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Tag Archives: religion
The new mixed-Jewish establishment
From Mike Allen's Politico Playbook for this weekend:--PEOPLE magazine: “Clinton is Methodist and Mezvinsky is Jewish, but it’s unlikely either will convert, says a source, adding, ‘It will be an interfaith ceremony.’ …WEDDINGS:
--Anne Kornblut and Jon Cohen, in Napa. Campbell Brown is a bridesmaid, Dan Senor is doing the ketubah [...]
Hillary Clinton says we need more intermarriage
On NBC Nightly News last night, Andrea Mitchell interviewed Hillary Clinton and (at minute 16 or so) vaguely described Chelsea's imminent marriage as a "very interesting experience" for the Clintons, because Hillary is a "Methodist" and Chelsea is marrying "in an interfaith context." Note that Mitchell (who is Jewish, married to a Jew) has no [...]
Jews are fleeing a Swedish city– why?
The Forward has an important story this week on Jews leaving Malmo, Sweden, because they are being targeted by Muslims there. The incidents that the piece describes are largely harassment, threats, expressions of rage.
And of course most of them turn on Israel:
Malmo, Sweden’s third-largest city, with a population of roughly 293,900 but only 760 [...]
U.S. gov’t record label offers IDF album and many other hymns to Zionism
Smithsonian Folkways is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, which is a U.S. Gov't cocnern. My friend Bob Feldman writes:
"If you do an advanced search on the Smithsonian music site by 'country,' you'll find that for 'Palestine Territory' there apparently are just 5 albums being distributed, while for 'Israel' there are 51 albums [...]
notes on my racism (part 1)
When I was little during the Civil Rights movement my father said that he had grown up with racist beliefs, and that he did not think that he would ever eliminate those feelings entirely. I remember thinking, well I would never be racist, but now that I am older than he is I realize that [...]
Will mainline American Protestants give Palestinian Christians a voice?
B'nai B'rith has issued a statement criticizing the recommendations of the Middle East Study Committee of the Presbyterian Church USA. These recommendations include possibly withholding US military aid to Israel in order to encourage it to abide by international law as well as an endorsement of the important Kairos Document, recently put forth jointly by the [...]
Elena Kagan thought experiment
Elena Kagan at her confirmation hearings:"As you know, I don't think it's a secret I am Jewish," she added. "The state of Israel has meant a lot to me and my family."How would Kagan have been received by the Senate, by the media, and by the lobby if she had said instead:"As you know, [...]
‘Balto Jewish Times’ piece calls BDS ‘powerful form of nonviolent resistance…’
The Jewish community knows something is breaking loose. Thus J Street's recent statement on BDS that begins to crack open the door on the idea of targeted divestment. Now here is Donna Nevel of Jews Say No! with a piece in the Baltimore Jewish Times that calls upon the Jewish community to engage on the [...]
Kagan’s Jewish identity seems very 1993
Everyone's talking about Elena Kagan's remarks about Jewishness and Israel yesterday during the Senate hearing. My two cents.
First, the woman is charming. You don't get so far in life without having interpersonal gifts, and she has 'em. I admired the way she took Lindsey Graham's scary question about what she does on Christmas and spoke [...]
Let the apologies to Goldstone begin