The Righteous Indignation Project

A JEWISH CALL FOR JUSTICE

Table of Contents

Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice

Foreword – David Ellenson

Introduction – Editors Or N. Rose, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, and Margie Klein

Part I: Judaism, Justice, & American Life
  • Sid Schwarz – Can Social Justice Save the American Jewish Soul?
  • Jane Kanarek – What Does Tikkun Olam Actually Mean?
  • Or N. Rose – Divine Limitation & Human Responsibility
  • Margie Klein – Preaching What I Practice: The Power of Jewish Organizing
  • David Saperstein – Religious Leadership & Politics
Part II: Renewing Creation: Judaism and the Environment
  • Ellen Bernstein – Rereading Genesis: Human Stewardship of the Earth
  • Natan Margalit – Jewish Textual Practice & Sustainable Culture
  • COEJL – Wonder & Restraint: A Rabbinic Call to Environmental Action
  • Jeremy Benstein – Toxic Waste & the Talmud
  • Shana Starobin – Judaism, Oil, & Renewable Energy
Part III: The Temple of the Spirit: The Human Body
  • Jonah Dov Pesner – Redemption for Radicals: Jewish Congregation-Based Community Organizing
  • Sandra Fox Fox & Martin Seltman – The Blood of Your Neighbors: American Healthcare Reform
  • Jacob Feinspan & Julia Greenberg – The Global AIDS Crisis: Caring for the Sick by Standing with the Activists
  • Judith Rosenbaum – The Brownsville Legacy: Judaism & Reproductive Rights
  • Naomi Tucker – Looking Inward: Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community
Part IV: Oppression in Our Midst: Domestic Concerns
  • Aryeh Cohen – Hearing the Voice of the Poor
  • Jill Jacobs – A Jewish Vision for Economic Justice
  • Arieh Lebowitz – Why a Labor Movement Matters
  • Dara Silverman – And If Not Together, How? Jews and Immigration in the United States
  • Marla Feldman & Joshua Seth Ladon – Gracious Giver of Wisdom: Recovering America’s Great Public School System
  • Sharon Brous & Daniel Sokatch – The Possibility of Change: An Argument for Restorative Justice
Part V: K’lal Yisrael: Creating an Inclusive & Just Community
  • Jay Michaelson – The Significance of Sex: Social Order & Post-Mythic Religion
  • Martha Acklesberg & Judith Plaskow – Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: Social Justice & Sexual Values in Judaism
  • Elliot Rose Kukla – Created Beings of Our Own: Toward a Jewish Liberation Theology for Men, Women, & Everyone Else
  • Marla Brettschneider – Multi-Racial Jewish Families: A Personal & Political Approach to Justice Politics
  • Abigail Uhrman – Differently Abled: The Lesson of Rabbi Elazar
Part VI: Seeking Peace: Israel, Palestine, & American Jewry
  • Melissa Weintraub – Warriors, Prophets, Peacemakers, & Disciples: A Call to Action in the Face of Religiously Inspired Violence
  • Diane Balser – Plotting the Middle Path to Israeli-Palestinian Peace: The Role of American Jews
  • Shaul Magid – Imitatio Dei and/as Shared Space: A Jewish Theological Argument for Sharing the Holy Land
  • Joel Schalit – Everything Falls Apart
  • Stephen P. Cohen – The Challenge of Making Peace
Part VII: The Seventy Nations: Global Concerns
  • Aaron Dorfman & Ruth Messinger – Am I My Brother’s Keeper If My Brother Lives Halfway Around the World?
  • Micah Odenheimer – A Jewish Response to Globalization
  • Adam Rubin – Silence is Akin to Assent: Judaism & the War in Iraq
  • Mark Hanis – Once Again: The Genocide in Darfur
  • April Rosenblum – How to Split the Sea: Anti-Semitism & Social Change
  • Phyllis Berman & Arthur Waskow – Reopening the Tent of Abraham