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Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Ph. D., founded (in 1983) and directs The Shalom Center , a prophetic voice in Jewish, multireligious, and American life that brings Jewish and other spiritual thought and practice to bear on seeking peace, pursuing justice, healing the earth, and celebrating community. He edits and writes for its weekly on-line Shalom Report.

In 1996, Waskow was named by the United Nations a “Wisdom Keeper” among forty religious and intellectual leaders who met in connection with the Habitat II conference in Istanbul. In 2001, he was presented with the Abraham Joshua Heschel Award by the Jewish Peace Fellowship. In 2005, he was named by the Forward, the leading Jewish weekly in America, one of the "Forward Fifty" as a leader of the Jewish community. In 2007, he was named by Newsweek one of the fifty moist influential American rabbis, and was presented with awards and honors by groups as diverse as the Neighborhood Interfaith Movement of Philadelphia and the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation.

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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Murders in the "Cathedral": Wichita & Washington
(1 comments) A theological look at the commonalities between the Holocaust Museum murder and the Dr. Tiller murder shows several commonalities. Is interdenominational understanding possible?

Sunday, January 4, 2009
Shalom, Shabbat, & Shibboleth
(22 comments) It gets harder, Shabbat by Shabbat, to say without weeping the words "Shabbat shalom" - a sabbath of peace -- when the present government of Israel has used last week's Shabbat and yesterday's to massively increase the level of its violence as a response to the violence of Hamas.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Gaza & beyond: What's the alternative?
(7 comments) Beyond anguish, what can we say about Gaza that points toward an alternative? Not just in pretty theory, but in political practicality? Only the biggest response can meet the need. Half-measures, the normal response of governments facing complex conflict, will not work.

Sunday, December 28, 2008
Not by Might, and not by Power -- - OR: Israeli Gaza Strike Kills More Than 225
(22 comments) Today the starkest choice of values and visions of the future was laid before the Jewish people throughout the world.

Sunday, November 30, 2008
Mumbai & Beyond: Turning Horror toward Healing
(10 comments) Over the years, I have noticed a pattern like this: When some terrorist group claiming roots in Islam commits a mass murder, Muslim organizations denounce those actions. The "mainstream" US media ignore such denunciations. Then some people denounce the Muslim world for the absence of condemnations against terrorism, and grow new fury against Islam.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Calling Us ALL to the Path Ahead, Toward Our Truest Selves
The Torah portion that Jews read this coming Shabbat begins: "YHWH [Yahh, the Breath of Life] said to Abram [and his wife Sarai], "Go forth, go forward, into your best and deepest self - to a place that I will let you see, that you do not yet know."

Thursday, September 25, 2008
The Election: Dancing in God's Earthquake
How come the real energy-centers on our present national tickets are two passionate Christians ""-- one oriented to renewal and one to restoration?

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