"We sentence innocent people to their deaths."
It is Death Penalty Awareness Week, and supporters of human rights across the country have turned their attention to a uniquely complicated injustice - the implementation of capital punishment in
Galilee Diary: Shabbat shalom
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
You shall destroy all the peoples that the Lord your God delivers to you, showing them no pity. And you shall not worship their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
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Earthquake in Chile
Talking 'Bout a Revolution
I just read a thoughtful piece about religious pluralism and civic equality in the Huffington Post by Joshua Stanton, a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College and co-Editor of the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue.
Update on Kiyemba
In October, the RACblog's "Focus on the Court" series highlighted the Supreme Court's grant of the cert petition in Kiyemba v. Obama. As you will remember, this case involved 13 men from the Muslim-Chinese Uighur community being held at Guantanamo Bay.
Food News Roundup
March is Census Awareness Month!
For the next few days, I will still write February when I date anything. I'm always a few days behind when it comes to writing the date.
Putting Out Fires
On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Lewis v. Chicago, a case considering the statute of limitations to sue an employer for using a hiring test with a disparate impact. This case began in Chicago, where 26,000 individuals interested in