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You may recall media coverage regarding a kosher market in a suburb of Paris that was bombed last month. There’s been a development in the case. Here’s the New York Times piece “French Investigators Find Bomb-Making Materials“:
These words close Vladimir Mayakovskyâs 1924 poem “Vladimir Ilych Lenin“.â Written in the months after Leninâs death, âVI Leninâ is the greatest of Mayakovskyâs works and the apex of the socialist realist style of poetry that flowered in Russia in the decade after the Revolution. “VI Lenin” is also the template through which some in the press construct the person and works of Jesus Christ
At the Religion Newswriters Association’s annual awards dinner Saturday night, Abe Levy of the San Antonio Express-News jokingly referred to himself as the “Susan Lucci of the RNA.”
For several decades now, people linked to Jewish institutions have debated whether it is possible to be a Jew and, let’s say, a Southern Baptist, or a Buddhist, at the same time. This is even the kind of question that has made it to high courts in Israel.
Frequently when we read stories about lone wolf terrorist attacks, there’s the specter of mental illness. And this week’s story about a man held in a plot to bomb 48 churches in Oklahoma is no exception. Here’s how the Chicago Tribune put it:
It’s time for another update from the “framing religion as politics” beat, care of The Star Tribune, up in Minnesota.
Back when the Obama administration was still claiming that they believed the assassination of the United States ambassador to Libya was in response to a YouTube video, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said:
