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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

ISRAEL AT 60: 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.

Hazzan Adalah Caplowe