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• Why the AFL-CIO Split Is Not Labor’s Biggest Problem  Paul Buhle
  

• Christmas As Archetype  Matthew Fox
  
• SPECIAL SECTION Conference on Spiritual Actıvism I 
  Faced with unjust war and unsolved poverty, the United States needs a new way of thinking that marries the intellectual analysis of the Left with the spiritual commitment of the Right. In July of 2005, the Tikkun Community hosted the founding conference of the Network of Spiritual Progressives to meet this need. We offer here a sample of the ideas emerging in this exciting movement. Michael Nagler, Peter Gabel, George Lakoff, and Jim Wallis provide an overview, while Michael Lerner and Jim Wallis discuss what it means to engage in spiritual action. Debra W. Haffner, Ama Zenya, Debora Kohn, and Susan Linn, discuss gender, kids, and politics, while Mary Elizabeth Moore, Richard Ufford-Chase, and Jim Winkler take spirituality into the public sphere. Carol Lee Flinders and Carl Pope conclude by tying spiritual activism to political and ecological resistance.
• Michael Lerner and Jim Wallis in Discussion 
  

• It Takes Two to Tango: From Unilateral to Bilateral Plans  Shamai K. Leibowitz
  The late philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz continues to cast an immense shadow over Israeli politics. Micha Odenheimer explores his legacy. Returning to the Occupied Territories, Leibowitz’s grandson, attorney Shamai K. Leibowitz, makes an impassioned plea for placing international peacekeeping forces on the ground in It Takes Two to Tango (59).
• Leibowitz’s Tragedy  Micha Odenheimer
  The late philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz continues to cast an immense shadow over Israeli politics. Micha Odenheimer explores his legacy. Returning to the Occupied Territories, Leibowitz’s grandson, attorney Shamai K. Leibowitz, makes an impassioned plea for placing international peacekeeping forces on the ground in It Takes Two to Tango (59).

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• The Bell Jar Shatters: The Political Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch  Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld
  
• Interview with Richard Zimler   Ben Naparstek
  
• Radical Nostalgia: Some Thoughts on a Jewish Literary Sensibility  Steve Stern
  
• The End of Judaism?  Jo Ellen Green Kaiser
  
• The Value(s) of Identity  Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
  

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• In the Name of the Father  Shai Ginsburg
  

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