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29.1 Winter
Secular Buddhism and the Quest for a Lived Ethics
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Secular Buddhism offers a path that is encompassing, humanistic, and pragmatic, without being sectarian.
Articles
To Know Us, Study Our Arguments
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Edmond H. Weiss reviews Judaism’s Great Debates: Timeless Controversies from Abraham to Herzl by Barry L. Schwartz.
Articles
What Terms for Middle East Peace Would Actually Work?
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By championing this detailed peace plan, the United States could change the psychodynamics of the struggle between Israel and Palestine and make negotiations fruitful.
Articles
Winter Commute
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Dear friend, asleep / upright in a seat / when I boarded the train / goat-stepping over / your legs outstretched / why didn’t I wake you / but instead watched / you sleep. A poem by Joshua Weiner.
2014
Three Books Responding to the Repercussions of Slavery
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by Frederick Douglas, Byron Williams, and Jeannine Bell
Tikkun Recommends
Two Books about Grassroots Alternatives for Building a New World
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by Antonio González and George S. Johnson
29.1 Winter
Earth-Honoring Faith
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As we enter an age of ecological catastrophe, we need new theologies. Political campaigns are not enough—we need to rethink our place in the world.
Articles
Beyond Allyship: Multiracial Work to End Racism
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How can we create powerful, cross-race movements for change? A child of the Civil Rights Movement wrestles with the idea of allyship.
2014
Trayvon Martin: Reflections on the Black and Jewish Struggle for Justice
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Since the 1960s, efforts at coalition building and solidarity work between Jewish and Black communities have suffered and never reached the pinnacle that was reached during the early days of the Civil Rights Movement. In 2013, the lack of deep and abiding connections between Black and Jewish activists became apparent in the disparate responses from Jewish communities to the events surrounding the killing of Trayvon Martin and the subsequent acquittal of George Zimmerman. To reinvigorate a coalition among blacks and Jews we need to forge deeper ties across racial lines.
Politics & Society
Transformative Reconciliation: Meeting the Family of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill My Wife
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Meeting the family of the man who bombed the Hebrew University cafeteria in Jerusalem was the first step toward healing from the traumatic attack.
Jewish Wisdom
Devil’s Advocate: Building the Religious Counterculture
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I have to admit: I enjoyed {title}Atlas Shrugged{/title}. Something about it resonated, even for me, on the far opposite end of the political and religious spectrum.
2014
Sifting Through Assimilation’s Wreckage to Offer Jews Redirection
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Raphael Cohen reviews Schtick by Kevin Coval.
2014
Doing Justice in an Unjust World
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Thad Williamson reviews Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation by Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda.
Politics & Society
Three Books on Facing Climate Change
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by Joel Magnuson, Lester R. Brown, and James Gustave Speth