1989

July/August 1989 Full Table of Contents

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Letters

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Publisher’s Page

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The Editor: A Personal Note

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Editorials: Revolutions: France 1789, China 1989; Flashing the “V” Sign: Sedition in Israel

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Articles

An Interview with Abbie Hoffman BY BENNY AVNI

Abortion: Historically Compromised BY RUTH ROSEN

Abortion: Bad Choices BY LARRY LETICH

Abortion in Jewish Law BY RACHEL BIALE

“thirtysomething” BY JAY ROSEN

What Kind of State is a Jewish State? BY MICHAEL WALZER

Can Judaism Survive the Twentieth Century? BY JACOB NEUSNER

Is Psychiatry Going Out of Its Mind? BY MICHAEL J. BADER

Assault on the Couch BY STEPHEN SELIGMAN
Toward a feminist Jewish Reconstruction of Monotheism BY MARCIA FALK
A Response to Marcia Falk BY LAWRENCE S. HOFFMAN

After “The Last Intellectuals” BY RUSSELL JACOBY

Indian Giver BY ANDREW BARD SCHMOOKLER

Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century BY JOHN GERASSI

The Rabbi and the Abyss of AIDS BY JOSEPH A. EDELHEIT

The Politics of Translation BY CHANA BLOCH

Wherein Is Related My Encounter with a Swabian Windmill BY JOSEPH EDELMAN

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Conference Papers

Tikkun and Progressive Liberalism BY GARY PELLER

The Real Issue Behind Who-Is-a-Jew BY DAVID BIALE

The Whole Truth BY ANNE ROIPHE

Black-Jewish Relations: A New Vision BY CHERIE BROWN

Blacks and Jews in the Political Arena BY BARNEY FRANK

Blacks and Jews: troubled Times on the College Campuses BY CHAIM SEIDLER-FELLER

Black-Jewish Dialogue BY CORNEL WEST

Class, Women, and “The Black-Jewish Question” BY MELANIE KAYE/KANTROWITZ

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Poetry

Dust BY SUSAN LITWACK

My Story BY DAVID IGNATOW

Covenant BY SHARON KESSLER

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Fiction

The Brass Ring BY NICHOLAS DELBANCO

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Reviews

All Consuming Images by Stuart Ewen BY TODD GITLIN

The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-80 edited by Steven Fraser and Gary Gerstle BY THEDA SKOCPOL

The Cultural History of the French Revolution by Emmet Kennedy BY TONY JUDT

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Current Debate: Is Modernism Destructive? Why Postmodernism Still Matters BY JEFFREY C. ISAAC

A Response to Jeffrey C. Isaac BY MARSHALL BERMAN

1989

May/June 1989 Full Table of Contents

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Editorials: The Destruction of the Planet; Victimology

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Articles

A Conversation with the PLO BY NABIL SHAAT AND MICHAEL LERNER

New Age Mythology: A Jewish Response to Joseph Campbell BY TAMAR FRANKIEL

Progress: The Last Superstition BY CHRISTOPHER LASCH

The Malaise of Jewish Education BY ISA ARON

The Two Banks of Jerusalem BY ROGER FRIEDLAND AND RICHARD HECHT

Slouching Toward Pressology BY CARLIN ROMANO

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Special Feature: A Distance from the Holocaust

Visiting the Burnt House BY CHANA BLOCH

Protecting the Dead BY FRANCINE PROSE

Nelly BY MIRIAM AKAVIA

Resistance to the Holocaust BY PHILLIP LOPATE

Don’t Resist BY YEHUDA BAUER

A Critique of Phillip Lopate: What is the Meaning of This to You? BY DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT

Phillip Lopate Responds to Bauer and Lipstadt

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Conference Papers

American Jews and Israel BY IRVING HOWE

Now and Then BY GRACE PALEY

The Cry for Justice BY ALFRED KAZIN

Women and Tikkun/tikkun BY JUDY CHICAGO

Jewish Progressives and the Jewish Community BY IRENA KLEPFISZ

Anti-Semitism Parading as Anti-Zionism BY DANIEL LANDES

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Poetry

Five Parables BY STEPHEN MITCHELL

The Uses of Laughter BY ANID DAME

Porno-Drive-In, Knoxville, TN BY WILLA SCHNEBERG

Schizophrenia BY SHLOMI HARIF NABLUS

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Fiction

Sworn Statements: The Guillotine BY MARCIE HERSHMAN

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Reviews

The Wrath of Jonah by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Herman J. Ruether BY DAVID BIALE

The Company of Critics by Michael Walzer BY CASEY BLAKE

Reunion: A Memoir by Tom Hayden BY HAROLD JACOBS

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Current Debate

Is Tikkun Too Conservative? Jesse Lemisch v.s. Tikkun

 

1989

March/April 1989 Full Table of Contents

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Editorials: Mississippi Burning; Shamir’s “Peace Plan”; Rabin as Pharaoh; No Arms for the Saudis

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Articles

The Transformative Possibilities of Legal Culture BY PETER GABEL

Killing the Princess: The Offense of a Bad Defense BY ELISA NEW

The Nostalgia Disease BY SVEN BIRKERTS

Welfare Reform: Maximum Feasible Exaggeration BY HOWARD JACOB KARGER AND DAVID STOESZ

Toward a Jewish Dramatic Theory BY DAVID COLE

Twice an Outsider: On Being Jewish and a Woman BY VIVIAN GORNICK

Malamud BY RICHARD ELMAN

The Problem with Halakhic Ethics BY MOSHE ISH SHALOM

The Bible’s Sleeping Beauty BY ARTHUR WASKOW

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Special Feature: The Tikkun Conference

Introduction: The Meaning of the Conference

Claiming Out Rightful Role BY NAN FINK

A Worldview for Jewish Progressives BY MICHAEL LERNER

What Rides the Wind BY MARGE PIERCY

Negotiations Now BY ABBA EBAN

A Call to Action BY LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN

Phony Gardens with Real Toads in Them BY TODD GITLIN

The Anti-Communist Past of the Neoconservative Present BY ILENE PHILIPSON

Theses on Liberalism BY ELI ZARETSKY

Victimology BY JESSICA BENJAMIN

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Poetry

Hospice BY L.S. ASEKOFF

Anger BY CAROLINE FINKELSTEIN

The Wrestler BY RICHARD S. CHESS

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Fiction

Edict BY EDITH PEARLMAN

The Confession BY ROBERT COHEN

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Reviews

On Vietnam War Films BY JENEFER P. SHUTE

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Films

Picasso’s Man with a Sheep BY MARX W. WARTOFSKY

Deceptive Distinctions by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein BY JOAN WALLACH SCOTT

Women Adrift by Joan Meyerowitz BY ELIZABETH LUNBECK

On Bended Knee by Mark Hertsgaard BY JEFFERSON MORLEY

The Ordination of Women as Rabbis by Simon Greenberg (ed.) BY DANIEL H. GORDIS

Zion and State by Mitchell Cohen BY MADELINE TRESS

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Current Debate: Nature and Domination

On Autonomy and Humanity’s Relation to Nature BY MICHAEL E. ZIMMERMAN

A Response to Michael Zimmerman by STEVEN VOGEL

1989

January/February 1989 Full Table of Contents

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Editorials: Inauguration, 1989; The Mideast Craziness BY MICHAEL LERNER

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Articles

Why Modernism Still Matters BY MARSHALL BERMAN

Surviving a Bush Presidency BY MICHAEL LERNER

Notes from a trip to Hungary (Summer 1988) BY TODD GITLIN

England, Bloody England BY LESLEY HAZELTON

Criticism and Restitution BY GEOFFREY HARTMAN 

Soviet Jewish Emigration BY ROBERT CULLEN 

There They Go Again BY LAWRENCE H. FUCHS 

The Israeli Elections BY ITZHAK GALNOOR 

The Meaning of the PNC in Algiers BY JEROME M. SEGAL 

Levenson Sexegesis: Miriam in the Desert BY EDWARD R. ZWEIBACK 

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Current Debate: Jackson and the Jews

