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...Circus is coming to Cambridge on Monday, and Carebears are the main attraction. Michael Lerner, editor of the liberal-Jewish Tikkun magazine, and Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West are scheduled to bring their travelling show to MIT's Kresge Auditorium. The message? A millenial panacea for the Black-Jewish divide entitled "Let the Healing Begin...
...Lerner and West are engaged in a for-profit dialogue, hoping to solve the current impasse in Black-Jewish relations by selling a new book of mutual intellectual masturbation. In the $25 Jews and Blacks, one experiences the farcical and self-congratulatory conversation in which the two have engaged for the past several years. Their explicit (and flawed) purpose is the re-uniting of the two groups in a dynamic, progressive alliance...
...Lerner is attempting to force what he calls a "Politics of Meaning" on America. He managed to seduce the President and First Lady into his cult of caring in 1992. When Hillary Clinton went public with the new-age guru's empathic proposals, she was reprimanded for trying to sell Lerner's newfangled socialism through a national healthcare plan. The Clintons have since put a great political distance between themselves and Mr. Lerner--to everyone's benefit...
...Soviet bloc, the lost generations are being found. Renewed interest in Judaism is part of a broad search for spirituality that has sprung up in the desert created by the demise of a discredited ideology. ``People are coming out of the woodwork and announcing they are Jewish,'' says David Lerner, a British educator who helped found a Sabbath school in Minsk. ``Six years ago, Jews were still being beaten up in Minsk. Now there are three religious congregations, the Sabbath school, a youth movement and a voluntary welfare organization...
...think the percentage for all final gradeswas raised by all section leaders," teachingfellow Craig Lerner says...