Peace, Justice, and Jews:
Reclaiming Our Tradition

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Murray Polner and Stefan Merken

Table of Contents
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Ira Chernus. Ethics, Victimhood and Power
Ken Stanton. Where the World of the Human Spirit and Everyday Life Meet
David Howard. Why I Won’t Go to Israel
Kenny Freeman. A Dreamer’s Sojourn in the Holy Land
Susannah Heschel. The Loneliness of a Prophet: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Dorothy Field. Not That It's So Much Easier: A Poem
Scott Kennedy. Christians, Jews and Muslims: A Personal Journey
E. James Lieberman. A Peace of Mind
Bennett Muraskin. A Secular Jew
Rabbi Michael Robinson. My Life: Living Nonviolently
Allan Solomonow. Allan Falls Down the Rabbit Hole & Into the Middle East Conflict


REVERENCE FOR LIFE

Phyllis Taylor. Binding Up The Broken Hearted: A Prison Ministry
Nina Natelson. Justice and Compassion For All
Leah Green. A Radical Approach to Conflict: Compassionate Listening
Dorothy Field. Khirkha: A Poem
Roberta Kalechofsky. Kitchen Politics
Stefan Merken. Blacks and Jews: My Experience


OUR HERITAGE

Rabbi Arthur Waskow Violence & Nonviolence in Jewish Thought & Practice
Edward Feder. Will There Ever Be a Another Holocaust?
Claudia Dreifus. Berlin Stories
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. A True Story
Rabbi Philip Bentley. Fixing the World
Helen Fein. Reading the Second Text
Rabbi Michael Rothbaum. Re-examining Genesis
David Sparenberg. All Flowers, A Love Poem
Richard Schwartz. Social Justice
Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg. Judaism, Feminism and Peace in the Nuclear Age
Evelyn Wilcock. Impossible Pacifism: Jews, the Holocaust and Nonviolence

AGAINST WAR
Ruth Hiller and Sergeiy Sandler. A Matter of Conscience: Militarism & Conscientious Objection in Israel
Rabbi Albert S. Axelrad. Pacifoid Jew
Jerry Elmer. Was the Vietnam-Era Peace Movement Effective?
Naomi Goodman. In the Heady Seventies of the Women's Movement -- A Poem
Ira Katz. War Remembrance
Michael Young. Facing a Test of Faith: Jewish Pacifists During the Second World War
Murray Polner. American and Israeli Conscientious Objectors
Rabbi Arthur Waskow. Torah, War and the “Gentle Heart” Today
Lawrence S. Wittner. The Political Rehabilitation of Joseph Rotblat

THE MIDDLE EAST
Dan Leon. Not Yet a Season for Peace
Jeff Halper. A Prophetic Judaism of Human Rights
Yitzhak Frankenthal. To Be a Free Nation in Our Land
Ada Aharoni. Not Returning Home; My Sister, Daughter of Ishmael: Two Poems
Nura Resh. Machsomwatch (Checkpointwatch)
Milton Viorst. Descent Into Violence
Herbert C. Kelman. Anti-Semitism and Zionism in the Debate on the Palestinian Issue: Personal Reflections
Joseph Abileah. An Israeli Who Said 'No' -- Photo and Text
Rabbi Victor Hillel Reinstein. A Prayer For Israel

Photographs courtesy of Jesse Abrahams, Tal Hayoun, Avi Hirshfield, Stefan Merken, Deborah Rohan Schlueter, Paul Tick, and Linda Wolf