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Tehran's Fearful Muslim Fundamentalists: Religious Persecution in Iran

Doug Bandow | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics
Doug Bandow

Iran is Exhibit #1 for the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalists gaining control of government. Iranian repression is increasing and the space available to regime opponents is diminishing.

LOOK: Praying 'Women Of The Wall' Attacked By Thousands Of Ultra-Orthodox

Posted 05.13.2013 | Religion

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox jeered, spit and threw rocks at the 400 'Women of the Wall' who prayed at the Western Wall today, according to the Jerusal...

"Discrimination Against Women In Public Places, In Public Services, Cannot Be Allowed,"

Reuters | Jeffrey Heller | Posted 05.09.2013 | Religion

Jerusalem - Back-of-the bus seating for women on any public transport in Israel will soon be outlawed, the justice minister said on Thursday, pledging...

The New Pharaohs?

William H. Lamar IV | Posted 05.09.2013 | Religion
William H. Lamar IV

Here we are, Black American church folk and Shabbat observing Jews. We are the children of those who suffered in the sweltering house of bondage. And many of us have become Pharaohs.

Surprise: 'Jew In A Box' Is Not In A Box

Bernard Starr | Posted 05.02.2013 | Religion
Bernard Starr

When the media dubbed an innovative and informative exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Berlin "Jew in a Box," it drew outrage from around the globe. Thus, a well-intentioned exhibit became a pariah.

To Experience Jesus, Visit A Synagogue

Bernard Starr | Posted 04.25.2013 | Religion
Bernard Starr

The next time you see an observant Jew with prayer shawl, tefillin and tzitzit, look at him and see Jesus -- that's how he appeared every morning.

Did Trump Tweet An Anti-Semitic Insult At Jon Stewart?

The Huffington Post | Ross Luippold | Posted 04.24.2013 | Comedy

Donald Trump tweeted a missive about "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart Wednesday morning, and many have speculated that the tweet contained veiled anti-Se...

Earth Day, Arbor Day And Judaism's Environmental Ethic

S.R. Hewitt | Posted 04.22.2013 | Religion
S.R. Hewitt

The environment is sustained by trees, which cleanse the air and stabilize the earth, and the references in Jewish sources to the importance of protecting them are meant to be guidelines for caring for the planet in general.

Art That's 'Too Jewish'

Bernard Starr | Posted 04.16.2013 | Arts
Bernard Starr

The distortions and falsification of biblical history not only led to the persecution of countless numbers of Jews but contributed to the great divide between Judaism and Christianity, which only now is on a path of reconciliation.

Days of Remembrance, 2013: 'The Warsaw Ghetto Is No More'

Marie Woolf | Posted 04.15.2013 | World
Marie Woolf

Now as then, atrocities occur all around us; now, as then, they're not real until they happen to be reported. Initially, we're upset, but it takes too much time and energy to sustain that -- we begin to tune out.

Jews Reveal Our Secrets to Controlling the Banks (VIDEO)

Nato Green | Posted 04.03.2013 | San Francisco
Nato Green

To get the Jewish side of the story, I paid a visit to the Purim carnival at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center to hear from Jews in their natural habitat.

Words, Well-Rooted, Can Have Power Beyond Jerusalem

Norma Cook Everist | Posted 03.26.2013 | World
Norma Cook Everist

So quickly President Obama flew to the Middle East and back; excerpts from his speech in Jerusalem deserve a longer look.

Occupy Passover

Robert Scheer | Posted 03.26.2013 | Religion
Robert Scheer

If one is an observant vegan, isn't it troubling that a first born animal, say the offspring of a pet cat, let alone a human child, is to be sacrificed while the life of the lamb is saved?

Who Will Save the Holy Land, Brokering a 'New Jerusalem'?

Noel Irwin Hentschel | Posted 03.24.2013 | Religion
Noel Irwin Hentschel

I submit that only divine Intervention can save the Holy Land. God is the only hope for achieving a "New Jerusalem."

Obama: Hope Amid the Hopeless

Steve Posner | Posted 03.22.2013 | World
Steve Posner

Obama's visit to the West Bank took him into the center of the Palestinian tragedy where outrage over Israel's military occupation and civilian settlements has been punctuated by bursts of terrorist violence, quiet oppression, and demoralizing acquiescence.

Mayor Bloomberg Launches a Clandestine Passover Police Unit

Bernard Starr | Posted 05.21.2013 | Comedy
Bernard Starr

On the heels of the court revocation of Bloomberg's ban on 16-ounce soft drinks, New York's mayor promptly created a secret Passover police unit (code name Sugar Daddy).

Let's Speak Up for the Netherlands' Accidental Hero

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.19.2013 | World
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Is this the best solution that democratic Netherlands can come up with? A witness protection program for a man guilty of fighting bigotry and standing up for the truth?

Intersectionality: Challenging Though Essential for Liberation

Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 05.07.2013 | Gay Voices
Warren J. Blumenfeld

Not knowing what else to do at this time with what they considered to be my gender non-conformity, my parents sent me to a child psychologist at the age of four until my 13th birthday because they feared that I might be gay (or to use the terminology of the day, "homosexual").

The Ethnic Cleansing of Judaism in Medieval and Renaissance Art

Bernard Starr | Posted 05.06.2013 | Arts
Bernard Starr

In every gallery I was surrounded by paintings that featured a cast of characters and lavish settings that bore no resemblance to the world that Jesus and his followers inhabited. Every wall greeted me with blond, fair-skinned European figures.

Hearings On Rising Anti-Semitism Must Acknowledge Muslim Leaders Willing To Condemn It

Rabbi Marc Schneier | Posted 04.28.2013 | Religion
Rabbi Marc Schneier

The greatly increased willingness of European Muslim leaders to denounce attacks on Jews and work with authorities to prevent future occurrences is a vital component in combined efforts to protect the security of Jews across the continent.

Hey, Jon Stewart, Your Roots Are Showing

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 04.27.2013 | Celebrity
Megan Smolenyak

His forebears have held one of the more eclectic mélange of jobs I've seen, including taxi driver, fruit and vegetable peddler, furrier, shoe store proprietor, and window cleaner.

Cast Your Lot With Goodness: A 2,300-Year-Old Lesson For Today

Tamar Frankiel, Ph.D. | Posted 04.23.2013 | Religion
Tamar Frankiel, Ph.D.

When humans take the risk to act with virtue and courage, invisible forces conspire on the side of good. Those who use power to do evil will fall, tripped up by their own tortuous machinations.

Science and Religion: Never the Twain Shall Meet

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 04.14.2013 | Science
Jeff Schweitzer

Unlike scientific claims, beliefs cannot be arbitrated to determine which is valid because there is no objective basis on which to compare one set of beliefs to another. Those two world views are not closer than we think; they are as far apart as could possibly be imagined.

Super Bowl Sunday Now Recognized as Jewish Holiday

Wendy Gellman | Posted 04.05.2013 | Religion
Wendy Gellman

Draw your family close to you, lay the table with unspeakably unhealthy foods, turn the volume way up on the flat screen television, take the remote away from your brother, welcome in your friend's friend's friend and give thanks for all of your blessings.

Jason Linkins

Free Beacon Claim That New Republic Purged Jewish Contributors Doesn't Hold Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.29.2013 | Politics

The New Republic, over the weekend, unveiled a brand spanking-new website -- the most outward-facing symbol of the magazine's semi-relaunch under the ...