Entries from December 2009

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Documentary spans the globe asking, ‘What is God?’

Filmmaker Peter Rodger shleps his camera to exotic locales — from the American Southwest to the Himalayas — and asks folks, “What is God?”
Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and tribal people confront the question in Rodger’s 98-minute documentary, Oh My God, which is showing now at the Lagoon Cinema in Uptown.
Rodger talks to clergy and rank-and-file believers, [...]

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Editorial: Incitement vs. civil dialogue

Discourse about Israel occasionally elicits heated responses from some American Jews. Although we are thousands of miles from the conflict zone, a number of self-appointed guardians of Israel in the U.S. are quick to heap invective on their coreligionists who stray from what they see as the party line, so to speak, on Israel.
With the [...]

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