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Have the Jews Left the Synagogue?

Rabbi Leah and Rabbi Perry Berkowitz | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Yom Kippur, Religion, Jews, Synagogue, Upper East Side, Judaism, Holydays, Rosh Hashanah, Tikkun, High Holy Days, New York News
Rabbi Leah and Rabbi Perry Berkowitz

You can't practice Judaism with your grandfather's heart but must approach these days with a new, fresh, different and vibrant style that speaks to someone who lives and struggles in the 21st Century.

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Ahmadinejad Gives Another Victory to the Israeli Right

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: Jews, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Gaza, Tikkun, Muslims, Middle East, Israel, Palestine, Palestinians, Netanyahu, Ahmadinejad-Iran, Isreali-Palestinian Conflict, Hamas, Isreali History, Lieberman, Peace in Middle East, Nazis, World News
Rabbi Michael Lerner

One reason peace forces are unable to win majority support in Israel is that too many Arabs seek not a two-state solution but the total elimination of the State of Israel as a Jewish homeland.

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A Passover Seder Haggadah Supplement

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Religion, Jews, Network of Spiritual Progressives, Haggadah, Progressive, Tikkun, Hebrew, Jew, Jewish, Judaism, Seder, World News
Rabbi Michael Lerner

For Ethically Sensitive Jews and our non-Jewish allies. (You don't have to be Jewish to create or attend a seder -- or to adopt the approach to spiri...

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A Spiritual Guide for Economic Bailout

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 03.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Obama Administration, Keith Ellison, Global Marshall Plan, Network of Spiritual Progressives, Tikkun, Spirituality and Politics, Strategy of Generosity, Economic Crisis, Business News
Rabbi Michael Lerner

This is the moment in which biblical ethics and the wisdom of spiritual traditions are actually more realistic than the plans of the capitalist economists.

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Talking Full Employment... Now?

Dave Belden | Posted 03.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Robert Pollin, Green Economy, Economic Stimulus, Paul Krugman, Tikkun, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Employment, Green News
Dave Belden

Co-economics is the dream being hatched now, but what else -- apart from full employment -- must it include?

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Well, Black Is Always in Style

Marc Gunther | Posted 03.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Capital Climate Action, Rainforest Action Network, Al Gore, Greenpace, Wendell Berry, Bill Mckibben, Energy, Greenpeace, Coal, Green Activism, Tikkun, Sds, Climate Change, Environment, Green Demonstration, Global Exchange, The Rainforest Action Network, Green Policy, Green News
Marc Gunther

But I was amused to stumble upon a different question that's sparking debate among the young people planning to attend the action: What should one wear to a protest against coal?

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Believing We Can Build a Caring Economy

Dave Belden | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Network of Spiritual Progressives, Chris Hedges, Riane Eisler, Economic Stimulus Package, Tikkun, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Muhammad Yunus, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News
Dave Belden

What are we facing, doom or possibility of transformation? My reputation is for seeing the glass half full.

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Why Isn't This News? U.S. Rabbis Call for Gaza Cease-Fire

Dave Belden | Posted 02.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Aipac, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Network of Spiritual Progressives, Jews, Gaza, Tikkun, Middle East Peace, Media Bias, Media News
Dave Belden

A group of prominent liberal rabbis and other religious and cultural leaders have called for a cease-fire in Gaza. So far no U.S. media have considered it news.

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Mad about Madoff: the Lessons to Learn

Dave Belden | Posted 01.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Network of Spiritual Progressives, Thomas Friedman, Spiritual Capitalism, Tikkun, Madoff, David Korten, Physicians for Human Rights, Muhammad Yunus, Bernard Madoff, Madoff Scandal, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Bernie Madoff, Business News
Dave Belden

If cleaned up, Ponzi-free, derivative-free capitalism comes out of Madoff scandal, then good may yet come of his madness, and of our system.

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