Why religion is dying in America, Europe

(MythVisionTV) Jesus was wrong about end of  world? Paula Fredriksen

(Cold Reason) Religion is dying

• (bonnetthoughts) Where did Christianity come from?

The Buddha or Goenka's Vipassana?

(Buddha's Wisdom) GOENKA: The man who removed Buddhism from Buddhism?

Do it yourself at home the U Ba Khin way

The Goenka Method (of U Ba Khin) provides some practical advice for practicing systematic mindfulness (sati) of the body, one of the four crucial elements in the setting up of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipatthana), a practice necessary for "insight" (vipassana). Is it the only method? No. Is it the most effective method? Who can say, as it varies from individual to individual. Is it an effective method? Without sufficient stillness, calm, samadhi, absorption (jhana), it seems to Wisdom Quarterly that it is not. The claim is that practicing vipassana can produce its own mild forms of "access concentration" without needed full absorption. This will at best be a very weak and sketchy foundation of sila and samma-samadhi, virtue and "right samadhi." Samadhi is crucial and cannot be skipped over with the ideal of "dry insight" being enough for this decadent age.

Who is this Goenka guy?

Let go. Stop clinging. Be free right now.

S. N. Goenka (Satya Narayana, Satyanārāyaṇa Gōyaṅkā, Burmese ဦးဂိုအင်ကာ) lived from Jan. 30, 1924–Sept. 29, 2013. He was an Indian Burmese businessman and teacher of Buddhist insight (vipassanā) meditation.

Born in neighboring Burma to an Indian family, he learned vipassana from Sayagyi U Ba Khin (Int'l Meditation Centre, Rangoon).

• Be Cheerful and Laugh a Little
• Practicing Insight On Your Own
• Fundamentals of Vipassanā Meditation (Mahasi Sayadaw method)

It's never too early or too late to practice.

Goenka-jii (an honorific added out of great respect) retired from business in 1962, during a period of business nationalization by the military junta in Burma, then moved to India in 1969 to start teaching vipassana meditation.

His teachings are secular and therefore stay away from anything that might appear to be rites or rituals and instead emphasize that Buddha's path to liberation, which was non-sectarian, universal, and scientific (rational) in character.

This led to vipassana meditation appealing to people of all religions as well as no religion, theists, nontheists, atheists, and agnostics, from all parts of the world, East and West.

• Vipassana, in the Burmese Theravada Buddhist tradition, is derived from the Abhidhamma (as taught by the Buddha to the monk he declared "foremost in wisdom" Ven. Śāriputra [27, 28]).
• Although some Burmese teachers hold that vipassana and Abhidhamma study are inseparable [29], Goenka invited students to consider the theoretical aspects of these Teachings (pariyatti), advising them that the most important aspect of the technique is its practice (paṭipatti), contrasting mere book learning from experiential learning.
• Students are free to accept the theoretical background or reject any part they find objectionable.
• Goenka reported the words of the Buddha as follows [30]: "Filled with these compassionate and loving thoughts, [the Buddha] proclaimed: Apārutā tesaṃ amatassa dvārā Ye sotavanto pamuñcantu saddhaṃ "Open are the gates of the deathless state to those with ears [to hear] who renounce their lack of [confidence]," that is to say:
• "Open are the gates of Nirvana so that people who hear and practice will be able to overcome all doubt," which is one of the Five Mental Hindrances.

Free 10-day course

I thought I'd join a 10-day course, get enlightened, then go get my nails done. Boy, was I wrong.

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Four Foundations begin with the body breathing

Mr. Goenka became an influential teacher and played an important role in establishing non-commercial vipassana meditation centers globally where vipassana meditation is taught as a free 10-day residential program with no charges for food, lodging, or meditation instruction, with centers funded by voluntary donations from "old" (past and present) meditators.

