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My views are simple. Political: Sober. Religious: Well … actually that’s not so simple. My Facebook profile suggests as much. There I say that I’m a “God-fearing Christian with devilishly good Jewish looks.”
I always found it odd when I was at The Jewish Journal that if I used the term tikkun olam, I had to explain to readers that it was a Hebrew expression for “repairing the world.”
A month ago I wrote about “Religion NIMBYs” in Tennessee who didn’t want a mosque built in their neighborhood. Here we go again, only this time the Tennessean didn’t assign its veteran religion reporter Bob Smietana. And the finished product reflected that.
Another gem from the Godbeat at the Los Angeles Times. If you didn’t pick up on my sarcasm, here’s a post from last week about the litany of bad religion stories that have been coming forth from Spring Street.
Good Shabbos. It’s a great day to be wearing my favorite t-shirt. But it’s a tough Sabbath to be an Ultra-Orthodox Jew in Jerusalem. (For last week’s discussion on the use of “ultra-orthodox,” click here.) Since the Israeli Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a religious girls’ school had to be integrated, the Haredim have been causing a lot of trouble in Jerusalem streets.
It’s well-known that football is religion in the United States. But Americans are reminded every four years, in the rest of the world they worship the other football — aka futbol, footie or, simply, soccer. This short feature from the South African Mail & Guardian, with the apt and simple title “Football and Worship,” hammers that point home.
I’ve already lamented the demise of the once-delightful Column One feature on the front page of the Los Angeles Times. And I feel that I’ve dissected more than my tolerable share of articles by Mitchell Landsberg, the LAT‘s recently new scribe on the Godbeat; add to that Mollie’s commentary yesterday on Landsberg’s Vatican coverage.
Thomas, who covered every president since the second Adams, was undone when the above footage surfaced online of Thomas telling the Jews to “get the hell out of Palestine” and go back to “Poland, Germany … and America and everywhere else.”
We don’t do a lot of entertainment media criticism here at GetReligion. Our bread and butter is the world of journalism, generally that done by daily newspapers. But this article, titled “Why can’t Hollywood get Jews right?,” is worth the sojourn.
