Mikey Weinstein We at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) are used to baseless, slanderous attacks. As the sole organization looking out for the constitutionally guaranteed civil rights of armed service members who suffer the horrors of religious oppression and unsolicited, aggressive proselytizing, it comes as no surprise to us that we are daily the [...]

Cross-posted from Tikkun Daily by David Harris-Gershon Southern Tel Aviv is home to a number of blighted and struggling neighborhoods – areas where Israel’s income inequalities and economic disparities are acutely on display in the shadow of the city’s high rises. And it is here – in the neighborhood of Shapira – where large [...]

by Miki Kashtan Cross-posted from Tikkun Daily. For most of my years in school, I was ostracized, teased, and tormented by others. More often than not I wasn’t invited to participate in anything social, be it play or, later, parties. This went on for years, with two periods that stand out in particular. Before I was eleven, [...]

Written by Chloë Cooney for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. The recent arrival of Chinese human rights advocate Chen Guangcheng has focused the world’s attention on the scourge of coercive reproductive policies in some countries. Now more than ever, U.S. [...]

Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. This article was updated at 12:41 pm, Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012. Yesterday I attended a meeting of pro-choice colleagues working to ensure women throughout this country get safe, compassionate [...]

After serving her country as a major in the U.S. Army for 22 years, tending to injured soldiers as a case manager in other parts of the country, registered nurse Marilyn Mullens is now leading a group of her fellow Appalachian women to the West Virginia state capitol on Memorial Day to protest the growing [...]

Alveda KingWhen the NAACP passed a resolution support marriage equality, I knew that THEY were coming. By “THEY,” I am talking about a group of wannabe black leaders who I like to refer to colloquially as “The Vultures.” These folks claim to lead “big time” organizations with important sounding names. Something like “The High Impact Leadership [...]

With Japan now only weeks into its temporary moratorium on nuclear power plants, a chillingly prescient chapter in Cecile Pineda’s new tour de force, Devil’s Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step, foretells the lasting impact of a “planetary catastrophe” in the time of powerful energy lobbies. Only days after his official tour [...]

Nearly six out of ten American voters now believe that the personal use of marijuana should no longer be a criminal offense, and 56 percent of Americans say that the substance ought to be legalized like alcohol, according to a nationwide Rasmussen telephone poll of 1,000 likely voters. According to the poll, 58 percent of respondents [...]

Does no one else find the very fact of John Edwards being on trial curious? Does no one else wonder about the criminal basis for the prosecution? About who in politics does and does not end up being destroyed by matters related to sexual behavior? Let me preface my take on the Edwards trial with one [...]