{"id":12652,"date":"2011-12-27T12:04:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/?p=12652"},"modified":"2011-12-27T12:04:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:04:48","slug":"marc-ellis-fights-back-against-efforts-to-remove-him-as-professor-of-jewish-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/2011\/12\/27\/marc-ellis-fights-back-against-efforts-to-remove-him-as-professor-of-jewish-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Ellis fights back against efforts to remove him as Professor of Jewish Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Starr, the same lawyer associated with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ken_Starr\">Clinton-Lewinsky Affair<\/a>, leads efforts to remove Marc Ellis from Baylor&#8217;s faculty to prevent him from expressing his views about the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Professor Marc Ellis is the Founding Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University. The Center offers a unique academic program of conferences, lectures, and classes and maintains its own library collection. Professor Ellis discusses his work and the political powers which have taken aim at him as a voice for Jewish Liberation Theology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/jewish_studies\/\">Baylor Center for Jewish Studies<\/a><br \/>\nMarc Ellis, Founding Director<br \/>\nRochelle Peters, the Center&#8217;s Conference Coordinator and Director of Operations<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theshalomcenter.org\/node\/892\">Jewish Liberation Theology<\/a><br \/>\nThe Shalom Center<br \/>\nEd Asner<br \/>\nJune 17, 2005<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.frontpagemag.com\/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8889\">Baylor University&#8217;s Anti-Jewish Theologian<\/a><br \/>\nBy Steven Plaut<br \/>\nFrontPage Magazine<br \/>\nMay 5, 2005<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/ken-starr-president-of-baylor-university-stop-persecution-against-prof-marc-ellis\">Click here<\/a> to sign the petition in support of Professor Marc Ellis.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Starr, the same lawyer associated with the Clinton-Lewinsky Affair, leads efforts to remove Marc Ellis from Baylor&#8217;s faculty to prevent him from expressing his views about the Middle East.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,39,46,19,21],"tags":[5156,5154,123,5159,1934,5160,5157,987,5155,5153,1419,2350,4443,490,7176,5158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}