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	Michael Lerner (rabbi) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lerner, a rabbi in the Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal, promotes the concept of Jewish Renewal, a small Jewish movement which he descibes as "positive Judaism", rejecting what he considers to be ethnocentric interpretations of the Torah.
		Recently, Lerner accused the anti-war group International ANSWER of anti-Semitism, claiming that their decision to bar him from speaking at their rallies against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, was due to his outspoken support for the continued existence of Israel.
		Lerner has signed the 911 Truth Statement [2] calling for new investigations of unexplained aspects of the 9/11 events, including the failure of US intelligence to act on warnings of upcoming attacks, the breakdown of military air defense, and the nature of the investigations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Lerner_(rabbi) (598 words)

	Peace Demonstration Bares Its Anti-Semitic Teeth
		Rabbi Michael Lerner has been banned from speaking at the antiwar rally in San Francisco this Sunday, February 15.
		That was the response given when various groups proposed Rabbi Lerner, thinking it logical to have him speak since he is one of the most prominent peace voices in the Jewish world.
		But Rabbi Lerner was flballed and banned by A.N.S.W.E.R., one of the four organizing committees for the S.F. demonstration expected to attract hundreds of thousands.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=6109 (595 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - ANSWER vetoes Rabbi Michael Lerner
		Michael Lerner is a respected representative of the Jewish left, and he deserves a place at the table....
		To reiterate, the fact that Michael Lerner was not invited to speak on Feb. 16 was not the consequence of a "veto" by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition.
		Lerner and Hillary Clinton had a thing going for a brief moment, and then she, like so many others, realized that having Lerner around the place was like having a badly trained retriever, either jumping up and licking your face or making a mess in the corner.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID38/10315.html (2247 words)

	Seattle's Conscious Choice: Building A Spiritual Left
		Lerner emphasizes that you don’t have to believe in God or “a higher power”; secular people who are what Lerner calls “spiritually sensitive” and wanting to make Democrats and the progressive social change movement more inclusive and receptive to religious and spiritual people are also welcome.
		Lerner: Changing liberal and progressive politics to make it more spiritually centered is more than just “reframing” the old policies with new slogans—liberals and progressives need a fundamental rethinking of the foundations of their politics—and that will take more than one or two years.
		Lerner: There is a depressive certainty among too many liberals and progressives that their highest values will just turn people off, so that all they can do is talk about what they are against (the war, the Bush assault on the judiciary) but not what they are for.
	www.evergreenmonthly.com /2005/em2106/spiritual_left2106.html (1512 words)

	MER - Pope Disaster - Rabbi Michael Lerner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Lerner was careful to make clear that he was NOT speaking as leader of The Tikkun Community, the interfaith organization whch he co-chairs, which has NOT taken a stand on these issues, but only as editor of TIKKUN magazine.
		Late this evening, Rabbi Lerner was interviewed on a national call-in radio show on the issues discussed here, and he mentioned the problem that Catholics have of speaking out on these issues, given Cardinal Ratzinger's tendency to take retributive actions to purge from positions in the church those who disagreed with his views.
		A retired catholic priest called in, said he agreed 100% with Rabbi Lerner's position, and said that he wouldn't dare say these things under his own name for fear that his retirement pension would be cut off, so he thanked Rabbi Lerner for saying for progressive Catholics what many do not dare say for themselves.
	www.middleeast.org /launch/redirect.cgi?num=188&a=41 (1159 words)

	Hear Rabbi Michael Lerner Speak Feb. 16 on Reclaiming America from the Religious Right : SF Bay Area Indymedia
		Michael Lerner is an internationally renowned social theorist, theologian, psychotherapist, and the editor of Tikkun magazine.
		“Michael Lerner is a rare voice of sanity and intelligence in a nation where our moral values have been corrupted by the greed of the market and the ambitions of empire.
		Lerner’s eight-point progressive Spiritual Covenant with America in The Left Hand of God is a blueprint for how the Democratic Party and liberal social change movements can effectively challenge the Right by calling for a New Bottom Line that gives priority to our spiritual needs in all our economic, political and social institutions.
	www.indybay.org /news/2006/01/1799186.php (887 words)