Jackson, the Jews, and What’s Left? BY CARL LANDAUER

The Bad and the Worse BY PAUL BERMAN

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Current Debate: Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action vs. Jewish Men BY MICHAEL LEVIN

The Meretriciousness of Merit: Or, Why Jewish Males Oughtn’t Be So Smug  BY JOSH HENKIN

The Misplaced Self-Delusion of Some Jewish Males BY ALAN FREEMAN AND BETTY MENSCH

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Fiction

The Sweetheart Is In BY S. L. WISENBERG

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Poetry

My Last Chicken BY SOL WARKOV

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Book Reviews

The Electronic Sweatshop by Barbara Garson; In the Age of the Smart Machine by Shoshana Zuboff BY RUTH MILKMAN

Highbrow/Lowbrow by Lawrence W. Levine BY JACKSON LEARS

Restructuring the World Economy by Joyce Kolko; Trading Places by Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr. BY HOWARD M. WACHTEL

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Film/Drama Reviews

Bernard Weiner Speed-the-Plow

Carol Gilligan A World Apart

A Call for Love in the Face of Hatred: Rabbi Lerner’s talk at Muhammad Ali’s Memorial

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A transcript of Rabbi Lerner’s speech is below. To see him speak and to hear about his experiences, please see our post here. Master of compassion, God of compassion, send your blessings to Muhammad Ali, send your blessings to all who mourn for him, and send your blessings for all the millions and millions of people who mourn for him all over this planet. I come here speaking as a representative of American Jews — and to say that American Jews played an important role in solidarity with African-American struggles in this country and that we today stand in solidarity with the Islamic community in country and all around the world. [applause]

We will not tolerate politicians or anyone else putting down Muslims and blaming Muslims for a few people [applause].We know what it’s like to be demeaned.

Not Another Dark Holocaust Poem: Chava, Miriam, Auschwitz

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Not Another Dark Holocaust Poem: Chava, Miriam, Auschwitz

It is tempting to dredge up ashy metaphors for your last days on earth

To remain riveted, horrified, impaled by thoughts of what it must have been like

Torn away from the comfort of a beautiful room, in your beautiful clothes, your ordinary Jewish lives

Turning away from the gathering gray clouds; the rumors, the stricken faces, the sinking fears pulling you into a reality too dreadful to be faced

And then, too late;

for Chava, for Miriam, too late

 

But wait, here is where I stop being able to go with you, onto that train, towards the sorting desk: live or die,

The barracks, the showers, the endings. Instead I carry you in my arms into the present

Into my music, quilting, cooking, tikkuning, praying and I feel you here in the invisible connections

Great-aunts with large breasts, recipes, laughter, wisdom, sewing machines, struggles: loving life, loving me. I hold you here, in the only life I have, living it in memory of you.  

Renna Ulvang is a long time member of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue; a psychotherapist and certified spiritual director, companioning people in their search for connection to the Divine. (rennaulvang.com)

2016

Intimate Violence, Societal Violence: Online Exclusives

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These online exclusives are freely accessible articles that are part of an ongoing special series associated with Tikkun’s Winter 2016 print issue, Intimate Violence, Societal Violence. An Invitation to Community: Restorative Justice Circles for Intimate Partner Violence
EMILY GAARDNER

Intimate Partner Violence and Intimate Partner Justice: How Spiritual Teachings Impact Both
REV. AL MILES

AfroLezfemcentric Perspectives on Coloring Gender and Queering Race
AISHAH SHAHIDAH SIMMONS

Intersectionality and Intimate Partner Violence: Barriers Women Face
VENESSA GARCIA AND PATRICK McMANIMON

If you appreciated these free web-only articles, please help enable us to keep up this important work by becoming a print subscriber or offering a donation.

