Rabbi Michael Lerner interviews Rep. Keith Ellison. They cover everything from identity politics to the Global Marshall Plan to Ellison’s decision to leave Congress and run for Attorney General of Minnesota.
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Rabbi Lerner interviews Congressman Keith Ellison
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Rabbi Michael Lerner interviews Congressman Keith Ellison. They cover everything from identity politics to the Global Marshall Plan to Ellison’s decision to leave Congress and run for Attorney General of Minnesota.
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The Trouble with Brett Kavanaugh
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Peter Gabel on Brett Kavanaugh and the dangerous, collective hallucination of interpreting The Constitution using the “original intent” theory.
Other Voices
The Years of Dialogue: A review of two memoirs
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In a time when negotiations between Israel and Palestine are particularly fraught, we remember how two people were able to create dialogue between people who were often at each other’s throats.
US Politics
Mindfulness and its limitations in a neoliberal society
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Transformation through Inquiry: Mindfulness for the Neoliberal Self
by Ronald E. Purser (co-editor of the Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context and Social Engagement) and Jack Petranker (former Dean of the Tibetan Nyingma Institute)
“It is not a sign of health to be well adjusted to a sick society”
– Krishnamurti
Mindfulness, a practice with Buddhist roots but a contemporary secular face, is today found almost everywhere. From programs in schools, hospitals and prisons; to endorsements by celebrities; to monks, neuroscientists, and meditation coaches rubbing shoulders with CEOs at the World Economic Forum in Davos, it is clear that mindfulness has gone mainstream. Some have called it a mindfulness revolution. There is much that is good in this. Thousands of people in all walks of life attest to the value of mindfulness in dealing with stress, anxiety, and burn-out, not to mention chronic pain, negative and buried emotions, and much more.
The Jordan Valley
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Check out this article from our friends at B’Tselem on the Jordan Valley, and stay tuned for new resourceful content from them on our website each week!
Decolonizing Jewishness: On Jewish Liberation in the 21st Century
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Benjamin Steinhardt Case argues that, in order to decolonize Jewishness, “[w]e must rebel against the internalized colonizer in ourselves […] and against the part of our community that pursues literal colonization of others.”
The Gaza Strip
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Check out this article from our friends at B’Tselem on the Gaza Strip, and stay tuned for new resourceful content from them on our website each week!
The Duty to End the Occupation
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Check out this article from our friends at B’Tselem on the duty to end the Occupation, and stay tuned for new resourceful content from them on our website each week!
Thank you endorsing our statement
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Thank you for endorsing our statement in support of B’Tselem calling for Israeli soldiers to refuse orders to shoot into crowds of unarmed civilians. Please share this statement with your friends with your friends on social media and encourage them to endorse it as well! If you want to support Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives’s work toward transforming and healing the world ending violence everywhere, please click here.
The Evolution of Identity Politics: An Interview with Eric Ward
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In this interview, Eric Ward reminds us that “[w]e are complicated human beings with multiple identities and interests” and that “[i]t is simply not a true liberation movement unless it is grounded in a universalism seeking to advance all of us.”
Targeting of Israeli civilians by Palestinians
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Check out this article from our friends at B’Tselem on the targeting of Israeli civilians by Palestinians, and stay tuned for new resourceful content from them on our website each week!
Radical Modernist Lola Ridge Celebrated The Ghetto
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Terese Svoboda recounts the life and history of modernist poet Lola Ridge (1873-1941), whose radical politics and empathy for the plight of others are still sorely needed today.
Settler Violence: Absence of Law Enforcement
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Check out this article from our friends at B’Tselem on settler violence and the absence of law enforcement, and stay tuned for new resourceful content from them on our website each week!
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Not on My Watch: A Response to Hate
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Barbara Artson writes about the plight of the Rohingya people, “a Muslim minority forced to leave their homes in the predominantly Buddhist Myanmar (Burma), whose government claims they are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, and therefore they deprive them of their rights as citizens.”