https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to new york en https://religiondispatches.org/2025/06/26/bad-muslim-good-candidate-mamdanis-campaign-disrupts-electability-islamophobia Against all odds and the will of billionaires and establishment Democrats, Zohran Mamdani is the 2025 Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City. The New York Times (about which the less said the better) reported that only one out… Thu, 26 Jun 2025 04:56:51 EDT Megan Goodwin 6a61272a-5ed5-4d4c-b696-1b2155ab69ba https://religiondispatches.org/2020/12/22/enchanted-new-york-offers-journey-through-citys-magical-history-some-mystifying New York City has the reputation of a place with absolutely zero patience for BS. This is a money-city, a global financial center driven by real estate, banking, and the stock market. Yes of course New York is the American… Tue, 22 Dec 2020 02:04:43 EST Gordon Haber 488402d9-3fa1-4888-9568-e0d094484721 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/30/children-bellow-and-roth-new-book-short-fiction-takes-male-jewish-experience “I’m unbelievably bored writing about Judaism as a journalist,” author Gordon Haber said during a recent conversation with RD. When Haber compiled Uggs for Gaza And Other Stories, his debut short story collection, he didn’t set out to tackle the… Tue, 30 May 2017 03:35:13 EDT Stephanie Russell-Kraft d55c7e75-2a7c-41c4-b867-cbc8d029ff84 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/08/belly-beast-nycs-shiny-new-transit-hub-all-wrong-911-site The World Trade Center Transportation Hub’s architectural centerpiece, named the “Oculus,” is an unsightly and inappropriate monument. Thu, 08 Sep 2016 11:46:41 EDT Carolyn Bratnober 60e45856-ba74-4e41-b4a2-59fe9301aa45 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/08/fight-tower-protests-continue-union-theological-seminary Over 100 students, alumni, faculty and community members protested Union Seminary’s plan to build a 40-story luxury condo high rise on our Harlem campus last week. Following the rally, students staged a 24-hour sit-in outside the executive office suite. The… Fri, 08 Apr 2016 06:56:46 EDT Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons 48f382f8-c47c-4174-8a2c-1ee3e06f27dd https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/09/openthesedoors-movement-turn-new-yorks-closed-churches-shelters When the archdiocese of New York announced in 2014 that it would begin closing parishes and merging them with neighboring churches, much of the media coverage was focused on the emotional impact. Generations of New Yorkers had worshipped in some… Wed, 09 Dec 2015 05:52:37 EST Kaya Oakes 7b690bcd-41b7-457d-9b4b-32ff1188c20a https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/26/what-wear-when-praying-pope I made a lot of jokes about what to wear to the Pope’s Interfaith Service at Ground Zero yesterday. I was so thrilled to be invited that I needed a slant way to lose my pride and let it imitate… Sat, 26 Sep 2015 08:22:54 EDT Donna Schaper 67d8b718-3361-4bb2-ba5e-22c2065ba8c0 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/26/pope-ground-zero On Friday, Pope Francis went for an walk alongside the north pool of the 9/11 Memorial Plaza to meet with ten families who lost loved ones at the twin towers and to participate in an interfaith service with over 600… Sat, 26 Sep 2015 08:00:05 EDT Anthea Butler 968a28f2-16ba-4dda-8fca-686f1dfd60f1 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/04/06/why-go-church-if-you-dont-believe-anymore A Good Friday post-mortem, as it were. Mon, 06 Apr 2015 06:36:28 EDT Angela Bonavoglia a45ae941-9caa-49f8-aee4-4101b3abc44e https://religiondispatches.org/2014/06/11/experimental-theater-meets-experimental-faith-wooster-groups-early-shaker-spirituals The subject of The Wooster Group’s latest work, Early Shaker Spirituals by the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake, Maine, may elicit chuckles. After all, the last time the company based shows on recorded music, they came out with “Hula” and… Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:36:26 EDT Brook Wilensky-Lanford 7e1fd3fe-da8c-441b-b939-73c5f59f8421 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/05/03/why-hipsters-may-be-perfect-source-brooklyn-occult-revival For several months there have been claims of an occult revival in New York City. Much like America’s evangelical tradition, its metaphysical tradition is in a constant state of revival. The 1960s and 1970s were also regarded as an occult… Sat, 03 May 2014 02:18:06 EDT Joseph Laycock 9525f0f9-f0f5-4a73-85b5-168dedb18c03 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/03/12/id-rather-go-back-yemen-face-nypd A new report details the egregious civil rights violations and damage to communities from the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim communities post-9/11. Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:42:05 EDT Hussein Rashid e818edf1-fd90-4460-975e-3e2c60e53f16 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/01/17/islamophobia-real-mr-mayor-new-york-city-muslim-explains We cannot trust the police, we cannot trust people on the subway, and Mayor Bloomberg fiddles. Thu, 17 Jan 2013 03:13:05 EST Hussein Rashid 11d74916-c61b-48a7-a1d4-bfe60f064c3d https://religiondispatches.org/2013/01/03/whats-islamophobia-and-do-i-have-it I’m not arguing that Islamophobia is racist, or that Islamophobes are racists, because that’s not quite what’s happening. For one thing, Islamophobes embrace ex-Muslims like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and racists wouldn’t (indeed couldn’t) do the same. But consider the similarities: the Islamophobe must assume Muslims suffer some sort of pre-Islamic inferiority, sufficient to explain how some (largely non-white) people—actually, a lot of people—not only fell for Islam in the first place, but then stayed down. How long do enforced ideologies last? Nazism: twelve years. Communism: some decades. Islam: Fourteen centuries and counting. Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:12:16 EST Haroon Moghul 5c9bd624-c760-4213-a627-7843eb136cfb https://religiondispatches.org/2012/11/05/safety-not-guaranteed Looking at the online flood zone map of our neighborhood I feel calm. Mon, 05 Nov 2012 06:29:47 EST Jeanne Carstensen 4d967c2a-4216-4d5c-b9c3-3cb5a0fcff1f https://religiondispatches.org/2012/10/31/politics-time-crisis-sandy-blame-socialism If there is one thing people need during a national disaster, it is functioning and effective government. If there is one time we need redistributive justice, it is during a crisis. Much of politics perhaps just comes down to what is, and is not, a crisis—a hurricane I hope we can all agree on. But what about climate change? Or health care? What is life-threatening? What is an emergency? Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:21:34 EDT Haroon Moghul 51b3796d-4d56-4ac3-aa4b-95051b6489d1 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/17/looking-death-images-911-during-and-after What might it mean for a synagogue, a church, a mosque, or a temple, to set up a video screen in its sanctuary and play these images of death from September 11—and then turn around and respond to them? What reinvented rituals might result from a ritualized, contextualized reception of these images? Such communal framing gets us beyond the questions of morbid voyeurism because it eliminates the one-way dimension and places images within a social setting. It further allows us to reflect and come to terms with dying, thereby stirring the potential for a good death. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:11:13 EDT S. Brent Rodriguez Plate 364d172e-608e-4195-871f-64975e3015a8 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/01/31/nypd-lied-about-islamophobic-third-jihad Now that we know, what will the mayor do? Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:55:47 EST Hussein Rashid b6c30adc-fd05-4e01-b37a-506d23dab5a1 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/12/29/muslim-boycott-bloombergs-interfaith-breakfast Is the NYPD Hizzoner’s private army? Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:08:14 EST Hussein Rashid a2f4e253-ab5d-4ca9-a540-e23ac7889ac3 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/08/03/bad-faith-catholic-hierarchys-pointless-campaign-against-lgbt-rights If you are the Catholic parent of LGBT daughter or son, you know firsthand that it is your child’s sexual identity, and not a belief in the Immaculate Conception, that puts them at risk for beatings and taunting. We find it reprehensible when a legacy of discrimination is invoked by those who themselves advocate repression. Archbishop Dolan and his colleagues should stop pretending that they face anything like the intolerance that our children do. Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:51:04 EDT Casey Lopata, Mary Ellen Lopata 329abe95-1b09-407c-848f-545334c32fc8 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/07/25/new-york-state-senator-declares-war-ny-marriage-equality State Sen. Ruben Diaz marches with the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage. Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:39:08 EDT Candace Chellew-Hodge ce6751b6-7dd4-477b-a4d6-07c7d448649c https://religiondispatches.org/2011/07/19/new-york-marriage-equality-set-begin-minus-two-clerks Two clerks resign rather than issue same-sex marriage licenses. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:00:15 EDT Candace Chellew-Hodge 0c32f73b-0281-4854-add2-8f635afe1a98 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/07/12/why-i-am-cuomosexual What’s most pleasing about New York State’s vote is the way it changed what we thought politics were. We’ve gone from the material to the cultural to the truth that The Story is stronger than The Argument. Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:36:32 EDT Donna Schaper 4ef75a5c-aae0-4994-9461-26d72862a6ef https://religiondispatches.org/2011/06/27/religious-right-catholic-bishops-plan-post-ny-marriage-strategy Same-sex marriage opponents feel “betrayed” by lawmakers. Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:39:21 EDT Peter Montgomery 626b0647-8ac2-4f2f-86fa-66b71fb4289e https://religiondispatches.org/2011/06/22/premature-gay-marriage-defeated-post-removed-national-review NOM’s Thomas Peters boasted this AM about the coalition that had defeated marriage equality in New York. Whoops. Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:48:18 EDT Peter Montgomery bfcf02b3-e520-4c7b-aa2c-7d1336464a18