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...versus 21 percent who oppose it. But when pollsters asked about participation by non-Judeo-Christian religious groups, respondents' enthusiasm sloped off pretty quickly. If Catholic churches, for example, were to receive government funds, for example, 62 percent of respondents would approve. Likewise, support for mainline Protestant churches and Jewish synagogues hovered around 60 percent. But when it came to whether Scientologists or the Nation of Islam should receive funds, approval dropped to below 30 percent...
Sameer Doshi ’02 wrote an opinion piece on April 6, “Media Not Impartial on Mideast,” that thoughtfully makes clear the shortcomings of the American media in reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I have heard both the American Jewish and the American Arab communities complain loudly of the hatefully unfair reporting of The New York Times, CNN and others. Yet if the reporting is so overtly pro-Israel as Doshi describes it, one is hard pressed to understand what the American supporters of Israel are complaining about. If the reality...
...Fortunately, we can all rest easy that Out of Town News and Nini’s Corner do not carry such garbage. How would you feel if the newsstand on the corner sold a cartoon called “Chester the Molester,” in which a young Jewish girl is lured by a dollar bill attached to a string to the erect penis of an elderly man? I would feel shocked and outraged; I do feel shocked and outraged, because Chester the Molester is available for your reading pleasure in Hustler Magazine, for sale at Out of Town...
Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris, who teaches Moral Reasoning 54: "If There is No God, Then is all Permitted?" moderated the debate...
Ariel Sharon's counterintuitive peace plan - in essence, step up the violence - may best be explained by an old Jewish allegory: A man tells his rabbi that his wife is threatening to leave him because their home is too small. The rabbi advises the man to bring his horse into the house. The following day, the skeptical fellow returns, saying his wife is even angrier now. The rabbi tells him to bring a cow into the house. This makes her even angrier, but the rabbi the next day advises the man to bring another cow into the house...