	A Mideast rift in peace coalition / S.F. rabbi highlights speaker controversy
		At the center of the dispute is Rabbi Michael Lerner, founder of the progressive Jewish magazine Tikkun, based in San Francisco, and the four groups trying to put up a unified front for an event expected to bring at least 125,000 people into the streets.
		Lerner, whose criticisms of both Israeli and Palestinian actions have made him prominent in Bay Area left-wing circles, was suggested as a possible speaker by rally co-sponsor United for Peace and Justice.
		Lerner's name was never submitted to the full coalition sifting among 300 nominees vying for a spot on the platform Sunday.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/02/12/MN196344.DTL (949 words)

	Intolerance on the left \| Salon.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Michael Lerner, liberal rabbi and harsh critic of Ariel Sharon, finds himself fllisted by ANSWER, the group co-sponsoring Sunday's big antiwar rally in San Francisco.
		But Lerner says that the agreement giving ANSWER veto power over its critics was merely a pretext used by the group as an excuse to keep him off stage.
		The real reason for his exclusion, Lerner believes, is that, while he is unrelenting in his opposition to Ariel Sharon's government and his call for Palestinian statehood, he supports Israel's right to exist and condemns Palestinian terrorism.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2003/02/12/lerner_ban/index_np.html (757 words)

	Chamberlin Lecture
		Rabbi Michael Lerner is rabbi of Beyt Tikkun and editor of Tikkun magazine, a bi-monthly Jewish critique of politics, culture and society.
		Rabbi Lerner was a student and disciple of the famous Jewish leader and philosopher Abraham Joshua Heschel.
		Rabbi Lerner is a frequent lecturer around the world and continues to teach Torah each Saturday morning for Beyt Tikkun synagogue.
	www.lclark.edu /org/artslive/michaellerner.html (323 words)

	Banning Lerner from Speaking at the anti-war demo : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As Rabbi Lerner has said repeatedly since that time, had he been rejected as a speaker because some thought he wasn't a smart or effective as a communicator, he would have had no problem with the whole process.
		Lerner was told that the organizations involved felt that having unity with ANSWER was so hard-fought and such an accomplishment that it would not be worth it to challenge this agreement.
		Rabbi Lerner responded to such suggestions by saying that he was not seeking to speak, he was seeking to challenge the insensitivity to the problems of anti-Semitism and Israel-bashing in the Left.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2003/02/1575449.php (3297 words)

	Soul man
		Such is the conviction of Michael Lerner, co-founder with Peter Gabel of the politics of meaning movement.
		Lerner insists, however, that belief is not required for full participation in the politics of meaning movement.
		According to Lerner, we long for purpose and meaning in our lives, though we live in a culture that ignores them, or "separates" them from the mainstream and into the isolated spaces we reserve today for religious services and practices.
	www.metrotimes.com /news/stories/news/18/09/politics.html (1128 words)

	Rabbi Michael Lerner
		Renowned Rabbi Michael Lerner will speak for the Centre for Spirituality at Work while he is visiting Toronto from California -- he will be here for the Spirit Matters conference (www.tlcentre.org) May 13 to 16 and for the founding conference of Tikkun Toronto on Saturday night and Sunday, May 15 and 16 (www3.sympatico.ca/marmorek/tikkun).
		Michael Lerner is chair of the widespread Tikkun community of people of various faith traditions who support social change movements (www.Tikkun.org -- pron'd Tee - koon').
		Rabbi Lerner calls for both the outer transformation needed to achieve social justice, ecological sanity, and world peace, and the inner healing needed to foster loving relationships and a generous attitude to others and the world that is unimpeded by the distortions of our egos.
	www.spiritualityatwork.org /Lerner.htm (665 words)

