The Jeff Farias Show

Thursday, January 8 2008

At 4:30 Rabbi Michael Lerner is an American rabbi, political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish and interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue of San Francisco. He penned this article for Tikkun. http://files.tikkun.org/current/article … 2124321774

At 6 PM Larry Beinhart author of Salvation Boulevard is a page-turning thriller in the tradition of John Grisham and Richard Condon that grapples with the ecstatic and entropic nature of religious faith in contemporary America. http://www.larrybeinhart.com

At 6:30 Judy Rebick is the CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University in Toronto. Judy was the founding publisher of rabble.ca, Canada’s most popular progressive online publication. She is the author of several books, the most recent of which is Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution. For most the 1990s, Judy was the host of a national TV show on CBC Newsworld. Previously, she was president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Canada’s largest women’s group. She returns with a report on her recent arrest at a protest.

We also spoke with Professor Neve Gordon chair of the Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and the author of Israel’s Occupation. His latest article for The Guardian newspaper is titled ‘The Dire Cost of Domestic Rivalries’ “This first complete history of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip allows us to see beyond the smokescreen of politics in order to make sense of the dramatic changes on the ground that have developed over the past four decades. Looking at a wide range of topics from control of water and electricity to healthcare and education, as well as surveillance and torture, Neve Gordon’s panoramic account reveals a fundamental shift from a reliance on a politics of life.

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