...Rabbi Michael Lerner Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 EDITORIALS BY RABBIMICHAEL LERNER Support Obama to BE the Obama YOU Voted For h e t itl e of t h is e d it o r ia l communi­ cates the strategy we’ve adopted...

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... candidacy offered, and rested upon, a series of shortcuts. Politics is always about power and is only sometimes about social justice. It has a relation to redemption — the healing of life and the world (tikkun)— only through its connection to social justice. The Obama movement of 2008, although long...

...RABBI MICHAEL LERNER Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2016 I n a speech to the United Nations on September 29, 2015, President Obama acknowledged that military pressures will be insufficient to beat ISIS (also known as Daesh, ISIL, or the Islamic State): “Ideologies are not defeated with guns...

...Rabbi Michael Lerner Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 EDITORIAL BY RABBI MICHAEL LERNER Afghanistan: Obama Capitulates to the War Makers BAMA’S DECISION TO ESCALATE THE WAR IN Afghanistan represents a decisive...

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.... ■ Senator Obama: Add “Healing” to Your Message Glen Stassen ENCOURAGE YOU TO MAKE HEALING AS WELL AS CHANGE YOUR CAMPAIGN MOTTO. W e NEED BOTH. So many disasters have happened during this administration that it seems as if the judgment of God is com­...

... with a lot ofAmericans. A hope that we can live with one another in a way that reconciles the beliefs of each with the good of all.” For the common good—the good of all—and healing. ■ Dear Senator Obama: Let me tell you a Story Eboo Patel WANT TO TELL...

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