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Global healing requires a spiritual transformation of every aspect of life. Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun Magazine, author/educator Matthew Fox and Joanna Macy, eco-philosopher and scholar of Buddhism speak of the profound interconnectedness of all life and the experience of joy, courage and community we need to engage in the healing of the world.

Author Rabbi Michael Strassfeld encourages us to reorganize our thinking about—and reengage our lives with—Judaism. Rabbi Michael Strassfeld has served the Jewish community for over five decades, in numerous capacities, including as an educator, writer, editor, rabbi, and community leader. He is the author of Judaism Disrupted, which is being published on the 50th anniversary of his breakthrough best-seller that sold over 300,000 copies, The Jewish Catalog. Rabbi Strassfeld, the son of a Modern Orthodox rabbi, was ordained as a rabbi over 30 years ago by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He served as rabbi for a decade at Congregation Ansche Chesed and for 14 years as Rabbi for The Society for the Advancement of Judaism. For nearly 20 years he was the leader of High Holiday services at Congregation Ansche Chesed. He also was their director of programming and development for four years, and their executive director for three years. He served as a member of the faculty of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality for 15 years, the executive director of the Jewish Counter culture Oral History Project for three years, and the founding chairperson of the National Havurah Committee for three years. He also was a founding vice-president of the Abraham Joshua Heschel School, a board member of Beyond Shelter, a coalition of Manhattan synagogues concerned with homelessness, and a founding chairperson of Learning, a young adult education brochure of seven Manhattan synagogues. He has had articles published by Tikkun Magazine, Shma, Hadassah, CLAL, Response Magazine, and other publications. He also edited the Second and Third Jewish Catalogs (1975,1979), authored The Jewish Holidays (1985), co-authored A Night of Questions: A Passover Haggadah (1999), and authored A Book of Life: Embracing Judaism as a Spiritual Practice (2002). He recorded Songs to Open the Heart: Contemplative Niggunim (2003). He also edits a free weekly newsletter about Judaism, available on his website michaelstrassfeld.com.

Ez itt a Hetek legújabb podcast-műsora, az Idők jelei. A Hit és Értékek rovat digitális különkiadása, ami spirituális elemzést nyújt közéleti folyamatokhoz. Az 1. részben arabokkal beszélgettünk a mostani terrorhullámról, és általában az izraeli-palesztin konfliktusról. Sokkoló válaszokat kaptunk. Amiről még szó esik: - Miért nem lehet jogos egy ilyen támadás, vagyis miért nem szabadságharcról van szó? - Miként gondolkozik sok palesztin a zsidókról? - Csak a cionistákkal van gondjuk vagy általában a zsidókkal? - Mi az a zsidó ünnep, amit ez a támadás tönkretett? Exkluzív tartalmakért kérjük csatlakozzon a Hetek Podcast Támogatói Körhöz https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2NVRVAxBpZNvocn8wzrcrw/join Videó képforrásai: Wikimedia/ Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue , YT/ Rick Steves' Europe, YT/ The American University in Cairo, Tikkun Magazine, Twitter/ @Israel , Yt/SkyNews, YT/AFP, Shutterstock/Puzzlepix , Library of Congress Képforrás: shutterstock/Puzzlepix Kövess bennünket: Facebookon: https://www.facebook.com/hetek Instagramon: https://www.instagram.com/hetek.hu/ Soundcloudon: https://soundcloud.com/hetek-magazin/ és online is: https://www.hetek.hu

Deirdre “Jonese” Austin, MDiv, 24-years-old, is a scholar, writer, minister, and womanist. She aspires to live a life committed to a radical love ethic as she works towards healing and wholeness through good theology, research, direct action, and public policy. Her calling is to explore the ways in which healing can be facilitated in and through the Black Baptist Church, and her current focus is promoting healing, wholeness, and liberation for Black Christian women around their bodies and sexuality. Join Jonese as she grows in knowledge and experience as it relates to the intersections of faith, race, gender and sexuality, and justice. Casey Overton (she/they) is a radical faith-rooted strategist and spiritual activist who is deeply vested in the development of healing cultures. As National Coordinator for Tikkun Magazine's Network of Spiritual Progressives, they love being immersed in cooperative interfaith dialogue while creating restorative space for those marginalized within their respective faith institutions. She's also an amateur poet, nap-taker, time-bender, and movement chaplain-in-training. She hails from increasingly black, middle-class suburbs in the stolen Appamattuck and Arrohatec lands outside of Richmond, VA. They hold a Bachelor's in Strategic Communication from Hampton University as well as a Master's in Christian Practice concentrated on justice and reconciliation from Duke University. Deirdre “Jonese” Austin Website: https://deirdrejoneseaustin.com Instagram: @deirdrejonese Twitter: @deirdrejonese Casey Overton Justice Unbound: https://justiceunbound.org/author/casey-overton/ Writings- Liturgy That Matters: https://enfleshed.com Twitter: @CaseyOverton1 Instagram: @bestcasescenario_