• How could it possibly be free? It is non-commercial. The rule is that only "old" students (who have completed at least one course) are allowed to donate. "New" students (who have not yet completed at least one course) are not allowed to donate. Donations are accepted after the completion of a course, which everyone qualifies to donate to at the end of each course, so there's never really a time when centers are open to donations and not accepting them. As soon as they are open to accepting dana (donations, gifts, charity), everyone present who just completed the course can give. Give what? Dāna

Goenka was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the government of India in 2012, an award bestowed for distinguished service of a high order.

• Sign up for free 10-day courses worldwide at dhamma.org
• The Vipassana or Insight Meditation Movement

Meeting Goenka-jii in person

The kalyana-mitta S.N. Goenka and his wife

(Wisdom Quarterly was fortunate enough to meet S. N. Goenka, 88, and his lovely wife when they were invited to the Dhammakaya Meditation Center in Azusa, Los Angeles, for a lunch in his honor and to receive an award for service to humanity, circa 2012. This was just as the Aztec Calendar was wrapping a cycle and the world was about to end, with few people noticing that a new cycle and new world would immediately be continuing. He seemed very kind, and not nearly as Dracula-like as one might think from hearing his droning, baritone Transylvanian/Indian accent on the standardized tapes played during all free 10-day courses). More

• Buddha's Wisdom (video); Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, CC Liu, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

My trip to Israel to become Jewish and rich

(Sammy Obeid) World War III-Israel - Stand up to Zionist genocidal Israel with Sammy Obeid

WARNING: Vulgar language, LGBT references, adult themes, genocide, and casual Israeli racism!

Bibi Netanyahu more arrogant than Vlad Putin?

No Cap on Israel

Israel does not run DC or the White House

(no cap on god) June 5, 2025: You are chosen to join our journey to the holy Land. No Cap on God gets invited to Israel to become a Jew. A comedic-musical experience never before seen on screen. We talk to Jewish women, rabbis, ravers, Palestinians, and more to learn what it truly means to be chosen [by the one true god to become a "Chosen One" and have Christian American Zionists believe and send more money, weapons, and above all continued diplomatic cover in the UN Security Council].

The CIA's partner: Israel

Israel tries to spy on CIA - Trump: Israel's genocide is good

Tucker Carlson: Traitors should be expelled from US

Israel's extermination of human beings

(Katie Halper) Israel's war crime "Squid Games" set up by CIA/Mossad

TIMECODES

• 0:00 - "If I Became Jew"
• 1:05 - Wall
• 2:15 - Beach
• 5:20 - "Convert Me"
• 6:31 - Dead Sea
• 7:44 - Protest
• 10:06 - Party
• 12:20 - Memorial Day
• 13:08 - Rabbi
• 14:20 - Goodbye "Turtleneck"
• 15:40 - Rabbi 2
• 16:52 - West Bank/Bethlehem
• 20:16 - Jordan River
• 21:04 - "If I Became Jew 2"

Israel's mass rape and sexual violence

(Jimmy Dore) Israel guilty of systematic sexual violence against Palestinians, U.N. confirms

Israel guilty of systematic sexual violence against Palestinians and Jewish IDF soldiers, U.N. confirms

(The Jimmy Dore Show) July 13, 2025: A recent UN report titled "More Than a Human Can Bear" details systematic sexual and gender-based violence committed by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinians since October 7. The report documents harrowing accounts of abuse, including rape, torture, and sexual humiliation of detainees—both men and women—by Israeli military and prison personnel. As Jimmy points out, despite extensive evidence and testimonies, U.S. media and political figures have largely ignored or downplayed these findings, while continuing to repeat debunked claims about Hamas. #TheJimmyDoreShow

But, Yimmy, we're de "most moral army in the world" so only rape those who need raping, like Jewish IDF vimen, those vitches, and cockroach peeples who are not "a peeple," y'know what I mean?

BBC: Israel kills children, thirsty/starving

IDF murders children collecting water in Gaza, tries to blame “technical error” | BBC News

No Cap On God, starring Lionel Mcgloin. Shot by Belac Bosch. Produced/edited by OTG ‪@OTGRUBER‬. Original music by Charley Raiff: "If I Became A Jew," "Convert Me," "Goodbye Turtleneck." Soundtrack: SPOTIFY; open.spotify.com/album/27MoF9...

