Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis in conversation with Poor People’s Campaign co-chair Reverend William Barber on justice, civil disobedience, and inspiring people to moral activism.
Other Voices
A Jewish Approach to the Poor People’s Campaign
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Rabbi Debra Kolodny reflects on the yovel, personal righteousness, and how the Poor People’s Campaign is the embodiment of the obligation to act to empower those who have less.
Politics & Society
The Scourge of Solitary Confinement
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Stories of solitary confinement show the need for systemic change.
Reviews
Killing White Innocence
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Stephen Brookfield reviews “Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Racism in America” by George Yancy and reflects on the importance of understanding identity within a racist system.
Other Voices
The Hope We Create: An Activist’s Perspective
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Richard A. Bachmann reviews Ron Aronson’s new book, “We – Reviving Social Hope” and reminds us of the importance of collective action to sustain hope.
Politics & Society
On the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassination
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On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, Peter Gabel reflects on the history of racism in the U.S. and our failure to exist in mutual recognition of one another’s being.
Race
Louis Farrakhan, Meir Kahane, and the Politics of Purity
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Shaul Magid addresses the corrosive, divisive nature of purity politics on the left and why a more nuanced approached is needed.
Other Voices
Radical Social Theorist Richard Lichtman is Dead at 86 z’l
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Rabbi Michael Lerner remembers Richard Lichtman’s incredible impact as one of the most profound radical thinkers in the U.S.
Politics & Society
Farrakhan & the Women’s March: An Unholy Connection
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Cat Zavis reflects on what healing and reconciliation can look like when anti-Semitism (or any other -ism) rears its ugly head.
Justice for All
Missing Shulamith and the Dialectic of #MeToo
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Martha Sonnenberg grapples with the present-day #MeToo movement and the 1970 version as articulated by Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex to help us envision a transformative movement.
Activism
Never Again? Then help the Rohingya!
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Stop the genocide and persecution of the Rohingya and check out these organizations providing relief to see how you can help.
Israel/Palestine
Anti-Semitism, Uprootedness, and Zionism: My Voluntary Political Exile from Israel
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A critical discussion of Zionism in the midst of present and historical anti-Semitism by a widely respected teacher of non-violent communications.
Spirituality
Reb Zalman, Neo-Hasidism, and Inter-Religious Engagement
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How Zalman’s teachings can inform our own spiritual practices across religious traditions.
Spirituality
Participation and the Mystery
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Spiritual cocreation, participatory pluralism, relaxed spiritual universalism, participatory epistemology, the integral bodhisattva, and much more.
Rethinking Religion
Remembering the teaching of Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Susannah Heschel remembers Abraham Joshua Heschel, his empathy, his hope, and his faith.