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In his UN speech on Iran, Israel’s PM attempted to force a zero-sum game of destroying the opposition by force.

We gathered in protest because Eddie Fox has been a forceful voice admonishing the United Methodist Church to maintain its current positions on homosexuality—that “homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching.” The UMC position denies non-celibate LGBT people ordination while refusing to bless their loving relationships, and forbids its clergy to officiate at same-sex weddings.

Just as the revelation that Teresa MacBain falsely represented her educational background shouldn’t become an excuse for atheist bashing, neither is it acceptable to act as if attending DDS would have drastically altered MacBain’s path—though of course that is always a possibility.

Just a couple months before Pope Benedict resigned, I was informed by the Vatican that he had expelled me from the priesthood because of my public support for the ordination of women. As a Catholic priest for 40 years, this was very difficult and painful.

American Jewish history is the history of Jewish grappling with the American (and Protestant) category of religion. At the moment, it’s not working out so well.

So the ground is shifting beneath our feet—what else is new?

The Pew poll revealed a significant number of Americans who, despite having no apparent reason to do so, identify as Jews.

Among other things, the Pew poll gives us the fascinating statistic that almost half of “Jews of no religion” are nonetheless believers.

Pew’s new survey on Jewish Americans has thus far inspired anxiety, skepticism and even a few yawns. So RD asked an eminent group of writers, scholars and activists to respond to the brief prompt: “So what?”

Once again we obsess on the headlines but don’t bother with the details.