Conservapedia Is Now Going to Rewrite the Bible
The wackaloons over at Conservapedia have a new project: releasing a new version of the Bible. No, really: Liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations. There are...
View ArticleMore from the Successful Republican Jewish Outreach Program
While I’m hoping to find the time to write about Norman Podhoretz’s question “Why Are Jews Liberals?” I don’t think, unlike Podhoretz, that the fundamental reason is repulsion towards the Christian...
View ArticleStupak-Mills: Again, ‘Judeos’ Are Left Behind
So to speak. One of the many loathsome things about the Stupak-Mills amendment is that insurance would not be able to cover abortions for the following reasons (italics mine): Cases that are excluded:...
View ArticleBritish High Court and The NY Times Get It Wrong on the Merits: It’s Not Who...
…but who is a rabbi? A recent British High Court decision making it illegal for a Jewish school that favors Jewish applicants to base its admissions policy on whether one’s mother is Jewish, while...
View ArticleThoughts on Beinart’s “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment”
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict isn’t usually something I discuss here, but Peter Beinart’s surprisingly on-target NY Review of Books essay, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” is an...
View ArticleSaturday Sermon: The Yom Kippur Edition
If you’re Jewish, you’ll probably be reading this in a few hours, depending on your time zone. What really bugs me about the theopolitical right is their selective choosing of which parts of the Bible...
View ArticleTheopolitical Right to Texan Jews: Jews Need Not Apply
It’s not that some Texas Republicans are anti-Semitic, it’s just that they need a Christian in charge. A bunch of angry Texan evangelical Republicans are trying to replace House Speaker Joe Strauss,...
View ArticleWhy Palin Used the Phrase “Blood Libel”: The Theopolitical Right Believes...
If you haven’t heard by now, Sarah Palin compared criticism of her to “blood libel“, the disgusting medieval falsehood that Jews used Christian blood in religious rituals. While some have chalked this...
View ArticleBlood Libel, Jews, and the Democratic Party
Like clockwork, every time an election rolls around, Republican-leaning pundits and political operatives, in their infinite wisdom, predict that this election will be the election wherein Jews abandon...
View ArticleFox News: Worried About the ‘War on Christmas’, but Their Own War on Jews?
Not so much. Because, according to a letter signed by over 400 hundred U.S. rabbis, Fox seems to have a Glenn Beck problem: We are rabbis of diverse political views. As part of our work, we are devoted...
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