well judaism, here is an interesting case here with judaism. jews, with the usual anti-semitism have been here since the earliest colonial times. in fact, peter stikensen was he the fellow in new york, those of you who can remember your history. i think he actually put out an edict that expelled the jews from new york at one point. so they endured some-- anti-semitism. but nevertheless, judaism is part of the fabric of this culture and reform and conservative traditions are, unorthodox for the most part, are very conventional. now hasidic judaism, when judaism moves to the more ultra-orthodox stance, can add some tension, but not to an extreme. so here we are nudging with the ultra-orthodox towards a more non-conventional stance. now here is my middle ground and for one or more differences it could be doctrinal differences, it could be ritual activities, they it's not always an easy picture. in other words, you are liable to find people being more prejudicial towards them and if you end up in one of those conversations you might say, "well, wha

the internationally missed an ethical union the american ethical union the society for humanistic judaism these are all organized groups that have come together and are trying to build communities communities of values to help people not only to know that how not only to know the facts and the values of humanism but also to live communities in an atheistic lifestyle even if they don't necessarily label themselves that humanism or agree with every single thing they can come together and say we only under you know we understand the world through the lens of science we care very much about humanity and the advancement of humanity and we are going to build these organizations not in a hierarchical dogmatic way but in a loving caring and compassionate way and those communities are out there so when you go out and look at the look for those communities you will find them if you if you just look around for human it's communities and even atheist communities meetup dot com or google or or any of these modern technology that you look around for road canada the u.s. australia afghanistan if i go to

to be any form of leftism rather than judaism. it is not a condemnation or an insult but a description. jews have been taught by judy isn't to make a better world. that is the message of the process and if they weren't going to do it for monotheism which is how we are supposed to be doing it, teach the world gone is the source of ethics and demands appleby a year, they did it through secular ideologies, rejected traditional religion us eddie and accepted a new religion yasser which is secular. many people describe marxism as secular messianism. here's the second statistic that is in my book and it is not i didn't come up with this, a professor did. the most pro communist press in the 1930s out side of the soviet union or inside the united states was the yiddish press. jews took a new religion as a substitute for judy is demand that was feminism, environmentalism, marxism, socialism, and for some even communism but jews love -- what italians are 2 operas. they create new movements and everyone will make this great world and instead

some form of religious services, rimonim has a housing unit devoted to the study and practice of judaism>> translator: the religious wing is intended to provide an option for religious prisoners who request to, a, live a religious life on a high level, and b, to offer an inmate to sit and study and develop on a spiritual level in order to offer him the tools of rehabilitation, not only during his imprisonment, but also after his imprisonment. >> inmates must apply to live in the wing and go through a probationary period to weed out those whose motivations are not religious. >> translator: the religious wing is a kind of sanctuary for a lot of the prisoners who do not get along with the regular inmates. all of a sudden they want the religious inmates because they are more easy going. there are inmates who only want to come to the wing because it is a good place and it is quiet. we only give tceo those who deserve it. >> one of the inmates who has been accepted into the religious wing. >> translator: once i had no idea about god and wasn't willing to hear such a thing that there was a god.

and then the star of david for judaism and then the yang and yin of daoism and then the wheel with the eight poled path of buddhism. >> and in the center? >> the eternal flame of the search for truth which is the symbol of unitarian universalism. >> now i'm going to get pinned? >> you are going to get pinned. [laughter] >> because you are a professor of religious studies. >> and i can wear this? >> and you can wear this because it's got all of them on it. >> see it's a neutral pin. [laughter] [applause] >> there you are see and that's the end of the lecture. >> thank you. [laughter] >> roll in quickly. just couple of more things. but, thank you helen, there is a couple of reasons we wanted to do that; first off, we needed to hear some thing about the unitarian universalists, but also how interesting helen's reaction i think that, when we're looking at these categories, believers are going to have their own say and where they belong and we have to understand that also, but thank you, this is really nice. the rest of the presents, i hope you'll be forth coming. [laughter] let me move on

i looked at judaism that way, sort of this revolution and user but his pitch a sort of open source religion rather than belief systems we will sort of come up with a behavioral thing and i was arguing like how judaism had gotten locked down in the 20 century and we lost that open source quality. i don't see present shock as more negative in that sense. i see present shock as an invitation to look at an even deeper program. and even deeper one which a biological program or our social program. and not the program as if it's been great by someone else but the one that actually comes from us. we are actually creatures, no, we are creatures and how to make ourselves more available so that when we do all this programming we can do programming that's consonant with who we are. how do we great situations, how can we be with other people which is such a challenge these days. we all have this kind of asperger's because we spend so much time on computers looking at words for cues 94% of human communicate and is nonverbal. it's whether you're breathing, in rhythm with the other person, whether your pup

especially through the lenses of judaism. we'll be exhibiting major work by mark, photographs by major figures like alfred. the interesting thing for us is when you go to the museum. here we're mixing up the pot and looking at them in a different way that i think will be provocative and see how artist look towards spiritualty all the way from 1911 to contemporary artist to 2011. >> looking like a jewish -- there is a bit of a story to it where they painted this image of the award to himself and making a funny jab at him at being a priest for the high arts. i think it really questions what the identities are. >> fascinating. believe it or not, let's talk a little bit about this photograph. believe it or not we only have a couple of minutes left. we need to start to say good- bye to our audience. >> this is a lovely delicate work by paul clay who is a well known artist. it's titled little angel. he's international known for images that touch on the intimate side of people and how we saw angels as being an interface between the

