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Eating Ethically: What it Means and How
to Embrace it
by Jaime Ahlberg
The debate surrounding ethically sound food choices
seems to have gathered increased interest as of late. With a continuously
growing collection of popular books and magazine articles, as well
as the increased interest in farmer’s markets and the availability
of “organic”, and other “ethically produced”
foods in grocery stores, how to eat ethically has developed from
being an interest of a few eccentrics into a popular movement.
Surviving Suicide: Leaving Red Lake
by Lilian Friedberg
Suicide claims more adolescents than any disease
or natural cause. Adolescents now commit suicide at a higher rate
than the national average of all ages.
On Israel's Right
to Exist
by Raja Halwani
With the recent election of Hamas and its formation
of a new Palestinian government, a few world bodies, notably the
United States, the European Union, and Israel, have refused to deal
with it unless it met certain demands: to renounce violence, abide
by previous agreements with Israel, and recognize Israel or, as
it is also put to recognize Israel’s right to exist. The hypocrisy
underlying these demands notwithstanding, it is the last that is
the subject of this essay, specifically, the object of the demand,
Israel’s right to exist.
Global Poverty: Facts, Responsibilities,
and Motivations
by Shain Izadi
This essay brings together central facts about global
poverty, suggests modest obligations for citizens in the affluent
nations in addressing the problem, and provides suggestions as to
how we should conceive of our obligations and argue for them.
Text of Roundtable Presentation, Presbyterian
Church, April 23, 2006
by Joseph Levine
Our purpose here today is to discuss whether or not
the PCUSA should reconsider this resolution. It seems to me that
there are four basic issues that arise when deciding the moral appropriateness
of an action like divestment. First, the behavior that is the target
of the action - in this case, the Israeli occupation - must be sufficiently
serious to warrant a response like divestment. Divestment is a serious
business after all.
Thoughts on Philosophy and Activism
by Emily Mcrae
The common stereotype of the philosopher is the armchair
thinker, lost in thought, who is more concerned with whether this
armchair really exists then the mundane cares of the world. But
this of course is only a stereotype.
A Moral Defense of Fair Trade
by Matthew Mitterko
In this paper, I argue in support of fair trade.
That is, I want to explicate the moral concerns of “ethical
consumption” in cases such as the Fair Trade movement, and
why we should support them.
What Is Michael Lerner Really Talking About?
by Steven Salaita
Because of his gravitas among American liberals,
Rabbi Michael Lerner, founder of the Tikkun Community and editor of
its publication, Tikkun Magazine, has gained access to a
number of prominent left-liberal outlets. Indeed, only the Arab or
Muslim Americans who disavow Islam and Arab cultures through admiration
of Israel (Irshad Manji, Fouad Ajami, Walid Phares) have access to
an audience as broad as Lerner’s.
A Jewish Perspective on Divestment from Israel
by Ora Wise
A revised version of a speech delivered by the author
at a Presbyterian Church USA Divestment roundtable in New York,
October 24th 2005).
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