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Departments

LETTERS

THE CONTRARIAN: A Post-Capitalist World?

Editorials

Support Obama to Be the Obama You Voted For
We have a president who responds to his critics-so here's how to get his attention.

I Have Cancer
You can help me by taking the spiritual progressive movement into your own hands.

Politics and Society

REMAKING THE U.S. ECONOMY

Spiritual Awakening, a New Economy, and the End of Empire by DAVID KORTEN
Abolish Wall Street. Build Real Wealth.

Justice and Injustice: Ancient Wisdom and the Modern Knowledge Economy
by GAR ALPEROVITZ AND LEW DALY
In a knowledge economy, the rich don't deserve their grotesque riches.

Rethinking American Capitalism by THAD WILLIAMSON
Good Samaritan economics are good economics, period.

The Cynical Psychology of Capitalism by ALLEN D. KANNER
If our justice system isn't based on a cynical view of people, why is our economic system?

ISRAEL/PALESTINE

A Perfect Moral Catastrophe: Just War Philosophy and the Israeli Attack on Gaza
by JEROME SLATER
Putting the blame where it is deserved: Israeli policies.

Gaza: A Just War
A Response to Jerome Slater by DOUG LIEB
No. The violence in Gaza is Hamas's fault.

Reply to Doug Lieb by JEROME SLATER (web only)

Seven Principles about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by CHERIE R. BROWN
Beyond the blame game.

An Israeli in Bil'in by JOEL CARILLET
A young Israeli woman experiences life fromthe other side, and protests.Rethinking Religion

Rethinking Religion

Devout Women Say No to Their Second-Class Religious Status
by LEORA TANENBAUM
For Orthodox Judaism, or any traditional approach to religion, to be alive for women, they cannot be sacrificed to it. The author ventures into traditionallymale territory as she deepens her connection to the Torah.

Sarti by ABBY CAPLIN
A family's crab-sized miracle at Purim.

Raising Spiritually Healthy Children by DEBRA W. HAFFNER
Other ways, apart fromworship and education, to nurture children's spirituality.

The Ten Commandments Should Be Interpreted as Deliverance for the Vulnerable
by GLEN STASSEN
Who knew how subversive and radical those traditional words really were?

Strange Affinities: Biblical Scholarship and the Rise of Racism
by SUSANNAH HESCHEL
How theologians helped the Nazis Christianize their anti-Semitism, to kill Jews "for Christ."

Is There a Place for a Secular Person in the Network of Spiritual Progressives?
by MITCHELL SILVER
Spirituality encompasses both secular and religious connections. But does the NSP?

Culture

FILM

Wrestling with Real Life
Waltz With Bashir; The Class; The Wrestler; Synecdoche, New York; and Gran Torino
Review by DAVID STERRITT

BOOKS

Two Beautiful Books
Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction by RowanWilliams and Sacred Attunement by Michael Fishbane
Review by ROGER S. GOTTLIEB

When "Pro-Israel" Isn't
Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Marda Dunsky
Review by MARK LEVINE

POETRY

Grossman's Tooth
by JAMEY HECHT

ceasefire in gaza
by ELLIOT R. WOLFSON

HUMOR

Swami's 2009 State of the Universe Address
by SWAMI BEYONDANANDA

Tikkun Passover Supplement

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