November 2014
- Queen Esther would want Jews to save humanity at their own expense, said Michigan’s attorney general. Would she?Queen Esther has been name-checked not once, but twice in the last week by sitting politicians in New York and Michigan in addresses to Jewish constituents. The first reference passed largely without notice. The second caused a national Jewish uproar. Promising better protections for the Jews of New York, Governor Kathy Hochul said Friday night... […]
- She was elected the first Jewish president of the Catholic Biblical Association. Then came the hate.When Amy-Jill Levine was elected president of the Catholic Biblical Association earlier this month, she faced vicious backlash. Those who opposed her election couldn’t exactly point to a lack of qualifications. Levine has written dozens of books on the New Testament, taught a New Testament course at the prestigious Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, served... […]