Pricey Revealer readers,
Just lately, a good friend posted an image to Instagram from a Zoom assembly she attended with Barbra Streisand. My good friend and the mega-celebrity have been collaborating in a “Jewish People for Kamala Harris” digital occasion, certainly one of a number of related internet conferences since Harris introduced her intention to run for president in July. The primary such gathering was “Black Girls for Harris,” and it was wildly profitable. Inside every week, a number of different teams hosted related Zoom calls with astounding attendance numbers, together with “Black Males for Harris,” “White Girls for Harris” and “Latinas for Harris.” As these conferences multiplied, a couple of individuals who I comply with on social media reported that the “Evangelicals for Harris” name featured loads of individuals who need to guarantee Harris’s victory, however that the group couldn’t be counted on to affirm queer evangelicals. And so, the variety of Zoom teams elevated much more, together with a “Progressives for Harris” gathering, a “Latter-Day Saints for Harris” assembly, and a “Christians for Harris” name.
The momentum to elect Harris feels exceptionally electrical. Individuals who had been tremendous sufficient with Biden appear noticeably captivated with Harris, like a bolt of recent power surges by way of them. And they’re taking over the reason for electing the primary feminine president at a time when the nation faces challenges each huge and mundane. Certainly, we’re embarking on a fall that could possibly be profoundly chaotic. Between protests in opposition to the warfare in Gaza to considerations over sustaining an uncompromised electoral system, People are dealing with a fall full of serious points and selections. And we shall be confronting these points as we additionally cope with the nation’s on a regular basis challenges.
The Revealer’s September subject is in regards to the fall, a season of recent faculty years, new election outcomes, new traits, and, for some, new hope. The difficulty explores considerations on the nationwide political stage in addition to these at extra native, on a regular basis ranges. Our September subject opens by looking on the new faculty yr with “Hasidic Yeshivas and Kids’s Rights,” the place Dena Davis explores Hasidic faculties in New York that fail to teach boys in English and secular topics, thereby making it troublesome for them to get jobs and go away their communities as adults. From there we flip to a brand new development amongst Gen Z and younger Millennials in “The Coquette Catholic Development,” the place Lauren Griffin considers how social media is reworking faith and displays on younger girls who’ve embraced “conventional” Catholic aesthetics and have fashioned sizable social media communities. After that, in “Profitable the Spiritual Market,” Miguel Petrosky opinions the ebook The Divine Financial system: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Energy, and Folks and considers how right this moment’s rightwing conspiracy theories fill a necessity for many individuals that was previously attributable to faith. Then, whereas fascinated about the comingling of faith and politics, in “Mainline Protestants and Christian Nationalism,” an excerpt from Baptizing America, Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood contend that evangelicals alone are to not be blamed for the rise in Christian nationalism and recommend that mainline Protestants additionally bear duty. Subsequent, with the Jewish Excessive Holy Days on the horizon this fall, in “A Cantor and an Grownup Bat Mitzvah Scholar Meet in a Bar,” Helene Meyers opinions the brand new movie Between the Temples and displays on the movie’s distinctive contributions to motion pictures about American Jews. And, in “Public Faculties, Faith, and Race,” Leslie Ribovich returns our focus to varsities with an excerpt from her ebook With no Prayer: Faith and Race in New York Metropolis Public Faculties, and displays on state-enforced racial integration and the prohibition in opposition to faculty prayer as two intermingled phenomena with long-lasting penalties.
The September subject additionally consists of the fiftieth episode of the Revealer podcast! We’re thrilled to succeed in this milestone and to know our podcast is reaching so many listeners. For our 50th episode, “Jewish Solidarity with the Professional-Palestine Protests,” Oren Kroll-Zeldin joins us to debate American Jews who take part in activism to help justice for Palestinians. We discover how activists infuse Jewish teachings and customs into their pro-Palestinian protests, why the seen presence of Jews on the faculty encampments this spring was essential, and what to anticipate this fall as college students return to campus and because the state of affairs in Israel, Gaza, and the West Financial institution is way from resolved. You’ll be able to take heed to this episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
This fall is a momentous one. In November, we could elect the primary feminine president of the USA. We would additionally face election chaos if individuals loyal to Donald Trump refuse to certify the outcomes. The specter of extra political violence like January 6 looms over us. For now, we should educate ourselves, our buddies, our households, and our neighbors. And every of us should discover a half to play to make sure the USA has a wholesome, functioning democracy.
Yours,
Brett Krutzsch, Ph.D.
P.S. We’re publishing The Revealer’s 2024 particular subject, “The Risk of Christian Nationalism” the primary week of October and also you received’t need to miss it!
