CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from June 2008

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from June 2008

The Middle East: inspiration and despair.(EDITORIAL)
June 22, 2008... Over the course of three years I traveled to the Middle East, to Israel and the West Bank, four times in search of the people whose work is reflected on these pages. I came home from each of these trips filled with conflicting emotion. One the...

A peace vision.(BIG DREAM/SMALL HOPE)
June 22, 2008... Introduction A Rabbi went faithfully, every day for twenty years, to the Wailing Wall (Kotel) to pray for peace between the Jews and the Arabs. One day, a reporter who learned of his dedicated mission thought it might make a good story. So...

Islam in our times: a determined Moslem moderate emerges from the shadows.(Mohammed Dajani)
June 22, 2008... Before announcing the launching of his Islamic moderate political initiative which he calls "Wasatia" in March 2007, Professor Mohammed Dajani has lived in the shadows of his country's politics, refraining from assuming any political position...

Interreligious dialogue in the service of peace.
June 22, 2008... At a time when religious conflicts plague so many areas of the world, we find ourselves asking whether religion is in fact a positive force for humanity. In Israel, especially we so frequently witness atrocities in the name of God that we are...

Notes from Jerusalem.(Travel narrative)
June 22, 2008... I One morning I wake up thinking--I don't need to be doing this anymore. It's too much. I go swimming in the afternoon, which is wonderful. That night I meet two American friends; we eat grilled vegetables and drink whiskey. Tipsy in the...

Warriors, Prophets, Peacemakers, and Disciples: a call to action in the face of religious-inspired violence.(Personal account)
June 22, 2008... Imagine the gay pride parade in Jerusalem, 2005. A pageant of colliding worlds: jubilation and violence, ecstasy and anger, ostentation, and fear. Thousands of gay and straight supporters from all over Israel stream through the major...

Challenging injustice: a decision every human can make.(Viewpoint essay)
June 22, 2008... While preparing to travel to Berlin for a postdoctoral fellowship, I received an e-mail from Mr. Charles Henderson saying, "I am working on a special issue of the journal I publish here... on the situation in the Middle East. I want to...

Memorial day.(Personal account)
June 22, 2008... It is Memorial day in Israel. The sirens just went off. Sirens for the dead. It has been sixty years since the establishment of the state of Israel. Forty-one years since the Six Day War, thirty-five years since the Yoni Kippur War,...

Who will die tomorrow?(Personal account)
June 22, 2008... Author's introduction When the second Intifada (meaning "uprising") rained down upon Israel in the year 2000, a protracted terrorist war broke out in which hundreds of innocent civilians were murdered, Corning to its end when Israel...

G.ho.st story--going through walls, virtual and real.(Global Hosted Operating Systems)
June 22, 2008... RAMALLAH, The West Bank--Rami Abdulhadi, the marketing director of the only joint Israeli-Palestinian Internet start-up, stares up at a pair of watch towers shrouded in camouflage netting at the entrance to the checkpoint he must cross through...

The lure and necessity of process theology.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... What is process theology? Where did it come from? And why should Claremont School of Theology make a deep investment in sustaining it? My assignment is to address these questions, with particular reference to John B. Cobb Jr. role in the...

Organizations working toward a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.
June 22, 2008... Encounter is an educational organization dedicated to providing Jewish leaders from across the political spectrum with exposure to Palestinian life. Motivated by the relentless Jewish pursuit of hokhma (wisdom) and binah (understanding),...

Dualisms: The Agons of the Modern World.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Ricardo J. Quinones Toronto and London University of Toronto Press, 2007. 451 pp + xvi, Cloth, npi. Ricardo J. Quinones is the notable Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus in the Department of English, and Director of the...