religion
Jewish Americans and Israel/Palestine: Pressures and fissures heading toward 2020
September 30, 2019The idea of a return to Biblical Zion has been perverted into an idolization of land acquisition by any means in Israel, but Jewish Americans don't want to be pressured into complicity with Israel’s deeds.
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San Jose churches and synagogues get set to fight racist mass incarceration
September 23, 2019The workshop was led by Sophia Jackson, a candidate for ordination as a minister who knows the criminal "justice" system inside out—literally. She was incarcerated for eight years.
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Christian Communism: Meet the hosts of ‘The Magnificast’ podcast
August 7, 2019A podcast about the things they didn't teach you in Sunday School.
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Documentary shows Israelis going back to the future in the ancestral fatherland
June 13, 2019There is rich compost feeding this 77-minute story, which could probably be developed into an ongoing TV series involving these complex interrelationships across time, culture and tragedy.
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When secular Israelis claim ‘God gave this land to us’
May 29, 2019Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, created something of viral sensation last week when he dramatically brandished a Bible and declared “This is the deed to our land.”
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