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Jewish Studies Is a Free-Speech Zone, and It Needs to Stay That Way

By Aaron Hughes

…not. When I looked recently at the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)’s online openings, I was shocked to see a job announcement for the Executive Director (ED) of the Hillel at Brandeis. I had never once seen such an announcement, in all the years I have been looking at the listings. The AJS site has traditionally listed academic jobs and, maybe, the odd announcement for a non-academic position in the organization itself. That there was a job…

Conservative Evangelicalism’s Gender Role Rift: Whither Women?

By Jacob Lupfer

…ge with more than 12,000 students in residence and nearly 100,000 enrolled online. A bastion of cultural conservatism, Liberty seems an unlikely place to celebrate women reaching for the heights of influence in business and government. The Rev. Christine Caine of Australia speaks at the Willow Leitungskongress 2012. But unless Propel aims to convince women to quit their careers, stop taking birth control, and homeschool their children, it will be…

Will Getting Rid of Bryan Fischer Get Rid of the AFA’s Problem?

By Sarah Posner

…Bill there, and who claims a link between Nazism and homosexuality: In an online column, Fischer defended Lively’s preposterous and debunked “history” of a Nazi-gay link, claiming “the masculine homosexual movement in Germany created the Brown Shirts, and the Brown Shirts in turn created the Nazi Party.” In a column earlier this year opposing the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Fischer recycled that 2008 column, adding, “Even today in America, it…

‘Iconoclash’ of Civilizations: Missives from the Image Wars

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…of € 75,000 (seven years in prison and €100,000 if terrorism is glorified online.) *** In the third story of the Decameron, a 14th century book our dear departed Menocchio is known to have read, an Italian Christian woman named Philomena tells a story about a Jew and a Muslim (here called a Saracen). Saladin, a man described as one “whose valor was such that not only turned him from a nobody into Sultan of Babylon, but gained him many victories o…

Hide the Religion, Feature the Science: 60 Minutes Drops the Ball on Mindfulness

By jeff wilson

…n Valley, and you can learn more about Cooper’s experiences by visiting an online extension of the report sponsored by Pfizer, the makers of Viagra. There’s a lot of money to be made off of the American consumer’s exhaustion, but the economics of the mindfulness juggernaut are left unexamined by Cooper. The 60 Minutes piece, basically a commercial for the allegedly de-Buddhified arm of the mindfulness movement, couldn’t be any more positive if it…

Daily News Corrects JR Smith’s “Fool[ish]” Slavery/Black Friday Post… Incorrectly

By Evan Derkacz

…s’ Jaime Uribarri drags Smith through the mud by recounting the cruelty of online critics: “You’re a f——— idiot” was one of the the more blunt responses to the head-scratcher of a post, while others, like Twitter user @j_weech1, tried enlightening Smith about the true meaning of the term. “It’s called Black Friday because businesses get into the black (profit) for the year, because it’s the biggest day.” Unfortunately for Uribarri, who clearly bel…

Just a Mirror of a Mirror of Myself: Episode Three Recap of Preachers’ Daughters

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ers’ Daughters. If you watched episode three last night—or if you watch it online here now—you could count on being caught up within a few minutes: Olivia, from California, is a former party girl turned pious teen mom who has just learned the paternity of her daughter Eden. Taylor, from Illinois, finds it difficult to integrate her church persona (and her pastor father’s strict rules) with her desire to party, date, and wear sexy clothes. And Kolb…

The Promise of Immortality in a Tech-Enhanced Heaven

By Lisa Webster

…ything. We’ve seen that happen. The entire world and its economy has moved online, speeding things up, “disrupting” industries, increasing our vulnerability to hackers and spies. Now we’re at the beginnings of feeling the impact of robotics; 3D home production and the printing of body parts; nano-medicine, virtual reality (finally!) and so on. There’s even some talk about a longevity pill on the near future horizon. Even if that doesn’t happen, th…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nk News reports, “The men were arrested in September, after a video leaked online appearing to show an unofficial same-sex wedding ceremony on a riverboat in the Nile.” According to the report, “The public prosecutor previously claimed the video was ‘humiliating, regrettable and would anger God.” More from the Los Angeles Times’ Laura King: In Egypt, it isn’t a crime to be homosexual – at least in theory. But a high-profile court case, resulting i…

Fired GTS Professors Go Back to Work, For Now

By Steve A. Wiggins

…lican genealogy, the United Methodist Church, had thirteen seminaries. The number is now down to ten for Episcopalians, and the clock may be ticking for some of the remaining decad. Possibly even General, the first seminary of the Episcopal Church. In good, corporate style, seminary governance is overseen by a Board of Trustees. These boards, like most governing bodies, do not involve themselves in the day-to-day operations of the school, as long…