Abortion & the Public Square: An Examination of How American Secular Society Treats Religious Questions

According to Carter, we fear “religious domination in politics” and grow wary of those who take religion too seriously. Because of this fear, the public square treats questions of religion differently than it treats questions of secular subjects. In the following pages I will to defend Carter’s argument and use abortion, a hot-button issue in the contentious debate that surrounds religion and politics as a lens through which to examine it. In order to focus my discussion I will analyze two landmark cases, Roe vs. Wade and Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, and explain how they support Carter’s argument that the American public square treats religious arguments differently that it treats secular arguments. In doing so, I will explain why both cases caused outrage among certain religious groups of people and offer my opinion in terms of how to address the controversial topic

The Goonies in Oz

This is an entry for the 2007 Mashup Contest, in which students created trailers parodying well-known films.https://repository.upenn.edu/showcase_videos/1015/thumbnail.jp

American Jewish Year Book 2012

The 2012 American Jewish Year Book, “The Annual Record of American Jewish Civilization,” contains major chapters on Jewish secularism (Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar), Canadian Jewry (Morton Weinfeld, Randal F. Schnoor, and David S. Koffman), national affairs (Ethan Felson), Jewish communal affairs (Lawrence Grossman), Jewish population in the United States (Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky), and World Jewish population (Sergio DellaPergola). These chapters provide insight into major trends in the North American and world Jewish community. The volume also acts as a resource for the American Jewish community and for academics studying that community by supplying obituaries and lists of Jewish Federations, Jewish Community Centers, national Jewish organizations, Jewish overnight camps, Jewish museums, Holocaust museums, local and national Jewish periodicals, Jewish honorees, major recent events in the American Jewish community, and academic journals, articles, websites, and books. The volume should prove useful to social scientists and historians of the American Jewish community, Jewish communal workers, the press, and others interested in American and Canadian Jews