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Informationen zum Autor Michael Lerner is the editor of TIKKUN magazine and rabbi of the neo-Hasidic Beyt Tikkun Jewish Renewal synagogue in San Francisco. His most recent book, Spirit Matters: Global Healing and the Wisdom of the Soul, was selected as "one of the most significant books of 2000" by the Los Angeles Times Book Review and won a PEN award. His previous writings include Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin, a dialogue with Cornel West, and Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation (described by Conservative Judaism journal as "stunning, miraculous and faith-renewing"). Rabbi Lerner, designated by Utne Reader as one of America's 100 Most Important Visionaries, has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, and Newsweek. He holds Ph.D.s in philosophy and clinical psychology. Klappentext Jewish culture, identity, and spirituality through the eyes of the brightest and best authors. This is a treasure trove of short stories, poetry, and essays from such renowned contributors as Naomi Wolf, U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, William Safire, and Marge Piercy. Zusammenfassung Presents a collection of short stories! poetry! and essays from renowned contributors such as Naomi Wolf! US Senator Joseph Lieberman! William Safire! and Marge Piercy. This work reflects the diversity of thought! opinion! and sensibility of known Jewish thinkers and writers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Jewish Writing and Healing the World xiii The Many Identities of a Jew To Jewishness 3 The Melting Pot and Beyond: Jews and the Politics of American Identity 8 Poems: Reversion and What Kind of Times Are These 15 Justify My Love 17 Ten Ways to Recognize a Sephardic 'Jew-ess' 29 Redemption on East Tremont: The kindness of Christians and a seder's matzah helps the daughter of Mendel Beilis fix the old fears 36 News About Jews 40 Gay and Orthodox 42 Slipping the Punch 55 The Night Game 70 From The Roots of a Public Life 73 From And What Is My Lifespan? 79 Stories: Grandmother Eve, Consecrating the Ordinary, Blessing, and The Reward 80 The Legacy: A Parable About History and Bobe-mayses, Barszcz, and Borscht and the Future of the Jewish Past 86 Reclaiming the Spirit in Judaism Nishmat 95 Starting on My Spiritual Path 97 On Renewing God 103 Eternity Utters a Day 113 A Kabbalah for the Environmental Age 115 Is God in Trees? 127 The Emergence of Eco-Judaism 134 A Theology of Illness and Healing 145 Death and What's Next 150 Eros and the Ninth of Av 152 From The Book of Jewish Values 155 Poems: Yom Kippur Sonnet and Science Psalm 162 Rereading Sacred Texts of Our Tradition From And Peace and Justice Shall Kiss 169 From Imagining the Birth of a Nation 186 From The Red Tent 193 From The Bible and You, the Bible and You and Other Midrashim 199 Aaron's God--and Ours: A Yom Kippur Reflection 200 Our (Meaning Women's) Book-of-Esther Problem 205 Living in the Shadows of the Holocaust Cattle Car Complex 213 Force Fields 221 The Sanctuary 228 The Trivialization of Tragedy 230 Hereditary Victimhood: The Holocaust's Life as a Ghost 241 The Meaning of the Holocaust: Social Alienation and the Infliction of Human Suffering 252 Israel in Conflict The New Historiography: Israel Confronts Its Past 265 Land for What? 281 Occupation and Antisemitism 284 A Novelist's Optimism: Reclaiming the Jewish Tradition 297 From Booking Passage 300 Poems: From In My Life, On My Life; Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Why Jerusalem?; and The Jewish Time Bomb 323 Hovering at a Low Altitude 326 The Pleasure of Jewish Culture Making Judaism Cool 331 Old Man 339 Poems: When You ...
