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Religion Dispatches
From anti-gay executive orders to claims that disabled children are God’s punishment, the religious right is very much alive.
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Religion Dispatches
Answers in Genesis proselytizes to Olympics competitors and spectators.
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Religion Dispatches
Netanyahu’s decision to declare two holy sites located in the Palestinian Territories and once shared by Jews, Christians, and Muslims “national heritage sites” triggers violence and conflict.
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Religion Dispatches
Many Israelis and Jews took to Avatar with aplomb, likening it to Kabbalah and turning out in record numbers in Israel. But it remains to be seen how Jews and Israelis will respond to Palestinian protesters who, dressed as the film’s besieged protagonists, aim to position themselves in the hearts of observers as the sympathetic underdogs.
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Political Research Associates
Kaya Oakes’ fifth book, The Defiant Middle: How Women Claim Life’s In Betweens to Remake the World, was published in December 2021. She teaches nonfiction writing at UC Berkeley.
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Religion Dispatches
Sparked by his elderly mother’s impersonal medical care, our writer laments the fact that doctors aren’t spending nearly enough time listening to and getting to know their patients and its implications for a medical culture that focuses almost exclusively on the body; ignoring soul, spirit, and specificity.
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Religion Dispatches
Justice Department attorney David Margolis rejected the recommendations of the investigation into the actions of two Bush-era lawyers claiming that the infamous ‘torture memo’ simply constituted ‘poor judgment.’ But John Yoo’s arguments are eerily reminiscent of the Nuremberg Defense and both men still face the judgment of international law and history.
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Religion Dispatches
The tea partiers disparage liberalism while anti-abortion activists claim to follow the civil rights movement.
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Political Research Associates
Jo Piazza (b. 1980) began her career as staff writer at the New York Daily News after receiving a degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in journalism from…
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Religion Dispatches
The recent firing of a progressive leader by the Jerusalem Post has lit up the international press. If Israel is entering its own McCarthy era, as many fear, it is not without American support—on both sides. So where’s the American media coverage?
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