Winter 2015 Table of Contents

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Readers Respond: Letters to the Editor, Fall 2014

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Diverse Insights into Jewish-Muslim Relations

A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations
Edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb and Benjamin Stora
Princeton University Press, 2014

This collection of scholarly yet accessible articles by dozens of Jewish and Muslim experts is the definitive source for understanding a complex relationship between Muslims and Jews from the seventh century to the present day. Its 1,146 pages cover pressing political issues like whether Jews are demeaned in Islam and whether Jews faced real (as opposed to just remembered) anti-Semitism in Islamic societies. It also explores the ways in which contemporary Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are both products and causes of the political struggle between Israelis and Palestinians. Yet the richness of this fantastic and exciting book lies also in its descriptions of how Jews and Muslims have learned from each other in the arenas of philosophy, science, art, literature, and mysticism.

Fall 2014 Table of Contents

 

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Two Perspectives on Justice and Spirituality

Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times

Matthew Fox
New World Library, 2014

Second Wave Spirituality
Chris Saade
North Atlantic Books, 2014

Like Rumi, the great Christian mystic Meister Eckhart was—according to Matthew Fox’s brilliant and inspiring account—deeply ecumenical, encompassing wisdom that one can find in Jewish, Sufi, Buddhist, and Hindu mystical traditions, as well as in shamanism and indigenous spirituality. Eckhart advocated for social, economic, and gender justice. He also championed an earth-based spirituality and a cosmic consciousness, and taught that we are all artists whose vocation is to birth the Cosmic Christ (or Buddha Nature). All these elements have inspired Fox and influenced his Creation Spirituality. In this book, Fox imagines dialogues between Eckhart and Carl Jung, Thich Nhat Hanh, Rabbi Heschel, and many others.

Online Exclusives: Jubilee and Debt Abolition

The online exclusives below are freely accessible articles that are part of an ongoing special series associated with Tikkun’s Winter 2015 print issue, Jubilee and Debt Abolition. Many of our most provocative articles on this topic appeared in that print issue, which is only accessible to subscribers. Subscribe now to read the subscriber-only print articles on the web (explore the table of contents to see what you’re missing!). If you appreciate the free web-only articles below, please do enable us to keep up this important work by becoming a print subscriber or offering a donation. Fulfilling Our Debt to Humanity: A Hindu Perspective on Jubilee
by Murali Balaji

The Student Debt Crisis
by Alan Collinge

Sharing Empathy, Sharing Power: A Catholic Take on Debt and Jubilee
by Susan Wilcox

The Jubilee and the Global Economy: Lessons from Leviticus
by Norman Solomon

Debtors All: Facing Our Ecological Indebtedness
by Fletcher Harper

Reforming Money and Banking: Keys to Debt and Jubilee
by Hazel Henderson

A Buddhist and Interfaith Response to Debt Capitalism
by Susmita Barua

Online Exclusives: Disability Justice

The online exclusives below are freely accessible articles that are part of an ongoing special series associated with Tikkun’s Fall 2014 print issue, Disability Justice and Spirituality Many of our most provocative articles on this topic appeared in that print issue, which is only accessible to subscribers. Subscribe now to read the subscriber-only print articles on the web (explore the table of contents to see what you’re missing!). If you appreciate the free web-only articles below, please do enable us to keep up this important work by becoming a print subscriber or offering a donation. We will continue to update this page as new web articles in this series come out. Inspired by Moses: Disability and Inclusion in the Jewish Community
by Shelley Christensen

“You Talking About Me?”

Online Exclusives: Thinking Anew About God

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Readers Respond: Letters from Summer 2014

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AIPAC AND IRAN
I was very disappointed in M. J. Rosenberg’s post “The Israel Lobby Is Killing Iran Negotiations in Favor of War” on Tikkun Daily.