A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture & Society

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Editorials

• Obama the Nominee  by Michael Lerner
  They said it couldn't happen in America.
• Not Wars But Conversations  by Graylan Scott Hagler
  If business rivals can talk, why can't governments?

Letters

• Letters 
  

Current Thinking

• Congress Enables More Years of War; Iran 
  
• Protest Against Torture Training at the School of the Americas 
  

The Contrarian

• Celebrating Capitalism's Global Success  by George Vradenburg
  

• On the very real possibility of Transformational Change  by Marjorie Kelly
  A hopeful letter to the next generation.
• Integral Politics and the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture  by Steve McIntosh
  Us Against Them is the problem. Integral is the solution.
• Transforming the U.S. Media: Commercial Free at Last  by Allen D. Kanner
  Counter attack on the invasion of our minds.
• Obama and the Flag Pin  by Peter Gabel
  Standing up to Societal Phoniness. Don't fall for a false "We."
• The Contest and the Spectacle  by Eli Zaretsky
  The deeper meaning of theDemocratic Primaries two-ring circus.
• Obama as Reparations  by Charles P. Henry
  The quest for a post-racial America -- will this be adequate recompense for slavery?
• Faith in Action: Ending Slavery, Together  by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
  Modern solutions to a resurgent scourge.
• Can a Group Like MomsRising.org Lead the U.S. to a New Bottom Line?  by Nanette Fondas
  Rocking the cradle -- and American politics.
• The Moral Dimension of Sports - Patriotism at the Ballpark  by Peter Gabel
  
• The Moral Dimension of Sports - The Case of the Giants  by Jack Ucciferri
  Can the nation hold all the players in its National Pastime to a moral standard - even the team owners?

• The Jews Who Wrote in Arabic  by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
  
• Human Rights and Ecology  by David Seidenberg
  
• The Death Penalty is Losing  by Glen Stassen
  
• Ending the Death Penalty in New Jersey  by John Goodwin
  
• Separating Faith from Belief  by David Tacey
  
• Consciousness Commodified: The Attention-Deficit Society  by David Loy
  
• Who Should Take Care of the Poor?  by Tony Campolo
  

Books

• Change We Can Believe In  Review by Roger S. Gottlieb
  "Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future" by Bill McKibben, Times Books, 2007 "Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility" by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, Houghton Mifflin, 2007
• Response to Gottlieb 
  
• Caroline Fourest's "Brother Tariq"  Review by Andrew Stallybrass
  
• Soulful at the Start  Review by Marcia Beauchamp
  "Revolutionary Spirits" by Gary Kowalski, Bluebridge, 2008
• Mark Lilla's Political Theology  Review by Eugene B. Borowitz
  "The Stillborn God" by Mark Lilla

Stand Up Comedy

• What's So Funny about a Dead Terrorist?  Review by Paul Lewis
  

Humor

• Dear Swami  by Swami Beyondananda
  

Poetry

• Vision  Joshua Weitz
  
• The Torah in the Palm of the Hand  by Rodger Kamenetz