Molly Finkle

@BriannaWu He basically followed the same arc as Mohammed. At first he argued that Jews hadn’t converted because they were mistreated, so he urged Christians to treat them better. Then he concluded they wouldn’t convert even if they were treated well - and turned on them with a vengeance.…

on my mind: modern spirituality encourages us to DIY our own world of life signifiers, to come up with our own spiritual frameworks involving special diets, meditation schedules, intermittent fasts, escapes to nature, and more. but to go down this path, we have to really…

This is what Jewish peoplehood feels like. The pain is telling us that the organism is working, that we are still a “we.”

Since ancient times, in every place they have ever lived, Jews have represented the frightening prospect of freedom. As long as Jews existed in any society, there was evidence that it in fact wasn’t necessary to believe what everyone else believed, that those who disagreed with their neighbors could survive and even flourish against all odds. The J

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up to that point, no country had welcomed Jews as both strangers and neighbors. Throughout much of the world, Jews were terribly persecuted. Meanwhile, in England, Jews achieved success, but could not participate in society as equals; for that, conversion would be required. And if Jonas Phillips’s letter to Washington expresses the essence of Abrah... See more

Being for or against abortion doesn’t mean you’re for or against American values. Are you ready to defend the values on which America was built? That’s the question.