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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 Rachel Adler Yehuda Amichai Aharon Appelfeld Zygmunt Bauman David Biale Tsvi Blanchard Daniel Boyarin Anita Diamant Morris Dickstein Nathan Englander Nomi Eve Sidra DeKoren Ezrahi Nancy Flam Peter Gabel Mordechai Gafni Rebecca Goldstein Arthur Green Steve Greenberg Martin Jay Rodger Kamenetz Irena Klepfisz Kenneth Koch U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman Jonathan Mark Benny Morris Jacqueline Osherow Ilana Pardes Marge Piercy Robert Pinsky Daniel Pipes Norman Podhoretz Sarah Polster Dennis Prager Dahlia Ravikovitch Rachel Naomi Remen Adrienne Rich Jonathan Rosen Thane Rosenbaum Philip Roth William Safire Susan Schnur Jonathan Schorsch Ruth Knaffo Setton Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Alan Shaprio Rami Shapiro Jerome Slater Joseph Telushkin Yona Wallach Arthur Waskow C. K. Williams Naomi Wolf David Wolpe Zusammenfassung Michael Lerner collects the greatest Jewish writing of the 1990s in this first volume of a new series. It features pieces on Jewish culture! identity! and spirituality. 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 Proble...