Why is Europe so ANTI-Christian?

Why Europe is insanely anti-religious: (Versed) May 25, 2025: The End of Christianity in Europe. There are many reasons, like rampant child molestation by the Christian Church in all its forms.

Man shall not live by bread (gluten) alone, but many ultra-processed chemicals, too. Amen.

Jews against Genocide (City Guardians)

NK are not the only rabbis for ceasefire

Neturei Karta (nkusa.org) is standing up for truth and a dedication to Judaism over the criminal and fringe Zionism movement that thinks genocide is a suitable means that justifies its intended aims. Jewish Jews backed by Judaism recognize that this is preposterous. Judaism enjoins us to save lives, not exterminate them. We cannot say that we can treat indigenous Palestinians the way Jews were treated in Nazi Germany because we were treated that way by white supremacist Germans led by Hitler. Even secular Jews recognize that going against the religion to gain a militant "homeland" for people claiming to follow that religion is just propaganda piled on propaganda, a psyop akin to Caeser's Messiah under the ancient Romans.

Because we are Jews, we cannot remain silent: Iran

• Neturei Karta International
• Jewish rabbis4ceasefire.com

Antisemitic Jews who founded Zionism

Stand up teases an Israeli Zionist Jew in Sophia - What are Israeli Zionist Nationalists doing to kids?

LIVE: The self-hating Jews who founded Zionism + The First Jewish Antizionist Congress

Zionism During the Holocaust

(Katie Halper) Started streaming June 10, 2025: Halper interviews Tony Greenstein, co-founder of Britain's Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the author of Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation.

First Halper plays Part 2 of her interview with Dalia Sarig, Haim Bresheeth Zabner, and Ronnie Barkan, three of the organizers of the:

• FIRST JEWISH ANTIZIONIST CONGRESS kicks off Friday, June 13, 2025.
• The great Ilan Pappe, Katie Halper, Tony Greenstein, and others will be speaking: juedisch-antizionistisch....

Lies: But Iran is moments away from the bomb! - Israel is LESS safe for its Zionist atrocities.

KHS will (almost certainly) be streaming the Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress on the KHS YouTube channel, so keep an eye out for more information.

• 00:00:00 Katie Halper introduces the show
• 00:01:55 Introducing Haim Bresheeth, Ronnie Barkin, and Dalia Sarig
• 00:03:05 One state vs. two state solution
• 00:07:12 Lessons from the past movements and looking towards the future of Palestine
• 00:12:10 Thoughts on the current situation in Gaza
• 00:15:42 Israel’s “democratic” genocide has popular support
• 00:26:00 Halper explains the Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress and introduces Tony Greenstein
• 00:27:10 Tony Greenstein on Marek Edelman and the Bund (Jewish Socialist Party)
• 00:35:00 Early Zionist ideology embraced Anti-Semitism
• 00:50:08 TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES + REPEATED CLIP
• 01:10:09 Stream resumes (Thanks for exercising patience!)

Dalia Sarig is co-founder of the initiative “Not in our Name” (ifnotnowmovement.org) founded by Jews in Vienna and candidate on the GAZA list.

An IDF Like No Other

Haim Bresheeth Zabnner was professor of media and cultural studies at the University of East London and then a professorial research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He is a filmmaker, photographer, film studies scholar, and historian. His films include A State of Danger, a documentary on the First Palestinian Intifada. His books include An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation. Prof. Haim is the son of two Holocaust survivors and was raised in Israel. He is a member of Holocaust Survivors and Descendents Against the Genocide and a founding member of Jewish Network for Palestine. On November 4, Prof. Haim was arrested over a speech he gave at a pro-Palestine demonstration outside the residence of Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely in North London.

‎شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש‎ (@shoresh_us)

Ronnie Barkan is an Israeli activist, a conscientious objector, and co-founder of Boycott from Within – a group of conscientious Israelis who support the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. He represented the Popular Struggle Coordination Committees at the European Parliament in Brussels, where he challenged EU institutional complicity in Israeli violations.