	Michael Lerner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Michael Lerner, a rabbi, is the editor of Tikkun magazine and the author of numerous books, including Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin, and The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism.
		Rabbi Lerner, a former student of eminent Jewish scholar and thinker Abraham Joshua Heschel, founded the Institute for Labor and Mental Health and for many years served as a psychotherapist for middle income working people.
		Lerner has a background in political activism as a member of the "Seattle Seven." With academic degrees from Columbia University and U. of California, Berkeley, Lerner has taught philosophy at the University of Washington in Seattle and Trinity College in Connecticut.
	www.butler.edu /writersstudio/vws/writers/lerner.html (167 words)

	Boulder Weekly \| NewsandViews \| CoverStory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Lerner and this other rabbi had a plan that the money should be used as reparations to Palestinians, because of what the Jews had done to them.
		Lerner, whose Jewish magazine is sharply critical of Israel and pro-Israeli Jews, says he has become accustomed to critics who call him a "self-hating" or "self-loathing" Jew.
		Lerner says he’d like to impress upon people at the workshop the idea that both Palestinians and Jews need to understand that they’re equally responsible for the violence and killing that has come to characterize Israel.
	www.boulderweekly.com /archive/101702/coverstory.html (2099 words)

	Self-Hating Jews Work to Destroy Jews and Israel! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Lerner goes further and asks Jews everywhere to "allow themselves to hear the cries of pain of the Palestinian people for that is the "only way we could ever atone the loss of that beautiful Palestinian child, Mohammed al-Dura.
		Lerner says he was ordained Rabbi in 1995, but had in fact been calling himself Rabbi for many years before that, such as while serving as Hillary Clinton's guru, and so is in effect admitting he is a liar and has been a Rabbi imposter.
		The only reason Lerner even wishes to be listed as a member is to use his membership as a means of legitimizing and as a fig leaf for his campaign to promote anti-Jewish terrorism and anti-Semitism.
	www.masada2000.org /selfhate.html (2802 words)

	Rabbi Michael Lerner Urges Jews To Support McKinney
		- Left-wing magazine editor Rabbi Michael Lerner is urging Jewish support for Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney in her bid to retain her House seat, in a signal that some Jews on the left are preparing to take on Israel supporters who decry McKinney's sympathies for the Palestinian cause.
		Lerner, editor of the magazine Tikkun, said he backed McKinney's candidacy, calling McKinney's position on Israel a "reasonable critique." For lawmakers feeling pressured to bow to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, he said, the McKinney race would be a "bellwether for feeling safe to raise criticisms" of Israel.
		Lerner discussed McKinney's race in an e-mail update sent this week to the roughly 20,000 affiliates of the newly formed Tikkun Community, a liberal group calling for increased support for the poor and a pro-Israel, anti-occupation Middle East policy.
	www.rense.com /general27/thre.htm (1039 words)

	Michael Lerner: From What Is to What Ought to Be
		Rabbi Lerner is an idealist who is actively engaged, not only philosophically but practically, in how we can actually transform this world that seems to be heading toward disaster.
		Lerner was deeply inspired in his youth by Abraham Heschel, one of modernity's greatest Jewish theologians.
		While I agreed with Lerner's emphatic declaration that spiritual evolution should result in active transformation of the world, the automatic association of the spiritual and the fiercely political was not always as obvious to me as it was to him.
	www.wie.org /j19/lernerintro.asp (580 words)

	The Banning of Rabbi Lerner
		Lerner's crime: he had dared to criticize ANSWER, an outfit run by members of the Workers World Party, for using antiwar demonstrations to put forward what he considers to be anti-Israel propaganda.
		Before Lerner had been suggested as a speaker, the coalitions engineering the San Francisco event had agreed that any individual who had publicly disparaged one of the organizing groups could be vetoed as a speaker by that group.
		And Beyt Tikkun synagogue, where Lerner serves as a rabbi, released a statement saying, "we do not believe that had ANSWER been criticized by a major feminist or gay leader and then vetoed that leader to speak at a demonstration that the other coalition partners would go along with that.
	www.thenation.com /capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=385 (1377 words)

