https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to haredi jews en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/02/12/meet-bronze-age-zionists-far-right-jews-embracing-fascism-wake-october-7 The US online hard-right isn’t exactly known as the friendliest place for Jews. It’s the place where antisemitic conspiracies thrive and cries of ‘Jews will not replace us’ resound. It’s where the Pittsburgh and Poway synagogue shooters (and many more… Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:47:08 EST Ben Lorber 5e2d253c-8c97-43ba-9cba-d801317b3a91 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/01/14/despite-conflation-israel-judaism-anti-zionism-more-kosher-you-think Do Israel’s actions in Gaza —the bombing of hospitals, apartments, and entire towns; policies of forced starvation and orders for people to flee their homes — constitute genocide? Last week South Africa made that claim in the International Court of… Sun, 14 Jan 2024 09:55:05 EST Seth Sanders 9059cffc-7a43-4edd-a575-26b4c59c72e2 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/10/23/spooky-action-quantum-physics-offers-alternative-frame-war-middle-east-and-2024-election By now you’ve read about Hamas’s attack and Israel’s ferocious response , all of which has exposed deep divisions on the Right , and aroused Christian Zionist supporters , b ut what are the implications of a violent, percussive war… Mon, 23 Oct 2023 02:22:34 EDT Peter Schwartz 749e1bed-deb4-46bf-a0e7-2d100f6f3b9b https://religiondispatches.org/2023/08/21/sit-down-and-be-quiet-maga-attack-jewish-republican-exposes-christian-nationalisms-shaky Max Miller isn’t the person you would expect to condemn Christian ‘bigotry’ on Twitter. A GOP House member from Ohio and an advisor to former President Trump, Miller has essentially marched in lockstep with the MAGA movement. But last week… Mon, 21 Aug 2023 11:59:11 EDT Ben Lorber ae656496-0231-4fbc-af64-2f1f6913b35f https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/16/critics-hasidic-schools-expose-missed-point-it-wasnt-antisemitic-or-product-secular-bias When I was in yeshiva in Boro Park in the early 80s, I was asked by my Rosh Yeshiva, a Satmar Hasid, to go to Downtown Brooklyn to sign a few documents for state funds for the yeshiva. When I… Fri, 16 Sep 2022 05:04:17 EDT Shaul Magid 54d31fb7-b63c-4e91-9f8e-488f5bd94350 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/04/22/chicago-synagogue-excoriated-shift-non-anti-zionism-maybe-problem-isnt-anti-zionism Progressive synagogue Tzedek Chicago, founded in 2015 and led by Rabbi Brant Rosen, recently made an announcement that elicited strong reactions in much of the Jewish press and beyond. Opting to change their identity from “non-Zionist” to “anti-Zionist,” they released… Fri, 22 Apr 2022 12:05:20 EDT Shaul Magid 5e8d2af4-129d-457d-a106-4686a8cde13d https://religiondispatches.org/2020/12/01/how-did-hasidic-jewry-become-stronghold-trumpism Is American Hasidism in crisis? After successfully rebuilding its institutions after the war, Hasidism in America has flourished. And yet, its response to COVID and its newfound reactionary political populism, leads us to ask the question: is something changing in… Tue, 01 Dec 2020 02:56:35 EST Shaul Magid 07a87f28-77f2-4fe2-9039-56b9235cd5a7 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/06/16/neil-gorsuch-shows-how-donald-trump-loses-some-white-evangelical-christians When it comes to the president’s support among white evangelical Christians, my first instinct is skepticism. Always. These people are not subject to political factors normal people are subject to, such as a pandemic that has killed more than 118,000… Tue, 16 Jun 2020 02:09:26 EDT John Stoehr 8335b211-6537-4328-a0c1-fc4b18da6477 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/09/23/taking-evangelical-support-israel-face-value-terrible-idea-response Writing under a pseudonym in the Forward, a Christian lawyer dismissed the apocalyptic component of Christian Zionism urging readers to take evangelicals’ love for Jews at face value. But Chrissy Stroop, who was raised in fundamentalism, calls this gaslighting. Mon, 23 Sep 2019 01:18:32 EDT Chrissy Stroop 11ee4e7f-a8f0-49bd-89a0-e72abead4e3f https://religiondispatches.org/2017/09/11/religious-conservatives-mobilize-internationally-against-spanish-nondiscrimination-bill “Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing Against Equality,” edited by Roman Kuhar, associate professor at the University of Ljubljana, and David Paternotte, lecturer at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, has been published by Rowman & Littlefield International. From the publisher’s description… Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:44:18 EDT Peter Montgomery 83ce4cbd-989f-4753-8368-9e0896eae84f https://religiondispatches.org/2017/08/08/kuwait-morals-committee-announced-deportation-76-gay-men-and-more-global-lgbt-recap Brian Brown, president of the International Organization for the Family, the parent organization to the World Congress of Families, bragged in a fundraising email about the organization working with the government of Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban and praising the campaign… Tue, 08 Aug 2017 12:45:26 EDT Peter Montgomery ccf7a794-5897-4eb4-b06a-cc122a00d886 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/06/26/turkish-police-move-against-activists-who-defied-pride-ban-and-more-global-lgbt-recap The anti-equality World Congress of Families will hold its fourth Caribbean regional summit on June 29 and 30 in St. John’s Antigua, with speakers from US Religious Right groups Focus on the Family and Family Watch International joining Caribbean-based leaders… Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:50:22 EDT Peter