Tony Greenstein is the co-founder of Britain's Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the author of Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation.

• Find the full interview with Tony Greenstein at patreon.com...

• Katie Halper, June 10, 2025; Sheldon S., Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

How to be a good New Jew in Israel

The Israeli identity crisis no one talks about | Explained

He's the King of the Jews. - Uh, Prime Minister

(Unpacked) April 16, 2025: Israel’s founders hoped for unity, strength, and a clean break from exile. Nearly a century later, Israel is home to something far messier and more magnificent.

Israelis are a mosaic of contradiction — [legal Jews and illegal non-Jews], secular and devout, Eastern and Western, joyful and jaded. Messy, vibrant, and fiercely connected, Israel today is less a single identity and more a chorus — discordant at times, but always unmistakably Israeli.

(Sahar TV) Jewish comedian Modi joke about Ashkenazi Jews

• Haley Joel Osment sees dead people, and they're Jews: Child actor apologizes for antisemitic slur during arrest (Who does he think he is, Hollywood Mel "Mad Max" Gibson saying "sugar tits" and claiming "all wars are caused by Jews"?

CHAPTERS

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:51 Categorizing Israeli identities
• 02:10 What did Israel's founders envision?
• 03:04 Stereotypes about Mizrachi and Ashkenazi Israelis
• 06:50 Cultural fusion into an Israeli identity
• 08:44 Israeli unity and discord
• 10:27 Haredi opinions about Israelis
• 11:55 How religion permeates Israeli culture
• 13:35 The national-religious camp
• 14:33 Why it's great to be Israeli

Recommended video — Is Israel the Scariest or Happiest Country? | Unpacked

• Ashkenazi Jews versus Mizrahi Jews versus Sephardic Jews versus Samaritans (Jewish ethnic divisions)
• Why are there so many Jewish-Buddhists?

(Annie Hall) New Yorker Alvie Singer (Woody Allen) muses, "Jew eat?"

SOURCES

• Gelfman Schultz, Rachael. "Mizrahi Jews in Israel." My Jewish Learning.
• Graizbord, David L. "Israel’s mosaic of Jewish ethnic groups is key to understanding the country." The Conversation. Nov. 30, 2023.
• Friedman, Matti. "Mizrahi Nation." Mosaic Magazine. June 1, 2014.
• Großbongardt, Annette. "Unholy Conflict in the Holy Land." Spiegel International. March 7, 2007.
• Cahaner, Dr. Lee and Malach, Dr. Gilad. "Statistical Report on Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel." The Israel Democracy Institute. Dec. 28, 2021.
• Zameret, Zvi, and Moshe Tlamim. “Judaism in Israel: Ben-Gurion’s Private Beliefs and Public Policy.” Israel Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1999, pp. 64–89. JSTOR.
• Goldberg, Shayna. "Between Modern Orthodoxy and Religious Zionism: At Home as an Immigrant." 18Forty. Nov. 28, 2024.
• Liel Leibovitz. "Zionism’s Moment of Decision." TabletMag. April 19, 2023.

• Jewish Voice for Peace (jvp.org)
• Religious Jews against Israel (nkusa.org)
• ‎شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש‎ (@shoresh_us) • IG
• NOT IN OUR NAME: ifnotnowmovement.org
• IDF confess war crimes: breakingthesilence.org.il

How to become Jewish

How to Become Jewish | Modi's stand up comedy routine

Hollywood's Adam Sandler

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ABOUT Explainers: From ancient Jewish traditions to the modern State of Israel [which is not a state with a constitution but it calls itself a state and no one questions it], Unpacked explains it all. Diving into anything and everything related to Jewish culture, history, and even religion. Understand Jewish holidays, Israeli politics, Jewish diasporic communities, and more. Learn about Judaism in pop culture, debunking myths about Jews, and explore obscure Israeli landmarks. Asking questions as basic as “What is the Talmud?” and as obscure as “How did hip-hop boost Kosher wine sales?” and everything in between, that what Explainers do.

