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Savoring the Haterade: Why Jews Love Dara Horn’s ‘People Love Dead Jews’

By Shaul Magid

…ver they may have learned in Sunday school. They mostly illustrated the moral values of Judaism, explaining its seemingly arcane practices like dietary laws, and created what Gordan calls “Judaism as an American religion.” From about 1945-1960 over 40 such volumes were published not including cover stories in major national magazines. The basic Judaism genre seems today to be replaced with books like Horn’s People Love Dead Jews. Books about antis…

Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…e-stop shopping for the morbid mind.” Alongside videos of autopsies and embalming procedures, they sell a couple documentary videos on September 11—one of which donates proceeds to the “Twin Tower Fund,” set up my Mayor Giuliani. Another video offers images of “people jumping to their death.” But years before the Internet, in 1928, Tom Howard strapped a miniature camera to his ankle and photographed the electrocution of Ruth Synder. The photo was…

Preachers’ Daughters Episode 4: Victoria Apologizes, Olivia is Embarrassed, and Taylor Dances Around in Silly Underpants

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…same way. On the other hand, Mark reports that he and Frankie had a long talk at microchurch, and Frankie has expressed interest in coming back. So there is a sense in which Mark and Frankie have their own relationship now, as pastor and possibly-interested-church-newcomer. And on that note, I’ll just point out that in my experience teaching seminarians—many of whom are serving churches already—this is the most realistic clergy family issue we’v…

Bannon’s “Alt-Facts” Satan

By Spencer Dew

…ments that could always be partially retracted as exaggeration, as rhetorical flourish. This was Trump’s answer to the sort of consummately Machiavellian language of career politicians like the one he campaigned against. Compare, for instance, Trump, on the Access Hollywood tape, bragging of “grabbing” the sexual organs of women, using crude but clear language, with that equally infamous statement from President Clinton, “I did not have sex with t…

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…m he’s in direct competition. Clarence only makes his appearance in the final portion of the film as George contemplates suicide on a Christmas Eve, showing the despondent banker a version of reality had he never lived. Far from syrupy, even if “every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings,” It’s a Wonderful Life combines political radicalism and existential despair into a strangely harmonious whole. Smarmy angel Kevin Smith’s 1999 fantasy co…

The Bible Passage at the Root of the House’s Punitive Farm Bill

By Jonathan Malesic

…ated a quintessentially American moment: one in which politics, race, and class mix with theology to enable elected officials to moralize about who deserves to eat. Currently, able-bodied adults ages 18-49 without dependents have to work for pay to remain eligible for SNAP benefits. Under the version of the Farm Bill passed in the House earlier this year, able-bodied adults 50-59 would be required to have jobs, as would adults caring for children…

#WeStandWithIsaac: A Movement for LGBT Inclusion in the Mennonite Church

By Scott Schomburg

…l an image he’s often made use of in his preaching: I think of someone becoming all fire. Isaac ended a sermon in 2010 with a fourth-century story of two monks in the Egyptian desert—a crazy story about “someone who believes that God’s fire can be a reality in our lives, a tangible experience, that we too can be God’s fire made flesh.” In the desert, as the story goes, Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph and said: “Abba, as far as I can I say my litt…

How End-of-Life Issues Are Being Used to Thwart Health Care Reform

By Ann Neumann

…law. But the US Supreme Court deemed the directive a violation of privacy. Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Montana, and California all have right to privacy provisions in their state constitutions, and aid-in-dying advocates have successfully focused on producing legislature in these states. They found additional success in December 2008, when Baxter v. Montana legalized aid-in-dying in Montana. The case is being challenged by the state attorney general…

A Nazi, a Jewish Prisoner, and a “Magic” Bible, Or, Christian Romance Fiction Gone Very, Very Wrong

By Julia Seymour

…nt pressures her to kisses and into an engagement. And, in the way of magical realism, a Bible appears and she learns to find some consolation in the New Testament—instead of in the Hebrew Scriptures of her childhood. All ends with a happily ever after as our lovely Jewess marries the Nazi commandant, who helps Jews escape the camp in question. Presumably, they raise lovely blond Christian children. I think I need to wash my hands after typing tha…

How To Engage Politics As A Community?

By Daniel Schultz

…This seems to me, as it does to Kotsko, to be a recipe for massive political quietism. But along the way, he entertains some doubts about his own position: I’m not convinced that these people have chosen the most effective route to help their country — though Guatemala is in such bad shape I’ll admit that I don’t know what would be effective — and I suspect that at least some of my students will be skeptical as well. Partway through the book, tho…