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LETTERS THE CONTRARIAN: A Post-Capitalist World? EditorialsSupport 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 FILMWrestling with Real Life Waltz With Bashir; The Class; The Wrestler; Synecdoche, New York; and Gran Torino Review by DAVID STERRITT BOOKSTwo 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 POETRYGrossman's Tooth by JAMEY HECHT ceasefire in gaza by ELLIOT R. WOLFSON HUMORSwami's 2009 State of the Universe Address by SWAMI BEYONDANANDA Tikkun Passover Supplement
Tikkun's 2009 Passover Haggadah For your Seder, here is a Haggadah supplement-not a replacement. If you don't normally do a Seder, you can use this supplement as the basis for an interfaith gathering in your home on April 8, the first night of Passover, or on any of the other nights of Passover until it ends on April 16. |