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	Saved by the City Eat the Rich! Jesus Had Something to Say About That + Malcolm Foley Katelyn Beaty and Roxanne Stone Katelyn and Roxy talk to Malcom Foley about the insidious legacy of greed on countries, systems and individuals.
	Martini Judaism Is it time to retire the term ‘Zionism’? Jeffrey Salkin (RNS) — Zionism is the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. But is that all it means? Two Jewish thought leaders have it out.
	The State of Belief Faith and FIFA: Religion at the World Cup Paul Brandeis Raushenbush Religion News Service journalists Jack Jenkins and Mehditha Anis on the World Cup, Religion, and Politics

	Saved by the City Katelyn and Roxy talk to Malcom Foley about the insidious legacy of greed on countries, systems and individuals.
	Martini Judaism (RNS) — Zionism is the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. But is that all it means? Two Jewish thought leaders have it out.
	The State of Belief Religion News Service journalists Jack Jenkins and Mehditha Anis on the World Cup, Religion, and Politics

Motti Inbari and Kirill Bumin

Beyond the End Times: What evangelical support for Israel really reveals

(RNS) — For many evangelicals, Israel is not just a sign of the End Times. It is also the homeland of a people they believe God has chosen and whom Christians are called to love.

Jeffrey Salkin

How do we respond to Lindsey Graham’s death? It matters.

(RNS) — Sen. Lindsey Graham has died. Why are people responding in such a tasteless way?

Kerri J. Malloy

Why removing a distinct religious code for Native American military service members will make their needs invisible

(The Conversation) — The Pentagon recategorized Native religions as ‘other.’ A scholar of Native American and Indigenous Studies explains the implications of that change.

Israel’s parliament approves laws to enshrine exemption of ultra-Orthodox men from military service

Associated Press

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Lawmakers voted in a marathon session on Monday and Tuesday to both freeze the arrests of ultra-Orthodox draft evaders and to enshrine Jewish religious studies as a “foundational value” of the state.

Kenyan court dismisses Rastafari case seeking to legalize marijuana

Evelyne Musambi

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Justice Bahati Mwamuye said Kenya’s laws prohibiting the cultivation and use of marijuana do not violate Rastafarians’ right to freedom of religion.

Caribbean leaders press for slavery reparations, end of islands’ territorial status

DÁnica Coto

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The group said the commission is creating a framework to launch negotiations because the time for making the case for reparatory justice is overdue.

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