Rational Voting 1: is barack obama a muslim?

National politics can be stunning.  What stuns me?  Hearing that mature, well-educated, successful, American Jews are still discussing Obama’s Islamic affiliation over the bridge table.
Now that we are in the thick of convention season, on the verge of the general election, it’s more important than ever to get things straight.
Is Barack Obama a Muslim?
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TikkunThinking: the magnes zionist thinking outside the 1948 political Zionist box

When I think politically these days, its usually informed by something The Magnes Zionist has had to say. His latest needs to be shared verbatim.

Meron Benveniste’s Doom and Gloom
Posted: 21 Aug 2008 09:41 AM CDT
My favorite Israeli Cassandra, Meron Benveniste, wrote a sobering op-ed in Haaretz today that sums up, more or less, how [...]

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Tehillim: walking with the psalms

The internet never ceases to amaze me. In spite of “middle age”. Actually, in spite of middle age, I’m reasonably competent at the business of the internet (only just so, according to my 21-year-old son). For some time now I’ve been a member of Ravelry, an online network of people interested in [...]

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