Jonathan Tilove
Jonathan Tilove is an author at Religion News Service.
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Renewal of Wright imbroglio exposes fissures among black voters
By Jonathan Tilove — May 3, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, until now, has benefited from a strong undercurrent of black nationalism among African-American voters, a racial pride and solidarity that have swelled support and muffled criticism. But his repudiation this week of his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., may unleash a more […]
White Lawmaker, With God on His Side, Seeks Apology for Slavery
By Jonathan Tilove — March 28, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ In his first months in office, freshman U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, a Democrat from Memphis, has introduced resolutions paying homage to Stax Records and Negro League Baseball, and apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans. Cohen says a formal apology by the U.S. government would be […]
White Lawmaker, With God on His Side, Seeks Apology for Slavery
By Jonathan Tilove — March 27, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ In his first months in office, freshman U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, a Democrat from Memphis, has introduced resolutions paying homage to Stax Records and Negro League Baseball, and apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans. Cohen says a formal apology by the U.S. government would be […]
Beating Stereotypes, MLK Streets Are Economically Viable
By Jonathan Tilove — January 11, 2007
c. 2007 Religion News Service NEW BERN, N.C. _ There’s a Wal-Mart on Dr. M.L. King Jr. Boulevard here. And a Target, IHOP, Holiday Inn Express, Books-A-Million, Piggly Wiggly, Pepsi-Cola bottler (in this, the soft drink’s birthplace), Applebee’s, two Eckerds, three car dealerships and some 200 other businesses, large and small. In other words, this […]
Charting the Religions of Members of Congress
By Jonathan Tilove — December 12, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Religion ………… House . Senate . Total . Percent of . Percent of ………………………………………. Congress … Population AME (v) …………… 2 …… 0 ….. 2 ….. 0.4 ……… (u) Anglican ………….. 1 …… 0âÂ?¦… 1 ….. 0.2 ……… (w) Assembly of God ……. 4 …… 0âÂ?¦… 4 ….. 0.7 ……… […]
New Congress Brings With It Religious Firsts
By Jonathan Tilove — December 12, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The new Congress will, for the first time, include a Muslim, two Buddhists, more Jews than Episcopalians, and the highest-ranking Mormon in congressional history. Roman Catholics remain the largest single faith group in Congress, accounting for 29 percent of all members of the House and Senate, followed by […]
Sen. Allen Joins Jon Stewart, `Borat’ on Annual List of Top Jews
By Jonathan Tilove — November 14, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) OK, so George Allen won’t be returning to the U.S. Senate in January, and chances are he’ll never occupy the White House. But, at the end of what had to be one of the worst weeks of his life, the Jewish newspaper the Forward named Allen the 51st member […]
Black Churches Slow to Warm to Faith-Based Initiative, Survey Finds
By Jonathan Tilove — September 20, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Only a tiny fraction of black churches have received money to help the poor as a result of the Bush administration’s federal Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, and most of those tend to be liberal in their theology and located in the Northeast. These are among the findings of […]
NEWS STORY: Bridge Generation of Jews Has Its Sunset in Florida
By Jonathan Tilove — February 5, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service TAMARAC, Fla. _ It’s after the Yiddish Circle meeting, the cantor has sung “New York, New York,” and Jacob Goldstein is quietly recalling his years in a Soviet labor camp during the Second World War. “We had to work until it was 50 degrees below zero,” he says. Abe Zalcberg […]
NEWS FEATURE: Is Condoleezza Rice the Person Judged by Character That MLK Dreamed Of?
By Jonathan Tilove — January 15, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In September 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the eulogy for three of the four girls killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. What King could not know was that, within earshot of the blast, just blocks away at her father’s church,was another […]
Analysis: Gains Among Black Christians Crucial Factor in Bush Victory
By Jonathan Tilove — November 9, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ In winning a second term, President Bush made great progress with Hispanic voters nationally, and very little with blacks. But beneath that story lies an intriguing and surprising development: Bush’s new success with Hispanics was concentrated in the overwhelmingly Republican South _ especially in Texas _ where it […]
NEWS STORY: Bush Makes Inroads With Help of Black Christian Conservatives
By Jonathan Tilove — October 21, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Amid mounting hostility in the black community, President Bush stands to markedly increase _ even double _ his share of the black vote Nov. 2, a new poll suggests. The Bush years, a sour economy and the war in Iraq appear to have driven younger blacks into a […]
NEWS STORY: Veep Choice May Test Black Voters’ Loyalty to Democrats
By Jonathan Tilove — August 18, 2000
c. 2000 Newhouse News Service LOS ANGELES _ Democrats are dealing with an undercurrent of concern that vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman might cool African-American enthusiasm for the Democratic ticket, for which overwhelming support from black voters is a prerequisite of victory. Lieberman got a warm reception from the Democratic National Committee Black Caucus on […]
NEWS FEATURE: Author Wants to Rescue `America’s Most Dangerous Negro’
By Jonathan Tilove — January 15, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Michael Eric Dyson is on a rescue mission, a mission to deliver Martin Luther King Jr. from his holiday, his halo and the hollow hero worship of a nation that has forgotten how much better it likes him dead than alive. King, Dyson argues in his new book, […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Christian at Harvard says paper nailed him to cross
By Jonathan Tilove — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service CAMBRIDGE, Mass. _ If Jewish students are overrepresented at Harvard University, they are way overrepresented at the Harvard Crimson. “It’s been a very Jewish newspaper, disproportionately, since the 1970s,” says Noah Oppenheim, a junior from Tucson, Ariz., who is now one of the paper’s two editorial chairs. Two incidents in […]
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