Take Action Now. Chuck Collins from the Institute for Policy Studies, Inequality team, calls us to support legislation to raise the federal minimum wage.
Politics & Society
Honoring Activists’ Experience
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Bayo Akomolafe reflects on ageism in the Democratic party and argues that we should not dismiss “the ‘old’ to the reliquary of irrelevance.”
Jewish Wisdom
Seeking the Feminine Divine
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Shelly Fredman imagines the feminine face of God in order to challenge “the decidedly male bent of our tradition.”
Justice for All
Act Today to Stop another Trump assault on children
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Please submit a comment to the HUD, telling them NOT to change the eligibility rules of who can live in federally funded housing.
Tikkun Daily
How dare modern psychologists challenge traditional views of masculinity!
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Ron Seigel argues that we need to reimagine masculinity so that we no longer celebrate “the the masculinity of meanness [but rather] the masculinity of meaning.”
Justice for All
Ending Private Prisons and Exploitation for Profit
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Senator Elizabeth Warren has “[a] plan to root out once and for all the profit incentives perverting our criminal and immigration systems.”
Ecological Transformation
Matthew Fox on Developing Environmental Consciousness
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Matthew Fox urges to the graduating class of Oberlin College to “stand together in the choice […] to see our species thrive and all these other species with it.”
Justice for All
Election-Meddling Follies, 1945-2019
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Tom Engelhardt shines a light on American exceptionalism: “this country just joined a moiling crowd of the interfered with — and largely by us.”
Justice for All
From a Constituent of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Anti-Semitism
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August Nimtz warns of the dangers—for Jewish people and progressives alike—of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitic dual loyalty trope.
Jewish Wisdom
The Holocaust, the slaying of Jews in the U.S. and the Rise of White Nationalist Extremists
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Rabbi Michael Lerner presents a strategy for preventing future instances of hatred, violence, and anti-Semitism.
Arts & Cultural Critique
The Accidental Activist
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Phillip Barcio details how the media falsely labeled Michael Rakowitz as the 2019 Whitney Biennial protester, then created the conditions they described.
Justice for All
Declaring My Gender Liberation
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Warren J. Blumenfeld travels a journey out of yet another closet: “My pronouns are Warren, Warren, and Warren in the first, second, and third person.”
Emancipatory Spirituality
The roots of Christian Privilege and Anti-Jewish Sentiments in Christian Theology
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In this first installment, Hannah Mecaskey Conley argues that faith must adapt in response to history and encourages us to recognize the beauty and pain of the Other.
Justice for All
At the Southern Border – “A Laboratory of Injustice, A Landscape of Hope”
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Rabbi Victor Reinstein reports on a recent trip to El Paso and urges us to “see ourselves in every refugee at the southern border,” affirming their humanity.
Mourning the Murder of Muslims in New Zealand
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Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis respond to the recent shooting at two mosques in New Zealand by calling not only for messages of solidarity but also for prevalent campaigns against all forms of hatred.