Monday's News & Ideas - 10/7/2024
- One year since Oct. 7
- Nationalists recruit poll workers
- Jerry Falwell Jr. is back
- Faith on edge of vanishing
- Pope names new cardinals
- Middle East on the brink
‘People hold me accountable for a fanatical rightwing government’: Jewish Americans on how their lives have changed since October 7
The Guardian: A sense of growing antisemitism has created an atmosphere of isolation and unease in personal and professional circles.
The Guardian: As a Palestinian living in the US, I have lost friends, job opportunities – and my faith in humanity
Pro-Trump Christian nationalists are on tour to recruit election workers
NPR: The tour’s goal is to bolster the courage of attendees’ to speak their minds politically and recruit them to serve as local election workers and poll watchers.
Jerry Falwell Jr. is back and it’s bad for everyone
Religion News Service: Falwell and Liberty University officials have kissed and made up.
A faith is on the edge of vanishing in Georgia after being exiled from Russia centuries ago
The Associated Press: Today, only about 100 Doukhobors remain in the tight-knit Russian-speaking farming community in two remote mountainous villages.
Pope names 21 new cardinals, significantly increasing the pool who will one day elect his successor
The Associated Press: Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals Sunday, significantly increasing the size of the College of Cardinals and further cementing his mark on the group of prelates who will one day elect his successor.
The Spark
One year after Oct. 7, the Middle East is on the brink of exploding
Israel is now fighting its first three-front war* in half a century, which could escalate into a wider war still, drawing in the United States, among others, Slate says.
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