which includes a fair sampling of judaism. i studied with a rabbi and wrote my first book is a moderately religious jew. in the years before 9/11, i had taken a required course on islam, but was preoccupied with most of the term, writing a novel and never published. it includes the rantings of a lunatic than ever before, osama bin laden. it begins with a story that is essentially about what happens to muslims and other college classrooms. i set out to write something i didn't know. it sounds absurd, but i was attempting to teach students how to think deeply and write well about contemporary american religion without really being knowledgeable enough to do it myself. at the very least, over the week that followed, i could agree in my gut with every criticism leveled against him. to do my job as a professor of religion, i could do a little than stare blankly back. including handing the cross over to him. singh, explain yourself. finding ways to explain himself had to do with a third founder and what he had in mind. as much as an

the case of all religious traditions and what i look at in my book is examples from christianity, judaismislam it's important to remember that the overwhelming majority of muslims all over the world are doing the very same thing that everybody else is doing. they're getting their kids ready for school and trying to put food on the table and fixing a flat tire and getting ready for grandma's birthday party tonight. they're not plotting or planning anything but there are small numbers of people who take particular absolutist claims and get inspired sometimes by particularly charismatic leaders that may be the case here. there's some indication certainly that some of the sermons and messages from the american muslim leader who was killed in a drone attack last year that some of his sermons may have been very inspirational in this case as well and we've seen that in several other cases as well. there are muslims all over the world who are of course horrified and offended and here in the u.s. the overwhelming majority of muslims are deeply distressed and offended and many groups like the insti

of get into the closet of your classic liberal and find out that they're moved by their belief in judaism or christianity or buddhism. >> just the belief in the basic dignity of each individual human being on this earth and their right to an equal future, which is a faith in and of itself. >> that's right. but also in this country the two most powerful vocabularies we have are the vocabulary of faith and of patriotism and we need to own both of those. >> i want to talk about how the coalition got put together to win in virginia and in north carolina and how it's working to keep those victories in north carolina under assault right after this break. >>> looking at the progress for >>> looking at the progress for voting rights in virginia compared with the continued trampling of civil rights in north carolina. back with dr. william barber of north carolina. reverend, we were talking about this moral framework and we talk about the moral framework the coalition built in virginia through a lot of hard work and organizing of different constituencies to get this policy changed. are you having s

of get into the closet, if you will, of your classic liberal and they're move by their belief in judaism my own belief in the basic dignity and the basic dignity of each individual human being on this earth and their right to an equal future, which is a faith in and of itself. >> faith and prom. we need to own both. >> i want to talk about how the coalition got put together to win north carolina and how it's working to keep those victories. both tylenol and bayer back & body are proven to be effective pain relievers tylenol works by blocking pain signals to your brain bayer back & body's dual action formula includes aspirin, which blocks pain at the site. try the power of bayer back & body. [ whirring ] [ dog barks ] i want to treat more dogs. ♪ our business needs more cases. [ male announcer ] where do you want to take your business? i need help selling art. [ male announcer ] from broadband to web hosting to mobile apps, small business solutions from at&t have the security you need to get you there. call us. we can show you how at&t solutions can help you do what you do... even better.

of get into the closet of your classic liberal and find out that they're moved by their belief in judaismt the belief in the basic dignity of each individual human being on this earth and their right to an equal future, which is a faith in and of itself. >> that's right. but also in this country the two most powerful vocabularies we have are the vocabulary of faith and of patriotism and we need to own both of those. >> i want to talk about how the coalition got put together to win in virginia and in north carolina and how it's working to keep those victories in north carolina under assault right after this break. uld totally do that. (girl ) yeah, right. (guy) i wannna catch a falcon! (girl) we should do that. (guy) i caught a falcon. (guy) you could eat a bug. let's do that. (guy) you know you're eating a bug. (girl) because of the legs. (guy vo) we got a subaru to take us new places. (girl) yeah, it's a hot spring. (guy) we should do that. (guy vo) it did. (man) how's that feel? (guy) fine. (girl) we shouldn't have done that. (guy) no. (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subar

yeah, i have a couple of friends that have dealt with cancer -- and i'm mispronouncing the strain of judaism: right. debbie wasserman schultz. >> yeah. >> caller: i find of wish my doctors would have given me a heads-up back in '96 and told me i could get -- >> that would be a scary decision to do that. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: but i have four kids so -- and i -- i had them before i found out. my youngest was 18 months old when i found out. >> stephanie: death i'm reading angelina's article she said she had an 80% chance of breast cancer and 50% chance of ovarian cancer. >> caller: right. that's what i had. >> stephanie: all right. i'm glad you are doing okay. >> caller: yeah, i am. i'm seven years now. >> stephanie: right. forty-five minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> oh, i like her. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. the chill of peppermint. the rich dark chocolate. york peppermint pattie get the sensation. >> "viewpoint" digs deep

secular leadership of the city toward public manifestation of religion in general, but worth orthodox judaism is perhaps that's targeted most. it goes on to say that orthodox juice are blood-sucking leeches who create communities like jonestown and then when atlantic magazine asked the mayor about why did you go ahead and insist on this regulation, i think it's fair -- he says, i think it's fair to say that nobody else would take that on. i mean, come on. who wants to have 10,000 guys in black hats outside your office screaming? ell, the hostility that is neither these remarks cause bad regulation, unfair regulation, but in turn that regulation will cause even greater hostility toward orthodox juice. and we see -- jews. we see this in other areas as well. for example, in regard to zoning, there are many communities that don't want blood-sucking leaches to move into their communities so they use ordinances to keep synagogues out. orthodox jews don't drive on saturday so they have to live close to their synagogue. they use zoning as a way to keep them out. we start with the hostility, the blood