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In 1996, Waskow was named by the United Nations a â??Wisdom Keeperâ? 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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Friday, June 8, 2012
Bishops Attack Religious Freedom; Vatican Attacks Nuns The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Vatican hierarchy are attacking the religious freedom of millions of American women and the religious freedom of American nuns. As a Rabbi, I am deeply conscious of the transcendent value of religious freedom. I believe that the First Amendment to the US Constitution is indeed one of God's best creations. So I listen with great care to claims it is being violated.
Friday, June 8, 2012Bishops Attack Religious Freedom; Vatican Attacks Nuns The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Vatican hierarchy are attacking the religious freedom of millions of American women and the religious freedom of American nuns. As a Rabbi, I am deeply conscious of the transcendent value of religious freedom. I believe that the First Amendment to the US Constitution is indeed one of God's best creations. So I listen with great care to claims it is being violated.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
From Sinai to "The Thunder" at Nag Hammadi Rabbi Waskow and several other Jewish leaders recently met with 15 Christians to discuss early texts from 0-200 CE that were not included in the New Testament. One text found in the Nag Hammadi collection, was not in any clear sense Christian, not mentioning Jesus or Christ, or the Apostles. It was titled The Thunder: Perfect Mind It is an extraordinary piece of writing.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012From Sinai to "The Thunder" at Nag Hammadi Rabbi Waskow and several other Jewish leaders recently met with 15 Christians to discuss early texts from 0-200 CE that were not included in the New Testament. One text found in the Nag Hammadi collection, was not in any clear sense Christian, not mentioning Jesus or Christ, or the Apostles. It was titled The Thunder: Perfect Mind It is an extraordinary piece of writing.
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Monday, May 21, 2012
If the Biblical Ruth came to America Today In the biblical story, Ruth was a penniless immigrant from a despised pariah people. Yet she was welcomed onto the fields of Boaz, where she gleaned what the regular harvesters had left behind. Boaz made sure that even this despised foreigner had a decent job at decent pay. He forbade his male employees from harassing her.
Monday, May 21, 2012If the Biblical Ruth came to America Today In the biblical story, Ruth was a penniless immigrant from a despised pariah people. Yet she was welcomed onto the fields of Boaz, where she gleaned what the regular harvesters had left behind. Boaz made sure that even this despised foreigner had a decent job at decent pay. He forbade his male employees from harassing her.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
The "new poor": What can we DO? Clergy & Laity Concerned About Economic Injustice Over the past few months, I have been sharing with you letters and stories from the "new poor" in America and in our own congregations, and ideas for how our congregations can address their suffering. What can we --- clergy and congregants concerned about the "previously poor" and the "newly poor" in our own congregations and in the nation -- do about it?
Monday, April 16, 2012The "new poor": What can we DO? Clergy & Laity Concerned About Economic Injustice Over the past few months, I have been sharing with you letters and stories from the "new poor" in America and in our own congregations, and ideas for how our congregations can address their suffering. What can we --- clergy and congregants concerned about the "previously poor" and the "newly poor" in our own congregations and in the nation -- do about it?
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Friday, March 23, 2012
Killing Jews, Killing Muslims, Killing Blacks You can overcome fear by connecting, communing, with the people you fear. (But then how can you keep the benefits you get by oppressing them?) Or you can overcome fear by being willing to suffer and die for a principle. Or you can overcome fear by being willing to kill.
Friday, March 23, 2012Killing Jews, Killing Muslims, Killing Blacks You can overcome fear by connecting, communing, with the people you fear. (But then how can you keep the benefits you get by oppressing them?) Or you can overcome fear by being willing to suffer and die for a principle. Or you can overcome fear by being willing to kill.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Imposing "sharia," Roman Catholic style When the bishops try to impose their own religious rules on the public During the last few weeks, we have seen an outrageous attempt to impose sharia law on the US govt and the American public. Not Muslim sharia; it is Roman Catholic "sharia" about contraception that the US Conf, of Catholic Bishops has been trying to impose on Americans of all faiths and beliefs who happen to work at a Catholic-sponsored hospital
Tuesday, February 21, 2012Imposing "sharia," Roman Catholic style When the bishops try to impose their own religious rules on the public During the last few weeks, we have seen an outrageous attempt to impose sharia law on the US govt and the American public. Not Muslim sharia; it is Roman Catholic "sharia" about contraception that the US Conf, of Catholic Bishops has been trying to impose on Americans of all faiths and beliefs who happen to work at a Catholic-sponsored hospital
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Monday, January 9, 2012
My Brother is Dying Grief that the world we have known is dying. We are living through earthquakes of a dying society, racked by violent "hiccups" as Howard is by his own. The economies, the ecologies, the sexualities, the families, the communities and traditions we have known, are all gasping, coughing, shaking. It is appropriate, it is necessary, to grieve.