ABOUT Unpacked: It provides nuanced insights by unpacking all things Jewish. People are complex and complicated — yet we’re all constantly being pushed to oversimplify our world. Unpacked knows that being complex makes things more interesting. Because of this, Unpacked breaks the world down with nuance and insight to drive curiosity and challenge thinking. #israel #people #culture

• Unpacked Explainer, April 17, 2025; Modi via Sahar TV; Modi; Sheldon S., CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Most beloved JEW in Nazi Germany

Our family was more German than Jewish any day.

"Blonde Poison," Jewish collaborator hunted 1,000s of Jews and turned them in to Nazis

(World History) Beautiful Jewess Stella Goldschlag was born on July 10, 1922, in Berlin, then part of the Weimar Republic, which was the name given to the democratic German government from 1918 to 1933.

On January 30, 1933, Mr. Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.

Shortly after, the Nazi regime began implementing a radical anti-Jewish agenda, and in April of the same year, the "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service" was passed, dismissing Jewish professionals from government jobs.

• Stella Goldschlag photos, high res pictures (Getty Images)

I was beautiful. Why should I worry?

This sweeping policy marked the beginning of widespread discrimination, which affected countless Jewish families, including the poor Goldschlags.

The Second World War (WW II) started on Sept. 1, 1939, when Christian Germany invaded Catholic Poland.

Early in the war, Jew Stella Goldschlag enrolled in an art school, where she studied fashion drawing and posed nude as a model for about two years.

In her free time, she sang in a Jewish jazz band, and she briefly found happiness in the fall of 1941, when she married the band’s leader, Manfred Kübler.

Mistakes were made. We were young!

However, like all Jews, Stella Goldschlag could not escape the rising tide of Nazi anti-Semitism. By Sept. 1941, she was required to wear the Jewish "Star of David," and that same year, she was forced to work in the war industry, which temporarily spared her from deportation to a concentration prison camp, modeled on the American Indian reservation system by the USA.

Initially, Stella was assigned to the Siemens factory producing electric engines, but she was later transferred to an ammunition plant.

On Feb. 27, 1943, during a large-scale operation known as Fabrikaktion (German "Factory Action"). Stella and her mother were caught in a roundup of Jews at their factory.

The Gestapo were the forbears of the CIA

Acting quickly, they hid in a makeshift shelter and later slipped out through a back door to evade the Gestapo guards. Their escape was possible largely due to their blonde hair, which played into the Nazis’ false belief that Ashkenazi Jews were not as blonde as other Germans.

Unfortunately, Stella’s husband, Manfred, was arrested, deported to Auschwitz, and was never heard from again. After the Fabrikaktion Stella and her parents went into hiding.

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• World History, Feb. 12, 2025; Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Is Buddhism an atheistic religion?

(ReligionForBreakfast) For Westerners, Buddhism has a reputation of being an atheistic religion, but is this assessment true? Let's have a look at the facts because truth is often stranger than fiction.

• 00:00 Intro: Theravada, Mahayana, secular Buddhism
• 3:14 Buddhist cosmology and devas
• 7:25 Can the devas help us? (Theravada perspective)
• 13:46 Bodhisattvas and Mahayana Buddhism
• 15:26 Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism
• 16:19 Buddhist modernism
• 19:48 Secular Buddhism
• 24:47 Conclusion

Register for the class "Who are the Hungry Ghosts?" (religionforbreakfast.eventbrite.com).

