Jul 04 2012
Encountering Peace: Is my Zionist dream dead? By Gershon Baskin, 07/02/2012 21:13 I am really quite concerned. I see a great disaster about to unfold. I simply cannot understand why people are not shouting “don’t let this happen!” Where is the prime minister? Where are all of the Zionist leaders? Where is the world …
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Jul 04 2012
Thomas Jefferson, our least Christian president By Stephen Prothero, July 3 2012 During a recent trip to Washington, I took in two exhibits on Thomas Jefferson at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History: one on slaves at Monticello and the other on the cut-and-paste version of the Gospels known as the Jefferson Bible. …
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Jul 04 2012
Jackie Robinson on the 4th: The Prophet and the Flag By Michael G. Long, 07/05/2012 10:42 am One of the quiet but powerful engines that drove Jackie Robinson’s passion for racial integration both on and beyond the baseball diamond was a faith long nurtured in the black church — a prophetic faith that extolled …
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Jul 04 2012
Reborn on the 4th of July By Logan Mehl-Laituri, 07/04/2012 8:18 am Today marks my sixth rebirthday. In 2006, I was baptized and became a Christian in Honolulu, Hawaii. One week later, I would be told that my actions, as an active duty soldier facing a second deployment to Iraq, aided the enemies of …
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Jun 29 2012
Why Is Sheldon Adelson Donating Millions to Romney? NYT: “His Disgust for a Two-state Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” By David Harris-Gershon, June 25th, 2012 During the height of Newt Gingrich’s 2012 presidential campaign, the Sheldon-Adelson-backed Republican candidate caused waves when he called the Palestinians an “invented people” and declared that the Palestinian Authority was …
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Jun 28 2012
On Human Identity By Richard Falk, 20:23 06/27/2012 Early in my blog life I wrote about Jewish identity. It was partly an exercise in self-discovery, and partly a response to those who alleged that I was a self-hating Jew, or worse, an anti-Semite. These attacks on my characterwere hurtful even as I felt their …
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Jun 22 2012
By Monsieur d’Nalgar, June 22, 2012 CE “Ludicrous” — an online dictionary defines it as something laughable, ridiculous, idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny. Examples abound… +++ Ludicrous is men telling women what they can and cannot do or say, especially when it comes to their own bodies, that most intimate of …
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