... amorphous, and secular, claim of “homeland”—that is, that the land from the river to the sea constitutes the Jewish “homeland.” This is the “rights” claim made by the Israeli Prime Minister and has been consistently deployed from the early phases of Zionism until the present. While theological...

...RON HIRSCHBEIN Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2016 A t a state dinner in 2012, President Obama confided to the actor Damian Lewis, one of the stars of the Showtime drama Homeland : “While Michelle and the two girls go play tennis on Saturday afternoons, I go in the Oval Office, pretend I’m...

... sent to places where they might be protected or preserved, distributing others to needy congregations often in remote locations. Arendt’s Vision of Israel as a Homeland for Palestinians and Jews...

... unrelated: Barack Obama’s March 2008 speech entitled “A More Perfect Union” that called for addressing racial issues in the United States. In this speech Barack Obama, a Christian spiritual progressive ancestral homelands (see Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing o f who would surely find...

... and Palestinians is developing an original vision of peace, which under the current circumstance is becoming more relevant than ever: “two states, one homeland.” Following Netanyahu’s return to power, a sense of despair engulfed the peace camp in Israel, Palestine, and beyond. Indeed, the Likud Party’s policy...

... the Conversely, again. of helplessness sense a re-experience to ans that their need for a homeland and for reparations is taken is taken...

... they are achieved, they can have equally huge consequences. When the strategy of generosity becomes the central way that people in the West think about homeland security, Israelis and Palestinians will no longer be trapped in the old, militaristic paradigm. And what seems impossible today will become practical...

... as they, with no expectation of the evils which befell them.” She is not there; but in fact she is also here , in her Israeli homeland. Dalia Ravikovitch has crafted a poetic voice which, suspended between heaven and earth, is both intimate and remote, thus mirroring the multifaceted ambiguity of daily life in Israel...

...Creative Commons/gloucester2gaza Children run past bombed-out buildings in Gaza City. When will the Israeli government learn that a foreign policy based on generosity, not militarism, is the only path to “homeland security”? ...

... of one’s youth as a site that one had merely passed through, as the child of refugees born en route from the ancestral home to the new place of refuge would imagine the sights its eyes perceived when they first opened? Can one reimagine one’s place of refuge, then, as a homeland, even if its sights were...

... are about those bigger issues.” The strategy of the Dems is not only stuck in the same fundamental paradigm as Republicans, imag­ morally bankrupt, but it has a good chance of backfiring in the ining that the only way to generate adequate homeland security 2008 elections. is through military...

... Zionist, intending still here when the olive was to spend my life on a kibbutz in the Galilee and to become an Israeli citizen. brought forth from the stone A naive Zionist, such as I was, hears that there is a Jewish homeland. A place filled with When...

...Rae Abileah Social transformation, the author writes, must involve the “holy no” of protest, structural change, and consciousness-shifting cultural work. Here, Ariel Vegosen dons a white hazmat suit to protest Monsanto and Saria Idana performs Homeless in Homeland , a solo dance and spoken word...

..., and the spiritual progressive consciousness that affirms that homeland security can be achieved through love, generosity, and real caring for the Other and for the earth. So let me again invite you to join the Network of Spiritual Progressives as a dues-paying member at spiritualprogressives.org and amplify...