never been in conflict. Many people agree with the idea that Islam came to the Indian subcontinent as a result of some great literary and musical work of the Su…

Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza

By Sarah Posner

…the people of my generation or older do,” said Zimmerman, who is 40. In one-on-one conversations, she said, younger Jews are “questioning the assumption of Israel being connected to Jewish identity.” Last year’s Pew Research Center’s Portrait of Jewish Americans, a major survey of American Jews, found declining attachment to Israel among younger generations, while older Jews are more likely to see “caring about Israel” as an “essential part” of be…

Fox Makes Mockery Of Promise To Rein In Beck’s Anti-Semitism

By Sarah Posner

…y as a teenager and of feeling no remorse about it. In fact, when Soros was 14 in Nazi-occupied Hungary, his father bribed an agriculture official to pretend that the boy was his Christian godson. Soros once had to accompany his protector to inventory a confiscated Jewish estate. Asked by 60 Minutes if he felt guilty about it, he said no, because he wasn’t at fault. The slander that he was a Nazi collaborator has proliferated on the right ever sin…

Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison

By Nick Street

…ieve in the potential for God to radically change a person’s life. The once-I-was-lost-but-now-I’m-found narrative in Pentecostalism really resonates with inmates. That’s when I decided to focus my research on Pentecostalism, not just religion inside prison. Once you had that preparation under your belt, how did you come to choose the prison in Rio de Janeiro for your work? I found the prison through Rio de Paz, a human right group led by a local…

The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Left’s Challenge Today

By Peter Laarman

…k Silence.” Afterward, a panel featuring Bill McKibben, Medea Benjamin, Ash-Lee Henderson, and Corrine Sanchez will discuss the significance of King’s vision for the current moment. King’s speech, given to a packed Riverside Church exactly one year before he was killed in Memphis, is notorious for the way it provoked fury, condemnation and distress at the time. Fury from the Johnson Administration and its pro-war supporters; blistering condemnatio…

The Santa Killer: Death Imitating Art

By Jonathan Fast

…package. A party with about 30 guests, many of them family, filled the cul-de-sac with seasonal music and cheerful voices. He shot the first person he saw, an eight-year-old girl who opened the door, then barged inside and began shooting at the guests, randomly at first but then more methodically, seeking out those he held grudges against. The wrapped package contained a device called the Fun Fueler, a five-gallon fuel can equipped with a hose an…

The Feds: Gamblers And Addicts

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…res like roads and bridges and airports and ports all badly in need of high-tech repair. The buzzwords of the day speak of “shovel-ready” projects. It is less and less clear what that means. Are there really shovels, with men and women at the handles, eagerly waiting to be put to such work? Perhaps. There certainly are in New Orleans and its environs. But enough to absorb these staggering sums? That seems doubtful. And I begin to worry that this p…

Catholic Church Ordained Women Before, Can Do it Again

By Phyllis Zagano

…ompleted work. As we were working on the manuscript, we located Vagaggini’s 1500-word requested intervention before the 1987 Synod on the Laity in Rome, also in Italian, which actually served as a précis of the longer essay. So we translated that, too. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? Women were ordained as deacons and can be so ordained again. Is there anything you had to leave out? Actually, no. We worked very hard on the…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…e, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most important debates and produced some of the most fruitful arguments in support of National Conservatism, the in…

The Horror Mugabe Doesn’t Want the World to See

By Frederick Clarkson

…assessment, Donaghue took a group of Zimbabwean medical students to an all-you-can-eat buffet. They ate well. “These medical students are skinny,” he said. “But if the students ask for food, they are beaten with clubs. They can’t finish their medical school because there is no paper. Few books. No lights.” For many, there is no longer even any school. The Medical School of the University of Zimbabwe in Harare closed on November 18. The next day,…