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Stopping Today's Flood

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

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Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater

When I look at my kids, I pray that they will have a world to grow into that is habitable and sustainable. The generation of "whatever" is doing great harm to the future of our existence.

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Will Spirituality Ever Be Serious?

Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Church, Burning Man, Kabbalah, Kirtan, Talmud, What-the-Bleep-Do-We-Know, Arianna Huffington, Meditation Retreats, Religion, The Secret, Rationality, Kabbalah Water, Narcissism, Meditation, Ufos, Huffington Post, Meditation Practice, Benefits of Yoga, Spirituality, Irrationality, The Inner Life, Living News
Jay Michaelson

All too often, however, spirituality reinforces rather than transcends conventional limits, boundaries, and notions of the ego. Sandwiched in between manicures and lunch dates, the quickie yoga class becomes just another way to augment and reinforce the self.

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Can There Be Such a Thing as an Israeli Hero?

Bradley Burston | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

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Bradley Burston

There is a sense that the transgressions of Israelis are so grave that they have lost their right to grieve over their own very real tragedies.

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Lockerbie Terrorist's Release Debased Justice with Misplaced Mercy

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

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Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Today's release is devoid of any compassion for those blown out of the skies over Scotland -- or their families.

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Cooperation and Conflict: Obama's Cairo Speech

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

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Aaron Zelinsky

In Cairo, President Obama employed a variety of historical, liturgical, and political references to express America's hope for a new beginning with the Islamic world. Here are ten critical lines from the speech.

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Christopher Hitchens and the Killer Jews

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.02.2009 | Living

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

To read Hitchens these days is to be transported to an alternate universe where religious Jews are often terrorists inspired by racist Jewish ideology that is fomented by their Rabbis.

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The Beloved Community and the Holy Land

Imam Yahya Hendi and Rabbi Gerald Serotta | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Koran, Palestine, Jews, West Bank, Gaza, America, World Council or Religions for Peace, Martin Luther King Jr., Hebrew, Talmud, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Religion, Nonviolence, Martin Luther King, Middle East, Arab, Palestinian-Americans, Israel, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israel Gaza, Israel Gaza Operation, Israel Palestine, Politics News
Imam Yahya Hendi and Rabbi Gerald Serotta

The harming of civilians -- whether they play in school yards in Southern Israel or seek refuge in schools in Gaza -- constitutes a crime against humanity by any international standard.

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T. Boone Pickens: From Swift Boater To Pluralist

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

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Larry Gellman

In just a few years Pickens has moved from being a totally partisan political animal to a man who is looking for the partial truth in the disparate views of a variety of people.

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Will A Vow Of Poverty Fill The Void In My Soul?

Jim Luce | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living

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Jim Luce

As I approach my fiftieth birthday, I am feeling incomplete. Part of me - my soul? - is still missing. In secular terms, I think I am not yet in tou...

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