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		<title>Clerical Sexual Abuse Among Catholics and Jews: Comparisons and Contrasts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 19:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shalom Goldman, Duke University &#160; Many Catholics in the US and overseas are hoping that the new Pope, Francis I, will help heal the wounds inflicted on the Church by the sexual abuse scandals of the past few decades. And many Catholic victims of clerical sexual abuse, while reminding us that their wounds are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attacks on Kathy Boudin Are Attempts at Vigilante Justice &#8211; Op Ed from Julien Hawthorne</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: The following is an opinion piece from Julien Hawthorne, currently a student at Columbia University, regarding controversial Columbia professor Kathy Boudin. Boudin&#8217;s participation in the Weather Underground and especially the 1981 Brinks Robbery has led many to criticize her appointment to a teaching position at an elite university.  * Media Attacks on Kathy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Jews Don&#8217;t Elect a Pope, and What Might Happen if They Did</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shalom Goldman, Duke University While the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics eagerly awaited the decision of the Cardinals who were sequestered in the Sistine Chapel, members of the world’s other religions, among them many of the world’s 14 million Jews, were also closely following developments in Rome. But as is often the case, there was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inhofe, with God on His Side, vs. Hagel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shalom Goldman, Duke University At the confirmation hearings for Chuck Hagel’s nomination to head the Department of Defense, the former senator from Nebraska has been pilloried by some of his former Republican colleagues, most forcefully by current Nebraska Senator Jim Inhofe. At Thursday’s hearings, Inhofe said that on security issues, “Hagel’s record is deeply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Evangelicals Monopolizing, Misleading US Anti-Trafficking Efforts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Since the late 1990s, the US federal government has stepped up its efforts to stop human trafficking – the trade in human beings, usually for forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation. The primary anti-trafficking legislation is the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), passed through Congress in 2000. During his presidency, President George W. Bush [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bagel with Hagel? Not If You Are an American Jewish &#8220;Leader&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shalom Goldman, Duke University Ever since the name of Chuck Hagel was floated by the Obama White House as a possible appointment to the post of Secretary of Defense, conservative Republicans have been telling us that the former Nebraska senator was the worst possible choice for the job. Particularly pointed were the remarks of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women of the Wall in Comparative Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 04:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Laurie L. Patton, Duke University In December, the group of Jewish women activists arguing for women’s rights to pray near Jerusalem’s Western wall in full religious regalia, using tallit (prayer shawl) and tefillin (phylactery), faced yet another setback. It is now against the law for women even to bring tallit and tefillin near the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men of the Clergy, Women of the Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 03:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shalom Goldman, Duke University Within Israeli Jewish society, a frequently-heard witticism is that “the synagogue I don’t go to must be Orthodox.” This is a way of signaling that the speaker does not have much use for clergymen and rituals, but if he or she did need them, they would seek out an Orthodox [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Religion Stories of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalists vote for contraception fight as top 2012 U.S. religion story, pick Cardinal Dolan as top newsmaker  COLUMBIA, MO—As the nation reeled from the Dec. 14 killing of 20 first graders and six adults in Newtown, Conn., religious leaders sought to console a stunned public and to discern religion’s role in future debates about mental health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The NY Synagogue Statement on the Palestinians: Too Little, and 40 Years Too Late</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shalom Goldman, Duke University A few days after the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to raise the status of Palestine to a “nonmember observer state,” the Rabbis and directors of a New York synagogue caught the attention of the national media by issuing a statement praising the UN for the vote. The Israeli government had, [...]]]></description>
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