A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture & Society

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• An Interview with Howard Zinn  By Shelly R. Fredman
  Howard Zinn throws some zingers at the Left (including Tikkun) while urging persistence in the progressive cause.
• The Death of the Republican Ideal  Frank Browning
  French neo-con Alain Finkielkraut epitomizes the political crisis of France’s Jewish community.
• The Agony of Defeat: What's with the Liberal Hawks  Danny Goldberg
  (Companion Editorials) On the third anniversary of the Iraq invasion, Elliot Neaman, Danny Goldberg, and Max Ajl take a fresh look at liberal pundits who pimped Bush’s War on Terror.
• The Agony of Defeat 
  
• Future Imprefect  Elliot Neaman
  
• Divest from Sudan 
  

• How to Become Truly Alive?  Fred Branfman
  A personal story about death’s lessons for living.
• Embodied Spirituality, Now and Then  Jorge N. Ferrer
  What do we mean when we say that spirituality is “embodied”?
• "Swiftboating" Bush's Bishops  Andrew J. Weaver
  The president’s own denomination condemns the Iraq war. Karl Rove takes revenge.

• From Jabotinsky to Kadima  Eran Kaplan
  Israeli conservatism is not dead. Historian Eran Kaplan puts the Kadima party under the right microscope.
• The Electronic Intifada 
  Tikkun talks statehood with Ali Abunimah, the publisher of America’s most respected Palestinian website.

• Opening Up the Mikvah  Ari Kristan
  How to make ritual baths more inclusive.
• Jewish Renewal and American Spirituality  Shaul Magid
  Seen in its American context, Renewal is a religion at once particular and universal.
• Be the Change  Areyh Cohen
  Continuity, shmontinuity. American Judaism has a bigger problem.

• Letters 
  

Current Thinking

• A Social Revolution?  By Joel Schalit
  
• The Youth Are Getting Restless 
  

The Contrarian

• The Ethics of Capitalism  By George Vradenburg
  

Logging In

Voice For Peace

• Pre-Emptive Punishment A Tale of Two Elections  By Mitchell Plitnick
  

Spirit Matters

• Environmentalism as Spirituality  Roger S. Gottlieb
  
• ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE  Cindy Sheehan
  
• Homosexuals and the Politics of Death  Robin Meyers
  

Books

• Nadine Gordimer at Eighty-Two  Ben Naparstek
  
• Zohar, The Literary Masterpiece of the Kabbalah  David S. Ariel
  
• Capsule Reviews 
  The Accidental Empire, Half/Life, 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military
• Stories that Heal the Soul  Estelle Frankel
  

Television/Film

• Love in Search of Belief, Belief in Search of Love  By Shai Ginsburg
  

Music

• Subverting World Music The Sublime Frequencies Label  By Charlie Bertsch
  
• Album Reviews 
  Gutbucket’s Sludge Test, Dub Trio’s New Heavy

Poem

• The Blade  C.K. Williams