About Tikkun
Blessed Are The Organized
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by Jeffrey Stout
2011
Spring 2011 Table of Contents
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Spring 2011 Table of Contents
Volume 26, Issue 2
Letters to the Editor
Editorials
Tunisia, Egypt, and Israel
U.S. policy in the Middle East keeps opting for stability over morality—and so ends up with neither. A Progressive Strategy for 2011-2012
Primaries are the one way we the people can still bring our concerns into national politics. Rethinking Religion
Truth, Illumination, and Nuclear Weapons
by JONATHAN GRANOFF
The highest spiritual truths include this one: Don’t Kill Everybody. Another Word on “God and the Twenty-First Century”
by MICHAEL BENEDIKT
What if God emerges from and evolves with us? Politics & Society
Overcoming Despair as the Republicans Take Over: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky
by MICHAEL LERNER
How are national initiatives built locally?
2011
The Warsaw Anagrams, The Mighty Walzer, and Scenes from Village Life
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by Richard Zimler, Howard Jacobson, Amos Oz
2011
Summer 2011 Table of Contents
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Volume 26, Issue 3
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Letters to the Editor
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Editorials
Recognize Palestine and Give It UN Membership
No to the Proposed Legal Ban on Circumcision
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Politics and Society
The Pursuit of Happiness: 2011
by HARRIET FRAAD with help from GRETCHEN VAN DYCK
Under assault from U.S. corporate elites and the rich, many Americans are responding in a dysfunctional personal way rather than through collective action. Here’s a strategy to change that. A Climate for Wisdom? by TIMOTHY B. LEDUC
Environmentalists have already provided the rational arguments for major societal transformations. What we need now is the wisdom for the prerequisite cultural transformations.
About Tikkun
Video: Congressman Raul Grijalva on Immigration Rights
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Congressman Raul Grijalva of Arizona’s 7th Congressional District delivers an inspiring message underscoring the importance of immigration reform in this video, which he created for our 25th Anniversary celebration on March 14, 2011. Xenophobia, he explains, weakens and violates the American dream. The immigration debate has divided our nation for years — from the Irish Anti-Settlement Act to the Alien Sedition Act to the Chinese Exclusion Act, not to mention today’s Anti-Hispanic sentiment. We cannot let this attitude persist. Instead, we must commit to protect immigrants with our legal rights and integrate them into our communities.
Editorials & Actions
The Utne Award and the Future of Tikkun
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Former managing editor Dave Belden, Associate Editor Peter Gabel, and I were honored to receive the Utne Independent Press Award won by Tikkun Wednesday night at a ceremony attended by staff from some of the most significant magazines in the United States (Managing Editor Alana Price was unable to attend but was with us in spirit). The awardees were selected from some 1,300 magazines reviewed. Tikkun won in the category of Best Body/Spirit Coverage. The other nominees were: The Christian Century, Commonweal, Geez, Resurgence, Sojourners, Tricycle, and Yes!Magazine. In accepting the award, we want to acknowledge the excellence of the other nominee magazines as well!
About Tikkun
VIDEO: Naomi Newman
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Community-building and tikkun-ing the world are two themes A Traveling Jewish Theatre has explored during its thirty-four years. After receiving the Tikkun Award, theater co-founder Naomi Newman told two stories. The first, excerpted from Coming from a Great Distance — the theater’s inaugural piece — emphasizes the importance of community and is based on the life and stories of the Baal Shem Tov. Her second story illustrates our ability and responsibility to heal our potentially perfect, yet imperfect world. Don’t miss her dramatic performance:
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