Religion Dispatches
…Live in Butte, Montana…” Despite the well-meaning efforts of Christians in search of their Jewish roots, the fact that Jesus was a Jew, and that the Last Supper was a Seder, has little to do with what American Catholics and American Jews truly have in common, which is far more than our fraught religious histories would suggest. Is it possible that the saga of immigration and assimilation shared by Jews and Catholics in the twentieth century is mor…
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…Sonia Sotomayor might be too empathic. And this propensity made him and a number of other Republican senators anxious [See “Obama’s Pick Sotomayor Derided by Conservatives for Empathy,” by Paul Gorrell]. In the Senate these days, “empathy” has become a synonym for “partiality,” “not being objective,” “legislating from the bench,” and, most remarkably, for “prejudice.” (Senator Jeff Sessions, who knows his way around prejudice, calmly declared tha…
Read More…aysian bomoh, who claimed that government authorities asked him to help locate Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 using a shamanic ritual. Israeli psychic Uri Geller has now announced via Twitter that he too has been asked to help search for the missing plane. Geller rose to media fame in the 1970s for his alleged ability to bend spoons with his mind. He’s hinted he could help find the missing airliner by using the power of remote viewing, a form of E…
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…tle is usually the better description. But “religion and film” shows up on searches much more clearly, and today we are all bound by “The Search.” How do you feel about the cover? As mentioned above, the first cover image the publishers sent to me was a scene from Gibson’s The Passion, and I was in utter despair about this. “It’s everything I didn’t want this book to be!” I pleaded. And Yoram Allon, the director of Wallflower Press and a very…
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…the FBI to Nazi brownshirts. On August 9th, the FBI executed a warrant to search the premises for boxes of classified material that the former president had removed from the White House and never returned. According to Politico, Trump is being investigated “for a potential violation of the Espionage Act.” But before anyone had even seen the warrant, as Bradley Onishi detailed here on RD, the right-wing punditry machine had already begun a round o…
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…e eyeballs to what is really a blockbuster project. To take one example, a search for press materials on Netflix’s media center yielded no result. I’m still peeved (Reed Hastings lets me down, yet again), but I can’t say I’m really that puzzled the more I think about it. After all, as the film makes eminently clear, this is one Family you don’t want to mess with. Their humility and their devotion to Christ might get you killed. It may well be that…
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…doing it? If you read these—not something you’ll find easily with a Google search—you will realise that all the attackers are talking the same language. They were politically educated out of the destruction of Iraq, the invasion of Afghanistan, the drones bombing in Pakistan, Yemen, the torture of Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib and the colonisation and occupation of Palestine. While most identified themselves as Muslims, they also said they were ho…
Read More…ial to many Jews, despite the embrace by right-wing groups like the ZOA, a search of the ADL archives reveals it has been more than six years since Foxman has remarked on the CUFI leader’s statements. The last time was in 2008, after a 1999 sermon surfaced in which Hagee characterized the Holocaust as part of God’s plan for the Jews. At the time, Foxman corresponded with Hagee, and later issued a statement welcoming Hagee’s letter “clarifying his…
Read More…the Church of England.) Campbell accuses Cameron of embracing a “tactic in search of a strategy,” concluding, “if this is leadership, God help us.” In the U.S., we have no established church; in fact our constitution forbids such a thing. Yet such religious talk is far more commonplace among American politicians, even when it is met with objections from church-state separation advocates. There’s a cautionary tale in this Cameron effort, but it’s n…
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…nic” as my professional identity is divided between the Israeli field of research (that also made me adopt my name, Shokeid, years ago) and the more recent involvement with the LGBT field that started with my work on CBST. However, I am ready to pay the price—becoming somewhat marginal in both professional circles. In the more recent edition of the book, you note that there is a “growing interest in issues of homosexuality, spirituality, and Juda…
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