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A religio-immigration-labor story, the Midwest, and Orthodox Jews. Oh my.
With Kennedy v. Louisiana the highest court in the land has given America a wonderful gift: it has reminded us that life is the highest value there is; the life of humans, of all the species, of nature.
Dispatches from the Workplace: Rabbis for Worker Justice
A controversial new ruling from an up and coming rabbi in Conservative Judaism charts a course for a greater focus on worker justice. Several of its recommendations coincide with crucial legislation favored by the American labor movement...
Arab is the new German; in this long, long war suspicion is raised against Arab-Americans when Muslims are profiled as potential terrorists...
“I’d Be Stupid Not To Go Packing Now.”
In the spirit of the Black Panthers or the Jewish Defense League, The Pink Pistols advocate guns for gays, shouting “Armed gays don’t get bashed” and “Pick on someone your own caliber.”
Letters to the Editors: On Gandhian Nonviolence
Two scholars respond to Shalom Goldman's essay, "Gandhi, His Grandson, Israel, and the Jews."
When police brutally beat an African American transsexual the black media turns away. But homo- and transphobia in the media hurts the entire community...
Reverend Annett noticed that in spite of the large Native American population on Vancouver Island, none of them attended his church...
Linda Smith says she has “spent 10 years of [her] life restoring little girls and young women who have been in the commercial sex industry.” If Smith’s terminology, “restore,” gives you the willies considering the subject matter...
Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews
Gandhi's grandson says that Israel promotes a "culture of violence": Shalom Goldman tells the little-known backstory...
Obama’s AIPAC Speech Hardly a Change to Believe In
In his first act as the Democratic nominee for president Barack Obama stood up before AIPAC and triangulated his way into their hearts. Is it good for the United States? For Israel? For the Jews? For Palestinians?
After his highly publicized break with McCain, John Hagee retains powerful friends.
The court found little hard evidence that minors were in physical danger or were victims of abuse. Critical media compare raid to Guantanamo Bay...
In some states the law protects parents who rely on faith healing even when the refusal of medical care leads to tragedy.
Dispatches from the Borderlands: Missing Voices
Many churches have relied on migrant populations—but they are silent on immigration reform...
Wendy Gonaver’s lessons on the American Constitution may soon include her own story: the refusal to sign a loyalty oath designed to root out communists in public jobs whose effect is to weed out religious believers, particularly Quakers and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
RDBook: The Lost Scopes Archive
A new book on the Scopes “Monkey Trial” reveals history through people, images, and good old soap opera.
A standard misconception of the religious right is to privilege sexual “sins” over the sin of, say, a lack of economic justice for women. A story from Genesis 38 retold...
God and Gays at the APA: A Flawed Debate
Recent drama at the American Psychiatric Association reminds us that the arguments on both sides of the gay/ex-gay dispute fall short of the mark.