General News
Readers Respond to Our Conference Call with Obama
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On July 30th, the Tikkun and Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) community, along with a variety of other groups, was invited to a conference call with President Obama.
Gender and Sexuality
Pro-Choice for Christ
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Americans’ stances on abortion are more complicated than the political rhetoric may lead us to believe. Our understanding of religion and reproductive rights should follow suit.
Politics & Society
Foreign leader to address US citizens hoping they'll oppose their President's foreign policy
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Tomorrow, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamim Netanyahu will stream a live, interactive address to millions of U.S. citizens in the American Jewish community. The goal? Convince U.S. Jews to reject President Obama’s diplomatic agreement with Iran as he and pro-Israel lobbying groups intensify pressure on Congress to do the same.
Politics & Society
Attacks against Bernie Sanders Have Reached New Depths
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By acknowledging Sanders’ Jewish background, and in deploying McCarthy-style propaganda scare tactics, Kevin Williamson, taps into a longstanding anti-Semitic trope.
Politics & Society
Against The Tide: The River Of Discrimination Flowing Against People With Disabilities
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Twenty five years after the passage of the ADA, the river of discrimination against people with disabilities continues to flow. The river is human-made: we created it, designed the very contours that sweep people with disabilities to the outskirts of society. But because we made it, we can also stop it.
Politics & Society
You aren't "shocked" Jewish settlers burned a Palestinian baby alive, Netanyahu. You're complicit.
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Early Friday morning, two masked settlers crouched before a home in the West Bank village of Duma, touched their fingers to its cold walls and nodded. Then they spray painted the words “vengeance” and “long live the Messiah” before breaking windows, throwing firebombs inside and fleeing as a family of four burned in their beds.
Environment
A Lack of Precaution is the Biggest Problem in U.S. Chemical Regulation
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We need to clean up our act in the U.S. We need to pollute less – and this means stopping our production and consumption of dirty and dangerous energy (natural gas, oil, coal, tar sands and nuclear). That’s the biggest issue.
Environment
Fracking Goes on Trial
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Between five and seven jurists of high standing in international human rights law will hear testimony before deciding whether sufficient evidence exists to indict certain nation states on charges of “failing to adequately uphold universal human rights as a result of allowing unconventional oil and gas extraction in their jurisdictions.”
Politics & Society
What a Nice Jewish Boy Taught Me About ISIS
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Nazis and ISIS fanatics promise a new millennium, a religious order ushering in honor, power, and glory for the elect. In a taste of the paradise to come, these movements celebrate the expression of what Freud regarded as the most intense pleasure: acting out long-repressed vile fantasies.
Politics & Society
Netanyahu compared Obama to those who appeased Hitler pre-Holocaust in Yad Vashem speech
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Near-universal rage has been directed at presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who yesterday said Obama would “take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven” with the Iran deal.