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The Occupation: Immoral & Self-Destructive
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 9:39 pm | Rabbi Michael Lerner
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. More >>
Spiritual Progressives Meeting with Jimmy Carter
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 9:59 am | Rabbi Michael Lerner
May 2, some leaders of the Network of Spiritual Progressives and NSP invited other Jewish, Christian and Islamic leaders to a private meeting with former U.S. president Jimmy Carter to discuss Israel/Palestine and also our strategy for homeland security: ... More >>
Why "Generosity Sunday" on Holocaust Memorial Day?
Friday, 13 April 2007, 11:18 am | Rabbi Michael Lerner
This Sunday, April 15, thousands of people will be holding "Generosity Sunday" events to launch a campaign for a Global Marshall Plan and urge the U.S. to change its fundamental orientation to foreign policy - away from the notion that homeland security is achieved ... More >>
There is no New Anti-Semitism
Sunday, 11 February 2007, 10:05 pm | Rabbi Michael Lerner
The N.Y. Times reported on January 31 about the most recent attempt by the American Jewish Community to conflate intense criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. In a neat little example of slippery slope, the report on "Progressive Jewish Thought ... More >>
Rabbi Michael Lerner: Reflections On D.C. Protest
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 10:34 am | Rabbi Michael Lerner
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. It was immense (the "tens of thousands" described by the media was closer to a good 150,000 people—at the ... More >>
A Moment To Celebrate! Hope Is Back!!!
Thursday, 9 November 2006, 1:10 pm | Rabbi Michael Lerner
It’s good to celebrate!...and contemplate a victory for Spiritual Progressives. Liberals and progressives sometimes have a tough time taking “yes” for an answer. Yet that’s just what the American people have been saying to our critique of Bush’s ... More >>
Rabbi Michael Lerner: End the Suffering in the ME
Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 11:35 am | Rabbi Michael Lerner
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. For ... More >>