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DEPARTMENTS

Letters

Editorial:

Iraq and the 2008 Election

The Contrarian: Israel and Me

Rethinking Religion


CHRISTIANITY

The Emergent Church: Christianity in America is Changing

by TONY JONES
Cultural creatives rethink church.

Complaining to God
by RICHARD ROHR
When we are silenced by the tragedy and absurdity of human events.

HINDUISM

Karma and Dharma: New Links in an Old Chain
by ARVIND SHARMA
How Hinduism is adapting to cultural change.

SPIRITUALITY

God Without God
by MICHAEL HAMPSON
The atheist case is sound, but is not the last word.

Culture


BOOKS

Parentheses of History
Old War by Alan Shapiro
Review by ELIZABETH ARNOLD

FILM

Choose Life
A Sacred Duty
Review by ADINA ALLEN

The Banality of Evil

Standard Operating Procedure
Review by KARIN LUISA BADT

POETRY
Demolition
by TONY HOAGLAND

HUMOR
Dear Swami
Where the Swami answers your questions,
and you will question his answers.

by SWAMI BEYONDANANDA

 

Special Section: Israel at 60


Michael Lerner
Steve Masters
Rebecca Alpert

Brian D. McLaren
Uri Avnery

Jessica Montell
Aaron Back
Vanessa Ochs
Theodore Bikel
Alicia Ostriker
Leon Botstein
Mazin Qumsiyeh
Daniel M. Boyarin
Omid Safi
Cherie R. Brown
Andrew Samuels

Bradley Burston
Zalman Schachter Shalomi
Hillel Cohen
Rami Shapiro
Harvey Cox
Svi Shapiro
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
David Shasha
Riane Eisler
Alon Tal
Sander Gilman
Daniel Sperber
Lynn Gottlieb
Robert Thurman
Joshua Levine Grater

Antonio Villaraigosa
Art Green
Brian Walt
Bonna Devora Haberman
Arthur Waskow
Irwin Kula
Steven Weinberg
Laura Levitt
C.K. Williams
Shaul Magid
Jim Winkler
Tzvi Marx
Howard Zinn


ISRAEL AT 60: POETRY
I, May I Rest in Peace by Yehuda Amichai
Around Jerusalem by Dahlia Ravikovitch
Wildpeace by Yehuda Amichai
The Spoils by Chana Bloch
Jewish Portrait by Dahlia Ravikovitch
Power by Chana Bloch
The Two Cities by Marge Piercy
Jerusalem Bus by Rodger Kamenetz
Fata Morgana by Jacqueline Osherow
 

ON THE WEB

We received over 80 contributions that we wanted to print but could only fit those above into the print edition. The rest were published on our website, but the decision of which to put where was not related to quality of writing, as you will discover when you read the ones below. 

Oz Almog

Neil Arya

Daniel Bar-Tal

Shiri Barr

Eliezer Ben-Rafael

Herbert Bronstein

Hazzan Adalah Caplowe

Harvey Chisick

Dan Cohn-Sherbok

Alan Confino

Lois Fine

Benjamin Friedman

Erik Gleibermann

Deborah Greniman

Mary Grey

Hasan A Hammami

Kyva Holman

Margaret Holub

Michael Kagan

Rachel Kamel

Peretz Kidron

Rabbi Lori Klein

Anita Lerek

John M. Letiche

Atallah Mansour

Peter Marmorek

Martin Beck Matustik

Jennifer Anne Moses

Jeremy Rosen

Avinoam Rosenak

Mordecai Schreiber

Mimi Schwartz

Terry Walker

Avi Zer-Aviv

Rabbi Michael M. Cohen

David Lempert

Peter C. Gibbs


 



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