Man killed for being gay in New York City

Marc Carson was a 32 year old gay man. He was a gay man, because now he is dead. He is dead because of a bullet from one Elliot Morales, a man one year older but who had a much different life path. A path built on hate and fear. Morales, a violent criminal with a record,...
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Man killed for being gay in New York City

Marc Carson was a 32 year old gay man. He was a gay man, because now he is dead. He is dead because of a bullet from one Elliot Morales, a man one year older but who had a much different life path. A path built on hate and fear. Morales, a violent criminal with a record,...

Paris Jackson’s Religion: Jewish Christian and Muslim

by Karen Fish What is Paris Jackson’s religion? Paris Jackson today sued AEG for $40 Billion over the wrongful death of her father Michael Jackson and her lawyer said “It’s not about the money, it’s about...

Fundamentalists won't let men/women pray together

"The moment we allow these groups a foothold, then tomorrow they will start to restrain us in our own synagogues, in the name of democracy, in the name of liberalism and in the name of pluralism," says one Shmuel Poppenheim, an Israeli ultra-Orthodox activist. What he was...

Fundamentalists won't let men/women pray together

"The moment we allow these groups a foothold, then tomorrow they will start to restrain us in our own synagogues, in the name of democracy, in the name of liberalism and in the name of pluralism," says one Shmuel Poppenheim, an Israeli ultra-Orthodox activist. What he was...

Antisemitism matters because it’s an assault on humanity

By Rabbi Lord Sacks. This coming Sunday is Yom Hashoah, the day we in the Jewish community observe our Holocaust Remembrance Day. And this year it will coincide with the seventieth anniversary of one of the most remarkable moments of that long dark night: the Warsaw...

Why everyone is wrong about the terms atheism and agnosticsm

I was listening to a conservative Jewish talk show host who I will only go by his initials, D.P. because I don't want to give him any unnecessary publicity. D.P. is of the opinion that agnostics should attend a church 26 weeks a year. Or a syngogue. To him agnostic means...

Sarah Silverman's sister detained under sexist Israel tradition

Sarah Silverman is one of my favorite comedians. The television show that she had was one of the funniest things on cable. Well, her sister, the Reform Judaism Rabbi, Susan Silverman, and her 17 year old niece, Halle Silverman, were one of a group of women detained for hours...

Sarah Silverman's sister detained under sexist Israel tradition

Sarah Silverman is one of my favorite comedians. The television show that she had was one of the funniest things on cable. Well, her sister, the Reform Judaism Rabbi, Susan Silverman, and her 17 year old niece, Halle Silverman, were one of a group of women detained for hours...

Edit the bible and no Torahs for women at the Wailing Wall?

Piers Morgan, the host of a nightly talk show host on the cable channel CNN, believes we should edit the bible. I agree with him, we should. Or, at least ignore it. He said the bible and the U.S. Constitution are "inherently flawed." Well, the Constitution is a lot less...

Edit the bible and no Torahs for women at the Wailing Wall?

Piers Morgan, the host of a nightly talk show host on the cable channel CNN, believes we should edit the bible. I agree with him, we should. Or, at least ignore it. He said the bible and the U.S. Constitution are "inherently flawed." Well, the Constitution is a lot less...

Congresswoman Sinema takes oath of office on the Constitution

There was a talk show host six years ago who was upset that Keith Ellison, a Congressman from Minnesota, was going to put his hand on the Quran when taking the oath of office. Obviously Ellison is a Muslim. It, like all religions, are mythologies, but Ellison has a right to...

Why the government should not say your god is true

I called in to a national radio talk show. The host is a Jewish conservative but a supporter of the government promoting religion (or at least theism) by keeping the mentioning of a god in the Pledge of Allegiance, on our currency, among other things. I stated, as I have...

Edit the bible and no Torahs for women at the Wailing Wall?

Piers Morgan, the host of a nightly talk show host on the cable channel CNN, believes we should edit the bible. I agree with him, we should. Or, at least ignore it. He said the bible and the U.S. Constitution are "inherently flawed." Well, the Constitution is a lot less...

8 year old girl cursed at by religious zealots in Israel

In a town outside of Jerusalem, Israel, little Naama Margolese, an 8 year old girl, faces being called a whore and spit upon by ultra-orthodox Jewish men. Yes, you read that right. She is called those things and even has had rocks thrown at her. The average Israeli and the...

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