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KCSB NewsThe Backfiles: Rabbis For Peace In Palestine With Rabbi Cat ZavisRosie Bultman interviews Rabbi Cat Zavis about a 2003 speech by Rabbi Michael Lerner, and what it means to be a Rabbi for Ceasefire2024-05-3156 min
The podcast of the Sacred Inclusion NetworkThe Intersection of Faith and Activism: Cat Zavis on Spirituality and Social Justice Cat Zavis discusses her personal journey and insights on integrating spiritualism and activism. Zavis is Executive Director of the Network of Spiritual Progressives Cat and her colleague, Rabbi Michael Lerner, have worked tirelessly to build a Religious left movement in Israel, countering the religious right movement. They recognize the trauma and PTSD experienced by both Israelis and Palestinians and understand that Israel, as the dominant power, has the responsibility to address the unjust and inhumane situation created through the occupation. Having personally witnessed the devastating situation in the occupied territories, Cat emphasizes the need...2023-10-2438 min
Imagine with UsEp15: Judaism Unbound with Rabbi Michael Lerner[1] Original Podcast posted on Judaism Unbound, a digitally-driven, radically open center for education serving as a catalyst for an entirely new era of Judaism.
[2] Lerner has written a number of books over the years — some of our favorites include Jewish Renewal, which you can purchase here, The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right, available via this link, and Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World, available here.
[3] In discussing the influence of AIPAC on elections, Lerner references a recent congressional primary in Michigan. For more on...2022-11-1740 minImagine with UsA Hopeful Sign in Troubled TimesWelcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, we share a story that can provide hope and inspiration and discuss the challenges we face in our efforts to move beyond individual acts of goodness to acts of societal transformation.
Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org
Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org
Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us)
Rabbi Lerner’s book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove
Emma’s Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com2021-07-2824 minImagine with UsViolence in Israel/PalestineIn this episode, we discuss the ongoing conflict and rising violence in Israel/Palestine.
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You can learn more and register for the JCC East Bay Tikkun Leyl Shavuot (where Rabbi Lerner and Cat Zavis will be teaching) here.
Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org
Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org
Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us)
Rabbi Lerner’s book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove
Emma’s Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com2021-05-1325 minImagine with UsAnti-Racist Struggles After Minneapolis Guilty VerdictWelcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, we celebrate the guilty verdicts in Minneapolis even as we mourn ongoing police murders of African Americans. The same day Chauvin was convicted, a 16 yr old African American girl in Columbus, OH was shot dead by police. Guilty verdicts are not enough to achieve the fundamental changes needed in the criminal justice system and to end racism in our society.2021-04-2117 minImagine with UsFascism Rising: Lessons from the HolocaustWelcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, we discuss the rise of fascist forms of nationalism and a strategy to tackle it before it controls the United States and other countries.
Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org
Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org
Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us)
Rabbi Lerner’s book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove
Emma’s Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com2021-04-0827 minImagine with UsCelebrating the Covid Relief Bill and Dreaming of MoreWelcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, Celebrating the Covid Relief Bill and Dreaming of More, we recognize the importance of celebrating the covid relief bill that will provide desperately needed funds to Americans at this time and speak to what we believe is needed going forward.
To learn more about our Liberation Seder (everyone is welcome!), go to: www.beyttikkun.org.
Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org
Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org
Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject...2021-03-1028 minImagine with UsUnity Post-Impeachment?Welcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, we discuss the failure of the Senate to convict Trump, Biden’s call for unity, and more!
Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org
Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org
Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us)
Rabbi Lerner’s book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove
Emma’s Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com2021-02-1728 minImagine with UsCreating a Caring GovernmentIn this episode, Creating a Caring Government, we discuss the idea presented in Revolutionary Love that government should be a manifestation of our care for one another. One of the supporters of Tikkun magazine and Network of Spiritual Progressives wrote to me that she was struck by the false dichotomy that is presented to us about either protecting people's health (stay at home orders, social distancing, etc.) or protecting the economy if, as you say in your book the "government should be the vehicle through which we, the people of our country, demonstrate that we care for each other"...2021-02-0329 minImagine with UsAfter Last Week's Coup AttemptIn this episode, After Last Week’s Coup Attempt, we discuss various strategies for progressives after last week’s coup attempt.
We hope you enjoy it. Please rate and follow us on your favorite podcast platform and share it on social media and with your friends. It’s an easy way for folks to hear our ideas and learn more about our work and get involved if they want. If there is a topic you’d like us to discuss or a question you’d like us to answer, please email cat@spiritualprogressives.org with the subject heading: I...2021-01-1438 minImagine with UsDream Big: Imagine a Truly Transformed and Loving WorldWelcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, in honor of the holiday season, we have decided to dream big and imagine a truly transformed and loving world. We invite you to imagine with us!
Tikkun Magazine - www.tikkun.org
Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) - www.spiritualprogressives.org
Email: cat@spiritualprogressives.org (subject heading - Imagine with Us)
Rabbi Lerner’s book Revolutionary Love at www.tikkun.org/revlove
Emma’s Revolution - www.emmasrevolution.com2020-12-2425 minImagine with UsThe Liberatory and Spiritual Meaning of the HolidaysWelcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, we discuss the liberatory and spiritual meanings of Chanukah and Christmas and why as spiritual activists we think drawing on these messages is important in our work to heal and transform the world. But unfortunately in this mass capitalist culture, those meanings get obscured and replaced with the mantra of buy, buy, buy. And that message is particularly painful this year in the midst of a pandemic that has crushed even the insufficient financial resources for tens of millions of people in our...2020-12-1728 minImagine with UsSteps Toward Overcoming RacismWelcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. In this episode, we build on our discussion from last week on grieving and look at it through the lens of the ongoing police brutality and murders of black people. What can we do to challenge racism? How can we educate white people? And how do we avoid blaming and shaming people so they can hear the ways that racism harms them as well?2020-12-1027 minImagine with UsGrieving the Great Psychological and Spiritual DeprivationWelcome to Imagine with Us! In this episode, we discuss how we can acknowledge and responsibly steward our grief to give birth to healing. Between COVID illness and loss, distance, loneliness, economic stress, blatant injustice, and environmental catastrophe, so many of us are experiencing distress. The longer we are deprived of psychological and spiritual care, the more we prevent grief from serving as a foundation for the healing transformation of our world.2020-12-0436 minImagine with UsWhy aren’t more people progressive? Part 2In this episode, "Why aren't more people progressive? Part 2", we step back and look at the dynamics of human life in the past 10,000 years that continue to shape how we understand our options for achieving security, safety, and peace. We then move to a discussion of the importance of building a social change movement that moves social energy from fear to hope and builds a loving community so more people are inspired to participate and join us.2020-11-2033 minImagine with UsWhy aren’t more people progressive? Part 1Welcome to Imagine with Us podcast with Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis. We’re excited to bring you our first episode in which we discuss how it is that over 70 million people voted for a candidate that so many more people deem to be both corrupt and frighteningly dangerous. How can we understand the lure of hate-filled politics beyond the narrow analysis that “all his supporters are racist or stupid” and respond to this moment with empathy, revolutionary love, and justice so we can build a future that embraces us all?2020-11-1316 min