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The Response to Our Message Grows
A Spiritual Caucus in the Democratic Party
BY MICHAEL LERNER
More and more American are coming to recognize the need for a New Bottom Line; As the Iraq quagmire deepens, the neo-conservative movement is splitting; Why the Democratic Party needs a spiritual caucus
The Contrarian BY GEORGE VRADENBURG
The Ethics of Capitalism.
Mash Down Babylon BY JOEL SCHALIT
A Social Revolution?
Voice For Peace BY MITCHELL PLITNICK
Pre-Emptive Punishment
Spirit Matters:
Another World is Possible- BY CINDY SHEEHAN
Homosexuals and the Politics of Death- BY ROBIN MEYERS
Environmentalism as Spirituality- BY ROGER S. GOTTLIEB
POLITICS AND SOCIETY
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 BY 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?
On the third anniversary of the Iraq invasion, Elliot Neaman, Danny Goldberg, and Max Ajl take a fresh look at liveral pundits who pimped Bush's War on Terror.
Spiritual Activism
How to Become Truly Alive? BY FRED BRANFMAN
A personal story about death's lessons for living.
Embodied Spirituality, Now and Then BY JORGE N. FERRER
What do we mean when we say that spirituality is "embodied"?
"Swiftboating" Bush's Bishops BY ANDREW J. WEAVER
The president's own denomination condemns the Iraq war. Karl Rove takes revenge.
Israel/Palestine
From Jabotinsky to Kadima BY ERAN KAPLAN
Israeli conservatism is not dead. Historian Eran Kaplan puts the Kadima party under the right microscope.
Tikkun talks statehood with Ali Abunimah, the publisher of America's most respected Palestinian website.
Judaism
Opening Up the Mikvah BY ARI KRISTAN
How to make ritual baths more inclusive.
Jewish Renewal and American Spirituality BY SHAUL MAGID
Seen in its American context, Renewal is a religion at once particular and universal.
Be the Change BY ARYEH COHEN
Continuity, schmontinuity. American Judaism has a bigger problem.
Culture
Books
Nadine Gordimer at Eighty-Two, by Ben Naparstek
Daniel Matt's Zohar, reviewed by David S. Ariel
Yitzhak Buxbaum's The Light and Fire of the Baal Shem Tov, reviewed by Estelle Frankel
Capsule Reviews: The Accidental Empire, Half/Life, 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military
Television
Shuli Rand's Ushpizin and Amos Gitai's Kadosh, 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, by C.K. Williams
