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Decolonizing Jewish Studies Part II: A Response to the Backlash

By Gilah Kletenik and Rafael Rachel Neis

…ionally tagged “Western.” Jewish Studies must confront the vestiges of its European founding and its concomitant privileging of the Ashkenazi, European, and white. These prejudices still impact research priorities, curricular expectations, and documentary access. Scholars of Jewish cultures in North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, continue to redress these lacunae. Racism, cisheteronormativity, ableism, and classism pervade all academic…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…nizing the civil unions, since Spain itself has adopted marriage equality. European Parliament Video on Lingering LGBT Prejudice The European Parliament released a video presenting the results of a major survey of LGBT people on the continent. “In Europe the dark clouds of prejudice still loom over many of those who dare to display a difference in sexual orientation.” Almost half of LGBT people said they suffered discrimination or harassment on a…

Racism and Anti-Semitism Are Not Intrusions of a Dark Past Into Our Present

By Joyce Dalsheim and Gregory Starrett

…ins again and still the Jewish Question—one of the specters at the core of European and American identity. We band together in demonstrations and write op-eds against the mass killings that punctuate contemporary American life, proclaiming that we will triumph over this evil. This is both a rallying cry and a form of sustenance. But it’s deceptive. There can be no permanent triumph over evil. We add to that evil rather than resist it when we fail…

Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…’ Liam Hoare at Slate examines the precarious lives of LGBT people on “the European Union’s frontier,” where “people’s identities are defined by their ethnicity or religion, in opposition to other ethnicities and religions.” Because Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina hope to join the European Union, LGBTQ people there are at least afforded some degree of legal protection. In Kosovo, discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation is outlawed by the…

What the Danish Cartoon Controversy Tells Us About Religion, the Secular, and the Limits of the Law

By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

…ack and forth between fascinating disquisitions on Muslim theology and the European history of laws against blasphemy, Asad questions the easy identification of Christianity, freedom, and democracy, the substitutability of individuals in the modern bureaucratic state, the delusions of our confidence in our own mature rejection of transcendence, the nature of belief, the secularization of the biblical injunction that the truth will make you free, t…

How Not To Respond to Haiti

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…hers, deeply saddening, and offering a glimpse into the “dark side” of the European Renaissance (this is the marvelous title of Walter Mignolo’s important book on the ambivalence of European Modernity in the Americas.) In short, Haiti seems to stand as a dramatic and desperate item on the negative side of the Modern ledger. If the revolutionary story of the Modern world is a story about individualism, about religion, about race and about rights, t…

Romania’s “Witch Tax”: Magic Meets Bureaucracy

By Joseph Laycock

…nist times.” Driving this legislation was Romania’s intention to join the European Union. In fact, when the witches were unable to stop the ban by democratic means, they threatened to use their magic to keep Romania from joining NATO or the EU. While witches enjoy popular support in Romania, many in the government view them as swindlers whose presence makes their country seem superstitious and backwards. In 2003, two witches in northwestern Roman…

Touched by a Michael Landon: America’s Jewish Angel

By Peter Manseau

…rn with enthusiasm, children, as I instruct you. The one who learns Hebrew best will receive a flag. A Yiddish song about learning Hebrew, “Oyfn Pripetshik” serves as a narrative account of the place of scriptural learning within the folk vernacular. The tune sung by the coffin maker, then, signals a moment of unexpected cultural transmission. Just as the song describes kheder boys learning to value Jewish tradition from a rabbi in a doomed Easter…

Breivik’s Demographic Warfare and the American Right’s Demographic Winter

By Sarah Posner

…ous-right activism: from US evangelical and Catholic nonprofits to Eastern European Catholic and orthodox antiabortion and anti-gay rights groups, to bureaucrats from European, EU and US governments, taking policy notes to bring back home. (emphasis added) The Howard Center and the WCF see themselves as culture warriors against liberalism broadly and the sexual revolution more specifically, protecting America (and the world, for that matter) from…

Killing For Religion, Not God

By Haroon Moghul

…slim, sexually energetic and irrational, as against the languid and supine European. It might be noted that the wealthiest nations of the world are not the most populous. Rarely, if ever, do mere numbers translate into power absent other factors. Otherwise, Luxembourg would not be Luxembourg, and Nigeria would not be Nigeria. But forget the more abstract arguments. Why didn’t Breivik just marry a (presumably Norwegian) woman and have a big family?…