Freedom
Freedom & Community: It Turns Out America’s Birthday is Pretty LGBT Friendly.
The Fourth of July is one of those official summer milestones. No matter what part of the country you’re from, ...
Freedom From Passover Is Freedom, Too
The story of Passover, and the Exodus from Egypt, involves the oppressor (Pharaoh and the Egyptians) and the oppressed and ...
A Whipping Man Seder
The Whipping Man , by playwright Matthew Lopez, depicts an amazing historical convergence: the Civil War’s end, this nation’s long ...
Arizona’s Need for Freedom from Religion
Is religious freedom of greater importance than the constitutional right of equality? Arizona’s state law SB 1062, which has passed ...
From Every Hill and Molehill of Mississippi
The Civil Rights movement is once again front and center here in Mississippi. Last year was the 50th anniversary of ...
Passover in Pakistan
In 1990, I worked with Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan, then the site of the largest refugee population in the ...
This Old Freedom Train
In this country, and perhaps at this season of Hanukkah especially, we celebrate our Freedom of Religion. We also celebrate ...
Privilege & Oppression, Part II
Recently, the Governor of Mississippi, Phil Bryant, signed the Mississippi Student Religious Liberties Act. On Governor Bryant’s website, the student ...
Privilege & Oppression
We recently finished celebrating Passover, a holiday where “oppression” is an ongoing theme (and freedom, of course, is our cause ...
Is Freedom A Jewish Virtue?
Are you on the freedom bandwagon yet? Celebrations of the concept of freedom seem to be permeating the cultural-political zeitgeist ...