Departments

Letters

Free Associations

Publisher's Page: What is the Vision for New Orleans? By George Vradenburg

Editorials

By Michael Lerner

After the Flood

Christmas and Chanukah

Features

Interfaith Spirituality

Christmas as Archetype by Matthew Fox

Conference on Spiritual Activism

Faced with unjust war and unsolved poverty, the United States needs a new way of thinking that marries the intellectual analysis of the Left with the spiritual commitment of the Right. In July of 2005, the Tikkun Community hosted the founding conference of the Network of Spiritual Progressives to meet this need. We offer here a sample of the ideas emerging in this exciting movement. Michael Nagler, Peter Gabel, George Lakoff, and Jim Wallis provide an overview, while Michael Lerner and Jim Wallis discuss what it means to engage in spiritual action. Devra W. Haffner, Ama Zenya, Debora Kohn, and Susan Linn discuss gender, kids, and politics, while Mary Elizabeth Moore, Richard Ufford-Chase, and Jim Winkler take spirituality into the public shere. Carol Lee Flinders and Carl Pope conclude by tying spiritual activism to political and ecological resistance.

American Politics

The AFL-CIO Split: Not Labor's Biggest Problem by Paul Buhle

Israel/Palestine

The Late philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz continyes to cast an immense shadow over Israeli politics. Micha Odenheimer explores his legacy. Returning to the Occupied Territories, Leibowitz's grandson, attorney Shamai K. Leibowitz makes an impassioned plea for placing international peacekeeping forces on the ground in It Takes Two to Tango

Culture

Books

The Political Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch, by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld

Interview with Richard Zimler, by Ben Naparstek

Radical Nostalgia, by Steve Stern

Caryn Aviv and David Shneer's New Jews, reviewed by Lo Ellen Green Kaiser

Kwame Anthony Appiah's The Ethics of Identity, reviewed by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Television/Film

Tawfik Abu Wael's Thirst, reviewed by Shai Ginsburg

Music

Between Hipsters and God, There's Sufian Stevens, by Charlie Bertsch

Album Reviews: Barbez and The Silver Jews