“My student just sent 500 of his closest friends and me an e-mail that says Obama is a radical Muslim only pretending to be a Christian. He wrote that if Obama becomes president, our country will be run by a terrorist. How should I respond to his e-mail?” This was the last question — the [...]
Judaism is an action-oriented religion. We have, according to the Talmud, 613 Commandments — not just a top-10 list. In rabbinic courts, your actions can be praised or punished. Faith is a means to achieve just ends, prayer as a way of connecting to the Source of Creation so that we can better [...]
Inter-religious conferences should go beyond issues linked to the decades-old crisis in the Middle East, says a Jewish scholar attending a meeting being hosted by the Doha International Center for Inter-Faith Dialogue.
Speaking on the sidelines of the 8th Doha Conference on Inter-Faith Dialogue at the Doha Sheraton Hotel yesterday, 24-year-old Joshua Stanton said [...]
Religious Freedom USA’s Co-Director contributed the following to The Revealer:
When John F. Kennedy was running for president in 1960, fear-mongers raised the specter of his dual loyalty. Would he really serve American interests or merely be a pawn for the Vatican? After all, he was a Catholic. Church doctrine, it was [...]
When I told a friend that I had helped found Religious Freedom USA to affirm the right to build the Park 51 community center in Lower Manhattan (often mislabeled the “Ground Zero Mosque”), he responded with a cautionary note: “What about the risk you are taking in your future career as a [...]
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