Jul 05 2012
Religious right’s new rivals By Sarah Posner, Wednesday, Jul 4, 2012 03:30 PM CDT At the Iowa Republican State Convention earlier this month, Ron Paul supporters walked away with 23 of the 28 delegates headed to the Republican National Convention in August. This effort, which Paul enthusiasts also have pulled off in Minnesota, Maine …
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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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