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