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Why Jews Around the World Are Praying for the Victory of the Egyptian Uprising

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Jews, Tikkun Magazine, Middle East, Egypt, Democracy, Hosni Mubarak, Hamas, Tikkun, Israel, Egypt Riots, Tikkun Olam, World News

It is impossible for Jews to forget our heritage as victims of another Egyptian tyrant -- the Pharoah whose reliance on brute force was overthrown when the Israelite slaves managed to escape from Egypt some 3,000 years ago.

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Let Us Expand the Definition of Terrorism

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

In these days of extremism at home, we cling to a narrow, selective definition of terrorism, while ignoring blatant forms of terrorism in our midst. In doing so, we can't see the forest for the trees.

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Rabbi Michael Lerner: Polemics and Distortions Are Anti-Peace

Suzette Standring | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Israelis, Tikkun, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Vandalism, Alan Dershowitz, Richard Goldstone, Jewish People, Middle East, Israel, Beyt Tikkun, Obama, Hamas, Palestinians, World News

Rabbi Lerner's San Francisco home was defaced by political posters permanently glued on by whom he suspects to be right wing Zionists critical of him and Richard Goldstone.

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Supreme Court Backs Plutocracy, Targets Arizona Clean Elections Matching Funds

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roberts Court, Goldwater Institute, U.S. Senate Candidate Andrew Romanoff, Bush-Cheney 2000 Decision, 1998 Arizona Clean Elections Act, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Pay-to-Play, Matching Funds, Level Playing Field, Rehnquist Court, Corporate Court, U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Matching Funds, Publicly Funded Campaigns, Infringement of First Amendment, Colorado Clean Campaigns, Tikkun, Erosion of Democracy, Plutocracy, Todd Lang, Millionaires Amendment, Samuel Alito, Initiative 53, Federal Elections Now Act, Chamber of Commerce, Institute for Justice, Chilled Speech, Fair Elections Now Act, PAC Money, Attorney General Candidate Stan Garnett, Denver News

The Colorado Citizens (Publicly-Funded) Campaigns Initiative 53 is not modeled on Arizona and other states' public funding initiatives that use matching funds to level the election playing field.

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Have the Jews Left the Synagogue?

Rabbi Leah and Rabbi Perry Berkowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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

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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