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The Politics of Anti-Gay Persecution: Gambia, Egypt, Jamaica, Russia, with a Helping Hand from US Religious Conservatives; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f a memorandum from President Obama charging US foreign policy agencies to promote LGBT rights said that US efforts have been important to activists promoting equality and facing persecution around the world. Read the Washington Blade’s report here. On Wednesday, the Daily Beast hosted an event called Quorum: Global LGBT Voices that featured interviews with more than 25 activists from around the world to talk about “what is happening on the front…

Thanksgivukkah, With a Side of Christmas Envy

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ot hope to make the Festival a thrilling experience.” That anxiety remains today, no matter how many lovely Thanksgivukkah tables we set. How can we ever compete with the juggernaut of Christmas? Despite the fact that I am with my mishpacha (family) in that vaunted Jewish mecca of the New York metro area this week, I am still a lonely Jew on Thanksgivukkah. One USA Today headline phrased it perfectly: “Thanksgivukkah stirs thanks, angst.” As a sc…

Scientology: All-American or Aging Hoax?

By Gordon Haber

…y has been digging for dirt on Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, for satirizing the church in the 2005 episode “Trapped in the Closet.” The church allegedly hired investigators to go through their trash and to collect information about their staff. (Meanwhile, the most offensive thing about the episode was that it wasn’t all that funny.) While there is something undeniably disturbing about The Church of Scientology, there’s…

“Outlaw” Christian writer, Reynolds Price, 1933–2011

By Joanna Brooks

…tament that urge the subservience of slaves to their masters). Then in the South, and widely elsewhere, many churches effectively ignored the plight of the poor, as they go on doing today—as I still do, socketed as I am in the deluxe surroundings and tended by warmhearted and reliable family and friends. Then, more slowly, I grew aware that the churches’ intolerance of any forms of sexuality beyond the traditional choices of marriage or chastity l…

Nebraska Latest State to Declare Open Season on Abortion Doctors

By Lauri Lebo

…ldn’t get any more, well, extreme. Earlier this month, Rep. Phil Jensen, a South Dakota Republican lawmaker, had proposed an amendment to a bill to expand the legal definition of justifiable homicide by adding language that said a homicide is permissible if committed by a person while resisting an attempt to harm that person’s “unborn child or the unborn child of that person’s spouse, partner, parent, or child.” Last week, the bill, which had made…

Book of Mormon Musical Creators Do Owe Mormonism a Big Thank You

By Joanna Brooks

The godless, potty-mouthed creators of South Park publicly thanked Mormonism’s founder Joseph Smith Jr. Sunday night, as they took home nine Tony Awards—including Best Musical. “You did it, Joseph,” Trey Parker gleefully declared, “You got the Tony!” And they should thank Joseph Smith. And all of the other famous and regular Mormon people who together have created the most rich and compelling new religion in the modern world. There would be no Bo…

What Does a Moral Economy Look Like for the 99 Percent?

By Jonathan Rosenblum

…of utilitarian “rent-a-collar” approach that is common in movement circles today), but rather political and economic demands that are made on the basis of a moral foundation. It will take wrenching change to transform today’s labor movement. It requires us to think about the labor movement as a moral force in society, not just an economic actor. One of the key lessons from Sea-Tac is that the elements of this new social movement union are everywhe…

Despite Reports, GOP Has Not ‘Turned on Trump’ For Call to Terminate the Constitution — Fascism isn’t a Dealbreaker for Today’s GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…e Republicans have condemned Trump—but they largely have no future left in today’s Republican Party. Mike Pence might be the most disliked man in the country both on the Right and the Left, no matter how often Fox News tries to make him seem beloved by everyone. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger won’t be in the next Congress because their conservatism isn’t right-wing enough for the GOP anymore, and John Bolton, apart from having no position of influe…

Why Did an Antisemitic Christian Zionist Have the Chutzpah to Declare That He’d Be Leading a Holocaust March?

By Ben Lorber and Aidan Orly

…ok suggests another story. In 2017 Shannon Nuszen, a former missionary who today works to counter Christian missionary activity in Israel, described the “gut wrenching feeling” she experienced at Evans’ Friends of Zion Museum. Geared towards a Christian Zionist audience, the museum’s exhibits featured coded appeals to missionary activity and celebrations of “deathbed evangelism,” where missionaries target lonely, vulnerable and impoverished Holoca…

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

By Dana Evan Kaplan

…bsorb ancient wisdom which, with a little imagination, is still applicable today. But some things the past cannot teach us and our task is to respond to the challenges of today and tomorrow. Reb Zalman is totally confident that we will be able to do so. He closes his afterword by saying, “And so when I’m saying I’m optimistic, I’m optimistic that something will emerge, you know. I’m as optimistic as I am when I see a newborn baby.” I wish I coul…