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Departments

LETTERS

THE CONTRARIAN: The Politics of Holding on to Health Care Reform

Editorials

Liberals and Progressives Need a New Strategy in the Obama Years

Immigration: Don’t Let “Reform” Be an Excuse for Increased Repression

Politics and Society

SPECIAL SECTION: ENVIRONMENTALISM WITHOUT SPIRITUALITY

Introduction to Special Section by DAVE BELDEN
Humility in a Climate Age by PAUL WAPNER
Can the ambitious new environmental geo-engineering be suffused with a humble awareness of our place within nature’s complexity?
Naturalism as Mastery? by KEN CONCA
Traditional environmentalists’ “humility” is overrated: we have all too often made the world’s poor and powerless pay for our environmental progress.
How Much Change Will the Earth Require of Us? by ALLEN D. KANNER
We will be so much better off psychologically when we give up our dreams of mastery and come back to living within nature.
Spirituality in a Time of Crisis by MARK HATHAWAY
It’s not self-sacrifice but liberation that the Tao and all deep spiritual wisdom offer us. Facing climate change, we must free ourselves or collapse.

After the Reform: Aiming High for Health Justice by MARGARET FLOWERS
Did we fail on health care? The debate is vigorous. Richard Kirsch and Lauren Reichelt respond.

The Machiavellian Dilemma:
Paradoxes and Perils of Democratic Governance by SHARON D. WELCH
Has theObama presidency failed? No, resistance to social and political change is not a sign of failure—it’s inevitable, and can be overcome.

Are Israeli Policies Entrenching Anti-Semitism Worldwide? by TONY KLUG
Critical discussions of Israeli policy are too often tarred as “anti-Semitism” and shut down. In reality, holding Israel to an ethical standard is necessary to stema rising tide of real anti-Semitism.

Philosophers of Catastrophe and the Last Kantian in Nazi Germany:
How Judaism Redeems Western Philosophy by STEPHEN J. STERN
A death-camp dog knew better thanmany philosophers. It took Jews like Rosenzweig and Levinas to point out the flaw and the remedy.

Does it Really Work?A Critique of Fear-Based Crime Prevention by JIM S. VRETTOS
Can we scare criminals into being good? A look into a new attempt at crime prevention.

Graveyard Detroit by ZAID SHAKIR
False dreams and false fears are all being buried in the same city.

Invincible Hip-Hop: Slipping the Medicine In by JOSH HEALEY
Listen up! After her Jewish childhood in the West Bank, Invincible became a rapper in Detroit. Now she’s fighting for social justice in unexpected ways.

Mindful Motherhood by CASSANDRA VIETEN
The practice of mindfulness is quite different when your life is not under normal control—as in new motherhood—but it can be vital to your well-being.

Rethinking Religion

Self Transformation, Social Transformation by DAVID R. LOY
You can’t change yourself without changing society. And vice versa. You didn’t know that was Buddhist wisdom?

And I, Where Do I Come?
Experiences in Jewish-Muslim Dialogue by ZALMAN KASTEL
A Hasidic rabbi from Crown Heights, New York, builds understanding with Muslims in Australia, with the help of Christians and indigenous people. Yes, it’s Tikkun!

Culture

Film

Suspense, Malaise, and the Movies

The Ghost Writer, The White Ribbon, Shutter Island
Review by DAVID STERRITT

Israeli Cinema Continues to Shine

Ajami, For My Father
Review by RALPH SELIGER

BOOKS

Can Borders Bring Peace?

Politics and Violence in Israel/Palestine: Democracy versus Military Rule by Lev Luis Grinberg
Review by OREN YIFTACHEL

Zionism’s Boundaries

Impossible Peace: Israel/Palestine since 1989 byMark LeVine
The Making of Modern Israel, 1948-1967 by Leslie Stein
Politics and Violence in Israel/Palestine: Democracy versus Military Rule by Lev Luis Grinberg
Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations by Avi Shlaim
Reviews by ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN

Hebrew Tones in the Blues