A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture & Society

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• The Missing Katrina Story  Peter Dreier and John Atlas
  Grassroots activists are reviving large parts of New Orleans that America had left for dead. Dreier and Atlas tell us of a city slowly being resurrected.
• The Iranian Nuclear Threat  Stephen Zunes
  What might happen if Washington goes to war with Tehran? One of the world's premier Mideast analysts presents the possibilities.
• Privilege  Madeline Levine
  The best-selling author and psychologist takes a devastating look at how a culture of selfishness is destroying the lives of privileged teens.

• Monogamy, Polyamory, and Beyond  Jorge N. Ferer
  Every world tradition teaches the importance of embracing joy. How intimate relationships allow us the opportunity to truly experience it.
• Dear Swami  Swami Beyondananda, AKA Steve Bhaerman
  America's favorite interfaith wisecrack provides counseling to the politically distressed.

• Covering Israel: A Conversation with Arthur Neslen 
  Is the press doing its job? Joel Schalit talks to the veteran correspondent about the politics of contemporary Israel reportage.
• Remembering Najib Mahfouz  Ben Lynfield
  Egypt's Nobel Prize-winning novelist died in August 2006. An Israeli journalist recounts his conversations with the increasingly embittered peace activist.

• Heschel for a New Generation  Or N. Rose (editor)
  This holiday season, one Jewish mother finds a path to God through her son.
• Congregation-Based Organizing  Benjamin Ross
  The organizing director of Jewish Funds for Justice gives us a look at a new community-based form of activism.
• Our Stories, Ourselves  Rami Shapiro
  What could be more revolutionary than Judaism without rabbis or synagogues?

• Letters 
  

Editorials

• Hope Is Back!  Michael Lerner
  
• Editorial Reflections  Michael Lerner
  

Current Thinking

• A Conversation with Jimmy Carter 
  

The Contrarian

• The Road to 2008  George Vradenburg
  

Mash Down Babylon

• Word to the Mothership  Joel Schalit
  

Voice For Peace

• Time to Harness the Jewish Peace Vote  Mitchell Plitnick
  

Spirit Matters

• Fire in the Bones  Alastair McIntosh
  
• Working for Tikkun  Marisa Handler
  

Books

• Tanya Reinhart's The Road Map to Nowhere reviewed by Jerome Slater  
  
• Michael Bérubé's What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts, reviewed by Daniel Morris  Daniel Morris
  
• Yehouda Shenhav's The Arab Jews, reviewed by David Shasha 
  
• Annalee Newitz's Pretend We're Dead, reviewed by Charlie Bertsch  Charlie Bertsch
  
• Capsule Reviews: Irwin Kula's Yearnings, Elizabeth Arnold's Civilization and Brian Whitaker's Unspeakable Love 
  

Television/Film

• Between Documentary and Agit-Prop: Jean-Luc Godard's Ici et Ailleurs, by Shai Ginsburg  Shai Ginsburg
  

Music

• Minding the Store  Charlie Bertsch
  
• Capsule Reviews: Kode9 + the Spaceape's Memories of the Future, Dead Moon's Echoes of the Past 
  

Poem

• Children  Eytan Eytan