Religion Dispatches
Benedict’s visit to Israel was marked by his refusal to acknowledge the history of Catholic anti-Judaism and its relationship to Nazi antisemitism. Politicians, rabbis, and journalists were indignant that the pope offered no apology while a cardinal was surprised to learn that an apology was expected.
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A Jewish professor is under fire for comparing the suffering of Jews in WWII to the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza. Do these comparisons serve any purpose?
Read MoreGiving free rein to their follicles, a Conservative group of IDF soldiers defies powerful, state-sanctioned Orthodox Rabbinate.
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Seven Jewish Children, which tells the story of the recent Israeli war in Gaza, stirs up discomfort among some Jews, and support from others.
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Don’t break out the Ram’s Horn just yet, the Devil’s in the details.
Read MoreAn Israeli late show host’s skit denying the virgin birth caused a furor among evangelicals and the Vatican. He had his reasons.
Read MoreAn Israeli reporter documents the ways in which Israel’s military intelligence has spread disinformation going back to the failure of Camp David and the beginning of the second intifada in 2000.
Read MoreWhy did Bush not do more for peace during his failed presidency? Because someone is always lobbing a rocket or detonating a bomb, and this invalidates any and every gesture toward peace, in his simple view.
Read MoreResponses to the taking of innocent life vary according to whose innocent life has been taken.
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Philosopher Slavoj Zizek thinks that Judaism and Zionism are in tension with each other, but this seeming paradox is just the tip of the iceberg, or Greenberg, or Goldberg…
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