The Significance of the Tikkun Archive
Tikkun has played a remarkable role in American politics in the years since it was formed as “the liberal alternative to Commentary and the neo-conservative voices in the Jewish world.” Tikkun has evolved into an interfaith voice of “spiritual progressives” around the world, and has published some of the most interesting Muslim thinkers (including Tariq Ramadan, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, Imam Zaid Shakir, Congressman Keith Ellison, and Kabir Helminski), Christian thinkers (including Rev. Brian McLaren, Sister Joan Chittister, Father Daniel Berrigan, John Dominic Crossan, William Sloane Coffin, Tony Campolo, Diana Eck, Father Richard Rohr, Jack Miles, Ched Meyers, Matthew Fox, Walter Brueggemann, Father Hans Kung, Gary Dorrien, and Rosemary Radford Ruether) and Buddhist thinkers (including David Loy, Bernie Glasman, Sharon Salzberg, Robert Thurman). As a preeminent Jewish intellectual magazine we have published writers who would never publish in Commentary or the array of other Jewish mainstream or coffee table magazines—writers that have included Rachel Adler, Woody Allen, Shulamit Aloni, Uri Avnery, Zygmunt Bauman, Jeremy Ben Ami, Noam Chomsky, Arnold Eisen, Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi, Rabbi Arthur Green, Kim Chernin, Nan Gefen, Rabbi Or Rose, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, David Grossman, Susannah Heschel, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, George Lakoff, Jessica Montell, Judith Plaskow, Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Chaim Potok, Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi, Marge Piercy, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Joseph Skibell, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, and more). But Tikkun’s importance has been that it has fostered the growth of two major movements:
- The movement of American Jews and allies of Jews who have come to understand, largely through the work of Tikkun and the many thousands of people influenced by Tikkun, that the best way to support the State of Israel is to help it end the Occupation of the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza, and to help it overcome the mistaken notion that its security rests on its ability to scare its neighbors rather than to make common cause with them. Tikkun Editor Rabbi Michael Lerner’s ideas are influential among younger Jews even among many who don’t know his name, even though the media has given him along with others on the Left and especially the religious Left, only scant and often dismissive attention. His theology book Jewish Renewal was a national best-seller in 1994 when it was published by Putnam, and its ideas have seeped into the discourse in much of the Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative and Jewish Renewal movements.
- The movement of religious and spiritual progressives, brought together through the Network of Spiritual Progressives and through a series of national and regional conferences sponsored by Tikkun. Many of the ideas and approaches that you now will find in the liberal and progressive circles in Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish circles were first explored in Tikkun or at the national conferences Tikkun created. Those ideas have also yielded many national campaigns, most recently the campaign for a Global Marshall Plan and for an ESRA — Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Tikkun Special Issue Celebrating the Legacy of Tikkun & Rabbi Michael Lerner
2023 Tikkun Highlights
2022 Tikkun Highlights
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Below are links to digital versions (PDFs) of Tikkun Magazine from Spring 2011 through Spring/Summer 2020. Click each “image” or text in “blue” to see the full contents of the magazine.
Vol 35, No 1: Spring/Summer 2020
Vol 34, No 2-3: Spring/Summer 2019
Vol 34, No 1: Winter 2019
Vol 33, No 4: Fall 2018
Don’t Let the Light Go Out
MICHAEL LERNER
No Other Gods
ANA LEVY-LYONS
Prophetic Empathy
CAT ZAVIS
Vol 33, No 3: Summer 2018
Vision of A Liberated Economy
RIANE EISLER
Feeding Children, Communities and Souls
PAMELA HAINES
The Years of Dialogue
SIDRA DEKOVEN EZRAHI
Vol 33, No 1-2: Winter/Spring 2018
The Evolution of Identity Politics
ERIC WARD
Decolonizing Jewishness
BEN CASE
Creating a Spiritual Practice to Heal and Transform the World
THANDEKA
Vol 32, No 4: Fall 2017
Ecological Civilization
DAVID KORTEN
Anti-Semitism, Uprootedness, and Zionism
MIKI KASHTAN
The Magic of Emergence
NATAN MARGALIT
Vol 32, No 3: Summer 2017
Listening to Leonard Cohen
DAVID SYLVESTER
Man in God’s Image
ANA LEVY-LYONS
The Richness of Adrienne Rich’s Poetry
MARGE PIERCY
Vol 32, No 2: Spring 2017
Still Immoral, Still Stupid: 50 Years of Israel’s Occupation (editorial)
RABBI MICHAEL LERNER
50 Years Later
SAMI AWAD
The United States and Israel
STEPHEN ZUNES
Is “Land for Peace” Legitimate?
