Christmas and Chanukah share a spiritual message: that it is possible to bring light and hope in a world of darkness, oppression and despair.
Other Voices
Try a Spiritual Progressive Approach to Thanksgiving This Year!
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No matter how difficult it may be in a world filled with pain and cruelty, there are moments when it is important to stop looking at all the problems and focus on all the good.
Jewish Wisdom
The Spirit of Sukkot Contradicts Israel’s Occupation of Palestine
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Is it anything more than hypocrisy for Jews to dwell in sukkot this holiday, pretending to make ourselves vulnerable to material insecurity, when in fact we have huge material and military security but instead are imposing insecurity on the Palestinian people?
Jewish Wisdom
For Those Approaching High Holidays with a Heavy Heart
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Is there a place for the heavy of heart in the Rosh Hashanah experience?
Jewish Wisdom
America Needs Repentance: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Atonement Are Not Just for Jews
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Now that the Iraq war is supposedly winding down, America needs a period of reflection, repentance and atonement before rushing into more of the same mistakes we’ve been making globally and domestically.
Other Voices
An Interdependence Day Celebration for July 4
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Faced with July 4th celebrations that are focused on militarism, ultra-nationalism, and “bombs bursting in air,” many American families who do not share those values turn July 4th into another summer holiday focused on picnics, sports, and fireworks, while doing their best to avoid the dominant rhetoric and bombast.
Christianity
Spiritual Wisdom for Easter: Affirming the Resurrection
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From Peter Rollins on ways in which he denies the resurrection … and so do we all.
Jewish Wisdom
Next Year in Jerusalem? Passover for those whose moral compass has not gone dead
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Here is a series of articles that may help you negotiate through the Passover holiday and the ethical morass facing those who wish to celebrate the holiday of our freedom from slavery without going dead to the reality of the Jewish people’s role in the suffering of the Palestinian people, today, right now, as we celebrate this year’s Passover!
Jewish Wisdom
Spiritual Wisdom for Passover: Seder Haggadah Supplement
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I’d like to share an excerpt from the Passover supplement published in the March/April 2010 issue of Tikkun. Passover is not meant to be merely a celebration of the Jewish victory for liberation in our past, but is rather meant to stimulate us to extend that liberation to the whole world. Such liberation would bring an end to the destruction of the environment. It would bring an end to the cheapening of cultural life by the dominance of an ethos of “looking out for number one.” It would bring an end to rampant materialism and our society’s belief in salvation through mechanical objects and technological fixes …
Christianity
Kairos Document of Christian Palestinians
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A Palestinian Christian appeal to Jews, Muslims, Christians and the entire world, issued in 2010.