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Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question - NYTimes.com
Fascinating article -- a UK court has declared that any definition of Judaism based on descent -- i.e., on whether an individual's mother is Jewish -- is ipso facto discriminatory and thus illegal. The context was an admissions policy for a publicly-funded Jewish school, which had excluded a student applicant because the school's Orthodox policy did not recognize the mother's conversion, conducted in a liberal setting, as valid and thus did not accept the applicant's claim to be Jewish. Archived: http://sqrl.it/?l3q8t and http://www.webcitation.org/5lBnaZcq8
William Langeswiesche, "The Lessons of ValuJet 592," The Atlantic Online (March 1998)
Archived: http://sqrl.it/?8v8ss and http://www.webcitation.org/5kHrqjV7p
Ron Suskind, "Why Are These Men Laughing? (on Karl Rove)," Esquire (August 13, 2007, orig. pub. Jan. 2003)
Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5kHnEQxTQ
Ron Suskind, "Without a Doubt," The New York Times (Oct. 17, 2004)
Webcite: http://www.webcitation.org/5kFWxrqmd
Iterasi: http://sqrl.it/?46up7
Confessions of a home-schooler | Salon Life
A really great article on homeschooling. Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5k8m2jn2E
Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan on Faith, Religion, Tolerance, Moderates, Bible, God, Islam, Atheism, Jesus, Christian Nation - Beliefnet.com
Archived: http://sqrl.it/?lb015 and http://www.webcitation.org/5jiUdtg5S
Peter Finn, Joby Warrick and Julie Tate, "How a Detainee Became An Asset: Sept. 11 Plotter Cooperated After Waterboarding," The Washington Post (August 29, 2009)
The argument comes up here that torture provides a religiously legitimate "excuse" for detainees to cooperate with interrogators. In other words, Islamic law permits a person to violate certain other legal obligations while under threat of harm. (This is debatable, though. I discovered this article via Daily Kos, http://j.mp/2pNBNe, where there's a contradictory Islamic legal opinion.) Archived: http://sqrl.it/?840yg and http://www.webcitation.org/5jXqQh8wS
Professor X, "In the Basement of the Ivory Tower," The Atlantic Online (June 2009)
Iterasi: sqrl.it/?v6ahs
Webcite: webcitation.org/5j8QjFyCZ
Richard Feynman, "The Relation of Sciecne and Religion," talk given at the Caltech YMCA Lunch Forum (May 2, 1956)
Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5il1lY7dH -- http://sqrl.it/?w48ub
Paul Carter, "The Enormous Absurdity of Nature," unpublished lecture, delivered July 12, 2009, Campbell Conference, Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
Webcite: http://www.webcitation.org/5ihpNO7cC -- Iterasi: http://sqrl.it/?7metl
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Dorset | Light sensors cause religious row
See also http://bit.ly/DGflz at the Daily Mail. Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5iOjI4yyU
Jewish couple sue neighbours for 'imprisoning' them with automatic hallway light | Mail Online
The story here is that two Orthodox Jewish apartment dwellers (this is in London) are suing their management company because the company installed a motion-sensing light switch in their hallway. They say they cannot trigger the light on the Sabbath without violating the tenets of their religion, that they were assured on leasing the apartment that no motion-sensing devices would be installed, and that they have offered to pay for the installation of an "override switch," whatever that is. Discovered via a very scornful post at Gizmodo, http://bit.ly/6dXIe . Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5iOiUAc3K
Religion as Therapy - Finding Christianity Again - Marie Claire
Five "career gals" give short, breezy first-person accounts of how they discovered that religion really isn't so bad. And it's "cheaper than therapy." Archived: http://sqrl.it/?ly2qe and http://www.webcitation.org/5hgfpDFM4
Richard J. Norton, "Feral cities: the new strategic environment," Naval War College Review (Autumn 2003)
The US military must equip and train for operations in urban environments where centralized law enforcement, basic service delivery, and legitimate economic activity has collapsed (e.g. Johannesburg).
Rare ceremony consecrating new Hindu temple in Bucks | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/24/2009
Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5h96G77MB
Joshua Wolf Shenk, "What Makes Us Happy? (on the Harvard longitudinal study and George Vaillant)" The Atlantic Monthly (June, 2009)
Archived: http://www.webcitation.org/5gmKB7Wll and http://sqrl.it/?jkg83
David Kamp, "Rethinking the American Dream," Vanity Fair (April 2009)
http://www.webcitation.org/5gVUwZkBr
Michael Brooks, " Born believers: How your brain creates God," New Scientist (Feb. 4, 2009)
Webcite: webcitation.org/5gG8xKWyu
Jon Meacham, "The End of Christian America," Newsweek (April 13, 2009)
Webcite: http://www.webcitation.org/5gBpjnyJl
Lawrence LeShan, "Why We Love War: And what we can do to prevent it anyway," as published in the Utne Reader (Jan./Feb., 2003)
Editor's introduction: "Portraying humans as basically hating war might actually hinder the important work of deterring it, suggests research psychologist Lawrence LeShan. New psychological studies explain what history has long shown to be true—that war holds a deep attraction for large numbers of people in most cultures around the world. In accepting and understanding this hard truth, we may be better equipped to bring peace on earth. A timely new edition of his book The Psychology of War arrived last fall, just as the White House began beating the drums—and much of the American public eagerly fell in line—for a new war." Adapted from LeShan's The Psychology of War: Comprehending its Mystique and Madness, published in spring 2003. Webcite: http://www.webcitation.org/5cARUYfIL
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