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A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news. Continue Reading →
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The Last Pro-Israel Election?
By Maurice Chammah The question of Zionism and whether or not you support it has for a while now lost its obvious connections to religious affiliation. Continue Reading →
Uncomfortable Zionism
Peter Beinart published an article in the New York Review of Books last week, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment,” that, according to Religion Dispatches’ Sarah Posner, “has the potential to create an intellectual earthquake.” Beinart writes that American Jews have become increasingly divided between two distinct and un-nuanced positions: “naked hostility to Arabs and Palestinians”; and “a mass of secular American Jews who range from apathetic to appalled.” Continue Reading →