A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture & Society

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• A Meaningful Democratic Platform on Climate Change  Benjamin Goldstein and Paul Wapner
  Democrats must reclaim the moral high ground on the environment.
• The WTO's Unholy Scam  Phil Bereano
  Rich countries talk development while cutting the poor out of their own markets
• Cheerleading for Anticapitalism  Marisa Handler
  Grassroots social justice activism can have a global effect.

• Spirituality And Culture  Joan Chittister, OSB
  The essential connection between culture and spirit.
• A Public Policy of Meaning  Peter Gabel
  How to envision a spiritually progressive approach to public policy.
• The New Evangelicals  Glen Stassen
  A spectre is haunting the Religious Right. It’s the new Evangelicals.
• True Spirituality  Mary Darling
  How religion can help promote a generous and loving society.
• God Demands Justice  Rabbi Brian Walt
  The American head of Rabbis for Human Rights tells it like is.
• Cynicism  Michael Bader
  There is more to life than just the reality principle. A noted psychoanalyst explains why.
• Don't Give Up  Rev. John Dear
  Why nonviolence still matters—and will win the day.

• A Desperate Embrace  Joel Schalit
  Israel’s second Lebanon war is not just about self-defense. It’s about Israel’s relationship with the United States.
• Israel's Nonstrategy of Peace  Zeev Maoz
  A leading Israeli military analyst argues that Israeli policymakers have never been serious about peace.

• Shatnez and Civilization  Jay Michaelson
  Why do queer Jews see themselves as rule-breakers?
• The De-Centering of American Judaism  Shaul Magid
  American Judaism, in ceasing to be a rabbi-based religion, is becoming more American.
• Finding an Inner Beshert  Erik Gliebermann
  At this time of year when Jews look inward, Erik Gleibermann suggests we begin by seeking beshert as an internal state of mind.

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Current Thinking

• Lost in the Supermarket 
  
• But I Never Said I Would 
  

The Contrarian

• Israel's Gamble in Lebanon  George Vradenburg
  

Logging In

• What is an Act of Terror?  Jo Ellen Green Kaiser
  

Voice For Peace

• Two Very Different Wars  Mitchell Plitnick
  

Spirit Matters

• Transforming Our Attachments To Outcomes  Donald Rothberg
  

Books

• Silence is the Highest Language  Ben Naparstek
  
• Bill Griffith's Type Z Personality  Paul Buhle
  
• Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s Jewish With Feeling  reviewed by Rami Shapiro
  
• Daniel Guerin’s No Gods No Masters   reviewed by Dan Sieradski
  
• Rebecca Goldstein’s Betraying Spinoza, reviewed by Eric Elshtain  Eric Elshtain
  
• Capsule Reviews: Etgar Keret’s The Nimrod Flipout, Victor S. Navasky’s A Matter of Opinion, Barbara Mann's A Place In History 
  

Television/Film

• A Feminist Perspective of the Ultraorthodox World  Shai Ginsburg
  

Music

• Muffling the Sirens' Call  Charlie Bertsch
  
• Capsule Reviews: Slappers - Dani Siciliano  Charlie Bertsch
  

Poem

• With Sadie in Umbria  Philip Levine