27 Articles

Thursday, September 10, 2009
Building on the Hopeful Aspects of Obama's Health Care Speech and Helping Him Get Beyond the Incoherency of Parts of His
(1 comments) President Obama has not enamored himself to progressives whom he asked to trust him. Health care reform without a public option is no reform, just profit protection for some of the greediest corporations in the land.

Thursday, February 26, 2009
A Spiritual Guide for Economic Bailout
(8 comments) The Democrats are wasting the opportunity this crisis gives us to deeply reexamine and transform our economic system. There is a lack of spiritual vision in imagining the economics we need. Let's remedy that lack!

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
I have cancer. . . and yes, you can help me deal with it
(13 comments) In late January the results of a biopsy showed that I have a relatively rare form of lung cancer (I've never smoked). The doctors believe that this cancer may be "stage one" and hence could be treated through surgery, and I might be able to avoid chemotherapy or radiation treatment. People have started to ask if they can help me in some way. Well, yes, there IS something you can do that would be very helpful.

Friday, January 2, 2009
Israel in Gaza
(17 comments) Israel's attempt to wipe out Hamas is understandable, but dumb. ...just as Hamas' indiscriminate bombing of population centers is a crime against humanity, so is Israel's massive attack against civilians

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Fr. Roy Bourgeois may be excommunicated for supporting female ordination
(6 comments) Take action to defend priest who founded School of the Americas Watch.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
The "hate" people are back--will it work again? against Jews, against Muslims, and against Obama?
The "hate" people are back, spreading disgusting lies about Obama, about all Muslims, and about all Jews. We even have been told by the American mainstream media that Sen. McCain's campaign has decided to try to make their focus on assaulting the character of Barack Obama. Some media also report that Obama is going to respond in kind.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
Why is Obama Losing
(28 comments) ...Obama handlers pushed him to be "realistic" and buy the same boring strategy that has lost most Democratic candidates their elections in the past thirty years: abandon your base and put your post-convention energies focused on an elusive "center" that barely exists.

Thursday, August 21, 2008
150 Clergy Appeal to Obama
(3 comments) In an open-letter to Senator Obama, over 150 American clergy appealed to the Democratic candidate for President to retain the ethical and spiritual vision that won him the nomination in the first place. Rejecting the "inside-the-Beltway" wisdom that a Democrat must "move to the center to win the election," the clergy disputed the very notion that this is an accurate understanding of American politics.

Friday, August 8, 2008
The Enduring Universal Theological Relevance of the 9th of Av
(1 comments) and the Prophetic Warnings about the Coming Potential Destruction of Human Life and Perhaps All of Life on the Earth!

Sunday, July 20, 2008
My Talk with the Saudis, and What I Learned from Them
(4 comments) I had expected the World Conference on Dialogue convened by the King of Saudi Arabia to be little more than a photo op for the King, a cheap way to buy good public relations... Imagine my surprise, then, to hear the Saudi King in a language that, as one Muslim observer pointed out to me, sounded more like the New Bottom Line of the Network of Spiritual Progressives than it did like a speech of a self-absorbed monarch.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
What Kind of a President Does America Need?
(5 comments)

Monday, June 30, 2008
Why They Are Seeking a Blockade of Iran
(15 comments) Rabbi Michael Lerner responds to questions about the sanctioning of Iran, and discusses Dick Cheney and the oil companies, the "Strategy of Domination" versus the "Strategy of Generosity" and pending legislation as the best way for the U.S. and Israel to achieve homeland security.

Friday, May 2, 2008
African-American perspective on Reverend Wright
(13 comments) This article by Rabbi Michael Lerner discusses the fact that black opinion on Barack Obama and the Rev. Wright issue covers a wide range of thinking and is not some kind of monolithic bloc.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Obama's Error--and What It Would Really Take to Rectify It
(5 comments) A continuing irony of American politics is that the candidates of the ruling elites have been able to convince many Americans that the candidates who seek to redistribute wealth to the less fortunate, provide health care for all, and provide jobs and housing for the poor are the real elitists.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The Obama Phenomenon
(5 comments) The Phenomenon is not Barack Obama. Senator Obama is a masterful organizer and teacher. But this editorial is not about Obama as much as about what he elicits in others...

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Elliot Spitzer and America's Ethical Perversity
(29 comments) This shows just how far the Right-wing sexual moralizing has been able to trump any other kind of ethical reasoning in American society. Going to a prostitute is legal in some states and some countries around the world, and is often the very arrangement that saves families from splitting up whose sexual energies have diminished but whose love is intact.

Thursday, June 7, 2007
The Occupation:Immoral & Self-Destructive--How to End It and Build Lasting Peace
(1 comments) From the moment that it started, Israelis with a desire for peace and reconciliation with the Palestinian people urged the Israeli government to allow the Palestinian people freedom and national self-determination. It was not Israel, but Jordan, who occupied Palestine in the early years after Israel had been created, from. And it was not the Palestinian people, but Egypt, Syria....

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
A Bedtime Meditation Prayer of Forgiveness
sometimes, when I am about to go to sleep, I am filled with the troubles of the day. I remember the terrible things being done by our government or the pain of so many on this planet who do not have enough food to eat because of the global economic system we've created and sustained. Or I remember the ways that our environment is being systematically destroyed. So I say the following prayer/meditation

Friday, February 2, 2007
There is no New Anti-Semitism
(1 comments) What's "new" about the alleged New Anti-Semitism?

Monday, January 29, 2007
I want to share with you my experience and reflections on the D.C. peace march and rally Jan. 27
(1 comments) I want to give you a bit of the flavor of the peace demonstration in D.C., particularly since the media coverage was so predictably inaccurate.

Sunday, December 17, 2006
How the Jews and Secularists Did Not Steal Christmas
(3 comments) Some leaders of the Christian Right have decided to make an issue of the secularization of Christmas.

Saturday, November 25, 2006
Thoughts on Thanksgiving
A little late but still worth reading. While you're still digesting your mammoth Thanksgiving weekend meals, a little food for thought...

Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Thanksgiving Meditation 2006
In my daily life, I'm often distracted from noticing the marvels and miracles that surround me. There is so much to accomplish, so many hurdles to jump, so much that I feel needs attending. I sometimes get so involved in the immediate tasks that I lose sight of the larger amazing realities that abound in my life. That danger lurks for this Thanksgiving-- that I'll become immersed in the details, the event of it...

Monday, September 11, 2006
Social Repentance on 9/11
(1 comments) 5 years after 9/11--America and the world have some serious repenting to do! Lets begin. Wouldn't it be amazing if we could use this time period to ask every institution in American society to dedicate ten days to reflection on the degree to which it is currently living up to its own highest ideals, how far we have "missed the mark" and what we need to do to return to our highest vision and make it real in our lives

Monday, July 31, 2006
Tikkun Sponsored Ad Calls For Immediate Cease Fire in Lebanon and Gaza

Monday, July 17, 2006
End the Suffering in the Middle East
(2 comments) The people of the Middle East are suffering again as militarists on all sides, and cheerleading journalists, send forth missiles, bombs and endless words of self-justification for yet another pointless round of violence between Israel and her neighbors.

Saturday, July 1, 2006
When will they ever learn...that violence is not the path to security?
(5 comments) Today we write those words about Israel and Palestine, yesterday about the U.S. in Iraq, tomorrow about China in Tibet, and it goes on and on. And the only solution is to break the chain of pain and say, "No more-we will not respond to violence with violence. We will follow the teaching of the Torah that says ‘love the stranger' and Jesus that says ‘turn the other cheek' and we will stop this madness forever.