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• When the Right Breaks the Barrier, How Should a Spiritual Left Respond?  Michael Lerner
  What is the Spiritual Left to do when the Religious Right breaks down the barrier between church and state? Bring spirit in to keep religion out, says Michael Lerner. Then we interview two of America’s leading scholars of religion, historian Martin Marty and sociologist Robert Bellah on the explosive growth of theocratic politics and what a spiritually savvy Left can still do about it.
• Interview with Martin Marty 
  
• Interview with Robert Bellah 
  

• Sages for Sale  Susan Linn
  

• An Interview with the Orthodox Anarchist  Daniel Siwek
  Daniel Siwek profiles a prominent online critic of the Occupation.
• Bringing It All Back Home  Joel Schalit
  Looking ahead to August’s Gaza withdrawal, Joel Schalit dissects settler threats of civil war.
• The Greening of the Jewish National Fund  Alon Tal
  
• The Ethics of Anti-Anti-Semitism  Alan Sussman
  Alan Sussman calls Jewish philanthropists to task for promoting fears of renewed anti-Semitism.
• University for Sale: Campus Watch, Israel Studies, and the Demise of Dissent at Columbia  Gil Anidjar
  Gil Anidjar looks at the silencing of Israel criticism at Columbia.
• Hamas Pacifists and Settler Islamophiles: Defining Nonviolence in the Holy Land   Aaron J. Tapper
  

• My Idol, My Dell  Eileen Pollack
  

• Letters to the Editor 
  

Current Thinking

• Remembering Kosovo  Joel Schalit
  
• FREE ASSOCIATIONS  
  

The Contrarian

• Why Are We Here?  George Vradenburg
  

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Spirit Matters

• Remembering Romero: Lessons in Spiritual Activism  Or N. Rose
  The appointment of Pope Benedict has ignited ferocious controversy over the future political direction of the Catholic Church. Or N. Rose reflects on the liberationist legacy of the late Archbishop Romero.
• Pope Benedict XVI, aka Cardinal Ratzinger: Can This Leopard Change his Spots?  Matthew Fox
  The appointment of Pope Benedict has ignited ferocious controversy over the future political direction of the Catholic Church. Theologian Matthew Fox and Anthony Mansueto deconstruct Benedict’s politics and theology.
• Why the New Pope Isn’t Catholic—and Why I Still Am  Anthony Mansueto
  The appointment of Pope Benedict has ignited ferocious controversy over the future political direction of the Catholic Church. Theologian Matthew Fox and Anthony Mansueto deconstruct Benedict’s politics and theology.
• Fundamentalism—Its Appeal to “Them” and Its Fascination for “Us”  Andrew Samuels
  
• Shattering the Idol of Spiritual Patriarchy: Towards a Gender-Fair Notion of Prayer in Islam  Omid Safi
  

Books

• On the Couch with Israel/Palestine  Cynthia Hoffman
  
• The Changing Ecology of Jewish Religious Life  Jo Ellen Green Kaiser
  
• Burning the Self in the Community Bonfire: Joseph Cedar’s Campfire  Shai Ginsburg
  
• An Interview with Joseph Cedar  Shai Ginsburg
  

Television/Film

Music

• Islamophilia: The Mid-East Musical Politics of Muslimgauze  Ron Nachmann
  
• Album Reviews 
  

Poem

• The Story Line:  Jon Swan