SHAUL MAGID
When anti-Zionism Becomes Anti-Semitism
Elli Tikvah Sarah
Vol 32, No 1: Winter 2017
Grounds for Hope
REBECCA SOLNIT
Kaddish for Che
MARTHA SONNENBERG
Are Humans Special?
DAVID LOY
Vol 31, No.4: Fall 2016
SVI SHAPIRO
HENRY A. GIROUX
ERIK GLEIBERMANN
CYNTHIA B. DILLARD
RICHARD LOUV
Vol 31, No.3: Summer 2016
Tikkun at 30 (editorial)
RABBI MICHAEL LERNER
Victimology
JESSICA BENJAMIN
Nazi Feminists
LINDA GORDON
Jewish Studies and Jewish Faith
ARTHUR GREEN
Vol 31, No.2: Spring 2016
Misery and Misogyny on the Menu
CAROL J. ADAMS
The True Cost of a Cheap Meal
KATIE CANTRELL
Physicians and Torture: Medical Teshuvah for a Profession in Need of Healing
MARTHA SONNENBERG
Vol 31. No.1: Winter 2016
“Less Bad” Isn’t Good Enough
ANDREW LEVINE
Capitalism, Greece, and the End of Lesser-Evil Choosing
RICHARD D. WOLFF
In the Spirit of Abolitionism: Recovering the Black Social Gospel
GARY DORRIEN
Vol. 30, No. 4: Fall 2015
The Audience of the Future: Building the Religious Counterculture
ANA LEVY-LYONS
A New Horizon for Peace: An Israel-Palestine Union
OREN YIFTACHEL
Making Amends: Healing from Individual and Collective Trauma and Loss
WENDY SOMERSON
Vol. 30, No. 3: Summer 2015
Net Neutrality and the Fight for Social Justice
SAM ROSS-BROWN
Rethinking Agriculture: Protecting Biodiversity Amid Climate Chaos
VANDANA SHIVA
Acknowledging the Other’s Suffering: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Trauma in Israel/Palestine
JESSICA BENJAMIN
Vol. 30, No. 2: Summer 2015
Hope in the Age of Climate Consequences
KATE DAVIES
Hinduism and Honoring Creation
CHRISTOPHER FICI
Social Justice, the Environment, and Sikhs
SUMEET KAUR
Vol. 30, No. 1: Winter 2015
Power Without the King: The Debt Strike as Credible Threat
PAUL HAMPTON
Jubilee on Wall Street: Taking the Bull by the Horns
SHANE CLAIBORNE
Adapting Ancient Ethical Principles in Modern Times
DAVID KORTEN
Vol. 29, No. 4: Fall 2014
Holy Access
DARLA SCHUMM
God on Wheels: Disability and Jewish Feminist Theology
JULIA WATTS BELSER
The Crisis of Disability Is Violence: Ableism, Torture, and Murder
LYDIA BROWN
Vol. 29, No. 3: Summer 2014
God and Goddess Emerging
RABBI MICHAEL LERNER
A Beaked and Feathered God: Rediscovering Christian Animism
MARK I. WALLACE
A Buddhist God?
DAVID R. LOY
Vol. 29, No. 2: Spring 2014
Does America Need a Left? An Introduction
RABBI MICHAEL LERNER
Enter the Alter-Left: Reviving Our Revolutionary Nerve
CHAIA HELLER
Prospects for a Resurgence of the U.S. Left
BARBARA EPSTEIN
Vol. 29, No. 1: Winter 2014
What Terms for Middle East Peace Would Actually Work?
