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What Can Fascination With ‘Sister Cindy’ Teach Us About the ‘None’ Generation?

…to Christ (which she declared “the most Jewish thing” they could do). Tri Delta sisters came out en masse, screeching with pleasure when Brother Jed (Cindy’s husband and cut-rate collaborator) declared theirs his favorite of the “so-whore-ities.” SNL’s Dana Carvey as “The Church Lady” in the late ’80s. It really was special. Cars drove by honking their horns, peeling out, and blasting that most famous of Cardi B. and Megan Thee Stallion duets. Ci…

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East Lansing Demonstrates How Not to Respond to Anti-LGBT “Christian” Businesses

…, local government officials, including the mayor of East Lansing, started contacting the Tennes family to inquire about potentially discriminatory practices, which may be illegal under the City of East Lansing’s non-discrimination ordinance and which, officials contended, violated the spirit of the farmers market. East Lansing officials repeatedly encouraged Country Mill Farms to “voluntarily elect not to attend the market” for the rest of the se…

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Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to 2 Years for Offending Russian Orthodox Church

…ause the court refused outright to let the defendants speak. We called for contact and dialogue rather than conflict and opposition. We reached out a hand to those who, for some reason, assume we are their enemies. In response they laughed at us and spat in our outstretched hands. “You’re disingenuous,” they told us. But they needn’t have bothered. Don’t judge others by your own standards. We were always sincere in what we said, saying exactly wha…

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Ultra Orthodox Murder-Suicide Makes Headlines

…itive, doesn’t it? Except for one thing: by bringing young Haredi men into contact with the permanent emergency that is Israeli civil society, Zaka and the Israeli Army have brought these young men into contact with the world of physical violence, aggression, and gun use. Hitherto protected by their insularity and separateness from Israeli society, these ultra-Orthodox males are becoming socialized to Israeli norms. And they and their community ar…

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Tokyo Governor Says Tsunami is Divine Punishment—Religious Groups Ignore Him

…ter area. The Shinseiky message board is now filled with inquiries seeking contact with Shinto clergy in shrines that cannot be contacted and are most likely destroyed. Christians in Japan, who make up less than one percent of the country’s population, consistently initiate successful and high-profile social welfare activities, and they have leapt into action to provide relief. On March 12, mere hours after the quake and tsunami hit the Tohoku reg…

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Who is Mat Staver, Counsel for Anti-Gay Activist Against Suit from Uganda?

…). Lindevaldsen claimed Miller could not be found, and that she had had no contact with Miller and could not represent her since she did not know what her wishes were. Jenkins’ attorney charged in a court filing that Liberty Counsel demonstrated “a clear attempt to assist their client in ducking service by withdrawing.” The court denied Liberty Counsel’s motion. After Miller had been in contempt of court for disregarding both the multiple visitati…

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How Ancient Rabbis Can Help Combat STI Stigma

…simple matter of “dirty” or “clean.” It was a complicated and fluid web of contact, transmission, treatment, and attentiveness, whose workings carry key lessons for how we treat similarly complex web of sexually transmitted infections today. First, the Mishnah talks about impurity. A lot. In exhaustive detail. It has an entire order, with several tractates, devoted explicitly to the concept. Within these, it breaks down several categories of impur…

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The Landmark 85-Year-Old Report Absent From Debates Over Missionary’s Death

…people protected from outside contact by the Indian government, since “any contact with the islanders could wipe out their culture and possibly even their existence since their immune systems may be no match for modern microbes.” In a journal entry prior to his death, Chau highlighted the motivating force behind his journey into the Indian Ocean: “You guys might think I’m crazy in all this …. But I think it’s worth it to declare Jesus to these peo…

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American Missionary Could Face Genocide Charges, But Brazil’s Indigenous Communities Have a Bigger Problem

…67), continue to advocate against over-extraction of natural resources and contact with indigenous peoples that contributes to their erasure. FUNAI has suffered from budget cuts in recent years that will seemingly continue under the Bolsonaro administration, as its advocacy for indigenous autonomy and sovereignty has put the agency at odds with the new president’s platform. According to Dinama Tuxa, coordinator of Brazil’s Association of Indigenou…

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Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder And Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination

…t to drown?” “What’s a midrash?” said I. “Oho!” said he, and even over the phone I could feel the excitement rise. “The rabbis would take the ancient text, and read it in new ways. On this one, where the Torah says the people ‘went into the sea on the dry land,’ the rabbis ask, ‘Which was it? How could it be both sea and dry land?’ And they answer that one of them went in while it was still sea; only then did it become dry land. “You see?—the peop…

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