Montgomery 8915c6f2-8b30-4212-a396-080f242237f6 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/03/31/fact-checking-scripture-those-who-do-not-work-should-not-eat Occasionally, a bit of scripture will float into public discourse, often in the context of politicians and civilians sorting through the implications of some bit of policy. The citations are as a rule fairly shallow, as one side or the… Fri, 31 Mar 2017 01:40:59 EDT Daniel Schultz 4e057ce4-152e-454e-a35d-8b4cc81a0af6 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/01/06/religious-liberty-its-simple-hasidic-woman-explains To almost nobody’s surprise, 2016 ended with another confusing and un-American blow in the “religious freedom” vs. freedom freedom category. As Slate’s tireless Mark Joseph Stern noted, a “bizarre ruling” by a US District Judge allows doctors to discriminate against… Fri, 06 Jan 2017 10:13:13 EST Evan Derkacz b399c7b1-afbf-4acd-b4cd-a923ceb51dad https://religiondispatches.org/2016/11/27/what-fidel-castros-death-means-lgbt-rights-cuba-and-more-weeks-global-lgbt-recap Cuba’s long-time dictator Fidel Castro’s death was both celebrated and mourned. Sun, 27 Nov 2016 11:15:48 EST Peter Montgomery aa4c768e-da91-4e9d-9604-e16e87961bcf https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/26/indonesia-allows-abusive-sharia-laws-stand-kenyan-priest-joins-challenge-anti-lgbt-laws Pride celebrations continued this weekend, with major events in San Francisco, New York, and London, where two police officers were engaged, generating both support and religious denunciations. In New York, one of the grand marshals for the pride march was… Sun, 26 Jun 2016 03:50:01 EDT Peter Montgomery bfdb33ca-4d52-428b-8280-74ba747dcb24 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/05/mormons-fight-marriage-equality-mexico-catholic-church-italys-anti-gay-nra-nigerian Scott Lively, an American who has promoted anti-gay policies around the world, recently argued that, if elected, President Donald Trump should apologize to the world for “Obama’s attempt to force the fascist LGBT agenda on everyone” and should follow Russian… Sun, 05 Jun 2016 01:28:28 EDT Peter Montgomery 2723cccc-6cce-473a-a869-9b78eb7b1de2 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/07/us-offers-help-investigation-bangladesh-killings Plus: Religious Nationalists Support Anti-Gay Push In Kyrgyzstan; Malaysian Religious Police Target Trans People; and more, in this week’s Global LGBT Recap. Sat, 07 May 2016 01:59:42 EDT Peter Montgomery f6cfe0e4-2748-45d4-adbb-329575333dc1 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/25/norwegian-catholic-church-may-stop-civil-marriages-global-lgbt-recap … and more, in this week’s Global LGBT Recap. Mon, 25 Apr 2016 06:54:42 EDT Peter Montgomery abacd468-d035-434e-b768-76596c6c6cd5 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/30/gluten-phobia-sacred-volcanoes-undercover-atheists-best-religion-and-science-writing This year saw the launch of the Cubit: RD’s answer to the mainstream media’s coverage of the intersection of religion and science—those too-familiar stories in which religion and science are represented as either fundamentally at odds, or oddly conjoined. Over… Wed, 30 Dec 2015 06:00:25 EST Andrew Aghapour 24fccefb-43a2-428d-97a5-2dc8f2e7ccc1 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/17/greek-orthodox-bishop-says-spit-inhuman-gay-scum-weeks-lgbt-global-recap Hundreds of people attended last weekend’s conference on global LGBT activism in New York. At Huffington Post, the Williams Institute’s Andrew Park discusses a shift in LGBT advocacy strategy at the U.N. to focus more on economic development. Zachary Quinto… Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:42:33 EST Peter Montgomery 3f66e849-4cb5-4d39-bae2-cfb82a76180a https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/30/pope-mum-lgbts-uganda-church-defends-anti-marriage-equality-efforts-australia-cyprus World AIDS Day will be observed on December 1. Also this week, ICASA, the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa, is being held in Harare, Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe has a long track record of extreme anti-gay… Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:05:10 EST Peter Montgomery ba8b2f79-d0ac-435e-b84f-1f7e015a26c8 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/22/unesco-religion-culture-and-sogi-asia-orthodox-family-sues-stop-cremation-israeli-trans Asia: UNESCO on religion, culture and anti-LGBT bullying and violence UNESCO released a report on school bullying, violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the Asia-Pacific region. From the report’s section on religious and cultural context… Sun, 22 Nov 2015 10:09:52 EST Peter Montgomery bd5ca6d2-3275-491f-8285-72af8e155dca https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/20/israeli-and-palestinian-american-imam-exchange-letters-disturbing-viral-video On the 12th of October, amid growing violence in Israel/Palestine, stories and video began to circulate on social media of Israelis cursing at a critically wounded Palestinian boy. Excluded, or scarcely mentioned, was the allegation that the boy had, moments… Tue, 20 Oct 2015 01:47:42 EDT Yakir Englander, Omar Suleiman 7dc53f29-b534-4711-a5f7-d785a54294ad https://religiondispatches.org/2015/08/14/barbaric-v-progressive-islam-catholic-church-objects-mexican-court-ok-gay-adoption Islam: ‘Barbaric’ and Progressive The United Nations ambassadors from the US and Chile have invited members of the UN Security Council to an August 24 meeting to discuss the “barbaric treatment” of LGBT people by the so-called Islamic State. Speaking… Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:05:51 EDT Peter Montgomery 7326a0e2-eefe-4280-b36a-00f618c9e4cc