Monday, January 9, 2012My Brother is Dying Grief that the world we have known is dying. We are living through earthquakes of a dying society, racked by violent "hiccups" as Howard is by his own. The economies, the ecologies, the sexualities, the families, the communities and traditions we have known, are all gasping, coughing, shaking. It is appropriate, it is necessary, to grieve.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Commission Requires Presidential Aptitude Test -- satire, but not far off base
Tuesday, January 3, 2012Commission Requires Presidential Aptitude Test -- satire, but not far off base
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
CONVICTED in Court -- and PRAISED by the Judge! Yesterday I stood trial in Washington DC Superior Court for the pray-in last July in which I joined with ten other religious folk in the Capitol Rotunda, seeking to focus Congress on the need to pass a budget responsive to needs of the poor, the disemployed, the homeless.
Thursday, December 15, 2011CONVICTED in Court -- and PRAISED by the Judge! Yesterday I stood trial in Washington DC Superior Court for the pray-in last July in which I joined with ten other religious folk in the Capitol Rotunda, seeking to focus Congress on the need to pass a budget responsive to needs of the poor, the disemployed, the homeless.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The Speech Mr. Obama should give this Thursday night Effective at noon tomorrow, I resign the Presidency of the United States.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011The Speech Mr. Obama should give this Thursday night Effective at noon tomorrow, I resign the Presidency of the United States.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Behind the Tony Kushner story: The deeper reasons for CUNY's rejection & reversal Last night, the executive committee of the CUNY Board of Trustees reversed the Board's refusal of an honorary degree to Tony Kushner. Behind the Board's original decision and its reversal are three stories. The first: There has been a concerted attack against the best traditions of open debate and exploration of opinion in academia and in Jewish life, when it comes to criticism of the Israeli government. The 2nd story:
Tuesday, May 10, 2011Behind the Tony Kushner story: The deeper reasons for CUNY's rejection & reversal Last night, the executive committee of the CUNY Board of Trustees reversed the Board's refusal of an honorary degree to Tony Kushner. Behind the Board's original decision and its reversal are three stories. The first: There has been a concerted attack against the best traditions of open debate and exploration of opinion in academia and in Jewish life, when it comes to criticism of the Israeli government. The 2nd story:
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Monday, May 2, 2011
Let Us Rejoice Over Peace, Not Death I myself would have been a lot happier to see Bin Laden arrested to stand trial, but assuming the report that he violently assisted arrest is true, I have no objection to his having been killed. Yet I was dismayed by the quasi-sports-victory tone of the celebrations that arose around the country -- chanting "U-S-A, U-S-A," for instance.
Monday, May 2, 2011Let Us Rejoice Over Peace, Not Death I myself would have been a lot happier to see Bin Laden arrested to stand trial, but assuming the report that he violently assisted arrest is true, I have no objection to his having been killed. Yet I was dismayed by the quasi-sports-victory tone of the celebrations that arose around the country -- chanting "U-S-A, U-S-A," for instance.
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Egypt's Pharaohs-- Ancient & Today: Mubarak's Military Mindset & His Allies Here & Elsewhere Every year at Passover, Jews recall the story of an ancient Egyptian ruler who oppressed his people and was overthrown by God, the People, and the Earth itself. This story is not just an antiquarian tale. It's an archetypal vision of what happens, again and again, when top-down tyranny becomes addicted to its own power, at first unwilling and then unable to change. We saw again these past weeks how profound the story is
Sunday, January 30, 2011Egypt's Pharaohs-- Ancient & Today: Mubarak's Military Mindset & His Allies Here & Elsewhere Every year at Passover, Jews recall the story of an ancient Egyptian ruler who oppressed his people and was overthrown by God, the People, and the Earth itself. This story is not just an antiquarian tale. It's an archetypal vision of what happens, again and again, when top-down tyranny becomes addicted to its own power, at first unwilling and then unable to change. We saw again these past weeks how profound the story is
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Five Steps to Burning Books From a small right-wing church in Florida, there has gone out a call to burn copies of the Quran on September 11. Instead of being ignored as clearly cuckoo, this call won national media coverage. As the German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine wrote almost two centuries ago, "Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people."
