Tikkun Daily
We’d Love to Have You Join Us (not just for Jews!)
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Why might you want to join us?
Israel/Palestine
Latest Attempt to Forcibly “Judaize” Jerusalem
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Israeli Supreme Court temporarily delays the eviction of one Palestinian family from their home in Jerusalem. Meanwhile, the violence continues to escalate with no peaceful end in sight.
Join Us to Help Build a Caring Society
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Our goal is to encourage and support people to dream big about the kind of life and community they want – dreams that are so often excluded from public discourse. To bring these liberating ideas into the public sphere, we will work to pass resolutions endorsing the New Bottom Line: A Caring Society.
Jewish Wisdom
The Book of Esther – A Fresh Look at Trauma and Accommodation
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Cat Zavis challenges us to look at the Book of Esther through the lens of trauma and accommodation so we can re-envision a liberatory story.
Politics & Society
Republican Hypocrisy: Will Democrats Have a Backbone?
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Republicans’ hypocritical call for national unity raises questions as to whether the Democrats will cave or have a backbone.
35.1 Spring/Summer
Love: A Call to Action
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Cat Zavis reflects on the outpouring of love to honor that Black lives in fact do matter.
Justice for All
NSP & Tikkun Launch National Working Groups
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Watch or listen to our call launching our National Working Groups. These groups will provide a space for NSP members to gather to brainstorm, strategize, learn, and co-create and serve as a model of how to organize a local group.
Justice for All
How Black Lives Matter To Me
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A personal reflection on how #BlackLivesMatter to one Jewish woman (namely, me!).
Politics & Society
Why People are Demanding to Get Back to Work
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If we fail to understand the real pain in people’s lives who are fighting to open their states, we risk the likelihood that many of them will become the shock troops for an anti-democracy movement that could have profound impact on the 2020 elections and its aftermath.
The Book of Esther, the Exodus, and U.S. Politics: A Leap of Faith
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Cat Zavis explores how the contrasting worldviews portrayed in the Books of Esther and Exodus manifest also in the political debates of our times.
Israel/Palestine
Trump’s Phony Israel Peace Plan
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Hagai El-Ad, Executive Director of Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, reflects on Trump’s phony Israel peace plan. And an invitation to hear Rabbi Lerner speak about his new book, Revolutionary Love, in various cities from now through April.
Ecological Transformation
Climate Activists Disrupt Harvard/Yale Football Game
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Cat Zavis reflects upon the amazing climate action that disrupted the Harvard/Yale football this weekend.
Prophet Jonah, Murder of Another Black Man by White Police Officer, and the Limits of Forgiveness
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Cat Zavis explores the limits that forgiveness offer when crimes have a systemic basis. She looks at the Book of Jonah and the recent murder of Botham Jean, and his brother Brandt Jean’s forgiveness of the white police officer that shot Botham.
Ecological Transformation
Climate Strike – What an Amazing and Inspiring Day
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Rabbi Lerner and Cat Zavis share photos and their experience from the Climate Strike in San Francisco.