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Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing

By Jonathan Schorsch

…ial dishes for offering to deities,” while modern varieties, the only kind promoted by the government, “are considered ‘impure’ for socio-cultural and religious ceremonies.” Faced with a soaring rate of Diabetes caused by the abandonment of traditional foods for “white” food products, the Tohono O’odham of the Sonora Desert have organized through communal institutions to support a return to their nearly extinct thousand-year-old former diet, write…

A Palin Pastor Primer

By Esther Kaplan

…the pages of the newspapers and on the television. When a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment—you can’t miss it.” Wasilla Bible Church is now promoting a September 13 Focus on the Family event called Love Won Out, a workshop on how to cure homosexuality through prayer [see pdf]. From 2006 on: Juneau Christian Center, Pastor Mike Rose Once Palin was elected g…

Sacrifice

By Amina Wadud

…oon on the 8th day of Zul-Hijjah, when we will all go about 5-6 kilometers east of Makkah, to a place called Mina. There we stay performing the five daily prayers starting with the mid-day or zhuhr prayer, but these will be shortened. Usually for travel prayers are shortened to two raka’at instead of 4, and zhuhr and ‘asr (mid-day and afternoon) prayers are combined. Here, they will be shortened but not combined. We stay in Mina, in a kind of mode…

Obama Foes Misrepresent Islam with “Apostate” Tactic

By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im

…r and Chairperson of the Department of Religion at Emory University. +Elizabeth A. Castelli, Professor and Chair Religion Department Barnard College at Columbia University +Rohit Chopra Assistant Professor of Media Studies Babson College, Massachusetts +Elizabeth Shakman Hurd Assistant Professor Dept. of Political Science Northwestern University Evanston, IL +Richmond L Gardner PN3 (Ret), USN, 1991-2001 (Retired Personnelman 3rd Class, US Navy) Ho…

Of Gods and Men Resurrects Martyrdom

By Nathan Schneider

…ngs, bear witness to the land. In an area increasingly beset by suburban sprawl, they live on a working farm. As the global ecological crisis worsens and inaction still reigns, they’re learning how to implement an ambitious environmental sustainability plan. It will make them better caretakers of the land that they’ve committed themselves to live—and die—on. Maybe it’s best to save the word “martyr” for other, more violent witnessing happening now…

Eid on 9/11 Anniversary?

By Haroon Moghul

…nto tourists, every few days, who’d ask: “which way’s north?” Or south, or east, or west. I’d smile, and turn south, and point out the World Trade Center. I’d tell them: Just keep an eye on that, and you’ll always know where to go. But there was just smoke, and it stole more and more of the sky, overcoming that beautiful September morning with a sick smell. If Eid ul-Fitr falls on the anniversary of that day, it will be an especially difficult tas…

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…

Pox Americana: Franzen’s Tragic Vision

By Peter Laarman

…locking worlds of Big Energy and American imperial overreach in the Middle East. Walter leaves his good job with the Nature Conservancy to become a DC-based environmental shill for a Houston oil and gas player (and Bush family friend) named Vincent Haven (Franzen’s use of surnames is consistently arch in a way that Dickens would appreciate). With the help of his nubile young Indian-American assistant, Walter becomes complicit in Haven’s scheme to…

Is ISIS A Sign of the End Times? It May Only Matter That They Believe So

By Haroon Moghul

…-day politics, but what Reza Aslan described as “a cosmic war,” a struggle between pure good and outright evil, in which there can be no compromise, Russia’s involvement is a problem. Given Russia’s antagonistic relationship with several Muslim-majority regions, it may not be preposterous to believe Moscow’s Syrian intervention may strengthen ISIS rather than defeat it, and therefore also weaken Russia rather than strengthen it. It may also be the…

The Law-less Legacy of Global Capital

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ink that he simply came too early. His enemies insist that the distinction between money and credit cannot be entirely erased; Law, they suggest, did not understand that the renter and the worker possess very different relationships to money and to credit. Some can absorb debt better than others; some can wait out a crisis longer than others; some can postpone payment of debts, while others cannot. In short, Law’s System was not nearly as universa…