Rob interviews writer/filmmaker Arnon Shorr and artist Joshua Edelglass about their newest book: José and the Pirate Captain Toledano Support your local independent bookshop by purchasing at  Bookshop.org bookshop.org/a/10588/9781728446066 or via Amazon at amzn.to/3Od0wI3 Our theme song is by Benny and the No Goods.   Check out their awesome music right HERE Bennyandthenogoods.bandcamp.com One easy way to support this show is to rate and review Alley Chats wherever you listen to our podcast.  Those ratings really help us and help others find our show. Alley Chats is produced and edited by Rob Southgate for Southgate Media Group.  Thanks again to our affiliate sponsors Hunt a Killer and Tweaked Audio.  Be sure to use the coupon code SOUTHGATE when checking out for our special deals.  Links to them are also on our webpage.  Follow this show on Facebook @alleychats Follow our parent network on Twitter at @SMGPods Make sure to follow SMG on Facebook too at @SouthgateMediaGroup Learn more, subscribe, or contact Southgate Media Group at www.southgatemediagroup.com.   Check out our webpage at southgatemediagroup.com If you're an artist or writer or creative type that would have a table at in artist alley and would like to be on Alley Chats, message us through the Facebook page or email us directly at southgatemediagroup@gmail.com and we'll set up an interview.   About the Writer Arnon Z. Shorr, a filmmaker and screenwriter, loves telling stories. Half‐ Sepharadi / half‐Ashkenazi, a Hebrew speaker in America, a Jewish privateschool kid in a mostly non‐Jewish suburb, whenever he'd set foot in one world, his other foot would betray him as different. That's why he tells stories that embrace the peculiar and the other. For more about Arnon, visit www.arnonshorr.com. Formerly of Los Angeles, he lives in Boston.  About the Illustrator  Joshua Edelglass' work has appeared in publications including The Jewish Comix Anthology, Tikkun Magazine, and The New Haven Review. His artwork has also appeared in numerous exhibitions, including Pow! Jewish Comics Art and Influence at the Brooklyn Jewish Art Museum. He has watched Star Trek II more times than is probably healthy. For more information about Josh, visit www.joshuaedelglass.com. He is the Assistant Director of Camp Ramah New England and lives near Boston.

Casey Overton (she/they) is a radical faith-rooted strategist and spiritual activist who is deeply vested in the development of healing cultures. As National Coordinator for Tikkun Magazine's Network of Spiritual Progressives, they love being immersed in cooperative interfaith dialogue while creating restorative space for those marginalized within their respective faith institutions. She's also an amateur poet, nap-taker, time-bender, and movement chaplain-in-training. She hails from increasingly black, middle-class suburbs in the stolen Appamattuck and Arrohatec lands outside of Richmond, VA. They hold a Bachelor's in Strategic Communication from Hampton University as well as a Master's in Christian Practice concentrated on justice and reconciliation from Duke University. Writings- Liturgy That Matters: https://enfleshed.com Twitter: @CaseyOverton1 Instagram: @bestcasescenario_ Books Referenced Living in The Shadow of The Cross by Paul Kivel- https://paulkivel.com/books/living-in-the-shadow-of-the-cross/ Parable of he Sower by Octavia Butler- https://www.google.com/books/edition/Parable_of_the_Sower/kmFOEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&kptab=overview Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison- https://www.google.com/books/edition/Invisible_Man/iSrI-BQqFf0C?hl=en&gbpv=0 Native Sons by James Baldwon- https://www.google.com/books/edition/Native_Sons/trKKx24i2EQC?hl=en&gbpv=0 In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker- https://www.google.com/books/edition/In_Search_of_Our_Mothers_Gardens/m0TJX5mc6gcC?hl=en&gbpv=0

Welcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, we share a story that can provide hope and inspiration and discuss the challenges we face in our efforts to move beyond individual acts of goodness to acts of societal transformation. Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us) Rabbi Lerner's book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove Emma's Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com

Join Jesse Palidofsky for music and reflection, crafted especially for chaplains. Azalea City Recordings artist Jesse Palidofsky has been performing his original songs in folk venues, coffeehouses, and festivals for decades. "I Am An Immigrant" reached #1 on the International Folk Radio charts and "Dancing Toward the Light " was the #5 CD . Jesse's updated “America the Beautiful: 2020” with Bluegrass vocalist Claire Lynch and Blues singer Lea Gilmore has 65,000 hits on YouTube. He is the recipient of numerous songwriting awards. Jesse's appearances include: National Theatre, Hugh's Room (Toronto), Sloop Clearwater “Pumpkin Sail”, Common Ground on the Hill Roots Music & Arts Festival, FOCUS Music, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Institute of Musical Traditions, Association of Professional Chaplains Annual Conference, Washington Folk Festival, Friends General Conference, Common Ground on the Border, Takoma Park Folk Festival, Pastoral Care Network for Social Responsibility, Tikkun Magazine, Club Sandwich, Folkal Point Coffeehouse. Learn more at JessePal.net.

