At Religion in American History, Kevin Schultz reviews Lila Corwin Berman's new book, Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of a Public Identity.

Last week, Britain's National Secular Society publicly criticized a new initiative from Tony Blair's Faith Foundation known as "Face to Faith." Dedicated to using new "technologies in such a way as to encourage students of different faiths to learn directly with, from and about each other to support encounter, exploration and exchange between students from different countries and cultures," the new program is part of the Foundation's wider project of promoting "respect and understanding about the world's major religions" and showing "how faith is a powerful force for good in the modern world." The National Secular Society insists that the program will do "more harm than good."

Ed Stoddard at FaithWorld reports about On Common Ground, a new site launched by RH Reality Check.

The John Templeton Foundation and the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California have put out a request for proposals, to provide grants for centers and individual scholars to conduct social science research on Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Soviet Union.

In the New York Times, Thomas Friedman asks, "Is Facebook to Iran’s Moderate Revolution what the mosque was to Iran’s Islamic Revolution?"

Craig Calhoun, President of the Social Science Research Council, has released a statement of support for Iranian scholars and researchers.

Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford, argues that Ayatollah Khamenei massively miscalculated the extent of his power with regard to the recent presidential election in Iran.

Richard Cohen writes that what is frightening about anti-Semitism is not the beliefs held about Jews, but the willingness of many to accept those views.

In the Forward, Alison Cies writes about a recent program at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America entitled, "Conservative Judaism: The Next Generation."

The Leadership Network and Hartford Seminary's Hartford Institute for Religion Research have just released a report on the findings of the largest ever national representative study of megachurch attendees.