If we want to abolish debt, we’ll have to do it ourselves. If debtors refuse to pay, our debts cease being our problem—they become the bank’s problem!
2015
Transcending Economic Dualities
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Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons by David Bollier. Review by Miki Kashtan.
2015
Between Paradigm Shift Judaism and Neo-Hasidism: The New Metaphysics of Jewish Renewal
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Led by Reb Zalman, the Jewish Renewal movement ushered in a new Aquarian Age of Judaism. To make it stick, we need to talk metaphysics. Plus: a response by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (z”l) written in the last days of his life gives insight into how our great teacher saw his life’s work.
2015
You Are Not a Loan: Strike Debt and the Emerging Debtors Movement
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Millions of Americans incur debt to pay for basic needs. To escape this trap, we must “come out” as debtors and start experiencing our debts collectively.
2015
Reading Death
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To Mourn a Child: Jewish Responses to Neonatal and Childhood Death Edited by Jeffrey Saks and Joel Wolowelsky and Kaddish: Women’s Voices Edited by Michal Smart and Barbara Ashkenas. Review by Erica Brown.
2015
A New Take on the First Commandment: Building the Religious Counterculture
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If we worship anything, it should be the power of liberation. The first commandment warns us away from wealth, status, and other false gods.
2015
Silencing Dissent: How Biased Civil Rights Policies Stifle Dialogue on Israel
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Packed with right-wing demagogues, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has started using its authority to suppress legitimate criticisms of Israel.
2015
Embracing Change: Forgotten Traditions Within Sephardic Judaism
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Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East by Zvi Zohar. Review by Tzvi Marx.
2015
Sharing Empathy, Sharing Power: A Catholic Take on Debt and Jubilee
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If we are going to demand just and fair debt relationships no longer hijacked by power plays, perhaps we need to instill in our systems and ourselves an understanding of childhood and adult development and build toward a capacity for perspective-taking.
2015
Reimagining Jubilee: A Political Horizon for Our Times
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Economic forms of Jim Crow continue to exist throughout the credit industry today. A modern call for Jubilee would seek to level the racial playing field.
2015
Fulfilling Our Debt to Humanity: A Hindu Perspective on Jubilee
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Once we expand the definition of debt beyond material considerations, the idea of Jubilee becomes more than just debt cancellation—it becomes a broader push to institutionalize the fulfillment of our debts to humanity and Mother Earth.
2015
Jubilee and Debt Abolition: An Introduction
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What would it mean to take seriously the Torah’s call for the cancellation of all debts and the equal redistribution of property every fifty years?
2015
Demitasse
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You evaded the fire-storm, reaching the shore / Of the New World long before, so nothing / To speak of has shaken you more than the rage / In my father’s voice or my brother’s infant fist / Shattering a pane of the china closet, leaving you / Unharmed (the shards swept away, the glass / Replaced in a day).
2015
Jubilee on Wall Street: Taking the Bull by the Horns
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Jubilee was God’s alternative to empire, to Wall Street, and to the patterns of injustice. Let’s commit wild and joyful acts of Jubilee every day.