Foreword
David Ellenson
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1. Judaism, Justice, and American Life
Can Social Justice Save the American Jewish Soul?
Sidney Schwarz
What Does Tikkun Olam Actually Mean?
Jane Kanarek
Divine Limitation and Human Responsibility
Or N. Rose
Preaching What I Practice: The Power of Jewish Organizing
Margie Klein
The Legacy of Abraham Joshua Heschel: Jewish Spirituality and
Political Transformation
Michael Lerner
Religious Leadership and Politics
David Saperstein
PART II. Renewing Creation: Judaism and the Environment
Rereading Genesis: Human Stewardship of the Earth
Ellen Bernstein
Jewish Textual Practice and Sustainable Culture
Natan Margalit
Wonder and Restraint: A Rabbinical Call to Environmental Action
COEJL
Toxic Waste and the Talmud
Jeremy Benstein
Judaism, Oil, and Renewable Energy
Shana Starobin
PART III. The Temple of the Spirit: The Human Body
Redemption for Radicals: Jewish Congregation-Based Community
Organizing
Jonah Dov Pesner
The Blood of Our Neighbors: American Health Care Reform
Sandra Fox and Martin Seltman
The Global AIDS Crisis: Caring for the Sick by Standing with the
Activists
Jacob Feinspan and Julia Greenberg
A Jewish View of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Elliot N. Dorff
The Brownsville Legacy: Judaism and Reproductive Rights
Judith Rosenbaum
Looking Inward: Domestic Violence within the Jewish Community
Naomi Tucker
PART IV. The Yoke of Oppression: Social and Economic Justice
Hearing the Voice of the Poor
Aryeh Cohen
A Jewish Vision for Economic Justice
Jill Jacobs
Why a Labor Movement Matters
Arieh Lebowitz
And If Not Together, How? Jews and Immigration in the United
States
Dara Silverman
Gracious Giver of Wisdom: Recovering America's Great Public School
System
Marla Feldman and Joshua Seth Ladon
The Possibility of Change: An Argument for Restorative Justice
Sharon Brous and Daniel Sokatch
PART V. Klal Yisrael: Creating an Inclusive Community
The Significance of Sex: Social Order and Post-Mythic Religion
Jay Michaelson
Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: Social Justice and Sexual Values in
Judaism
Martha Ackelsberg and Judith Plaskow
Priority Lists: A Dialogue on Judaism, Feminism, and Activism
Rebecca Alpert and Danya Ruttenberg
Created Beings of Our Own: Toward a Jewish Liberation Theology for
Men, Women, and Everyone Else
Elliot Rose Kukla
Multiracial Jewish Families: A Personal and Political Approach to
Justice Politics
Marla Brettschneider
Differently Abled: The Lesson of Rabbi Elazar
Abigail Uhrman
PART VI. Seeking Peace: Israel, Palestine, and American Jewry
Warriors, Prophets, Peacemakers, and Disciples: A Call to Action in
the Face of Religiously Inspired Violence
Melissa Weintraub
Plotting the Middle Path to Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Role of
American Jews
Diane Balser
Imitatio Dei and/as Shared Space: A Jewish Theological Argument for
Sharing the Holy Land
Shaul Magid
Everything Falls Apart
Joel Schalit
The Challenge of Making Peace
Stephen P. Cohen
PART VII. The Seventy Nations: Global Concerns
Am I My Brother's Keeper If My Brother Lives Halfway Around the
World?
Ruth Messinger and Aaron Dorfman
A Jewish Response to Globalization
Micha Odenheimer
"Silence Is Akin to Assent": Judaism and the War in Iraq
Adam Rubin
Once Again: Genocide in Darfur
Mark Hanis
How to Split the Sea: Anti-Semitism and Social Change
April Rosenblum
Reopening the Tent of Abraham
Phyllis Berman and Arthur Waskow
Notes
Credits
Righteous Indignation on the Web
About the Editors
Rabbi Or N. Rose is an associate dean at the Rabbinical School of
Hebrew College. He is the coeditor of God in All Moments: Mystical
and Practical Spiritual Wisdom from Hasidic Masters and Righteous
Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice; Jewish Mysticism and the
Spiritual Life: Classical Texts, Contemporary Reflections and
Speaking Torah: Spiritual Teachings from around the Maggid's Table,
Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (all Jewish Lights).
Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, PhD, has fostered Jewish thinking about
social justice for over a decade as an editor at Tikkun and at
Zeek: A Journal of Jewish Thought and Culture.
Margie Klein is a passionate activist and budding religious leader.
Founder and director of Moishe House Boston: Kavod Jewish Social
Justice House, she is a student at the Rabbinical School of Hebrew
College. She is the founder of Project Democracy, a program that
mobilized 97,000 students to vote in the 2004 election.
Dr. David Ellenson is president of Hebrew Union College–Jewish
Institute of Religion. Dr. Ellenson was ordained as a rabbi at HUC
JIR and received his PhD from Columbia University. His book After
Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity won the
National Jewish Book Award. His most recent book, Pledges of Jewish
Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and
Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa, was coauthored with Daniel
Gordis.
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