Finding wide inner spaces during times of quarantine and confinement.
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The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History
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Jeffrey Kahrs reviews Dina Danon’s The Jews of Ottoman Izmir
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A Meaningful Holiday Gift
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Give a meaningful holiday gift offering a profound way of thinking for the New Year. Get Editor-at-Large Peter Gabel's The Desire for Mutual Recognition: Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self, available at Routledge Press, Amazon, and other outlets including your independent bookseller.
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From Exchange to Gifting Part Three: Reintegrating into Flow One Experiment at a Time
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In this third part, I want to look more clearly and fully at what we can do, both individually and as groups, communities, and organizations.
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From Exchange to GiftingPart Two: Beyond the Exchange/Gift Binary
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Many people, even those who live fully within the exchange paradigm and don’t ever think about maternal gifting, prefer going to a farmers’ market, if one exists where they live, or to a local store, rather than to a supermarket. Sometimes they prefer it enough that they are even willing to pay more money. There is a reason for it.
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Moon Landing
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Tessi and I were nine years old and watching the Moon Landing when she told me she'd been stolen from her mother and sent to live in an orphanage. When I invited Tessi to attend my Jewish Religion Instruction class, we found ourselves connecting as we opened our hearts to each others' very different cultural backgrounds and histories.
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From Exchange to Gifting Part One: Why We Need to Find Our Way out of Scarcity
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I [...] looked up economics, and discovered, with anguished relief, that scarcity was baked into the very definition of economics. The one I found at the time was “the study of the allocation of scarce resources.”
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Every Tree Wants to Make a Forest: Choice, Togetherness, and the Maternal Gift Economy
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In patriarchal social orders, we are socialized out of our biology, domesticated into a patriarchal existence of scarcity, separation, and powerlessness. Where control is a primary mode of functioning, mistrust is rampant, and generosity seems foolish.
Finding our way back to flow means walking back, upstream and uphill.
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The Long Deceit is as Dangerous as the Big Lie
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As people with compassion in our hearts, we must help society learn the right lessons from the tragedy unfolding in Afghanistan.
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The Chasm: Towards Greater Collective Care, Not More Billionaires
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It's time to create a system that emphasizes collective care over protecting billionaires.
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Who Killed Jesus?
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A Compelling Historical Examination & Extrapolation On Church Anti-Semitism & Propaganda
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Next Year in Silwan
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As Jewish settlers expand footholds in Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods, an American rabbi and a Palestinian from Silwan, one of those neighborhoods, negotiate a difficult, perilous but long-lasting friendship.