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Strong Praise for "Freedom Journeys"-- McKibben, Messinger, Wallis &c: http://www.theshalomcenter.org/freedom-journeys

By Editor | 3/11/2011

 

Freedom journeys book cover 

TO ORDER, CLICK HERE: Freedom Journeys: The Tale of Exodus and Wilderness across Millenia
  by Rabbi Arthur Waskow and Rabbi Phyllis Berman.

All those people in our headline, plus more —  Rev. Bob Edgar, head of Common Cause; Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun; Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi; Rev. Michael Kinnamon, head of the National Council of Churches;  Laleh Bakhtiar,  first woman translator of the Qur’an; and many more who have seen advance galleys of Freedom Journeys — now published in March 2011 by Jewish Lights Publishing of Woodstock VT — say it is terrific! Now you can explore for yourself these creative ideas both about how to read anew and reinterpret the ancient text, and how to apply its profound lessons in our own world crisis.

  • Below is advance praise by an amazing array of leaders in many different communities. One example: “It was the Exodus story that undergirded the civil rights movement; but as Arthur Waskow and Phyllis Berman demonstrate in this fascinating book, even Martin Luther King didn’t plumb the entire story, which we need now more than ever.”  —Bill McKibben, author, Eaarth; founder, 350.org

 We invite you to order a copy from The Shalom Center’s  Shouk Shalom

by clicking here

or  — if you make a tax-deductible donation of $180 or more —

we will send you a copy personally inscribed to you by Rabbis Berman and Waskow   Read more »

Rainbow, Oil Slicks, & Sabbatical Year: A tale of two covenants -- broken

By Editor | 5/5/2010

By Rabbi David Seidenberg See his Website at http://www.neohasid.org/

Monday, May 10, 2010, is also the 27th of Iyyar—the date when
Noah’s family and the animals left the ark and received the rainbow
covenant.

There is a special correlation between this week’s Torah portion and
the rainbow covenant of Noah’s time. And there is a foreboding
contrast between the rainbow covenant and what’s happened in the Gulf
of Mexico. The tension between these dynamic relationships in many
ways defines the predicament of our time.   Read more »

Bankers, the Bible, & the Bail-out

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 9/23/2008

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Hard-headed Bankers or Masters of Disaster?
Sacred Economics — Is it Silly?
Hard-headed Economics — Is it Breaking our Heads?

If you listen to the hard-headed people who presumably keep us prosperous, Biblical and Quranic economics are, of course, quaint and unrealistic. They’re based on romantic ideas about benefiting the poor, the landless, the outcast. Good for motivating open-hearted charity; bad for making hard-headed decisions necessary to run a successful economy.

Right. Which is why the hard-headed folks have created a crazy economic yo-yo skidding on the edge of massive disaster, in which the worst-hit will of course not be the Wall Street / Washington power-houses but the rest of us.   Read more »

Toward a Jubilee Economy & Ecology in the Modern World

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 5/12/2008

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow

[This essay is a chapter in Rabbi Waskow’s book Godwrestling — Round 2 (Jewish Lights, 1996). The book is available as a free gift from The Shalom Center, personally inscribed by Rabbi Waskow as you choose, if you use the Donate Now button on the right to make a tax-deductible contribution of $180 or more.

[At the end of this essay you will find citations on teachings from the Hebrew Bible & related materials toward a Jubilee Economics and Ecologics.]::

One lesson that we have discerned from studying the story of the Flood [see a previous chapter from Godwrestling — Round 2] is that it is profoundly necessary for us to affirm and celebrate the cycles of life if we wish to preserve the cycles of life. Are those cycles now in danger? And if so, how can we affirm them?   Read more »

The Shmitah and Yovel: Sabbatical and Jubilee Years

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 9/8/2001

Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Shmitah & Jubilee

Is it irresponsible for a society to insist that land is returned the original land-holder, even if they had lost it through laziness and lack of care? What kind of society would insist that moneylenders continue to lend to those in need, even if they knew that the borrower would be unable to pay the money back by the 7th year? These are some of the questions we might ask about Shmitah and Jubilee, the 7 year and 50 year cycles described in Leviticus 25.   Read more »

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