One of the most challenging topics in interfaith settings is Israel/Palestine. How do we begin to address this subject, create space for meaningful dialogue, and take steps towards action? How can those outside of Palestine and Israel better inform ourselves? What is our role? We explore some of these questions, acknowledging the difficulty of even agreeing on a shared view of history, language, and responsibilities. Featuring Faisal Saleh, founder of the Palestine Museum US, and Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine. Learn more about: Palestine Museum https://www.palestinemuseum.us/ Tikkun https://www.tikkun.org/

In this episode, we discuss the ongoing conflict and rising violence in Israel/Palestine. Ha'aretz Article You can learn more and register for the JCC East Bay Tikkun Leyl Shavuot (where Rabbi Lerner and Cat Zavis will be teaching) here. Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us) Rabbi Lerner's book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove Emma's Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com

Welcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, we discuss the rise of fascist forms of nationalism and a strategy to tackle it before it controls the United States and other countries. Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us) Rabbi Lerner's book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove Emma's Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com

Welcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, Celebrating the Covid Relief Bill and Dreaming of More, we recognize the importance of celebrating the covid relief bill that will provide desperately needed funds to Americans at this time and speak to what we believe is needed going forward. To learn more about our Liberation Seder (everyone is welcome!), go to: www.beyttikkun.org. Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us) Rabbi Lerner's book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove Emma's Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com

Welcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, we discuss the failure of the Senate to convict Trump, Biden's call for unity, and more! Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us) Rabbi Lerner's book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove Emma's Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com

Dr. Shaul Magid joins Seekers of Unity for an interview about living inside the paradox, the possibilities, opportunities and dangers of real spirituality today, the intersection between Jewish theology and other traditions on incarnation and apotheosis, and mystical antinomianism, clash of realities, in today's day and age. We get to talking about Zalman Schachter-Shalomi's new vision for reality, paradigm shifts in religion, how to build new universal metaphysics without erasing differences, and ask what's unique about Jewish mysticism? About our Guest: Dr. Shaul Magid is a Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and the Distinguished Fellow of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, rabbi of the Fire Island Synagogue, contributing editor to Tablet Magazine and editor of Jewish Thought and Culture at Tikkun Magazine. He is also a member of the American Academy for Jewish Research. Shaul received his rabbinical ordination in Jerusalem and his PhD from Brandeis University. His work spans the scope of Jewish thought, specializing in Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah and Hasidism, Modern Jewish thought, with specific emphasis on American Jewish thought and culture, Zionism, and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. His published books include: From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbalah which won the 2008 American Academy of Religion Best Book Award; Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism; Hasidism on the Margin Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism in Izbica/Radzin Hasidism; The Bible, the Talmud and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik's Commentary to the Gospels; and Piety and Rebellion: Studies in Hasidism. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hello and welcome to WGBD “When God is Black and Disabled” a podcast by and with Black women of faith with disabilities, hosted by the Rev. Raedorah C. Stewart. This podcast is a space to amplify the voices and validate the experiences of Black women of faith from various streams of spirituality, in the church, and for the culture.  In doing so, we imagine the Imago Dei with disabilities as incarnate and more valuable to humanity than is cast as burdensome, accidental, or incidental to God's creative genius.  Content includes hermeneutical reflections on disability in the Bible, non-canonical, and other sacred texts; special guests with varying disabilities narrating their stories; commentaries of lament; and calls for action that the church becomes the head and not the tail of disability justice.  About the Host:  Rev. Raedorah C. Stewart is known as RevSisRaedorah in publications and QueenQueenDom on social media platforms holds a Masters of Arts in Christian Leadership from a Calvinist seminary on the West coast;  MDiv equivalency courses in biblical Greek and Hebrew from the same; and completion of the Doctor of Ministry in Spirituality and Story from a Wesleyan seminary on the East coast.  I have held committee positions in the American Academy of Religion including the Committee of Persons with Disabilities in the Profession, Womanist Theology and Ethics groups, Queer Studies in Religion, Theology and the Arts, and African American and Indigenous Preaching.  Publications include poetry in “Deeper Shades of Purple:  Womanism in Religion and Society” through the NYU Press; and in other publications by and for Black women in the church; article in the Tikkun Magazine article, “Made by God, Broken by Life: Developing an African American Hermeneutic for Disability”; article in the Sage Journal Theology Today, “Loop, Hook, Pull: Disabled by Design—Creating a Narrative Theology of Disability"; and academic paper in the International Journal of Black Theology, “Say Now Shibboleth--Queerying Words at Work in Worship.”  I am ordained clergy, a seminary professor, and Director of Christian education at my home church. This podcast is launched with grace and generosity by support from the Henry Luce Foundation and Columbia University's Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social Justice (CARSS).  I am grateful for the review team who discerned the urgency of advancing disability as a justice issue in the 21st Century and saw value in my proposal to receive one of their Rapid Response Grants.  A special thank you to the psalmist, Ms. Wasaba Sidabey aka Soul Queen Wu aka The Self-Love Enthusiast, who composed, recorded, and mixed the podcast Intro and Outro.  Her gift to the body is only now beginning to be known.  Get to know her, hire her, pay her--www.SoulQueenWu.com.Finally, I thank God for this opportunity to serve and thank you for tuning in.  Subscribe.  Get notifications.  We'll be back each Sunday after dinner and a nap.  See you next week.  Calls-to-action: Please share this podcast.Interested in being a guest?:  hire@iwritesolutions.comInvite Rev. Stewart to preach or speak:  hire@iwritesolutions.comThank you for love gifts and offerings:  CashApp $Raedorah  |  Venmo @Raedorah

Welcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, in honor of the holiday season, we have decided to dream big and imagine a truly transformed and loving world. We invite you to imagine with us! Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us) Rabbi Lerner's book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove Emma's Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com

Welcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, we discuss the liberatory and spiritual meanings of Chanukah and Christmas and why as spiritual activists we think drawing on these messages is important in our work to heal and transform the world. But unfortunately in this mass capitalist culture, those meanings get obscured and replaced with the mantra of buy, buy, buy. And that message is particularly painful this year in the midst of a pandemic that has crushed even the insufficient financial resources for tens of millions of people in our society. Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org. Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us) Rabbi Lerner's book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove Emma's Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com

Friend of the show, author, essayist, and Dartmouth professor of Jewish Studies, Shaul Magid joins us to discuss the latest peace deals among Bahrain, UAE, Sudan, among others. Ethics and efficacy are at play and Professor Magid really digs in. He is a contributing editor to Tablet Magazine, editor of Jewish Thought and Culture at Tikkun Magazine, and Kogod Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. His work includes the Jewish mystical tradition, American Judaism, and the Israel/Palestine conflict and history of Zionism. His latest two books are Piety and Rebellion: Essays in Hasidism and The Bible the Talmud and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Solovetichik's Commentary to the Gospels. His new book project is Meir Kahane: An American Jewish Radical. Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch! Get fun stuff or visit the patreon link!    

Author, essayist, and Dartmouth professor of Jewish Studies, Shaul Magid joins us to discuss the myth of a “two state solution” in the Palestine/Israel conflict. He explains the origins of the idea and its continued belief amongst “liberal Zionists” that this must be possible. He contends that without it, these people must admit that they are possibly no different than the right wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Professor Magid is a contributing editor to Tablet Magazine, editor of Jewish Thought and Culture at Tikkun Magazine, and Kogod Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. His work includes the Jewish mystical tradition, American Judaism, and the Israel/Palestine conflict and history of Zionism. His latest two books are Piety and Rebellion: Essays in Hasidism and The Bible the Talmud and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Solovetichik's Commentary to the Gospels. His new book project is Meir Kahane: An American Jewish Radical.   Be a Spoonful of Sugar. Visit patreon.com/thebittertruth for details!  

