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... this book, one must first understand what was perhaps the first great scholarly debate in twentieth-century Jewish mysticism. This debate was between Gershom Scholem and his one-time mentor Martin Buber on the nature of Hasidism, a type of Judaism that is practiced in many of today’s ultra-Orthodox...

... of the ligion and the stubborn spirit of a people who had oppressive taxes imposed first by the Greeks, and then, come to believe that every human being was created in alternately, by Seleucids and Ptolemies. These Jews the divine image, hence had a right...

..., science-educated theists, the theory of evolution and the way it accounts for the origins of ethics and aesthetics is not wrong, then, just inadequate. Arthur Green’s excellent essay in “God and the Twenty-First Century,” the March/April 2010 Tikkun , represents one response, one solution...

...—there was no movement, no support for their alternative lifestyle—and so drawing on the hierarchical power afforded her as Abraham’s first wife and the cultural mores of the time, Sarah tells Abraham to send Hagar and Ishmael out into the desert—into a dry morass. Out in that land, there seems to be no care, just...

..., their love as real love. Our collective hearts opened and then the laws changed, in that order, slowly at first and then quickly. In a recurring drama of our American social theater, the hot-button issues of one generation are often matters of common decency for the next. In one generation it’s...

...: THE FIRST ARAB-ISRAELI WAR father for a superplague that is about to kill Benny Morris off most humans. As growing awareness of v;'i, I...

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... or ethnic harmony, Israeli-Palestinian peace, immigration, or tax policy—it’s not enough to send out a group email. You need to individualize the message, get on the phone, host a parlor party, send authoritative information to buttress your position, link interested people to relevant resources. The first...

... , highlights the powerful linkage between the anti-war efforts of Iraq veterans and their Vietnam War veteran predecessors. The poster’s text provides the relevant historical context, explaining that the first GI coffeehouse was established in 1967 and soon became a major locus of organizing efforts...

... to expand from our places of constriction. It is that which brings us from slavery to freedom, from suffering to joy, from injustice to justice. You shall have no other gods besides that ! What might it look like to set free what is captive in that first commandment, our least favorite of all? First...

..., that is an unsubstantiated claim. If you ask random people to rank the priority they place on money, love, health, joyful relationships, world peace, the survival of the planet, a sense of purpose, and a fulfilling connection to the spiritual reality of the universe, you’ll find that money doesn’t usually win first place...