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Israel’s Immigration Debate: “Where is the Jewish Spirit?”

By Mati Wagner

…in America, including children of illegal aliens. In states like Texas and California, a Hispanic majority is expected by 2025. Arguably, though, Israel’s situation is more precarious. Half of all guest workers are illegal, compared to just one-third in the US and less than that in the EU. Foreigners make up 8.5 percent of the total workforce in Israel compared to just 6% on average in OECD countries. Israel has also integrated some 350,000 non-Je…

In the Trenches with the HRC, Working for Transgender Inclusion

By Rev. Erin K. Swenson

…om places like Alton Illinois, Jackson Mississippi, and Boise Idaho—places where transgender education rarely makes it into a congregation’s adult education program. Currently trainings are planned for Cherry Hill, New Jersey , Richmond Virginia, and Stockton, California, among other locations. I am honored to be a part of this bold work for transgender justice and invite you to join HRC in 2011 for their next Clergy Call for Justice and Equality…

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…ho I’d spoken to on the phone. An immigration attorney and author based in California, Peshawaria is working with Bedi in the anti-corruption effort. Just then, Bedi popped out of the bathroom wearing blue cotton pajamas not unlike her police uniform. She greeted me with the warmth of an old friend and escorted me to the room’s only uncluttered chair and then seated herself on its ottoman. Leaning her petite frame toward me, elbows on knees, hands…

Hagee and Others See
End Times in North African Revolutions

By Joanna Brooks

…to make a case for . . . a case for . . . . Jesus? Almost forty years ago, California Christian pastor Hal Lindsey offered a Cold War inflected vision of the endtimes in his bestselling and widely influential The Late Great Planet Earth. Focusing on Ezekial 38 – 39, Lindsey preached that immediately before the millenial return of Jesus Christ, “Gog and Magog,” which he interpreted as Soviet Russia, would lead ”Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya,” and “Go…

Tattoos, Cremation, Personal Spirituality: The Jewish World in Transformation

By Dana Evan Kaplan

…ther such example that I write about in my book was of a woman in northern California who asks to be cremated after her body is ritually purified and most of the traditional Hebrew prayers have been recited. Again, this is behavior that would have been inexplicable to a traditional Jew from a previous generation. I am hoping that my readers will find these internal contradictions as fascinating as I did and want to explore the changing contours of…

Debate Over Mother Earth’s ‘Rights’ Stirs Fears of Pagan Socialism

By Bron Taylor

…, Morality, and the Environment, which was first published in the Southern California Law Review in 1972. Indeed, I contend that the recent developments in Ecuador, Bolivia, and within the United Nations are as American as apple pie: they are to some extent in the spirit of a diverse range of American voices that led to the pioneering Endangered Species Act of 1973 signed into law by Richard Nixon. Yet today, those who call themselves conservativ…

Dialogue or Demonization? Where Gays are Concerned, Focus on the Family Wants it Both Ways

By Cody J. Sanders

…an be disturbing—at least according to one conservative Christian group in California. Last Friday, when the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) sponsored its annual Day of Silence, in which students take a vow of silence “to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools,” SaveCalifornia.com staged a walkout, urging parents to protect their kids from “indoctrination” by keeping them away fr…

Why the Hell Does Hell Still Matter?

By Kathryn Gin

…aurentine Hamilton, a nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister who came to California during the Gold Rush but was excommunicated for rejecting hell in the late 1860s. Or it could be the story of Charles Chauncy, an eighteenth-century Boston Congregationalist who was so concerned about the potential reaction to his increasingly universalist beliefs that he first published them anonymously under the title Salvation for All Men in 1782. Clearly Bell…

Facebook Doesn’t Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ng in any given week at Martha’s Kitchen food pantry in downtown San Jose, California than at Sunday services at the church across the street. If Facebook is killing the church, that is, it’s probably more accurate to call it an assisted suicide. Clicking the Church Catholic Rather than “killing the church,” available data suggest that social media can be a part of revitalizing religious practice. Hence the loopy zeal with which Pope Benedict XVI…

Why the King Hearings Should Matter to Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…RD article. If LDS Church President Joseph F. Smith recognized that there were in 1901 “good people on this earth who think they’re doing God a service to kill us,” please consider how Muslims might feel witnessing an elected official from Orange County, California, publicly threaten to marshall US Marines to send American Muslims “to an early meeting in paradise.” As a Mormon who remembers her faith’s marginal history, I find the King hearings an…