Tuesday, September 7, 2010Five Steps to Burning Books From a small right-wing church in Florida, there has gone out a call to burn copies of the Quran on September 11. Instead of being ignored as clearly cuckoo, this call won national media coverage. As the German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine wrote almost two centuries ago, "Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people."
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Grief, Horror, Commitment to Act: Responding to Israeli Navy killings of civilians in ships on the high seas This morning (Monday, Memorial Day, May 31, 2010), I awoke to news reports that the Israeli Navy had boarded and fired on six unarmed small ships, bearing civilians from many countries, in international waters approaching the coast of Gaza, carrying humanitarian supplies for Palestinians who have been suffering an Israeli blockade of many (not all) civilian goods.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010Grief, Horror, Commitment to Act: Responding to Israeli Navy killings of civilians in ships on the high seas This morning (Monday, Memorial Day, May 31, 2010), I awoke to news reports that the Israeli Navy had boarded and fired on six unarmed small ships, bearing civilians from many countries, in international waters approaching the coast of Gaza, carrying humanitarian supplies for Palestinians who have been suffering an Israeli blockade of many (not all) civilian goods.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Howard Zinn's last advice to America: A Broad Coalition for Independence From the Corporations & the Military imagining a coalition aimed at "independence from the military-corporate alliance," with a platform that includes strong planks on climate, jobs, health, ending the present wars, major reductions in the military, transforming campaign finance, and ending the filibuster.
Thursday, January 28, 2010Howard Zinn's last advice to America: A Broad Coalition for Independence From the Corporations & the Military imagining a coalition aimed at "independence from the military-corporate alliance," with a platform that includes strong planks on climate, jobs, health, ending the present wars, major reductions in the military, transforming campaign finance, and ending the filibuster.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Refuting The "White Savior" Attacks on Avatar Movie Some knee-jerk leftists have criticized the heroism of Jake Sully as merely another racist case of a "white male Marine" becoming savior of the exploited community. Indeed, some conservatives have stolen that rhetoric to discredit a widely celebrated film that clearly threatens to undermine the corporate-military-NeoCon alliance. But there are two mistakes in this rhetoric:
Tuesday, January 12, 2010Refuting The "White Savior" Attacks on Avatar Movie Some knee-jerk leftists have criticized the heroism of Jake Sully as merely another racist case of a "white male Marine" becoming savior of the exploited community. Indeed, some conservatives have stolen that rhetoric to discredit a widely celebrated film that clearly threatens to undermine the corporate-military-NeoCon alliance. But there are two mistakes in this rhetoric:
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Monday, January 4, 2010
The "AVATAR" film & the Trees' ReBirthDay: Celebrating Forest and the Lungs of Earth I urge that in many communities across our continent, multireligious groups together see the new film AVATAR this month; learn with me by teleconference seminar on January 14 the connections between this film and the meaning of the festival of Tu B'Shvat that celebrates the ReBirthDay of the Tree of Life
Monday, January 4, 2010The "AVATAR" film & the Trees' ReBirthDay: Celebrating Forest and the Lungs of Earth I urge that in many communities across our continent, multireligious groups together see the new film AVATAR this month; learn with me by teleconference seminar on January 14 the connections between this film and the meaning of the festival of Tu B'Shvat that celebrates the ReBirthDay of the Tree of Life
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
URGENT Jewish Letter to Sen. Lieberman In pursuit of justice, no autonomous Jewish community has ever allowed the poor to go without healing. It is clear that the present health insurance system based on private insurance companies is broken in every aspect except assuring enormous profits to itself.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009URGENT Jewish Letter to Sen. Lieberman In pursuit of justice, no autonomous Jewish community has ever allowed the poor to go without healing. It is clear that the present health insurance system based on private insurance companies is broken in every aspect except assuring enormous profits to itself.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Murders in the "Cathedral": Wichita & Washington A theological look at the commonalities between the Holocaust Museum murder and the Dr. Tiller murder shows several commonalities. Is interdenominational understanding possible?
Thursday, June 11, 2009Murders in the "Cathedral": Wichita & Washington A theological look at the commonalities between the Holocaust Museum murder and the Dr. Tiller murder shows several commonalities. Is interdenominational understanding possible?
