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Jewish Studies Is a Free-Speech Zone, and It Needs to Stay That Way

By Aaron Hughes

…ir religious affiliation at job interviews—and yet it is legitimate at Hillel. A fellow director of Jewish Studies at another institution, apprised of my situation, told me that he could arrange for a list of letters of support from colleagues should I need them. I don’t, of course. But I think this issue reveals further the tortured relationship between Jewish Studies and Hillel, one that the AJS, especially in light of my previous point, does no…

LGBTQ Equality Pendulum “Abruptly” Swinging Back as Religious Exemptions Gain Victories

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ech under the First Amendment outweighs the State’s interest in ensuring a freely accessible marketplace.” Arguing that “[a] wedding cake is not just a cake in a Free Speech analysis,” Judge Lampe went so far as to claim that “[t]here could not be a greater form of expressive conduct” than the “artistic expression” involved in designing a custom wedding centerpiece. Much as generations of artists, sculptors, musicians, playwrights, novelists, and…

Destruction, Or, Why Do Fundamentalists Seem To Enjoy Blowing Things Up?

By Daniel Schultz

…cial liberation. Rather, his work came precisely at the engagement of the religion of God’s freedom with the politics of human justice. Derivative from Marx, we can learn from these traditions that finally we will not have a politics of justice and compassion unless we have a religion of God’s freedom. We are indeed made in the image of some God. And perhaps we have no more important theological investigation than to discern in whose image we have…

Praying To The God Of The SUV

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…people of faith who may disagree with how God acts to “protect” those who believe. Relying on “almighty God” for homeland security discounts the reality of free will. The hijackers on September 11 had free will: they used it to hijack planes and fly them into buildings. The people going to work had free will: some called in sick, some had tight shoes and stopped for a Band-Aid. Some got to work early or came in on a day off. If God has granted us…

Free Yiddish Lessons, Vacation Liberty School, and Brangelina’s Universalism: The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…pro-Israel, anti-Obama organization called The Emergency Committee for Israel. Meanwhile, J Street, a pro-Israel group that favors a two state solution, is calling on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geitner to investigate American groups sponsoring Israeli settlements. But have no fear, the Presbyterians have an answer to the whole problem. Speaking of anti-Obama; it doesn’t get much more “anti” than a Tea Party billboard in Iowa. The billboard takes u…

Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…also the Western way of life, and Western civilization, depends on untrammeled freedom. But what about hate speech? Is hate speech not a category that impinges on, and limits, the practice of free speech? Must Jews ‘tolerate’ neo-Nazis? Must Catholics tolerate one who suggests that the birth of Jesus was not immaculate, that he was instead conceived by ordinary human means, outside Jewish law and beyond the awareness or participation of Mary’s la…

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…e is not over until abortion is made illegal, and, even after that, completely eliminated; the battle is not over until Planned Parenthood is put out of business. But beyond that, the battle is not over until communities themselves are “transformed.” The conversion of communities is an imperative even when abortion isn’t on the table. Grace Community Church pastor Steve Riggle, a board member of the Houston Area Pastors Council and prominent endor…

Supreme Court Rules Religion is Special… This Time

By Katherine Stewart

…stice Clarence Thomas argued that “it is quixotic to attempt a distinction between religious viewpoints and religious subject matter.” And since everything has a “viewpoint,” he inferred, religion is the same as everything else. Indeed, he could see “no logical difference in kind” between a religious group—such as The Good News Club, an after-school program of religious instruction for children that spends much of its time praying, singing hymns,…

Your Uterus Is “An Important Subject” About Which Your Fellow Citizens “Wish To Converse”

By Sarah Posner

…rvices is striking. In one example, the Court wrote that the sidewalk counselors merely “wish to converse with their fellow citizens about an important subject on the public streets and sidewalks—sites that have hosted discussions about the issues of the day throughout history.” It is true that abortion is one of many “issues of the day.” Yet it’s hard to imagine, for example, that urologists’ offices would become a target of anti-contraception pr…

Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’

By Andrew L. Seidel

…y’ve perverted this historic protection, fashioning this shield into a cudgel. Religion was always in danger of becoming “a motive to oppression” as Madison explained. And he’s been proven correct with this current and ongoing weaponization of religious freedom. Examining an early Supreme Court case involving religion and government, Rakove explains that the disestablishment of religion was a way to guarantee religious freedom and likens it to a s…