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Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing

By Jonathan Schorsch

…hor Michael Pollan, both Jewish, appeared together at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan in January, 2008 they each gleefully opened their remarks before the heavily Jewish audience with a personal pig story. Food writer Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan even described the event as including “many a joke about Jewish boys liking artisanal pork.” Indeed. Pollan devotes an entire chapter of his most recent project, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (P…

Politics in a Time of Crisis: Sandy? Blame Socialism

By Haroon Moghul

…ge of out-of-control fires in Queens and exploding transformer stations in Manhattan? No government or an ineffective government leaves us with post-New Orleans Katrina, a disaster that helped doom the Bush Presidency; last year, New York City went into overdrive, going out of its way to be ready for Irene. That was a good thing, and thank God Irene wasn’t as bad as we thought she might be. This time around, maybe last year’s preparations will mak…

Gay Marriage = Mob Rule?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…undred protesters planned to march later Wednesday on the Mormon Temple in Manhattan. The church had encouraged its members to support the California ban. Amid the joy in Connecticut and the anger and disappointment in California comes word that, according to one anti-marriage equality group, allowing same-sex marriage is akin to “mob rule.” Kris Mineau of the Massachusetts Family Institute, which opposes gay marriage, said planned and past protes…

A Pale Glimpse of Moon

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…after their first romantic college encounter, are debating whether to flee Manhattan or to wait it out. Eventually they do, opting as so many millions of others to leave through one of the few working tunnels, making their way to the countryside and the imagined salvation awaiting them in western Pennsylvania. The only light they see on this epic odyssey is created by fire—the fires of rioters and looters in the city, then later, the massive confl…

Rent-Free Religion in New York’s Public Schools

By Katherine Stewart

…e large-scale organizations that successfully planted churches in multiple numbers of New York City’s public schools, and the numbers grew quickly. During the 2010-2011 school year, the Department of Education said 160 congregations were granted permits for worship services. The new churches valued not just the free real estate, but also the proximity to children and families, and the credibility provided by their new physical setting. Owing to th…

Who Gets Paid to Make America Hate? The Roots of the Islamophobia Network

By Haroon Moghul

We were told, at least on some news channels, that last summer’s Manhattan mosque controversy expressed an organic fear of Islam. Just as we’re often pushed to think that the Tea Party is a grassroots reaction to American debt, genuine fiscal concern suddenly capturing American attention and driving us to near legislative paralysis. It’s about time someone followed the money. Today, the Center for American Progress (CAP) releases a groundbreaki…

Another Bush Comes Out for Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…o marry the person that they love.” The 29-year-old Ms. Bush, who lives in Manhattan, ends the video by asking others in the state to “join us.” Over at Focus on the Family’s Citizen Link, blogger Jenny Tyree isn’t surprised at Ms. Bush and Ms. McCain’s support for marriage equality. “It’s rather easy for 20-somethings—or millennials—to jump on the very tidy-looking ‘rights’ bandwagon that proponents of same-sex marriage have made marriage to be,’…

SoHo Properties CEO: Media Reports of Park51 Move a “Falsehood”

By Hussein Rashid

…Sharif El-Gamal, Chairman and CEO of SoHo Properties, which owns the site, today issued this statement to RD: It is untrue that the community center known as Park51 in lower Manhattan is being moved. The project will proceed as planned. What is being reported in the media today is a falsehood. …

Kagan, “Jewish Bolshevism,” and the Legacy of a Nomination

By Gordon D. Newby

…ree women will hail from New York. Kagan grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Sonia Sotomayor is from the Bronx, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg is from Brooklyn.” They do not represent real America, she contends. Living in New York is not the same as living in the rest of America, “not the same cultural marinade.” Pat Buchanan also weighed in on Kagan’s nomination, lamenting the fact that the Democrats, for him in the thrall of Jewish socialism,…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…on, the book will be launched on October 14 at Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan, the oldest continuous congregation in America, going back, according to its web site, to 1628. The church features a dynamic, multiracial gospel choir that Clarkson says will perform. Far from a sleepy panel discussion, the church leaders in partnering with the publisher want an event that is more like a catalyst for a movement—and are exploring live-streaming th…