Perry Dane
By Perry Dane
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Opinion The Christian tone of Bruce Springsteen’s Super Bowl ad was meaningful, not exclusionary
Two recent pieces in The Forward, and a lot of commentary on social media, expressed serious discomfort with Jeep’s Super Bowl ad titled “The Middle,” featuring Bruce Springsteen. The ad, which spoke eloquently about the urgent need to overcome our national polarization, was set in Lebanon, Kansas, the site of the geographic center of the…
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Culture Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem was beautiful and mighty — no matter what your religion may be
At Joe Biden’s glorious inauguration, our first National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, recited her poem for the occasion, “The Hill We Climb.” It was beautiful and mighty and fit the occasion. Yet a column in The Forward criticized one fleeting passage in the poem, in which Gorman quoted the Biblical prophecy that “that everyone…
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Letters No, DC’s Museum Of The Bible Doesn’t Violate Separation Of Church And State
To the Editor: I have not yet visited the new Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC., and have no strong views about it one way or the other. But I am a scholar of religion and law, and I can say that Gordon Haber’s article about the museum in the January 2018 issue of…
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Opinion Can Supreme Court Take a Lesson from Jewish Law on Scalia Replacement?
Within minutes of the announcement of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, the wrangling started. Should President Obama nominate a successor in an election year? Should the Senate give the president’s choice a respectful hearing? I don’t have much to add to these debates. But I do worry about our current distorted sense of the relation between…
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Opinion Living With the Church-State Tension
Few topics are as fraught and complicated, or as tempting to oversimplify, as the encounter between religion and state. Take Israel. The balance of religion and state seems to be particularly imperiled for a variety of cultural and political reasons. Some Israelis think the problem has to do with an increase in religious commitment itself….
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