Michael Lerner

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Rabbi Michael Lerner

Rabbi Michael Lerner was a member of New American Movement and founder of the Institute for Labor and Mental Health.

According to the Network of Spiritual Progressives website:[1]

Rabbi Lerner has been described by thinkers like Cornel West and Jim Wallis as a contemporary prophet.

He is also editor of our bi-monthly Tikkun Magazine, a full time job, plus the chair of our interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives, and also rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue which alternates services in Berkeley and San Francisco.[2]

Seattle Liberation Front

In the period after the formation of the Weather Underground Organization at Flint Fichigan,, Michael Lerner and Weathermen Chip Marshall, Jeff Alan Dowd and Joseph H. Kelly moved to Seattle to form the Seattle Liberation Front to Bring the Revolution to Seattle.” There they recruited Susan Ellen Stern,Roger H. Lippman, Michael Victor Ables, Christopher L. Bakke, Margaret G. Bennett, Bruce E. Crowley, Karen M. Daenzer, Gerald J. Ganley, Kathleen Ann Korvell, Constance J. Misich, Mark Curtis Perry, Suzanne E. Smith, Arthur K. Sata, and John Vanveenendale. A federal grand jury would indict Dowd, Kelly and Stern along with Michael Victor Ables for a February 17, 1970 attack on a federal building[3]

New American Movement 10th convention

In 1981 Barbara Ehrenreich, Long Island NAM; Michael Lerner, NAM Assoc, founder, Institute for Labor and Mental Health; Richard Healey, Co-Chair, Political Education Commission and Peg Strobel, Co-Chair, Campus Commission spoke at a public plenary entitled Visions of Socialism at the 10th Convention of the New American Movement. The convention was held in a union headquarters in Chicago and ran from July 29 - August 2, 1981.

Lerner also led a workshop entitled Occupational Stress and Class Consciousness[4]

Socialist Scholars Conference

Michael Zweig; Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun; Pamela Brubaker and Larry Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary were speakers on the Religion and Economic Justice panel at the Tenth Annual Socialist Scholars Conference. The conference was held April 24-26, 1992 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York City.[5]

DSA member

In 1982 the Democratic Socialists of America Feminist commission initiated a publication called "Women Organizing". The August 1982 issue included articles by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kate Ellis, Roberta Lynch, Michael Lerner and Deborah Meier.[6]

In a 1998 list of Democratic Socialists of America aligned publications, Michael Lerner was described as a "DSAer"[7]

DSA-ish Publications
That is, mags which express the range of our politics, from the revolutionary to the left liberal, and including some sympatico Candian and British mags.
Tikkun - The journal of the Jewish left, edited by DSAer Michael Lerner.

911 "Truther"

Rabbi Michael Lerner editor, Tikkun Magazine, author, Healing Israel/Palestine ,was one of 100 "prominent Americans" who signed an October 26 2004 statement[8]circulated by 911Truth.org calling on the U.S. Government to investigate 9/11 as a possible "inside job".

...we have assembled 100 notable Americans and 40 family members of those who died to sign this 9/11 Statement, which calls for immediate public attention to unanswered questions that suggest that people within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.

Social Policy

For over 30 years, Social Policy has served as "key site for intellectual exchange among progressive academics and activists from across the United States and beyond", including: Frances Fox Piven, Jonathan Kozol, Noam Chomsky, Marian Wright Edelman, Ivan Illich, Stanley Aronowitz, Michael Lerner, Gloria Steinem, and others[9].

Jewish Alliance for Justice & Peace

As of Jan. 1, 2010, Lerner was a member of the Board Rabbinic Cabinet of the Jewish Alliance for Justice & Peace.[10]

External links

References

  1. http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/index.php?topic=jobs
  2. Magazine staff
  3. “The Seattle Liberation Front,” Information Digest, May 2, 1970, 1, 3, 4-5. speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70/box107/107f9p8.html.
  4. NAM 10th Convention Agenda, July 29, 1981
  5. SSE Tenth Annual Conference Program, 1992
  6. DSA Keylist newsletter July 1982, page 1
  7. http://web.archive.org/web/19980626083306/http:/www.dsausa.org/rl/Links/Mags.html#DSAish
  8. 911 Truth statement
  9. http://www.socialpolicy.org/index.php?id=804
  10. Rabbinis Cabinet

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