Departments

Letters to the Editor

Publisher's Page: Walls--do they make us safer?

Editorials

Lessons for 2004 from the California Recall; A Peace Treaty for Israel; Actualizing the New Bottom Line; Edward Said; plus a guest editorial by Stephen Zunes on the Democrats' Attack on Howard Dean.

Features

Taking Back Democracy

What will it take to recreate a "democratic commons"--that time and place where politics will once again have meaning? TIKKUN editor Jo Ellen Green Kaiser introduces a special section on Toward a Democratic Commons, and looks to Benjamin Franklin for answers in A Politics of Time and Space. Barney Frank, in an interview with TIKKUN, shares his provocative common sense, while Scott Russell Sanders offers a new vision of the good life in Common Wealth. Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux challenge us to renew democracy by Taking Back Higher Education.

The New Anti-Semitism

What's new about it? And is it real, or just another fantasy of the Jewish establishment? Miriam Greenspan maps out the complex and painful terrain of what Phyllis Chesler calls The New Anti-Semitism, on the rise in the Arab and Muslim world and growing in the West as well. David N. Myers investigates its rise in France in Fear and Faith in the French Republic, Aimee Levitt offers the personal perspective of Une juive sur la rue Mouffetard, and Barry Lando counters that it's Israeli policy, not anti-Semitism, fueling anger in France. And Gayle Kirshenbaum, in Zionism and Its Discontents, argues it's the moral viability of the Jewish State that's at stake.

Israel-Palestine: Voices of Hope

David Newman explores the political geography of Israel's separation wall in Barriers or Bridges? Julie Oxenberg and Dan Burnstein interview Eyad El-Sarraj about his work as a psychiatrist in Gaza and his vision for peace. Ziad Asali drafts a possible peace plan in Palestine and Israel: Unkind History, Uncertain Future. And Yossi Beilin, in an interivew with TIKKUN, talks about what went wrong at Camp David and Taba, as well as his new Israeli peace party.

Happy Holidays

Thomas Moore and Matthew Fox ponder the deepest meaning of Christmas, while Matthew Kraus offers a resolution to Christmas-Chanukah tension in A Chanukah Proposal. And Earl Pomerantz explains, in humorous detail, How the Jews Lost the Lead to Christianity.

Articles

Jonathan Granoff on overcoming the nuclear threat.

Estelle Frankel's Sacred Narrative Therapy offers a new approach to spiritual healing rooted in Jewish tradition and useful for therapists and healers of every background.

Arthur Waskow on Veterans Day--and transforming the way we celebrate it.