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Want Straight Talk on the Romney-Rosen Mommy Wars?

By Joanna Brooks

…on feminist blogger Jana Remy followed Butterworth in calling for a little policy reality, comparing her own experiences first as a stay at home mother of two young children and then, later, as a working mother of older children: “Instead of spinning into endless cycles of finger-pointing, I’d like for politicians to work harder to make mothering valued–by, say, making it possible for SAHMs to earn social security benefits or to contribute to Roth…

High Jewish Voter Turnout—and They Don’t Like Trump

By Gordon Haber

…While they remain emotionally attached to Israel, their dislike of Israeli policy is growing. The survey reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s favorability “has dropped to a nine-year low (35 percent favorable/32 percent unfavorable),” and Israeli policy towards Palestinians and the settlements “makes them feel more negative toward Israel.” Eighty-four percent of of American Jews believe that it is possible to be “pro-Israel” even while…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…has repeatedly exploded into hate-filled aggression.” Californian Foreign Policy It was in this maelstrom of political tension and religious emotion that the California-based Museum of Tolerance decided in the mid-1990s to build a branch of its Los Angeles campus. For those not familiar with Jerusalem’s recent history, a museum of Tolerance might seem just what the city needs. And as for calling it “a Center for the Human Dignity”—what could be w…

Women to Pray for the First Time in April LDS World Meeting

By Joanna Brooks

…raying in public or at church meetings. Still, women have been excluded by policy and custom from pulpit prayer at times throughout LDS history. During the 1970s, women were not permitted to offer invocations or benedictions during weekly congregational church services, a restriction that was lifted in September 1978. Other non-doctrinal policy restrictions on women’s full participation in LDS Church life and leadership remain, including the excl…

War Criminal Henry Kissinger, First Jewish Secretary of State, Had a Lengthy History of Antisemitism

By Noah Berlatsky

…” [Editor’s note: the context note has since been removed, likely due to a change in the ADL account’s settings, but we’ve included a screenshot below.] None of this should be surprising. Kissinger’s legacy is one of blatant disregard for the vulnerable and oppressed. Numerous obituary writers have been chronicling his horrifying history, including his most famous atrocity, the secret bombing campaign in Cambodia which led to at least 150,000 deat…

Court Rules Against Texas Education Employee Forced To Resign Over Forwarded Email

By Lauri Lebo

…h Circuit in New Orleans last week upheld a district court decision that a policy of the Texas Education Agency requiring employees to be neutral on the issue of “evolution and creationism” is not unconstitutional. This whole story started way back when when the Texas Board of Education battle over its education curriculum was just beginning. Christine Comer was one of the first victims of the whole insanity of the process. A tenth-generation Texa…

Gun Ownership: ‘An Obligation to God’

By Julie Ingersoll and Sarah Posner

…rldview Conference” in 2009, has been a member of the Council for National Policy, and is a longtime homeschooling advocate from a Reconstructionist perspective. In 1996 he was the running mate of conservative icon (and Christian Reconstructionist) Howard Phillips for the far-right US Taxpayers Party (now called the Constitution Party) whose platform included the restoration of “American jurisprudence to its biblical premises” and, notably, opposi…

Don’t Call It “Prayer Shaming”: Our Moral Failure Exposed

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…ed ad nauseum, demonstrated a commitment to public piety instead of public policy as a response to the massacre. In a rare moment, news and social media outlets in the U.S. became a forum for a surprising debate about spiritual disciplines—the meaning and import of prayer. Layered approaches to prayer and “prayer shaming” dominated public discourse in the days following the shooting. On the right and left, religious and non-religious alike debated…

Conservative Media Firm Pushes Claim That Gaza Withdrawal Caused BP Disaster

By Sarah Posner

…rence, preaching on Obadiah 1:15 (“For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.”) The nations that curse Israel, said McTernan, are going to be cursed. “The policy of the United States is to divide the land of Israel,” said McTernan, “the policy of God is to unite the land of Israel. So we’re 180 degrees off. . . but there’s warnings in Scriptures…

Conservative French Catholics a ‘Rightwing Patriarchal Bunch’?; Indonesian Prez Decries Anti-LGBT Discrimination; Romanian Prez Warns Against ‘Religious Fanaticism’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Network. Its member groups work within their respective contexts to create change for queer Muslims within the Muslim community. Scotland: ‘Profound cultural shift’ behind embrace of gay politicians In the New York Times, Katrin Benhold writes about a “profound cultural shift” that has led to the country’s embrace of openly gay politicians, including leaders of three of the five major political parties, four government ministers, the secretary of…