Wednesday's News & Ideas - 11/1/2023
- Document detailing Israel’s war goals
- Day of the Dead celebrations
- Record Christian giving to Israel relief
- Jewish & Muslim women meeting
- Sometimes lies tell part of the truth
- New York’s teacher test
Don’t look away. Israel’s response is textbook ethnic cleansing.
Religion News Service: A newly leaked document shows that Israel sees the war as an opportunity to push Palestinians into Egypt.
+972 Magazine: Expel all Palestinians from Gaza, recommends Israeli gov’t ministry
Día de Muertos reminds Christians to grieve
Sojourners: Western Protestant Christianity mourns fast. It dislikes grief.
The Conversation: Day of the Dead is taking on Halloween traditions, but the sacred holiday is far more than a ‘Mexican Halloween’
Christians give at record levels to fund Israel relief*
Christianity Today: The war has spurred millions in donations to ministries that provide everything from emergency supplies to security gear for future attacks.
Violence rages in Gaza, but a meeting of Jewish and Muslim women has given me hope
The Guardian: We met in a space within Westminster Abbey, and agreed that both religious communities must fight for safety and empathy.
The internet is full of lies about Gaza — and a different kind of truth*
The Washington Post: The war between Hamas and Israel, available for any of us to follow online, has consumed onlookers. Yet for every truthful testimony from those living through it, there is a morass of lies.
The Spark
The $1.8-billion lawsuit over a teacher test
In the nineties, New York began requiring aspiring educators to take an exam.* Thousands of people later claimed that the test was racially biased, The New Yorker says.
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