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• Choosing Health Reform  Sheila James Kuehl
  We can have universal health care now—if the Republican leadership will pass it.
• The Art of the Possible  Michael Miller
  Learn about the Massachusetts health-care reform plan.
• National Health Insurance Begins at Home  Paul Glover
  Ithaca’s health-care co-ops demonstrate that health-care reform is already succeeding.
• It's Not Just the Economy, Stupid  Daniel P. Sulmasy
  We won’t fix health care until we treat the sick as whole people, body and soul.

• Daniel Dennett's Theory of Religion  Dan Levine
  A spiritual progressive takes to task the work of the leading secular analyst of religion.
• Response to Daniel Levine  Daniel Dennett
  In the spirit of true dialogue, the MIT philosopher issues a highly considered response.
• The Passion Test  Swami Beyondananda, AKA Steve Bhaerman
  How humor fuels the new economy.

• When a Country Doesn't Take Responsibility  Jeff Halper
  On the disconnect between Israeli public opinion and government policy.
• America's Military Proxy  Stephen Zunes
  Israelis are growing critical of their country’s strategic alliance with the U.S.

• My Child's God — And Mine  Anne Trubek
  This holiday season, one Jewish mother finds a path to God through her son.
• One Day’s Oil for Eight Days’ Needs  Arthur Wasgow and Russ Agdern
  How to make our own eco-miracle by conserving oil during Chanukah.
• A Season for Inclusion  Neal Rose, Carnie Rose, Kliel Rose, and Or N. Rose
  A family of rabbis gains strength from their son’s/brother’s gay marriage.
• Small Steps to LGBT Inclusion  Gregg Drinkwater
  How can religious institutions walk the walk and truly welcome LGBT persons?

Editorials

• Tikkun's Twentieth Anniversary  Michael Lerner
  

• Letters 
  

Current Thinking

• The Bush Hangover 
  
• The Kids Are Alright 
  

The Contrarian

• The Persistent Progressive  George Vradenburg
  

Voice For Peace

• An Arab Plan That Jews Must Pursue  Mitchell Plitnick
  

Books

• A Tribute to Hannah Arendt  Edited by Ben Naparstek
  
• Texas Jews, Blue-Eyed Gods, and Multiple Personas   Mattilda, A.K.A.Matt Bernstein Sycamore
  
• Breaching the Iron Wall  Raymond G. Helmick, S.J.
  
• A Primal Cry  Dan Chiasson
  
• The People's Historian  Cynthia Hoffman
  
• Capsule Reviews: Daphne Gottlieb & Diana DiMassa's Jokes and the Unconscious, Erik Davis' The Visionary State, Michelle Goldberg's Kingdom Rusing 
  

Television/Film

• The Land of the Settlers  Shai Ginsburg
  

Music

• Redistributing the Sonic Universe  Charlie Bertsch
  
• Capsule Reviews: Varcharz  Charlie Bertsch
  

Poem

• Untitled  Taras Shevchenko
  

• Founding Editorial Statement  Michael Lerner
  
• What's Wrong with the Right?  Christopher Lasch
  
• On Sanctifying the Holocaust  Adi Ophir
  
• The Uses of Laughter  Enid Dame
  
• The Writing Life  Annie Dillard
  
• Victimology  Jessica Benjamin
  
• Hostage Philosophy: Levinas' Ethical Thought  Martin Jay
  
• Race Against Integration  Michael Eric Dyson
  
• University Truths  Arnold Eisen
  
• Platform for the Politics of Meaning: Senior Citizens 
  
• Curing Homophobia and Other Conservative Pathologies  Michael Lerner
  
• After the Rabin Assassination  Daniel Boyarkin
  
• Pentecostalism and theFuture of Christianity   Harvey Cox
  
• “In a Beginning...” Quantum Cosmology and Kabbalah   by Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams
  
• Elegy  Carolyn Forché
  
• Sharing Jerusalem  by Tsvi Blanchard
  
• On Globalization  U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone
  
• Mediation and Social Change  Sharon Salzberg
  
• The Partnership School of the Future   by Riane Eisler
  
• The Political Meaning of Bush v. Gore   Peter Gabel
  
• Post Traumatic Love Syndrome  Michael Bader
  
• The U.S. War Against Iraq  Michael Lerner
  
• We the Peacemakers  Mohammed Abu Nimer
  
• A New Bottom Line in Education  Svi Shapiro
  
• Ama Zenya Speaking about Abortion 
  
• Jewish Renewal and American Spirituality  Shaul Magid
  
• Interview with Peter Gabel  Jo Ellen Green Kaiser
  
• Interview with Nan Fink Gefen