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Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?
Performance artist or man of God? Agitator or politician? The Church of Life After Shopping’s Reverend Billy has a choir and a congregation like a preacher—does he have to be a “real” clergyman to minister to the masses?
Bloomberg is Right to Say No to Muslim School Holidays
Though it sounds good just on its face, NYC Mayor Bloomberg has made the right decision by threatening to veto the proposal to add two Muslim holidays to the school calendar. And no, it’s not a pander to Jewish voters.
Review: Jews in America: Anti-Semitism, Class Struggle, Secularism
PBS’ The Jewish Americans covers three hundred fifty years of Jewish-American history with only a few glaring omissions.