The Dilemma of Jewish Privilege
Source: THE NEW REPUBLIC By JOSHUA LADON July 27, 2018 I am visibly Jewish. I wear a yarmulke; I have a beard. My tzitzit—ritual fringes—occasionally sneak out from under my shirt. […]
This may be the biggest shoe to drop from the Trump-Michael Cohen tape
Source: MSN News Longtime Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg has been subpoenaed, the Wall Street Journal reports. That should come as little surprise; he was invoked twice in Michael Cohen’s taped conversation […]
Public Views of Gene Editing for Babies Depend on How It Would Be Used
Source: Pew Research Center Americans are more likely to anticipate negative than positive effects from widespread use of gene-editing technology BY CARY FUNK AND MEG HEFFERON A baby girl holds her mother’s hand. […]
Stacey Abrams Could Become America’s First Black Female Governor—If She Can Turn Georgia Blue
Source: Time By MOLLY BALL July 26, 2018 People tend to remember the first time they heard Stacey Abrams speak, and it’s easy to see why. On a Friday afternoon in […]
Court: California school board’s prayers unconstitutional
Source: Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Southern California school board’s policy of opening meetings with a prayer is unconstitutional because the prayers often invoke Christianity, and there are […]
Peaceful on Purpose by Joel Osteen
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Joel Osteen has no less than a thousand, half hour wonderful presentations, about positive thinking, hope, […]
Delaware Mayor Apologizes After Muslim Kids In Shirts, Hijabs, Kicked Out Of City Pool
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla The mayor of Wilmington, Delaware, has apologized to a local Islamic school after a group of Muslim children wearing shirts, shorts and hijabs were […]
These Candidates Could Be America’s First Muslim Women In Congress
Source: Huffington Post By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman DEEDRA ABBOUD / STEPHEN MATUREN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES / RASHIDA TLAIB / FAYROUZ SAAD / TAHIRAH AMATUL-WADUD From left: congressional candidates Deedra Abboud, Ilhan Omar, Rashida […]
Haiti missionary sentenced to 23 years for child sex abuse
Source: Associated Press By DAVID McFADDEN BALTIMORE (AP) — A Mennonite missionary from Virginia who lived in Haiti for more than a decade has been sentenced to 23 years in […]
Missouri man gets 2 years for hate crimes directed at mosque
Source: Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A Missouri man who pleaded guilty to making threatening phone calls to a Georgia mosque has been sentenced to two years in prison. […]
Amid new sex abuse scandal, O’Malley issues warning to church
Source: Boston Globe By Martin Finucane and Danny McDonald Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley said Tuesday he was “deeply troubled” by the allegations of sexual abuse by one of the […]
George Takei: America will fix the mistake of Trump’s travel ban
Source: CNN By George Takei (CNN)As a Japanese-American who grew up behind the barbed wire of US internment camps, I sensed the cold dread that Muslims must have felt when […]
I Thought I Was Possessed By The Devil. The Truth Shook My Deepest Beliefs.
Source: Huffington Post By Steve Kissing, Guest Writer In 1975, when I was a fifth-grader at St. William Elementary, a Catholic school in Cincinnati, Ohio, the devil began visiting me […]
Olympian: This is what it means to be an American
Source: CNN By Ibtihaj Muhammad Updated 1312 GMT (2112 HKT) July 23, 2018 I’ve lived the American Dream — a life as a citizen of these United States, nurtured by […]
Tape reveals Trump and lawyer discussing payoff over alleged affair
Source: BBC News A recording of a conversation in which President Donald Trump and his lawyer discuss a payoff over an alleged affair with a model has been broadcast by […]
Ibtihaj Muhammad: I felt like a social ‘pariah’ after making Team USA
Source: The Lily Ibtihaj Muhammad The following is an excerpt from “Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream,” by United States Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad. Muhammad is an American fencer who rose […]
President Trump Is Considering Revoking Security Clearances of His Critics
Source: Time By BRIAN BENNETT Updated: July 23, 2018 4:18 PM ET President Donald Trump is considering revoking the security clearances for a half-dozen former high-level intelligence and national security officials […]
How Pregnancy May Affect the Risk of Alzheimer’s
Source: Time By ALICE PARK July 23, 2018 In the U.S., two-thirds of people with Alzheimer’s disease are women, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. For decades, experts have explained the gender divide by […]
Revelations of US cardinal sex abuse will force pope’s hand
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Revelations that one of the most respected U.S. cardinals allegedly sexually abused both boys and adult seminarians have raised questions […]
Iran will resist Trump’s “psychological warfare” -senior Guards commander to ISNA
Source: MSN News Overnight threats by President Donald Trump against Iran amount to “psychological warfare,” and Tehran will continue to resist its enemies, a senior commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary […]