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Some terrific Jewish Maghrebi Gnawa background music ...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu May 02, 2024 at 04:45 PM PDT
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Many of you may have read about a recent tragedy where a mad man killed six people with a knife in Australia, thank goodness he didn't have a gun, if you haven't read about then there are details here www.theguardian.com/… What has this to do with...
by The Greenmantle
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 09:21 AM PDT
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The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins Monday in the United States . It’s a monthlong time of prayer, fasting, and introspection for Muslims around the world. It’s only�fitting to highlight ...
by Denise Oliver Velez
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 05:59 AM PDT
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People like me When I was in elementary school, I was the only Jewish kid in my school, and one day out of the blue a classmate on the playground called me “Jew boy.” I was shocked. I knew about antisemitism, about Jewish history, but I’d never...
by Rob in Vermont
51 comments
on Sun Dec 31, 2023 at 01:34 PM PST
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I received a WhatsApp message the other day asking me to sign a petition demanding the Obama Foundation cancel the scholarship of a student for posting the above commentary on a photo of students demonstrating with Israeli and IDF flags. The people...
by thewavethatiam
44 comments
on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 09:28 PM PST
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Last week, I posted a diary at DK that questioned how well this great, longstanding blog and blogging community are covering the ongoing war in Palestine and Israel. The diary ended up both engendering a lot of comments, but also a lot of provocative...
by Philip Munger
1090 comments
on Fri Nov 24, 2023 at 09:56 PM PST
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Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. Let’s ...
by Ojibwa
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on Thu Dec 21, 2023 at 01:06 PM PST
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I think by now, most people have seen, or heard of, the rant by Mr. Stuart Seldowitz. Mr Sledowitz is a former high ranking career official within the Obama administration. As per the tweet above, Mr. Seldowitz had been doing this for 2 weeks. I don’t...
by SevenStrings
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on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 10:36 AM PST
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Amid rising tensions on campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas war, a prominent rabbi and imam have been meeting with�Jewish and Muslim student leaders at New York City campuses�on a ...
by Charles Jay
25 comments
on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 07:30 AM PST
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… … … … SPOILER ALERT! Just the other night, I happened to watch The Man I Married, which was made in 1940 but set in 1938, prior to the outbreak of World War II. In that movie, Carol Hoffman (Joan Bennett) is married to a German immigrant, Eric...
by disinterested spectator
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 05:40 AM PST
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“Hamas calls itself an Islamic resistance movement,” writes Professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan on Oct. 16, but he says that Hamas is actually “a dangerous cult that disregards key elements of Islamic law.” The professor describes three...
by ybruti
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on Mon Oct 16, 2023 at 06:26 PM PDT
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October 12, 2023 by Netta Ahituv and Nadin Abou Laban In Haifa and Jaffa, joint Jewish and Arab patrols seek to prevent violence on both sides. In the south, Bedouin residents risk their lives to search for victims of Hamas terror. In the shadow...
by mettle fatigue
132 comments
on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 05:48 PM PDT
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This piece will be running next weekend as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06). ********************************* For the most part, religions can be seen as efforts by human beings to achieve meaning and value in their...
by AndySchmookler
26 comments
on Mon Sep 25, 2023 at 09:48 AM PDT
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I have been thinking about this issue for some time and the time has come to put these thoughts into words. There is a debate taking place in our society today about the rights and freedoms of people who are of non-conforming genders. After sitting...
by dakotajak
26 comments
on Fri Aug 25, 2023 at 08:36 PM PDT
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SECOND UPDATE: The system is no longer letting me reply to comments without interrupting me, and I have a great deal more work to do tonight. I will also be unavailable for much of tomorrow, possibly much of the week. I would be grateful if y’all would...
by Aji
130 comments
on Sun Jul 09, 2023 at 01:43 PM PDT
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Welcome to Helping Humpday at Street Prophets Coffee Hour, where politics meets up with religion, art, science, nature, and life. Come in, have a cuppa and a cookie (or three!) and join us. Helping ...
by Aashirs nani
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on Wed Jun 28, 2023 at 01:06 PM PDT
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After this past Easter Sunday, I thought this might be an interesting topic for discussion given the fact that most of the Abrahamic religions on the planet have some form of dietary restrictions occurring this month. For Islam, we are currently in the...
by Doctor RJ
117 comments
on Mon Apr 10, 2023 at 10:13 AM PDT
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Religion/Faith/Spirituality only becomes a problem when it’s adherents decide they know what is best for others than those actual others do, and attempt to gain power and control over those others. History is lousy with this nonsense and there are...
by AndyT
272 comments
on Fri Feb 17, 2023 at 04:15 PM PST
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We see right-wing theocrats attempting to take over our country, and wonder why it’s happening. It starts with the fact that many Americans are raised by parents telling tiny kids that mysterious, supernatural beings like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny,...
by CarolEllison
912 comments
on Thu Feb 16, 2023 at 08:56 AM PST
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I think we don’t hear enough about what Kamala Harris is doing as our Vice President. So since I haven’t devised a good WOW rant, I thought instead I’d lead off with a few Vice President Kamala Harris items. Politico reports that VP Harris is on her...
by elenacarlena
59 comments
on Sat Jan 28, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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