Dr Zieve talks with author Kristin Wartman about how much obesity could be caused by malnutrition and her article "the Obesity Paradox." Commentator Martha Rosenberg weighs in on drugs with her article "New Weight-Loss Drugs Could Be America's Next health-Care Disaster." Kristin Wartman is a food writer living in Brooklyn, NY, focusing on the intersections of food, health, politics, and culture. Her writing regularly appears in The Huffington Post, Civil Eats, and Grist. Sheís also written for The Atlantic, Tikkun Magazine, Critical Quarterly, and The New Labor Forum. Read more at kristinwartman.com. Martha Rosenberg is a health reporter and commentator whose work has appeared in Consumers Digest, the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Los Angeles Times, Providence Journal and Newsday. She serves as editorial cartoonist at the Evanston Roundtable. Her book Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health was published by Prometheus Books in 2012. Read more at opednews.com/martha. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Rabbi Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun Magazine (https://www.tikkun.org/), on the topic of "A Jewish Mandate to Address the Environmental Crisis!" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun Magazine (www.tikkun.org/), presents his lecture "Revolutionary Love" before an audience at Temple Chai (https://www.templechai.com/) in Phoeniz, AZ ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: Rabbi Michael Lerner, Ph.D., is a leading author, public intellectual, and spiritual leader. He is the founder and editor of Tikkun Magazine, the world’s most widely read and quoted liberal/progressive Jewish and interfaith magazine, started in 1986 as an alternative to the Jewish neo-conservatives. Tikkun Magazine has received numerous awards for its creative synthesis of progressive politics and spiritual wisdom. Rabbi Lerner is also the Co-founder and Chairperson of the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in San Francisco. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP For more info, please visit:
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Rabbi Dr. Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun Magazine (https://www.tikkun.org/), presents his lecture "Lessons from 53 Years of Social Justice Activism" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: Rabbi Michael Lerner, Ph.D., is a leading author, public intellectual, and spiritual leader. He is the founder and editor of Tikkun Magazine, the world’s most widely read and quoted liberal/progressive Jewish and interfaith magazine, started in 1986 as an alternative to the Jewish neo-conservatives. Tikkun Magazine has received numerous awards for its creative synthesis of progressive politics and spiritual wisdom. Rabbi Lerner is also the Co-founder and Chairperson of the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in San Francisco. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP For more info, please visit:
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Rabbi Michael Lerner editor of Tikkun Magazine, author of Revolutionary Love and civil rights activist for 55 years. Speaking about religion and intolerance.

It’s more than the similar time of year. According to guest Rabbi Michael Lerner, of Tikkun Magazine and chair of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, both holidays mark times in which people without power successfully took on the powers of The post Christmas/Hanukkah Are About Strength Through Generosity, Not Dominance appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.

Gregory "Joey" Johnson of the Revolution Club, U.S. flag burner, Rabbi Michael Lerner founder of Tikkun Magazine, Tom Carpenter Director of Hanford Challenge on Hanford nuclear clean up.

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Ariel Gold and Lily Tajjadini. Ariel serves as the national co-director of the anti-war group CODEPINK, and is an organizer with the Ithaca Committee for Justice in Palestine. Ariel has been published in The Huffington Post, Forward, and Tikkun Magazine, among others. Lily is also an organizer with CODEPINK where she is the Iran Campaign manager. Ariel and Lily, who were recently involved in the historic occupation of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C., describe the events that lead up to this dramatic action and what hurdles they encountered from local authorities, the Secret Service, and a barrage of protesters loyal to self-appointed president Juan Guaidó. Ariel and Lily recount the creative efforts on the part of the embassy activists, who called themselves as the Embassy Protection Collective, to get food and supplies into the embassy where as many as 50 demonstrators were inside, having been invited to stay by the legitimate government of Venezuela led by Nicolás Maduro. We hear about hostile clashes during which pro-Guaidó protestors, who had barricaded the exterior of embassy, attempted to intimidate embassy volunteers and prevent access to first aid, medicine, and food. We discuss the fate of activists who were arrested by authorities after the embassy was illegally raided after an incredible 36 days. Ariel and Lily explain that activists haven’t been charged with trespassing, an admission that the embassy was Venezuelan territory. Additionally, representatives of Guaidó’s self-described “government” still haven’t gained access to the site, further proof of the shaky footing the US government knows itself to be on. Finally, Ariel and Lily explain that, far from a symbolic act, this effort had a real impact on ratcheting down tensions and making a US military attack on Venezuela less likely. You can follow Ariel on twitter at @ArielElyseGold, and Lily at @lilytaj5. You can also find Code Pink as at @codepink. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes. We can't do this show without your support!!!