RABBI MICHAEL LERNER
Trayvon Martin: Reflections on the Black and Jewish Struggle for Justice
YAVILAH MCCOY
The Late Great Mosque of Córdoba: When Islam and the West Were One
HAROON MOGHUL
Vol. 28, No. 4: Fall 2013
Revolutionary Suicide: Risking Everything to Transform Society
LYNICE PINKARD
The Caring Majority: Building a Coalition Around Domestic Workers’ Rights
AI-JEN POO
Once Out of Nature: Life Beyond the Gender Binary
JOY LADIN
Vol. 28, No. 3: Summer 2013
Away With All Borders
RABBI MICHAEL LERNER
The New Abolitionism
JAQUELINE STEVENS
A New Social Contract
PEGGY LEVITT
Spirituality in a Broken World (a review of Roger Gottlieb’s book Spirituality)
LARRY RASMUSSEN
Vol. 28, No. 2: Spring 2013
A Spiritual Way of Seeing
PETER GABEL
Envisioning a Thoughtful and Caring Child Welfare System
SIDNEY GOLDBERG
What’s Next in Faith-Based Organizing: A Rolling Jubilee
DONNA SCHAPER
Vol. 28, No. 1: Winter 2013
Get Money Out of Politics
MICHAEL LERNER
Justice in the City
ARYEH COHEN
The Path of the Parent: How Children Can Enrich Your Spiritual Life
STEVEN TAYLOR
Vol. 27, No. 4: Fall 2012
Sabbath Practice as Political Resistance: Building the Religious Counterculture
ANA LEVY-LYONS
Obama in Question: A Progressive Critique and Defense
GARY DORRIEN
The Cross as a Central Christian Symbol of Injustice
ELISABETH SCHUSSLER FIORENZA
Vol. 27, No. 3: Summer 2012
Burning Man, Desire, and the Culture of Empire
FENTON JOHNSON
Online Ministry in a Massively Multi-Player World of Warcraft
WILDSTREAK/SWEETWATER
Drug Prohibition Is the Problem: Reflections from a Former Judge
JAMES P. GRAY
Vol. 27, No. 2: Spring 2012
Loving and Supporting Occupy
MICHAEL LERNER
Localization: The Economics of Happiness
HELENA NORBERG-HODGE
Jesus Kept Kosher: The Jewish Christ of the Gospel of Mark
DANIEL BOYARIN
Vol. 27, No. 1: Winter 2012
From Individual Rights to the Beloved Community: A New Vision of Justice
PETER GABEL
The Day the Jail Walls Cracked: A Restorative Plea Deal
SUJATHA BALIGA
What’s Love Got to Do with It
FANIA E. DAVIS
Vol. 26, No. 4: Fall 2011
Fresh Tactics and New Voices in the Movement for Justice and Freedom in the Middle East
by RAE ABILEAH
Is Addiction Really A Disease? A Challenge to Twelve-Step Programs
by NICHOLAS GRANT BOEVING
Dr. Seuss’s Progressive Politics
by PETER DREIER
Vol. 26, No. 3: Summer 2011
The Pursuit of Happiness: 2011
HARRIET FRAAD with help from GRETCHEN VAN DYCK
A Climate for Wisdom?
TIMOTHY B. LEDUC
Circumcision: Identity, Gender, and Power
MIRIAM POLLACK
The American Empire’s Terrorist Network
JOHN GERASSI
Vol. 26, No. 2: Spring 2011
Overcoming Despair as the Republicans Take Over: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky
by MICHAEL LERNER
Prospects for the U.S. Left: Not Bad At All
by RICHARD WOLFF
Nourishing Hope—in Uganda and in the United States
by JOY LADIN
Truth, Illumination, and Nuclear Weapons
by JONATHON GRANOFF
Vol. 26, No. 1: 25th Anniversary Issue (Winter 2011)
Tikkun at 25
by MICHAEL LERNER
Special Section: Tikkun Writers On the Magazine’s Impact and Future
Vol. 25, No. 6: Nov/Dec 2010
Science & Spirit
Vol. 25, No. 5: Sept/Oct 2010
Saving the Earth from Corporate Greed
Vol. 25, No. 4: July/Aug 2010
Queer Spirituality & Politics
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