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Jewish P.I.

By Michael J. Altman

…e. A four-alarm fire engulfed a 110-year-old synagogue on New York’s Upper East Side Monday night. The building was empty and under renovation at the time and the cause was unknown. A Manhattan judge threw out an ex-firefighter’s lawsuit attempting to stop the building of an Islamic center blocks away from Ground Zero. Facon offers Jews an option for making it through America’s “Bacon Boom.” Israeli “Freedom Riders” are women exercising their rig…

The Way of the Brother: How Critics Missed the Boat on Tree of Life

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…assionate, the god of mercy). Marketers have exploited this dualism, and a promotional website for the film carries the title: twowaysthroughlife.com. Comments on the film (by critics and in the comment sections of major media outlets) typically ape this dualistic proclamation. But as I watch my daughters play, in amiability and animosity alike, I realize The Tree of Life is not merely about parental spouses acting out nature and grace in diverg…

Will Istanbul Ever Be a Part of the European Union?

By Haroon Moghul

…y Dubai in the south, central Europe in the west and probably India in the east to get this kind of economic power. It doesn’t deserve to be second fiddle to anyone, and with Turkey’s rise, I can see it playing a global role, in the near future, commensurate with its historic one. At the moment I’m overlooking the last stop on the European rail network. From here, you can go all the way to London. There’s another rail station on the Asian side of…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…rely white—and European only with difficulty. Many Muslims view the Middle East, sometimes defined generously to include Berbers, Turks, or South Asians, as a kind of Islamic heartland, where the “real Islam” exists; those from outside the region are assumed to be more recently converted, and thus less authentically Muslim. This frame’s even used by those who consider it charitable: Indonesia’s Islam is often described as syncretic, which means mo…

Touched by a Michael Landon: America’s Jewish Angel

By Peter Manseau

…d by Matthew Laborteaux, himself adopted). Having sent his only child back East to marry a woman he’s never met (in Minnesota, Singerman’s adult son complains, “there isn’t a Jewish girl for five hundred miles”), the widowed craftsman finds in young Albert Ingalls an eager pupil not just of woodworking, but of Judaism and life. True to the message of tolerance that is typical of the series, Albert soon learns the Jewish coffin maker is not so diff…

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…sionally uproarious. If the giddy laughter I heard at the sold-out show on Easter Sunday is any indication, theatergoers love it. And they delight in laughing at Mormons. From personal knowledge, I can tell you that many of the play’s zingers about 19-year-old Mormon “elders” fall on target. A surprising number of these Christian soldiers haven’t in fact read the Book of Mormon (“Another Testament of Jesus Christ”). Pairs of missionaries (“compani…

Breivik Sought to Create ‘Mirror Universe’ of EU

By Haroon Moghul

…place in a similar hierarchical firmament. As the European Union stretched east, many grumbled that Eastern Europeans didn’t belong. They might be white on the outside, but inside—where it mattered—they were still dark. And now we have Breivik, part of a wider trend of anti-Muslim rage, which identifies Islam as a threat to the West. All of it. Breivik’s rhetoric was influenced by white power, Christian triumphalism, and European nationalisms, but…

Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…ar anxiety about The End has actually been with us for quite some time—at least from the moment in July 1945 when Manhattan Project mastermind J. Robert Oppenheimer quoted Vedic scripture at Los Alamos: “I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.” Many Americans actually felt pretty good about the nuclear bomb for a little bit, though that changed once those damned Russkies got a bomb of their own. Partly to allay growing fears of annihilation, Presi…

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

By Dana Evan Kaplan

…thodox synagogue on West 86th Street. After my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, my sister and I moved to Waterbury, Connecticut where we lived with my aunt and uncle, Ruth and Herman. I spent many hours discussing the state of the Jewish community in Waterbury with my Aunt Ruth, and although the ideas presented in this book differ radically from what I was arguing at the time, I owe much to her enthusiastic debating. If she was alive today…

Dumbest Interview About Islam of All Time

By Sarah Posner

…all over the streets that are in some of the countries over in the Middle East, just blowing up a super market with not even soldiers, just people, when 250 people die in a super market that are shopping, where people die in a store or in a street. There’s a lot of hatred there that’s some place. Now I don’t know if that’s from the Koran. I don’t know if that’s from some place else. But there’s tremendous hatred out there that I’ve never seen any…