Religion, Politics, Et Cetera

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Enjoyed Rabbi Halpern's piece. The "Sleepers arise!" nod to Jonah 1:6 is such a good detail, and it's a shame the film mostly lets those references wash away. I scored Jonah chapter by chapter, and the prayer from the belly was my favorite to write: baskerville.media/jonah-lyri…
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Tune into this conversation between Rogers Brubaker, professor of sociology at UCLA and author of Gender Identity: The Career of a Category, and Daniel Oppenheimer, our host. arcmag.org/podcast/episode-9…
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"El-Sayed does not challenge the stereotype by demonstrating that Muslim men are never angry. He challenges the assumption that a Muslim man’s anger necessarily tells us something about Islam." Full piece by Tazeen M. Ali available at the link below. arcmag.org/macho-macho-man/
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For @ReligPolitics, Rabbi Dr. @StuHalpern reviews the new film "Whalefall," discussing how it ignores its obvious source material—the Book of Jonah—and what this means for contemporary biblical literacy. Read the full piece here: arcmag.org/whale-fail/
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Tune into this conversation between Ann Manov, the artist formerly known as personality girl and the author of a recent essay in Harper’s Magazine, “Republican Machines: Can the GOP save the humanities," and Daniel Oppenheimer, our host. arcmag.org/podcast/episode-7…
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Eminent Americans Episode 5: Two Paths (?) for the American Jew Tune into this conversation between David Sugarman, writer, Arc magazine editor, and producer of Eminent Americans, and Daniel Oppenheimer, our host. arcmag.org/podcast/episode-5…
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Eminent Americans Episode 3: The Sacred Dark Arts of the Snowflake Hermeneutical Brigade Tune into this conversation between Len Gutkin, editor of The Chronicle Review, and Daniel Oppenheimer, our Eminent Americans host. arcmag.org/podcast/episode-3…
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In the face of AI ruining everything & making us all dumb & powerless, the most important thing we can do to recover our agency is to cultivate our thirst for Truth and wonder in front of reality. I'm in @ReligPolitics ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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I took Pope Francis seriously when he told people to take their time to sit with papal documents before rushing to publicize their hot takes. Thus, I waited several months before publicizing my take on Magnifica Humanitas. Here it is in @ReligPolitics ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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