Christians reacted to October 7 with muddled thinking
The Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr provided a benchmark for Christian-Jewish relations in these dark times
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The Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr provided a benchmark for Christian-Jewish relations in these dark times
Historian Arno Mayer, who died this month at age 97, infused his work with a Marxism animated by attention to ideology, passion, and the open-endedness of history.
The German Heinrich Böll Foundation recently withdrew its funding of the "Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought" because it had been granted to the Russian-American writer of Jewish faith, Masha Gessen, due to an article entitled "In the Shadow of the Holocaust" that she had written for The New Yorker. In it, Gessen, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, denounced the war on Gaza and compared the Strip to the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.
The weaponization of accusations of anti-semitism on college campuses is fueling the controversy over the Gaza war. This is despite the fact that experts point out that this hate speech isn’t a new phenomenon… and that it’s more often attributed to the extreme right
Indians in general are by and large unabashedly proud of India’s role in, and contribution to Bangladesh’s Independence, which came about at the end of 1971.