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New Poll Reveals Jews May Be Open to Change in Israel Policy

…ll will these numbers hold up if Israel’s “most favored nation” status is truly challenged by an American administration? Despite some American Jewish alienation from Israeli policy, backing for a bold new direction in the peace process is not entirely solid, a fact reflected in the same survey. 40% of respondents continue to support West Bank settlements, which, no matter how J Street chooses to spin it, is not an insignificant number. 75% suppor…

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Sikh Prof Attacked on Heels of New Study

…Laden, a fact that makes it more believable that in 2008 alone fully 9% of New York City Sikhs said they had been assaulted because of their religion. But it’s not just association with radical Islam and the resulting attention from Islamophobes that haunts Sikh-Americans. After all, it’s hard to argue that Wade Michael Page, the white supremacist who shot and killed five Sikhs last year at a gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, didn’t know who he wa…

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Yale Clings to Racist Legacy… And Cash. Lots of Cash.

…DuBois’s take-them-down campaign was not very much on the minds of Yale’s trustees in May 1931. Their defiant response: name a gorgeous new gothically-crafted residential college for the man who epitomizes white supremacy, Sen. Calhoun. Calhoun College originally featured a large stained glass window with shackled slaves kneeling at Sen. Calhoun’s feet. The offensive part of that window was discreetly removed in 1992, but many smaller windows with…

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Romney Steers Hard Right on Immigration; Huntsman Out After New Hampshire?

…hat Jon Huntsman has once again reorganized his campaign, with the biggest news being his moving headquarters north to New Hampshire, where he’s currently drawing about 10% in the polls. In national polls, however, Huntsman hovers between 1 – 2%, raising some questions as to whether the Nirvana-quoting alt-Republican candidate will be allowed to participate in the October 18 debate. Huntsman’s headquarters had previously been located in Orlando, F…

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New Study: Motivation Doesn’t Improve Group Success

…pect do, including the average social sensitivity of group members, better shared engagement of all members (groups with conversation-dominators didn’t do as well), and groups with more women (not surprising, since women tend to score higher in social sensitivity). We worry a lot about individuals in America, but society—our families, jobs, labs, companies, congregations—function (or not) as groups. This new research gives us at least two hors d’o…

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American Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy

…is. As rabbinical student Daniel Raphael Silverstein wrote recently in the New York Jewish Week, the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, “run by a narrow clique of haredi [ultra-Orthodox] rabbis, solely for the interests of that clique,” does not “represent the interests of the Jewish People, be they in Israel or the Diaspora.” While I was in Akko, Israel, interviewing Guy Cohen, the Messianic Jewish leader of Harvest of Asher, Cohen introduced me to the cou…

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A Catholic House Divided Over Reproductive Health Care: Bishops Launch a New Campaign

…billing procedures, and staffing. While some of these practices have been ruled unacceptable, many have passed both local bishops’ and Vatican scrutiny. They are considered “material cooperation,” but not formal. It is not the intention of the Catholic staff or institution to provide those services, it does not formally provide them, and it expresses its disapproval in this way. In some instances the facility is even more removed from the acts as…

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Newt Gingrich, New Catholic, Presidential Hopeful

…at’s really up with his Catholic makeover?  1.  Newt Gingrich has really, truly found a new religious lease on life. 2.  Newt Gingrich is hoping evangelical social conservatives will forget their deep-seated anti-Papistry and love his new Jesus credentials. 3.  Newt Gingrich is hoping the Latino base will forget the Republican’s deep-seated anti-immigrant politics and love his new Jesus credentials. 4.  Mrs. Gringrich the third (the former Callist…

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Speaker Mike Johnson to Allow Privately Run National Prayer Breakfast into the Heart of the Capitol

the politics of individual board members “play no role” in its decisions. News of the new venue came in a Jan. 15 email to members of Congress. Heitkamp and fellow board member former Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-IL) provided members with new details on the event and location. (Hultgren is a longtime Family insider who has met with anti-LGBTQ+ leaders on trips paid for by The Family.) In their email, Heitkamp and Hultgren announced that the NPB Foundat…

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Religious Exemptions and the New Non-Culture Wars

…olic Bishops said HHS had granted it exemptions from similar language. The new interim rule, then, seeks eliminate that negotiated exemption, and to codify the requirements for a full range of services. That codification would prevent “taxpayer money being used to harm others,” according to the American Civil Liberty Union’s Deputy Legal Director Louise Melling. In other words, the taxpayer money argument goes both ways: taxpayers who support thes…

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