Faith is a funny thing. It has divided the world throughout history, the cause of countless bloody deaths. It has torn families apart, it has been used to justify torture and enslavement, but it has also provided comfort and hope and order — elements of existence that are hard to otherwise come by. Panic as…
“The View” host Whoopi Goldberg defended Olympic skater Adam Rippon’s decision to turn down an opportunity to meet with Vice President Mike Pence by comparing the VP to a Nazi. Rippon, who is openly gay, declined Pence’s invitation out of opposition to Pence’s views on gay rights. Goldberg supported Rippon’s choice on the show by…
(JTA) — The father of Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student imprisoned by North Korea who died after being sent back comatose to the United States, will attend the Olympics Opening Ceremonies as a guest of Vice President Mike Pence. The Olympics will open in PyeongChang, South Korea on February 9. Pence will lead…
Back in college, a rabbi of mine shared a story from a talk on the story of Joseph he gave to unaffiliated Jewish retirees. After the rabbi spoke at length about the biblical narrative and his brothers’ trials and tribulations in Egypt, an older woman raised her hand. “So, when did Joseph end up meeting…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The rabbi of the Western Wall sent a letter of apology to the editor of the Israeli business daily Globes for the discriminatory treatment of one of its reporters during Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to the site last week. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich, writing to Globes editor-in-chief Naama Sikuler, said “I want…
A tweet sent by Vice President Mike Pence on International Holocaust Remembrance Day was sharply criticized by some for its perceived Christian imagery. A few days ago, Karen & I paid our respects at Yad Vashem to honor the 6 million Jewish martyrs of the Holocaust who 3 years after walking beneath the shadow of…
In his historic speech to the Knesset in Jerusalem, Vice-President Mike Pence reaffirmed American recognition that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, described the Jewish people’s 3,000-year-old unbreakable bond with Jerusalem, stated that the US will transfer the US Embassy to Jerusalem by the end of 2019, thereby having chosen “fact over fiction,” called upon Mahmoud Abbas’…
This past week, Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence made a historic visit to Israel. Unsurprisingly, it was largely pilloried by liberal Jews. What was the Vice President’s offense? Being a pro-Israel evangelical Christian, a perspective some Jews find suspicious. In these pages, Jane Eisner has warned of the dangers of evangelical…
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