Leaving Gaza (September/October 2005)
Politics & Society
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Out of the Past: What Anti-Poverty Groups Can Learn from the American Legion
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Lost in Translation
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Justice and American Particularism
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Globalization and the Commercialization of Childhood
Spiritual Activism
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Faith-Based Psychotherapy
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Paying Attention to Food
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One God, Many Images
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Changing Our Economic Vision of the Bible
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Transformed Before God
Israel/Palestine
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The Dark Refuge
Matt Rees reveals the hidden history of abuse surrounding Israel’s mentally ill Holocaust survivors. -
A Jewish History of Trafficking
Nomi Levenkron puts a new twist on what it means to make aliyah: importing foreign women for sex slavery. -
Memories of a Forgotten People
Misha Shulman recalls coming of age on an IDF base in southern Lebanon. -
The National Religious Settlers and Zionist Revisionist Ideology
Returning home, Eran Kaplan analyzes the political and religious beliefs that shaped Israel’s settler movement. -
Interview with Uri Avnery
Uri Avnery, the most outspoken leader of Israel’s peace movement, talks candidly with us about the explosive ramifications of the disengagement. Detailing both its potential to unravel Israeli civil society and the precedent it creates for a full end to the Occupation, Avnery’s words are both sobering and hopeful. -
Afterword
Michael Lerner unpacks what’s wrong with the unilateral withdrawal, and what it portends for the future of Israel/Palestine.
Judaism
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Fashioning Sacred Words
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The Perils and Possibilities of Teshuvah
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Kabbalah, Academia, and Authenticity
Departments
Current Thinking
The Contrarian
Logging In
Voice For Peace
Spirit Matters
Culture
Books
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Interview with Etgar Keret
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Infinite Commitment
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The New Jewish Canon
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Acts of Watching
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Capsule Reviews
Television/Film
Music
Poem
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