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Fast Forward Rep. Lauren Boebert calls on Christians to ‘rise up and take our place in Christ and influence this nation’
The comments come amid a rising trend of Christian nationalism among a segment of conservative politicians, including Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Opinion Most of the victims of Highland Park were Jewish. Why is their memorial filled with Christian imagery?
Even in death, Jews can become subsumed by the ubiquity of American Christianity
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Culture What does Christianity really say about abortion?
Increasingly, the US and the Supreme Court appear to be driven by Christian values. But where do they really come from, and what does the Bible actually say?
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Opinion A Muslim and a Jew face the Bible Belt: Meet the only two doctors in Alabama providing gender-affirming care to trans youth
Their work is under assault by the Alabama legislature, which recently passed a law criminalizing trans health care
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Culture The gospel of ‘Kingdom Business’ director Christopher Erskin
Despite his Jewish background, Erskin says he didn't feel at all conflicted about helming a show about the gospel music industry
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Opinion Miriam restaurant was sprayed with “f— Jews” graffiti. Here’s why we responded with white roses
At our table, we savored the plates of hummus, pita and shakshuka. It brought back wonderful memories of Jaffa and Jerusalem, places I haven’t been in a long time. My friends, colleagues and I, 11 of us in total, chose to go to Miriam restaurant as an act of friendship and solidarity with the Jewish…
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Opinion Not all Jews hate Christmas. In fact, many of us celebrate it
Editor’s note: The letter below comments on the original headline of Jodi Rudoren’s Nov. 19 “Looking Forward” column. That headline was changed shortly after publication, unrelated to this letter. To the editor: It is not easy being part of a religious minority in the United States, a country with European settler colonial origins and a…
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Culture This woman thought a Holocaust diet was a good idea
It can be almost physically painful to look at photos of concentration camp prisoners, so emaciated that you can see the shapes of their skulls, their kneecaps, their sternums in sharp relief. Those photos are one of the starkest, most impactful ways of driving home the horrors of the Holocaust. Unless you’re Gwen Shamblin, a…
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