2016

Winter 2016 Table of Contents

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This quarterly issue of the magazine is available both online and in hard copy. The full online articles are only available to subscribers and NSP members — subscribe or join now to read the rest! You can also buy a paper copy of this single print issue. Members and subscribers get online access to the magazine. If you are a member or subscriber who needs guidance on how to register, email miriam@tikkun.org or call 510-644-1200 for help — registration is easy and you only have to do it once.

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Against Racism and For Democracy: Reflections on Ayman Odeh at the HaaretzQ Conference by Aaron Steinberg-Madow

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Note: This post originally appeared on All That’s Left on December 30, 2015. As an Israeli politician gets up to speak, a crowd of Jewish Americans leaps to its feet. But the speaker isn’t Jewish. His name is Ayman Odeh and he is a Palestinian citizen of Israel and the leader of the Joint List, the third largest party in the Knesset. MK Odeh has come to New York to address the HaaretzQ Conference with the New Israel Fund.

Fighting Terrorism with Love

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Love requires us to think of terrorists as people. We need to look beyond terrorist acts to the exploitation of powerless countries by the West. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris last month, amid all the talk of war and destruction, some people could be heard calling for love. But what would a loving response to terrorism be? I understand love as a concern for all people, which has well-being as its first focus.

Empathizing with ISIS: An Unthinkable Necessity Explained by John McFadden

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ISIS hardly seems to deserve empathy. But that depends on what’s meant by “empathy.” In the sophisticated realms of international relations, psychotherapy, and other social science disciplines, “empathy” doesn’t carry the ordinary meaning most people think of when they hear that word. To most people, “empathy” means sympathy, or feeling for. Whereas in the academic and professional worlds, empathize means something like “stand in the shoes of,” or crawl inside the other person’s position, their life experiences, their beliefs, attitudes and feelings. It’s a totally impersonal process at times, much like understanding how a machine works so as to become better able to fix it.

Overcoming ISIS: An Ongoing Tikkun Forum

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Articles:
Introduction to Tikkun’s Approach, by Rabbi Michael Lerner

Humiliation is the Root of All Terrorism, by Peter Gabel

The U.S and the Rise of ISIS, by Stephen Zunes

Empathizing with ISIS: An Unthinkable Necessity Explained, by John McFadden

Fighting Terrorism with Love, Philip McKibbin
Introduction to Tikkun’s Approach
by Rabbi Michael Lerner
This site will be continually updated with new articles, so check it whenever you are wishing to hear what people in the spiritual progressive world are thinking. Tikkun does not necessarily agree with all the articles we select to publish below, any more than do we necessarily agree with articles we publish in the print magazine (which is available by subscription, or free to people who join the Network of Spiritual Progressives at the $50 level—and on line only to our subscribes or NSP members or donors). But what makes an article Tikkunish? It approaches this topic and any other social phenomenon with a supposition that people who are acting in ways that are hateful, hurtful, violent in speech or action, anti-Semitic, racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, religiophobic or otherwise acting in irrational or self-destructive ways are often responding to internal psychological or spiritual needs that are legitimate needs that have been systematically frustrated and which have much in common with needs of many others who do not respond to them in the same irrational or hurtful or violent ways.  Those who respond by being attracted to extremist ideas–whether they take the form of “America is always right and we have the absolute right to impose our way of thinking or being on those who disagree with us because they are wrong,” or substitute here in place of “America” any other nationality, religious community, ethnic or racial group, gender, sexual preference, or other grouping—are often seeking a way to deal with inner pain or the absence of a loving environment that all human beings need to flourish, and have adopted a strategy for having their needs met that is destructive to themselves or others.

30.4 Fall

Readers Respond: Letters to the Editor, Fall 2015

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