According to the Washington Post, US President Donald Trump "is questioning his administration's aggressive strategy in Venezuela following the failure of a US-backed effort to oust President Nicolás Maduro, complaining he was misled about how easy it would be to replace the socialist strongman with a young opposition figure, according to administration officials and White House advisers. The president's dissatisfaction has crystallized around National Security Adviser John Bolton and what Trump has groused is an interventionist stance at odds with his view that the United States should stay out of foreign quagmires." What's really going on?South Africans voted Wednesday in the country's sixth national election since the formation of its democratic government 25 years ago. This election was seen as a test for President Cyril Ramaphosa and his party, the African National Congress (ANC), which has led South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994. Ramaphosa and the ANC were expected to prevail, and early results, which started trickling in Thursday, suggest they will do so — but likely with a reduced majority.Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says CEO Mark Zuckerberg is "not accountable," and the government should break up the social media giant. In a New York Times op-ed Thursday, Hughes writes that Facebook has gotten out of control. In an interview with NBC News following up on his op-ed, Hughes said it's become clear that "the Facebook that exists today is not the Facebook that we founded in 2004." The FBI is investigating nearly 850 people as possible domestic terrorists. FBI Assistant Director for Counterterrorism Michael McGarrity told a House of Representatives panel on Wednesday that the number of cases involving white supremacists and others motivated by race has jumped in the past six months. McGarrity said there have been more arrests and deaths caused by domestic terrorists in the US in recent years than international ones, and that that hatred and extreme views are increasingly being spread online.GUESTS:Ariel Gold — National co-director for Code Pink. She carries out creative actions for peace and justice in the US and throughout the world. Ariel has been published in The Forward, HuffPost, Tikkun Magazine and more. Keidi Awadu — Award-winning author, journalist, chef and host of The Conscious Rasta Report on LIBRadio on BlogTalk RadioChris Garaffa — Web developer and technologist.Dr. Shantella Sherman — Historical researcher, technical writer, author of "In Search of Purity: Popular Eugenics & Racial Uplift Among New Negroes 1915-1935" and publisher of Acumen Magazine.

It's Friday: that means it's panel time, as we discuss the major stories of the week.Just over 24 hours after announcing his presidential bid, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has already raised $6 million from more than 225,000 donors, his campaign said Wednesday morning. That amount far surpasses what any of his rivals have disclosed raising after their own announcements this year. I know that it is still very early in the game, but is this a data point that we should take note of? Previously, Senator Kamala Harris of California had claimed the biggest early fundraising haul that had been made public, with $1.5 million in 24 hours. In comparison, Sanders' campaign said its fundraising in the first 24 hours came to $5.9 million. Sanders' early fundraising success is not unexpected: After all, he raised well over $200 million when he ran against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination in the 2016 election, and his list of online donors dwarfs those of his rivals.US President Donald Trump said Wednesday the United States would not re-admit an American-born woman Hoda Muthana, who traveled to Syria to join Daesh and now wants to come home. She does not qualify for citizenship and has no legal basis to return to the country, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. In 2014, Muthana, then a 20-year-old student in Alabama, traveled to Turkey, hiding her plans from her family. She told them she was heading to a university event. In fact, she was smuggled into Syria, where she met up with Daesh. She has now seen the error of her ways and wants to come back home. Pompeo said Muthana did not have “any legal basis, no valid US passport, no right to a passport nor any visa to travel to the United States.” Muthana says she applied for and received a United States passport before leaving for Turkey. And she was born in the United States — ordinarily a guarantee of citizenship. Muthana's father was a Yemeni diplomat, and children born in the United States to active diplomats are not bestowed birthright citizenship, since diplomats are under the jurisdiction of their home countries. What's at play here?The Supreme Court struck an extraordinary blow for criminal justice reform on Wednesday, placing real limitations on what many have called policing for profit across the country. Its unanimous decision for the first time prohibits all 50 states from imposing excessive fines, including the seizure of property, on people accused or convicted of a crime. The Eighth Amendment guarantees that no “excessive fines” may be “imposed,” an ancient right enshrined in the Magna Carta and enthusiastically adopted by the Framers of the US Constitution. Police in the US employ civil asset forfeiture, a process that we would call theft in any other context. Here's how it works: Prosecutors accuse an individual of a crime, then seize assets that have some tenuous connection to the alleged offense. What are real implications of this decision? Three leading Democratic presidential candidates have recently signaled their support for some form of “reparations” for black Americans, broadly, if vaguely, backing the idea of compensating the descendants of enslaved people in the United States. Sens. Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), as well as former Obama administration housing official Julián Castro, have all said in recent weeks they support reparations for African Americans. How will this translate on the election trail, and is it a realistic focus?GUESTS: Ariel Gold — National co-director for Codepink. She carries out creative actions for peace and justice in the US and throughout the world. Ariel has been published in The Forward, Huffington Post, Tikkun Magazine and more. Bob Phillips — Executive director for Common Cause North Carolina, the Raleigh-based chapter of Common Cause, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization dedicated to encouraging citizen participation in democracy. Teresa M. Lundy — Government affairs and public relations specialist and principal of TML Communications, LLC. Eugene Craig III — Republican strategist, former vice-chair of the Maryland Republican Party and grassroots activist. Colin Campbell — PhD student in the Department of Communication, Culture and Media Studies at Howard University's School of Communication. He has been a TV news reporter for more than 20 years. As a senior Washington, DC, correspondent since 2008, he has been a reporter-at-large, covering two presidencies, Congress and the State Department.

