SACRAMENTO — When observers think about American Christianity, they obviously focus on the country’s Protestant roots, as well as its large Roman Catholic population. Around 48 percent of Americans identify as Protestants of one variety or another (and of different…
A month after Hamas massacred over 1,400 people in Israel, the war they unleashed is not going well for them. Israeli airstrikes have taken out key leaders, command posts, and arms depots. The Israel Defense Forces has isolated Gaza City…
My dear friend, professional colleague, and soul brother Rabbi Steven Pruzansky recently published an article that “beat me to the punch” on themes I express below, so I have to share some credit here with him for what I am about to write….
In the summer of 1864, William Tecumseh Sherman ran wild through Georgia. He burned and destroyed every civilian item he could find, even humans. That included young women. These were Americans, displaced, starved, sometimes raped, by American soldiers. There were…
Marc Rowan, genius capitalist, worthy of Carnegie and Rockefeller in his understanding of philanthropy, going against his beloved alma mater, UPenn, for its failure of nerve against the pro-Hamas fascists. And now Bill Maher, with a short speech worthy of…
Soon after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, President Biden said that the Israelis shouldn’t give in to their “rage.” Israel was, and is, too smart to give in to rage, and it hasn’t. It has engaged in a massive…
The church bodies of conservative Protestantism are seeing the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 for the unspeakable and indefensible outrage that it is and are justifying Israel’s militant response as a legitimate application of “just war” doctrine. To…
For three days last week I put up posters of people who were murdered or kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7. The first day I did this I didn’t have my wits about me and simply stapled them to…
On Oct. 15, my husband and I were on a walk around downtown Ithaca with our baby daughter when we heard chanting. Though the rhythm sounded faintly like a girl scout campfire song, we could tell the crowd was angry….
