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Meir Kahane

Is Kahane More Mainstream than American Jews will Admit?

A new biography explores the American roots of Meir Kahane's far-right ideology — and how the U.S. Jewish establishment embraced his beliefs.
by Hadas Binyamini via +972 Magazine on December 30, 2021
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How We Became Weekly

The week is the most artificial and recent of our time counts yet it’s impossible to imagine our shared lives without it.
by David Hinkin via Aeon on November 30, 2021
Muhammad Ali

The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics

It’s never just about religion, says the author of a book about celebrities discovering new religious identities.
by Rebecca L. Davis, Eric C. Miller via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 19, 2021
Riesman giving fundraising speech

My Grandfather the Zionist

He helped build Jewish American support for Israel. What’s his legacy now?
by Abraham Josephine Riesman via Intelligencer on June 23, 2021

The Pantomime Drama of Victims and Villains Conceals the Real Horrors of War

Innocent, passive, apolitical: after the Holocaust, the standard for ‘true’ victimhood has worked to justify total war.
by Dirk Moses via Aeon on May 10, 2021
Cover of Crisco cookbook aimed at "the Jewish Housewife."

Inside the World's Largest Jewish Cookbook Collection

A librarian with a love for eBay built this trove of culinary history.
by Anne Ewbank via Atlas Obscura on March 24, 2021
Two women sitting on a rocking chair in a nineteenth century photograph

Postures of Transport: Sex, God, and Rocking Chairs

What if chairs could shift our state of consciousness, transporting the imagination into distant landscapes and ecstatic experiences, both religious and erotic?
by Hunter Dukes via The Public Domain Review on February 3, 2021
John Ossoff.

The Politics of Nostalgia

Nostalgia is not merely reductive; it is also productive.
by Rachel B. Gross via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on February 2, 2021
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The City That Never Stops Worshipping

Though some have likened it to Sodom and Gomorrah, New York City has a long history of religious vibrancy.
by Heath W. Carter via Christianity Today on October 1, 2020
Photograph of Sun Ra by Ming Smith

Sun Ra: ‘I’m Everything and Nothing’

Sun Ra, a seminal artist of afrofuturism, embraced a unique vision of blackness.
by Namwali Serpell via New York Review of Books on July 12, 2020

Rendering Judgment on America

A new book systematically defends the American Founding against those who believe it was destined to end in nihilism.
by Samuel Gregg via Public Discourse on July 1, 2020
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The Mainstreaming of Christian Zionism Could Warp Foreign Policy

How the history of dispensationalism shapes U.S. foreign policy today.
by Jeffrey Rosario via Made By History on June 30, 2020
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How Dairy Lunchrooms Became Alternatives to the NYC Saloon ‘Free Lunch.’

Ben Katchor's Brief History of the Dairy Restaurant.
by Ben Katchor via Literary Hub on March 10, 2020

Myth and Modernity: A Review of Persecution and Toleration

A new take on the origins of our ideas about religious liberty.
by Cameron Harwick via Liberal Currents on July 1, 2019

Reconsidering the Jewish American Princess

How the JAP became America’s most complex Jewish stereotype.
by Jamie Lauren Keiles via Vox on December 5, 2018

Lewis Levin Wasn't Cool

The first Jewish member of Congress was a virulent nativist and anti-immigration troll who ended his life in an insane asylum.
by Zachary M. Schrag via Tablet on October 22, 2018

The Triangle Shirtwaist Memorialist

Remembering victims of one of the worst workplace disasters in American history.
by Jeremiah Moss via New York Review of Books on August 31, 2018

The Invention of Monogamy

For most of its history, monogamy was a rule only applied to married women.
by Sarah Mirk, Isabella Rotman via The Nib on October 20, 2017

The Freedom to Choose Your Religion Comes With a Price

In a new book, a historian explores the American fascination with conversion, and its costs. 
by Lincoln Mullen, Emma Green via The Atlantic on August 12, 2017

The True Story of the Fight for Religious Equality in the US

The U.S. Constitution guaranteed freedom of religion, but the fight for religious equality was only just beginning.
by Richard D. Brown via Aeon on June 28, 2017
Ernst Borinski

Many Jewish Refugee Professors Found Homes at Historically Black Colleges

And they were shocked by race relations in the South.
by Heather Gilligan via Timeline on March 9, 2017
Pilgrims going to church armed with guns.

God and Guns

Patrick Blanchfield tracks the long-standing entanglement of guns and religion in the United States. Part 1 of 2.
by Patrick Blanchfield via The Revealer on September 25, 2015
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Naughty & Nice: A History of the Holiday Season

Tracing the evolution of Christmas from a drunken carnival to the peaceful, family-oriented, consumeristic ritual we celebrate today.
via BackStory on December 26, 2014
Group of men including clergy.

Unearthing The Surprising Religious History Of American Gay Rights Activism

Years before Stonewall, many clergy members were standing on the front lines for gay rights.
by Jaweed Kaleem via HuffPost on June 28, 2014

Who Owns Anne Frank?

The diary has been distorted by even her greatest champions. Would history have been better served if it had been destroyed?
by Cynthia Ozick via The New Yorker on September 28, 1997

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