US Attorney General Bill Barr is preparing to announce as early as next week the completion of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, with plans for Barr to submit to Congress soon after a summary of Mueller's confidential report. Under the special counsel regulations, Mueller must submit a "confidential" report to the attorney general at the conclusion of his work, but the rules don't require it to be shared with Congress, or, by extension, the public. And, as Barr has made clear, the Justice Department generally guards against publicizing "derogatory" information about uncharged individuals. What's the media to do? Americans have been whipped into a frenzy about this report, and it looks like it's going to be anti-climatic in terms of its legal scope. Politically, who knows?The Supreme Court struck an extraordinary blow for criminal justice reform on Wednesday, placing real limitations on what many have called policing for profit across the country. Its unanimous decision for the first time prohibits all 50 states from imposing excessive fines, including the seizure of property, on people accused or convicted of a crime. What are the real implications of this decision? As the deadline approaches for the withdrawal of US forces fighting the Daesh in Syria, America's closest European allies have turned down a Trump administration request to fill the gap with their own troops, according to US and foreign officials. France and Britain are the only other countries with troops on the ground in the US-led coalition battling Daesh. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said last week that he was mystified by Trump's policy. On Tuesday, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said that “there is no prospect of British forces replacing the Americans” in Syria. What does mean for Syria going forward? On the website Grayzone Project, Anya Parampil writes, "Maria Faría, the daughter of a would-be Hugo Chávez assassin, illegally barged into Venezuela's embassy in Costa Rica and declared herself ambassador. The embarrassing stunt highlighted everything wrong with Juan Guaidó's reality-show government." We'll take a deep dive into everything wrong in Venezuela, the US attempt to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro and set the facts straight on the legitimacy of Juan Guaido. The Costs Of War Project released a report showing that "the American public has largely ignored the post-9/11 wars and their costs. But the vastness of Washington's counterterror activities suggests, now more than ever, that it's time to pay attention." What does his mean? They "set out to map all the places in the world where the United States is still fighting terrorism so many years later, since September 2001 when the Bush administration launched the 'Global War on Terror.'” What did they find? How much has this cost in blood and treasure? Their project's research shows that, "since 2001, the US war on terror has resulted in the loss — conservatively estimated — of almost half a million lives in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan alone. By the end of 2019, we also estimate that Washington's global war will cost American taxpayers no less than $5.9 trillion already spent and in commitments to caring for veterans of the war throughout their lifetimes." What's going on here?GUESTS:Brian Becker — Co-Host of Loud & Clear on Sputnik News Radio. Barbara Arnwine — President and founder of Transformative Justice Coalition, internationally renowned for contributions on critical justice issues including the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1991 and the 2006 reauthorization of provisions of the Voting Rights Act.Hassan El-Tayyab — Co-director of Just Foreign Policy. Over the past two years, he has been working to end the war in Yemen through direct lobbying, publishing his writings, grassroots organizing and speaking at rallies, living rooms, board rooms, college campuses, the radio and TV to create a larger platform for Yemeni voices working for peace.Anya Parampil — Washington, DC-based journalist. She previously hosted a daily progressive afternoon news program called "In Question" on RT America. Ariel Gold — National co-director for Codepink. She carries out creative actions for peace and justice in the US and throughout the world. Ariel has been published in The Forward, Huffington Post, Tikkun Magazine and more. Stephanie Savell — Co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent and 2016 Democratic primary runner-up, announced today that he is making a second run for president. During the campaign three years ago, he called for “Medicare for all,” a $15 minimum wage and tuition-free public colleges, positions that a number of Democrats have taken on as their own in some form or fashion. The 77-year-old says he's running not only to oppose President Donald Trump but to enact progressive ideas like universal healthcare, a $15 minimum wage and student debt reduction. Bernie is forcing folks like Senators Amy Klobuchar and Kamala Harris to define themselves and their policies within his context. Klobuchar has to say where she stands on free college for all and Medicare for all. Harris has to explain why she's not a socialist. He is impacting how the discussion is being framed. When it comes to explaining how these candidates will pay for their programs, Senator Elizabeth Warren has her millionaire tax. It will be interesting to see if the discussion turns to military spending, forcing some of these hawkish Democrats to really move to the left. What impact will this have going forward to 2020? President Trump spoke to a segment of the Venezuelan community in Miami on Monday, putting an overtly political gloss on his administration's backing of a coup in Venezuela, casting that country's turmoil as a cautionary tale for those who would embrace socialism. “Socialism has so completely ravaged this great country that even the world's largest reserves of oil are no longer enough to keep the lights on,” Mr. Trump said. “This will never happen to us.” The president seems to be pulling out all stops to rally support for his ill-conceived coup in Venezuela. What are we to make of this? Republicans have been warning us about voter fraud for a while. The data told us that it was not happening at any statistically significant level. Well, a case has been found, and it involves a Republican candidate. A North Carolina woman is detailing how a voter fraud operation in a controversial Congressional race worked. In the first day of testimony at a state Board of Elections hearing yesterday, Lisa Britt explained how she illegally picked up and falsified absentee ballots in the 9th Congressional District. Britt explained how she would handle unsealed and incomplete ballots. What's going on with this case? GUESTS:Garland Nixon — Co-Host of Fault Lines on Sputnik News. Ariel Gold — National co-director for Codepink. She carries out creative actions for peace and justice in the US and throughout the world. Ariel has been published in The Forward, Huffington Post, Tikkun Magazine and more. Bob Phillips — Executive director for Common Cause North Carolina, the Raleigh-based chapter of Common Cause, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization dedicated to encouraging citizen participation in democracy.

Richard Silverstein publishes a blog called Tikun Olam which means “Repair the world.” Richard is also published in a number of other publications including Haaretz, Tikkun Magazine and numerous others. Baruch and Richard discuss Israel; it’s founding, the occupation, Israeli … More ... The post Richard Silverstein – Journalist Blogger Israel Palestine Zionism Theocracy appeared first on Paradigms Podcast.

Robyn Thomas is currently serving in her tenth year as the Executive Director of the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. A national nonprofit organization founded by attorneys, the Law Center is focused on providing comprehensive legal research and expertise in support of smart gun laws that save lives. Under her leadership, the Law Center has experienced a dramatic increase in the scope of it’s work in providing legal support to legislators, activists, and the media in their search for commonsense solutions to gun violence. Ms. Thomas oversees the Law Center’s legal activities across the nation, including the development of state and local gun policies, and has testified at numerous public hearings in support of such laws. She is also an expert on the Second Amendment and oversees the Law Center’s tracking and analysis of all Second Amendment litigation nationwide. Prior to her work with the Law Center, Ms. Thomas served as the Executive Director of the Tikkun Community and Tikkun Magazine and practiced law at Lord Bissell & Brook and Milberg Weiss Bershad & Shulman in New York. She is a graduate of Duke University and University of Miami School of Law, where she graduated magna cum laude. Learn more at smartgunlaws.org.

Dr. Miller interviews guest Dr. Michael Lerner, Rabbi, Clinical Psychologist, Political Activist, Author and Creator of Tikkun magazine. While at Berkeley, Lerner became a leader in the Berkeley student movement and the Free Speech Movement, chair of the Free Student Union, and chair from 1966-1968 of the Berkeley chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society. After teaching philosophy of law at San Francisco State University, he took a job as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington and taught ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of literature and culture, and introduction to philosophy. After serving for five years as dean of the graduate school of psychology at the New College of California (now defunct) in San Francisco, Lerner and his then-wife Nan Fink created a general-interest intellectual magazine called Tikkun: A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture and Society. Tikkun was started with the intention of challenging the left for its inability to understand the centrality of religious and spiritual concerns in the lives of ordinary Americans. With his associate editor Peter Gabel, Lerner developed a "politics of meaning" to speak to the hunger for meaning that was characteristic of the thousands of people that Lerner and his colleagues were studying at the Institute for Labor and Mental Health. Tikkun was formed to educate the public about the findings of the Institute and to develop some of the implications of that work. However, because it also had an interest in being an "alternative to the voices of Jewish conservatism," Tikkun was criticized by some Jewish groups. In 1993, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton included the "politics of meaning" in her synthesis of political and social philosophy she was forming. Later in 2002, Lerner organized a group called the Tikkun Community among readers of Tikkun magazine and those who share its editorial vision.

  The Rev. Martin Luther King is best known for his work on civil rights and for advocating non-violent resistance.  Few people, however, know about his religious convictions and what he preached from the pulpit. Be Scofield a San Francisco based spiritual activist has done extensive research into King’s theology and has uncovered some surprising information about King’s beliefs beyond that of civil rights. Be holds a B.A. in Psychology/Philosophy from Warren Wilson College, has done graduate coursework in Postcolonial Anthropology and is currently pursuing a Master's of Divinity at Starr King School for the Ministry in the Unitarian Universalist tradition with an emphasis in women’s studies and counter oppression. His website God Bless the Whole World is a free online educational resource that provides tools for personal and social transformation. The site feature hundreds of videos, audio files, articles and courses on social justice, spiritual activism, counter oppression, environmentalism and self care among many others.   Resources King's God: The Unknown Faith of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Article in Tikkun Magazine, by Be Scofield God Bless the Whole World  Website The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute Email Be Scofield