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War Is Not “Hell” It’s “Sin”: Jews and Muslims Hunger Strike Against Violence

By Shaul Magid

…e grounds… – from a mishna (early rabbinic legal code) tractate about fast days (Ta’anit 4:6) This year the 17th day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, a minor fast day in the Jewish calendar, falls in the middle of Ramadan, when Muslims the world over fast during the day to commemorate the month of Mohammad’s prophecy. It also falls at a time when Israel and Hamas are exchanging bombs and rockets aimed at killing the other side. In response, Jews and…

Quote of the Day

By Sarah Posner

…njoyed listening to the keynote speaker and found the breakfast to be inspiring until President Obama began politicking.”…

Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ce of marriage equality in the U.S. also sends a message abroad, making Monday a good day for global human rights. The Russian government has kept up its demands that the U.S. return a gay teenager who is seeking asylum in the U.S. after coming to the country as part of an exchange program. The story made headlines when the Russian foreign ministry announced it was pulling out of a 21-year-old exchange program because the student had not returned…

One More Day until Marriage Equality vote in New York?

By Peter Montgomery

…tions in the bill. Wavering Republican senators are reportedly seeking broader religious exemptions akin to those contained in New Hampshire’s marriage equality law. CNN and other news outlets have reported that the governor can extend the legislative session beyond today’s deadline and has said that he would do so. Today, a Buffalo television station reported that the marriage vote would likely take place tomorrow; it said the governor and Republ…

Photo of the Day: Uganda’s First Gay Pride Parade

By Peter Montgomery

…Earlier this month in the lake town of Entebbe (where the president’s official residence is located), Uganda’s first gay pride parade took place. Abdoulaye Bah writes: In spite of widespread homophobia on the part Ugandan politicians and the public, the event was reportedly well attended. Ugandan police raided the event and detained LGBT activists who were later released. Now this is courage: Photo courtesy of David Robinson…

Tweet of the Day: If You Think Newtown Was God’s Will…

By Evan Derkacz

…RD contributor and author Diana Butler Bass does not like the suggestion that this massacre was somehow God’s will: Amen….

Report from Paris During COP21: Let Us Not Commit Global Suicide

By Donna Schaper

…h they are not. Those inside who know resilience are surely our friends. Day Two Day Two for us, Day 5 for the Talks, found us involved with a man high up on a light pole, waving a home made banner of the earth-as-womb, a fetus resting inside. He was in front of the Grand Palais, an enormous glass roofed building constructed for the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition, where we were trying to see opening day—mistake! You’d think New Yorkers would kn…

Goodbye, (Mythic) Columbus

By Ira Chernus

…foundation story has powerful political effects that stretch from Columbus Day to Election Day and beyond. “Voter Disgust Isn’t Only About Issues,” as the headline of a recent article by New York Times reporter Matt Bai rightly declared. Bai is a rare mass media journalist who recognizes that politics is largely a matter of cultural symbolism. Independent voters are much less concerned about jobs and the economy than about what they see as “the la…

Day 1: Cornerstone Christian Music Festival Diary

By Gabriel Mckee

…RD contributor Gabe McKee attended the recent Cornerstone Festival, a yearly extravaganza featuring hundreds of Christian bands, artists and performers of all kinds. In the first video diary below, Gabe talks about “The Imaginarium,” the festival lineup and the mixed bag of old school, anti-gay, sponsors and newer nonprofits with an international humanitarian focus:…

Maybe The Question Is: Should Shabbat Be The New Yoga?

By Michael Schulson

…p looking at it for awhile. There’s a clear Jewish inspiration (unplugging day goes from Friday evening to Saturday evening, just like Shabbat), but there’s no overtly religious content, and the organization is explicit about wanting to reach people of all backgrounds. When I spoke with Reboot communications manager Tanya Schevitz earlier this year, she said the annual event typically reached more than 100,000 people. She spoke about “the idea of…