This video was made possible through the support of Grant 1928 from the John Templeton Foundation managed by The Queen’s University of Belfast. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation or The Queen’s University of Belfast. Join Patreon community:   religionforbreakfast. Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images and Reuters. Thumbnail art by ‪@hotcyder.‬

• Religion for Breakfast; Osho (Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh); Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Anti-Zionist, anti-genocide Jews (video)

Conversations with an Anti-Zionist Jew: Haim Bresheeth

(IHRCtv) Feb. 13, 2024: In this extended conversation, Prof. Haim Bresheeth-Zabner speaks about his Jewish family history and unique upbringing, reimagining the Middle East beyond Israeli apartheid, racist/Islamophobic settler colonialism, and Western hegemony. Prof. Haim is a teacher at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. An former Israeli Jew and ardent anti-Zionist, his most recent book is titled An Army Like No Other: How the Israeli Defence Force Made a Nation.

Guest on 9/9/24: Professor Haim Bresheeth-Zabner in London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in film studies. He is Jewish, a scholar, and a MAJOR critic of Israel as the author of An Army Like No Other: How the Israeli Defense Force Made a Nation.

• AUDIO: IDF: A History of Israel's [Genocidal] Army of Occupation | KPFA FM, Berkeley
• ABOUT: Letters and Politics with host Mitch Jeserich (kpfa.org)

Few Jews dare to even dream of refusing the IDF

He wanted to be a "Refusik" and avoid joining and killing for Zionist Jewish genocide to build a settler colonial project in Palestine and call it "Israel," but he could not. He bitterly regrets it that he was not strong enough as a very young man, when he was forcibly inducted into Israel's killing machine, which he reckons was worse than the Nazi war machine the Jews survived in Germany. Many Jews had money back there but were not free to take it with them if they wanted to leave Germany. However, they were allowed to take it to one place in the world: Palestine. Were Nazis behind fashioning a genocide against Palestinians or "Arabs" as Jews hatefully dubbed them?

The stench of Israel's hypocrisy in dubbing its genocidal killing force, the IDF, the "most moral army in the world" became too much, necessitating this book, proving what racist, Zionist, white supremacist Israelis are, valuing their blood over all others all out of proportion to anything seen before in the history of war crimes.

• Jewish Network for Palestine
• Jewish Voice for Peace
• NOT IN OUR NAME: ifnotnowmovement.org
• IDF veterans against war: breakingthesilence.org.il
• ‎شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש‎ (@shoresh_us) • Anti-Zionist Jews
• CODE PINK: Women for Peace
• Orthodox Jews opposing Israeli crimes (nkusa.org)
• American Veterans for Peace
• Amnesty International
• Jewish-Palestinian protests against Israel in Gaza
• Pacifica Free Speech Radio, Berkeley

An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Forces Made a Nation

Prof. Haim Bresheeth-Zabner has 3.8 out of 5 stars with 21 ratings. This history of the IDF argues that Israel is a nation formed by its genocidal army.

A [Criminal] Army Like No Other: How Israel

The Israeli army, euphemistically dubbed the "Israel Defence Forces" (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who believed that "the whole nation is the army."

In his mind, the IDF was to be an army like no other. It was to be an instrument of might that might transform a diverse population into a new people.

Since the foundation of Israel, the IDF has been the richest, largest, and most influential institution in Zionist Israel's Jewish society, its settler colonial project to eject the indigenous people, paint themselves as the indigenous population returning from a short absence.

The IDF is the nursery of its social, economic, and political ruling class. In this fascinating history, Prof. Bresheeth charts the evolution of the IDF from the "Catastrophe" (Nakba), the persecution, ejection, and genocide of native Palestinians, to the continued assaults on Gaza.

(Corey Gil-Shuster) Religious anti-Zionist Jews: Whose land is this?

Posted June 8, 2024. Filmed before Israel's October 2023 war.

It shows that the state of Israel was formed out of war. He also gives an account of his own experiences as a young conscript during the 1967 War.

He argues that this army is embedded in all aspects of daily life and identity and that we should not merely see it as a fighting force enjoying a world-class reputation. It is the central ideological, political, and financial institution of Israeli society. Killing is its ambition.

As a consequence, everyone has to reconsider assumptions about what any kind of peace might look like.

• Guest Prof. Bresheeth, Host Mitch Jeserich, Letters & Politics, KPFA.org, Berkeley; Shauna Schwartz, Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly