Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice Book

Foreword   David Ellenson     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction     xiii
Judaism, Justice, and American Life
Can Social Justice Save the American Jewish Soul?   Sidney Schwarz     3
What Does Tikkun Olam Actually Mean?   Jane Kanarek     15
Divine Limitation and Human Responsibility   Or N. Rose     23
Preaching What I Practice: The Power of Jewish Organizing   Margie Klein     31
The Legacy of Abraham Joshua Heschel: Jewish Spirituality and Political Transformation   Michael Lerner     38
Religious Leadership and Politics   David Saperstein     45
Renewing Creation: Judaism and the Environment
Rereading Genesis: Human Stewardship of the Earth   Ellen Bernstein     55
Jewish Textual Practice and Sustainable Culture   Natan Margalit     60
Wonder and Restraint: A Rabbinical Call to Environmental Action$dCoejl     67
Toxic Waste and the Talmud   Jeremy Benstein     76
Judaism, Oil, and Renewable Energy   Shana Starobin     79
The Temple of the Spirit: The Human Body
Redemption for Radicals: Jewish Congregation-Based Community Organizing   Jonah Dov Pesner     87
The Blood of OurNeighbors: American Health Care Reform   Sandra Fox   Martin Seltman     94
The Global AIDS Crisis: Caring for the Sick by Standing with the Activists   Jacob Feinspan   Julia Greenberg     102
A Jewish View of Embryonic Stem Cell Research   Elliot N. Dorff     110
The Brownsville Legacy: Judaism and Reproductive Rights   Judith Rosenbaum     120
Looking Inward: Domestic Violence within the Jewish Community   Naomi Tucker     126
The Yoke of Oppression: Social and Economic Justice
Hearing the Voice of the Poor   Aryeh Cohen     135
A Jewish Vision for Economic Justice   Jill Jacobs     147
Why a Labor Movement Matters   Arieh Lebowitz     155
And If Not Together, How? Jews and Immigration in the United States   Dara Silverman     163
Gracious Giver of Wisdom: Recovering America's Great Public School System   Marla Feldman   Joshua Seth Ladon     169
The Possibility of Change: An Argument for Restorative Justice   Sharon Brous   Daniel Sokatch     175
Klal Yisrael: Creating an Inclusive Community
The Significance of Sex: Social Order and Post-Mythic Religion   Jay Michaelson     185
Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: Social Justice and Sexual Values in Judaism   Martha Ackelsberg   Judith Plaskow     195
Priority Lists: A Dialogue on Judaism, Feminism, and Activism   Rebecca Alpert   Danya Ruttenberg     206
Created Beings of Our Own: Toward a Jewish Liberation Theology for Men, Women, and Everyone Else   Elliot Rose Kukla     214
Multiracial Jewish Families: A Personal and Political Approach to Justice Politics   Marla Brettschneider     222
Differently Abled: The Lesson of Rabbi Elazar   Abigail Uhrman     229
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     237
Plotting the Middle Path to Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Role of American Jews   Diane Balser     249
Imitatio Dei and/as Shared Space: A Jewish Theological Argument for Sharing the Holy Land   Shaul Magid     260
Everything Falls Apart   Joel Schalit     270
The Challenge of Making Peace   Stephen P. Cohen     275
The Seventy Nations: Global Concerns
Am I My Brother's Keeper If My Brother Lives Halfway Around the World?   Ruth Messinger   Aaron Dorfman     281
A Jewish Response to Globalization   Micha Odenheimer     293
"Silence Is Akin to Assent": Judaism and the War in Iraq   Adam Rubin     303
Once Again: Genocide in Darfur   Mark Hanis     308
How to Split the Sea: Anti-Semitism and Social Change   April Rosenblum     312
Reopening the Tent of Abraham   Phyllis Berman   Arthur Waskow     319
Notes     327
Credits     348
Righteous Indignation on the Web     350
About the Editors     351