	Tavis Smiley . Archive . Wednesday February 22nd . Transcript \| PBS
		Lerner: Well, it happened in part because there is a real spiritual crisis in American society.
		Lerner: Number one, we have to challenge the religio-phobia on the left.
		Lerner: Yeah, well, in a way, first of all, this is like the women's movement, the Civil Rights movement, the gay movement.
	www.pbs.org /kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200602/20060222_transcript.html (4130 words)

	MOONBAT CENTRAL: Michael Lerner on Armed Revolution
		Plaut's Complaint writes: "Lerner… was basically proclaimed a `Rabbi' by three other people, each of whom might or might not have been Jewish himself, who put their hands on Mikey's head and said, `Domini Domini youse a rabbi.'"
		Michael Lerner is a clown and belongs in a distict category.
		Lerner is trying to make a touchy feely mockery of a fine religon.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /moonbatcentral/2005/02/michael-lerner-on-armed-revolution.html (634 words)

	JEWSWEEK - Rabbi Lerner's just war
		Rabbi Michael Lerner is second only to Noam Chomsky on the list of Jews other Jews love to hate.
		However, Rabbi Lerner has publicly taken the lead on an issue we all should be involved in, curbing the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment on the political left.
		Lerner had publicly criticized A.N.S.W.E.R., one of the sponsors of the rally, for using the anti-war movement to push anti-Israel rhetoric.
	www.jewsweek.com /bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l147&enZone=Opinions&enVersion=0& (1023 words)

	Amazon.com: The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right: Books: Michael Lerner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine, staked out a position many years ago that I have only recently embraced -- though there is much that we do not and cannot know about the ultimate Mystery, it is nonetheless vitally important to connect with the Spirit.
		Central to Rabbi Lerner's analysis is the psychological insight that the right's appeal is based on fear, while the left's appeal is based on hope.
		Lerner believes that liberals should not attack the Right for lack of sincerity of for trying to impose their values on government - reality is that the Left also wants its values in government, and is simply upset that it has been increasingly shut out.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060842474?v=glance (3302 words)

	Index
		Michael Lerner, Rabbi Lerner is rabbi of Beyt Tikkun and the editor of TIKKUN magazine, a Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture and Society.
		MICHAEL LERNER: Well, of course, the Pope has tremendous impact, not just internally in the Church, and all the important issues that Mary just raised, but also globally, politically.
		I could never -- what Rabbi Lerner is saying is 100% true, but if anybody knew my name, I would be out of my job, if I were to agree with him publicly, and they knew who I was.
	www.democracynow.org /print.pl?sid=05/04/20/1427245 (3465 words)

	Jews for Allah :: View topic - Rabbi Michael Lerner
		Watch the dramatic connection between a moronic California rabbi's essay and the use it is being put to immediately in killing Jews.
		By speaking the code of Evil, Michael Lerner is placing himself outside the fence of civilized people.
		Perhaps Michael Lerner should proceed to touch himself only, and leave the World Touching business to those who are still in touch...
	www.jews-for-allah.org /phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=247 (242 words)

	F L A M E : Responding to Worldwide Islamic Terror
		Rabbi Lerner further talks about "outrageous human rights violations that shame the Jewish people and which have generated global anti-Semitism.
		Not much purpose is served in repeating the other scandalous and unforgivable things that Rabbi Lerner alleges about Israel and its government (and even Bay Area congregations other than his own).
		The hateful rhetoric of Rabbi Lerner is fueled by such money and by the leftist Jews who support him.
	www.factsandlogic.org /1002_mailing_gen.html (571 words)

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