(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 24, 2016
Chanukah and Christmas as we approach a Trump presidency The bad news is that the world is not yet redeemed, and our religions have at times acted more like the oppressors than like the embodiments of the liberatory humanitarian loving energy they set out to embody. The good news is that there are many people in both of these religions who are capable of reclaiming the hopeful and loving and justice-oriented instincts.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 28, 2016
What's Really Best for Israel? Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump went before AIPAC this year and pandered to those who blindly support Israel's hard-line policies, but Bernie Sanders's more evenhanded approach is better for Israel, says Rabbi Michael Lerner.

(8 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Bernie: Create a Tea Party off the Left Within the Democratic Party Now But there is something you can do, and it's not to get a few planks put on the Democratic Platform that will immediately be ignored, as all the party platforms always are, immediately after their conventions are over. What you can do is organize a force within the Democratic Party that has the same determination to change the direction of that party as the Tea Party had within the Republican Party.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, September 27, 2015
Save the Pope's Radical Prophetic Message from Media Trivialization Recognizing the Pope's prophetic role at this historical moment doesn't mean that we can't also urge him to rethink the Church's stance on women, on homosexuals, on abortion, and on birth control. We must do what we can to bring his radical message to the attention of a society whose media are already hearing a trivialization of the Pope's message as they try to transform him into the world's latest momentary celebrity.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 10, 2015
We All Should Be Repenting for the Suffering of the Refugees The economic catastrophe led many to flee the violence of gangs and the hunger that US policies had created for millions of people in the global south. To escape that condition, millions risked their lives to get to the US where eager employers could use them to break the backs of trade unions, guaranteeing wages would remain depressed even as the rich and their corporations were going through ever new financial booms.

SHARE        Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Baltimore Riots Against Police Violence--Tikkun and the Baptists Response Police violence, particularly though not only against African Americans, requires immediate and forceful response at every level of our society. People should be protesting in the streets of our country wherever an ethical consciousness has not yet been snuffed out by cynicism, surplus powerlessness, indifference, or inability to focus due to mind-destroying absorption in the distractions that abound in cyberspace, the media

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 27, 2015
Israel Faces Moses's Demand to Pharaoh The racist dishonesty of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has challenged Judaism's humanistic principles, as many young Jews will now flip the Passover script, putting the Palestinians in the position of Moses demanding "Let my people go" -- or give them the vote in one state, writes Rabbi Michael Lerner.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 18, 2015
The Militarists and Haters Win in Israeli Elections Though the Israeli president has said he will ask for a government of national unity, it will be unity around the policies which Netanyahu put out clearly in the last days of the election: No Palestinian state, no deal that would allow Iran to develop nuclear energy, no willingness to count Arab Israelis as "real Israelis."

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Benjamin Netanyahu's Fantasy World Netanyahu's speech to Congress was brilliantly deceitful because it played to the fantasies that Israeli propaganda and right wing militarists in the United States have been popularizing for the past thirty years.