Pricey Revealer readers,
Just lately, a good friend posted an image to Instagram from a Zoom assembly she attended with Barbra Streisand. My good friend and the mega-celebrity have been collaborating in a “Jewish People for Kamala Harris” digital occasion, certainly one of a number of related internet conferences since Harris introduced her intention to run for president in July. The primary such gathering was “Black Girls for Harris,” and it was wildly profitable. Inside every week, a number of different teams hosted related Zoom calls with astounding attendance numbers, together with “Black Males for Harris,” “White Girls for Harris” and “Latinas for Harris.” As these conferences multiplied, a couple of individuals who I comply with on social media reported that the “Evangelicals for Harris” name featured loads of individuals who need to guarantee Harris’s victory, however that the group couldn’t be counted on to affirm queer evangelicals. And so, the variety of Zoom teams elevated much more, together with a “Progressives for Harris” gathering, a “Latter-Day Saints for Harris” assembly, and a “Christians for Harris” name.
The momentum to elect Harris feels exceptionally electrical. Individuals who had been tremendous sufficient with Biden appear noticeably captivated with Harris, like a bolt of recent power surges by way of them. And they’re taking over the reason for electing the primary feminine president at a time when the nation faces challenges each huge and mundane. Certainly, we’re embarking on a fall that could possibly be profoundly chaotic. Between protests in opposition to the warfare in Gaza to considerations over sustaining an uncompromised electoral system, People are dealing with a fall full of serious points and selections. And we shall be confronting these points as we additionally cope with the nation’s on a regular basis challenges.
The Revealer’s September subject is in regards to the fall, a season of recent faculty years, new election outcomes, new traits, and, for some, new hope. The difficulty explores considerations on the nationwide political stage in addition to these at extra native, on a regular basis ranges. Our September subject opens by looking on the new faculty yr with “Hasidic Yeshivas and Kids’s Rights,” the place Dena Davis explores Hasidic faculties in New York that fail to teach boys in English and secular topics, thereby making it troublesome for them to get jobs and go away their communities as adults. From there we flip to a brand new development amongst Gen Z and younger Millennials in “The Coquette Catholic Development,” the place Lauren Griffin considers how social media is reworking faith and displays on younger girls who’ve embraced “conventional” Catholic aesthetics and have fashioned sizable social media communities. After that, in “Profitable the Spiritual Market,” Miguel Petrosky opinions the ebook The Divine Financial system: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Energy, and Folks and considers how right this moment’s rightwing conspiracy theories fill a necessity for many individuals that was previously attributable to faith. Then, whereas fascinated about the comingling of faith and politics, in “Mainline Protestants and Christian Nationalism,” an excerpt from Baptizing America, Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood contend that evangelicals alone are to not be blamed for the rise in Christian nationalism and recommend that mainline Protestants additionally bear duty. Subsequent, with the Jewish Excessive Holy Days on the horizon this fall, in “A Cantor and an Grownup Bat Mitzvah Scholar Meet in a Bar,” Helene Meyers opinions the brand new movie Between the Temples and displays on the movie’s distinctive contributions to motion pictures about American Jews. And, in “Public Faculties, Faith, and Race,” Leslie Ribovich returns our focus to varsities with an excerpt from her ebook With no Prayer: Faith and Race in New York Metropolis Public Faculties, and displays on state-enforced racial integration and the prohibition in opposition to faculty prayer as two intermingled phenomena with long-lasting penalties.
The September subject additionally consists of the fiftieth episode of the Revealer podcast! We’re thrilled to succeed in this milestone and to know our podcast is reaching so many listeners. For our 50th episode, “Jewish Solidarity with the Professional-Palestine Protests,” Oren Kroll-Zeldin joins us to debate American Jews who take part in activism to help justice for Palestinians. We discover how activists infuse Jewish teachings and customs into their pro-Palestinian protests, why the seen presence of Jews on the faculty encampments this spring was essential, and what to anticipate this fall as college students return to campus and because the state of affairs in Israel, Gaza, and the West Financial institution is way from resolved. You’ll be able to take heed to this episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
This fall is a momentous one. In November, we could elect the primary feminine president of the USA. We would additionally face election chaos if individuals loyal to Donald Trump refuse to certify the outcomes. The specter of extra political violence like January 6 looms over us. For now, we should educate ourselves, our buddies, our households, and our neighbors. And every of us should discover a half to play to make sure the USA has a wholesome, functioning democracy.
Yours,
Brett Krutzsch, Ph.D.
P.S. We’re publishing The Revealer’s 2024 particular subject, “The Risk of Christian Nationalism” the primary week of October and also you received’t need to miss it!