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Jewish Past/Israeli Future: A Review of The Invention of the Jewish People

By Shalom Goldman

…ome US journalists have attacked Sand’s ideas—but there have been few full reviews—perhaps because the book is so scholarly and dense. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece on October 30, a critique of the book was embedded in an article by Evan R. Goldstein in the paper’s series “Houses of Worship.” The article focuses on Sand’s argument that most of the Jews of Eastern Europe were descended from the Khazars, an eighth century A.D. Turkic tribe th…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data [Part II]

By Chrissy Stroop

…ived so far. CK: So far, we’ve been amazingly short of trolls and horrible reviews. KGV: It’s shocking. I expected much more controversy. A lot of people have come with amazingly positive reviews and said that this is really important, and covered things that they didn’t know. CK: In terms of it getting out there, we’ve found that around the world there’s a much stronger embrace of it in countries that are more secular, and that’s really interesti…

How to Separate Jewishness from Zionism

By Shaul Magid

…uestion their allegiance to the Jewish people. (We saw this in some of the reviews of Beinart’s book, for example, as when Daniel Gordis asked the bizarre and unfounded question; “Why does [Beinart] detest Israel so?”) Parting Ways is Butler’s attempt to construct a Jewish narrative that coheres with her philosophical and political sensibilities as well as her allegiance to her Jewish heritage and lineage. As a Jew for whom religious practice and…

Rejecting the Stranger: Why Rod Dreher’s Vision of Communal Christian Life Is Not So Benedictine After All

By Kaya Oakes

…ty in America that might review his book. As of right now, I couldn’t find reviews of The Benedict Option in America, Commonweal, National Catholic Reporter, The National Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor, or US Catholic. And First Things hasn’t published anything with the Benedict Option tag since 2016. Perhaps this is just a factor of timing: Dreher’s book was only released yesterday (on March 14th), and prestige secular publications like th…

Authoritarian Populism Vs Human Rights, The Campaign Against ‘Gender Ideology’ and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

Human Rights Watch released its 2017 World Report, in which the group reviews human rights practices in more than 90 countries, which a focus on the “dangerous rise of populism” and global attacks on human rights values. From a description: In the 687-page World Report, its 27th edition, Human Rights Watch reviews human rights practices in more than 90 countries. In his introductory essay, Executive Director Kenneth Roth writes that a new generat…

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…holic Bishops resist new school policies. The conservative Church Militant reviews a rhetorical battle being waged by a couple of bishops against new education guidelines on gender identity in the province of Alberta. The new guidelines say school boards have until March 31 to come up with policies that support, among other things, students’ right to self-identify their gender and be addressed using their preferred pronouns. The Alberta Catholic S…

It’s Not Her, It’s You.

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…often coded as “reasoned critiques”). Having read the book and some of the reviews, I’m strongly inclined to give the point to Sentilles. Not because her book is above critique in every last respect. Sentilles herself acknowledges that it isn’t. But many of the reviews, which she quotes in the Harvard Divinity Review piece, completely misunderstand what she’s doing in the book—in ways that it’s hard to attribute to the author’s lack of skill. Bre…

Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ironic that an African dictator wearing a three-piece suit, caressing an iPhone, speaking in English and liberally quoting the Bible can dare indict anything for being un-African.” In a report from South Sudan, the Guardian’s Antony Loewenstein reports on the anti-gay agenda often connected to evangelical churches’ missionary work. He cites American evangelist Franklin Graham as an example: Samaritan’s Purse, run by Franklin Graham, son of the Ch…

Pope Praises ‘Complementarity’ & Resists Gay Ambassador; Irish Religious Leaders Spar Over Marriage; Colombian Atty Gen Cites ‘Bogus’ Study Opposing Adoption; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ore refused to discontinue a promotion which offers its customers discount tickets to a Christian magic show produced by Lawrence Khong, the anti-gay pastor of Faith Community Baptist Church: Mr Khong has claimed that gay people have “a shorter lifespan, more sexually transmitted infections and more health problems than the general population” and has warned of a “looming threat” of “homosexual activists” trying to repeal sodomy laws. Many custome…

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

By Julia Seymour

…ar reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, as well as criticisms of the five-star reviews that swooned over the Nazi protagonist and wondered if, perhaps, history had not been a little too hard on those poor, misguided thugs in jackboots. These criticisms have generated their own backlash to the backlash, with such authors as Anne Rice arguing that speaking against For Such a Time is a kind of censorship. The Guardian quoted Rice from her own Facebook pa…