33.1/2 Winter Spring

Readers Respond

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Letter to the Editor:
I learned so much by reading Tikkun’s analysis of the left’s condescending attitude towards working class and poor Americans. I have to admit that I ,who had parents that were anti Vietnam war activists, environmental activists, feminist activists,etc, recognize that they had a feeling of being on a higher plane, just as you put it. Even though I have been a very low income earner, I’ve managed to enjoy rural living and growing my own healthy food, I have been subjected to the overt disapproval, and big egos, from wealthy back-to-the-Landers!!!!! So I know how it feels to have scorn heaped on me by others on the left, for not being “more successful” by many people,of the privilege class. So I find myself understanding how the more uneducated white folk feel about the “higher plane” left, as you state in your writing, having been victim of the privileged left myself, but since I had parents on the educated left, I’ve accepted some of their way of seeing things, and as a result cannot accept the working class or poor voting for the right.

33.1/2 Winter Spring

Winter/Spring 2018 Table of Contents

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Editorials & Actions

Shootings are the Symptoms, Violence Is the Disease

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Shootings are the Symptoms, Violence is the Diseas

By Simon Mont

A gun problem, a shooter problem, a racism problem, a mental health problem, a human problem.  

A violence problem.  

Violence. It’s not just a bullet or a knife. It’s an infection

That permeates through people, relationships and society.

Rabbi Lerner is turning 75

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Help us celebrate Rabbi Lerner’s 75th by making a video telling us what you appreciate about him, Tikkun, and/or the Network of Spiritual Progressives!

Protected: Protected: Protected: Protected: Protected: Protected: Protected: Protected: Protected: Protected: Protected: Protected: Protected: Spiritual Activism Training: January-March 2018

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Spiritual Activism Training: January-March 2018
First Steps:

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32.4 Fall

Fall 2017 Table of Contents

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32.4 Fall

Tikkun Recommends

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Jewish Renewal, a new movement that emerged in the last decades of the 20th  century, has become one of the most significant developments in Judaism in the lives of thousands of American and Israeli Jews. Sometimes described as neo-Hasidism by its proponents, and New Age Judaism by its detractors, this movement has produced a fusion of spiritual intensity in its prayers, astounding creativity in its theology, and a joyous renewal of the love-oriented aspects of Judaism.  It refuses to let Holocaust grief, patriarchal or homophobic practices, or Zionist loyalty define what 21st century Judaism will be about. Its most significant well-known expositors are Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Judith Plaskow, Marcia Prager,  Michael Lerner, Arthur Waskow, Shefa Gold, Tirzah Firestone, Burt Jacobson, David A. Cooper, Yitz & Shonna Husband-Hankins, Shaya Isenberg Bahira Sugarman, Simcha Rafael, Jeff Roth, David Seidenberg, Or Rose, Arthur Green, Shawn Zevit, David Ingber,  Phyllis Ocean Berman, Daniel Siegel, and Elliot Ginsburg. Into this boiling over of creativity we can now add Sheila Peltz Weinberg and Rachel Werczberger.

32.4 Fall

Readers Respond

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A NOTE ON LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

We welcome your responses to our articles. Send letters to the editor to letters@tikkun.org. Please remember, however, not to attribute to Tikkun views other than those expressed in our editorials. We email, post, and print many articles with which we have strong disagreements because that is what makes Tikkun a location for a true diversity of ideas. Tikkun reserves the right to edit your letters to fit available space in the magazine.

#GivingTuesday is right around the corner, and we need your help!

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Do you love what we do at Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives but don’t have a lot of money? Here’s a great way to support us. #GivingTuesday is Tuesday, November 28th. You can support us by setting up a fundraiser on your own Facebook page and inviting your friends to donate––see below for more instructions! Facebook and the Gates Foundation have agreed to match donations raised on Facebook that day.