Deena Metzger reviews the novel “Darwin’s Ghosts” by Ariel Dorfman, not quite a coming of age story or hero’s journey, but a journey where a young boy must learn who he is outside of the superficial life to which he presumed he was entitled
Other Voices
Race and Our Jewish Family Narratives
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In this personal narrative, Bob Gluck explores his own family’s history and its “series of perceptual transformations in its racial understanding.”
Other Voices
We are living inside the Book of Exodus; Make the Seder activist again!
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Join Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Rev. William Barber, and others for the Interfaith Freedom Seder + 50 on April 7 in Philadelphia.
Jewish Wisdom
Facing Two Different Forms of Antisemitism
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Arthur Waskow argues that, when facing antisemitism from marginalized groups in our society, we must respond not with rage but compassionate challenge and listening.
Other Voices
“An Angel’s Touch and the Melancholy Murders”
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Rabbi Zalman Kastel explores “how our mental state is influenced by our spirituality, and how our mental state, in turn, can impact on the spiritual and ethical dimensions of our lives.”
War with China?
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Michael Klare warns that, even if a shooting war doesn’t erupt, a long-term geopolitical war of attrition between the U.S. and China will have debilitating consequences for both sides.
Reflections on BDS
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Stephen Zunes writes that, although support for BDS has grown dramatically worldwide, “it has shown little in the way of tangible benefits for the Palestinians.”
Jewish Wisdom
Symposium on The Art of Mystical Narrative by Eitan Fishbane
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Read the various articles presentation at a recent symposium in celebration of Eitan Fishbane’s new book, The Art of Mystical Narrative.
Justice for All
Jewing the State of the Union
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Shaul Magid explains how Trump used the Holocaust to manipulate hatred against refugees and immigrants.
Other Voices
Israel’s High Court of Justice Paves the Way for Cleansing Palestinians from Silwan
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B’Tselem reports on a recent Israeli High Court decision siding with the Jewish settler organization Ateret Cohamin.
Other Voices
It’s all Good––a Jewish approach to Mindfulness
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Rabbi Adam Stein explores the Jewish approach to mindfulness.
Other Voices
Welcome and Support the Exodus Asylum Seekers now Being Tear-Gassed by American Border Guards
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Tikkun & the NSP are happy to join with people of all faiths to insist that our politics be guided by our recognition of our obligation to love the Other.
Other Voices
Biological Annihilation
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Subhankar Banerjee writes that saving our planet is the most challenging ethical obligation of our precarious times.
Other Voices
Toward Empathizing With the Intolerant
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John McFadden encourages the Left to expand the boundaries of the kinds of people with whom it can empathize.
Politics & Society
Democrats Likely to Appoint a Militarist Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee
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Stephen Zunes urges readers to tell the Democratic Party leadership to not give Engel the chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee.