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My religious obligations lie not only in offering care to my loved ones, but in the profound act of care that is committing myself -- and my community -- to pursuing justice. In this moment, where it is acutely evident that racism is a public health crisis happening alongside, and exacerbated by, a pandemic, Judaism is pushing me to redistribute money to organizations supporting Black life and, in particular, Black trans people. It is pushing me to work within my community to advocate for concrete anti-racist commitments from the Jewish organizations and leaders that are important in my own life. … [Read more...] about Finding God in the unlikeliest of places

“To build a great film studio you need great filmmakers from every part of the world, telling stories in all languages,” continued Stuber. “With the majority of our membership outside of the U.S., under David’s leadership, we’ve been growing our international film business over the past year and look forward to bringing Paolo’s story and so many others to a global audience.” … [Read more...] about Paolo Sorrentino to Direct ‘The Hand of God’ for Netflix

The third tenet is “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone,” a statement the Satanic Temple often uses to promote abortion on demand, a practice that would seem inconsistent with the values of a state such as Mississippi, in which the governor just signed a bill into law banning abortions based on sex, race, or disability. … [Read more...] about Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Mississippi if Flag Says ‘In God We Trust’

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak. … [Read more...] about Charlamagne tha God: Nick Cannon Firing Proves Jews ‘Have the Power’

From the days of the earliest English settlements, Puritan divines recorded the frightening wonders of the natural world and speculated about whether violent thunderstorms, floods and hurricanes portended God's judgment. They could be surprisingly nuanced, Thuesen explains. In 1694 Cotton Mather, America's eminent Puritan theologian, minister and author, was preaching when word arrived that his house had been badly damaged by lightning. Though such phenomena were accidents, they were still, in his words, "under the Conduct of God, the High Thunderer." Others assumed it was no wonder that lightning commonly struck lofty homes and towering spires, symbols of human pride. Benjamin Franklin came under suspicion, writes Thuesen, for having the temerity to redirect thunderbolts from heaven with his invention, the lightning rod. Franklin's contemporaries began to question old certitudes. Scottish philosopher David Hume developed his naturalistic critique of religion, which he explained away … [Read more...] about Book World: In storms, Americans see the hand of God