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American Post-Judaism with Shaul Magid

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Judaism Unbound (http://www.judaismunbound.com) is a project of the Institute for the Next Jewish Future, a project that catalyzes and supports grassroots efforts by “disaffected but hopeful” American Jews to re-imagine and re-design Jewish life in America for the 21st Century. In the third of a four-part series discussing the Jewish future in America, Shaul Magid discusses his 2013 book American Post-Judaism and explores various challenges that face Jews and Judaism in America in the next generation. Focusing on the idea that America is moving into a post-ethnic phase whereby ethnicity no longer defines collectives the way it once did, Magid talks about various new forms of Jewish spiritual practice, syncretism and hybridity with other religions, the role of the non-Jew in the Jewish community, the developing role of the Holocaust and Israel in American Jewish life, the cresting of Habad’s influence, the normalization of intermarriage, the contributions ex-haredi Jews can make to American Judaism, and two models he calls “survivialism” and “spiritual humanism” that have emerged as competing paradigms in the 21st century.

Ecological Transformation

Nigel Savage of Hazon on a Jewish Food Movement

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Nigel Savage is the founder and executive director of Hazon, one of the most significant new organizations in Jewish life in the past several decades, focused on food policy Tikkun magazine’s Sprint 2016 print edition is focused on food policy, and this article should be read in conjunction with the articles in that issue which are not primarily focused on how these issues play out in the Jewish world, but rather on the worldwide food crisis and how to solve it. Hazon is certainly part of that solution, so we are delighted to have this opportunity to present to you some of the thinking of its most visionary leader. Rather than break up the text with questions from Tikkun, we’ve mostly eliminated the questions and tried to tie together different parts of what Nigel Savage is saying to enhance the flow of the article.To get the Food Policy edition of Tikkun, subscribe at www.tikkun.org/subscribe. To get more info about Hazon, please go to www.hazon.org

Food Politics

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Tikkun has convened a forum on Food Politics that take stock of the successes and dangers of contemporary food politics. The essays that follow touch on Jewish veganism, indigenous peoples’ resistance to big agribusiness, the hidden externalities of low food prices, the sexual politics of meat, and much more.

The Tikkun Passover Seder Supplement for 2016/5776

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This is meant as a supplement to the traditional Haggadah. You can use it in addition to a traditional Haggadah, introducing whichever parts you like to your Seder to provoke a lively discussion. Or you can use this as the basis for an alternative Haggadah, which can then be supplemented by the traditional Haggadah.

Spring 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.

Ari Bloomekatz

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Ari Bloomekatz is the managing editor of Tikkun. Before moving to Berkeley in 2016, Ari served as a creative writing coach for middle school students in Cleveland and worked as a daily journalist with news organizations across the country. Ari has been a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times and Voice of San Diego, and has also worked for The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, the Cincinnati Enquirer and The Tennessean, in Nashville, among other publications. Ari also supports student journalism through the Bridget O’Brien Scholarship Foundation. Sometimes he teaches.

Less Evil?

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Non-subscribers: This forum is available as featured open-access content on our publisher’s website. Every four years liberals and progressives are faced with the same conundrum: whether they should support the Democratic candidate for president, and in many instances, the candidates fielded in local congressional and gubernatorial elections; support the Green candidates; or simply abstain from voting altogether. On the issues that matter most, rank-and-file Democratic candidates are almost always far from supporting a liberal or progressive agenda, much less a spiritual-progressive agenda. Faced with the increasing extremism of the right, progressives have tended to stick with the lesser-evil candidate. The reasons are compelling: if right-wingers win the presidency and more senatorial or congressional seats, the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary could be filled with judges committed to serving the 1 percent and the reactionary social agenda of right-wing evangelicals.

Editorials & Actions

Dr. Jill Stein on Israel, Palestine and The Middle East

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Tikkun does not endorse candidates or political parties. But we do seek to inform you of perspectives that have been publlicly articulated. Here is Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate, articulating her stand on what she would do were she to be president. We have repeatedly tried to get an interview with Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton and several Republic Party candidates  on these and related issues without any success. So the best we can say is that our readers should compare Jill Stein’s statement with others running in all of the political parties, particularly anyone whom you have chosen to support for the nomination to be your party’s candidate for president of the U.S.

 
Dr. Jill Stein on Israel, Palestine and The Middle East
 

Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr. Jill Stein
says U.S. Policy Towards Israel, Palestine and the Middle East Must Change.

2015

Fall 2015 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.

About Tikkun

What’s Next for Israel/Palestine

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Non-subscribers: This forum is available as featured open-access content on our publisher’s website. What’s Next for Israel/Palestine? An Introduction
MICHAEL LERNER

Until Two States Exist, Palestinians Deserve Voting Rights in Israel
DAVID BIALE

The Logic of Abandoning the Two-States Campaign
REBECCA SUBAR

Nonviolence, BDS, and the Dream of Beloved Community in Palestine/Israel
LYNN GOTTLIEB

We Need to Make Peace More Lucrative Than Occupation
RAJA SHEHADEH

Israel Can’t Have It Both Ways: Recognize Palestine or Grant Equal Rights
SAM BAHOUR AND TONY KLUG

The Only Road to Sustainable Peace: Pluralistic Democracy
MAZIN QUMSIYEH

If You Want Justice, Support All Forms of Nonviolent Pressure on Israel
REBECCA VILKOMERSON

Escaping the Two-State Snare
IAN S. LUSTICK

Moving Beyond the One-State/Two-State Debate
ANDREW ARATO

Israel’s Human Shields Defense: Shielding Israeli War Crimes
OVADIA EZRA

A New Horizon for Peace: An Israel-Palestine Union
OREN YIFTACHEL

State-Building Can Pave the Way to Statehood: Lessons from Kurdistan
REUVEN KIMELMAN

Israeli Elections Won’t End Oppression in Palestine/Israel
AMER SHURRAB

Closing Thoughts on “What’s Next for Israel/Palestine?”
MICHAEL LERNER

Online Exclusives

These online exclusives  are freely accessible articles that are part of an ongoing special series associated with Tikkun’s Fall 2015 print issue, What’s Next For Israel/Palestine. A Two-State Solution is the Only Option
ALON BEN-MEIR

The Legacy of Jewish Trauma
TIRZAH FIRESTONE

“The Ploughshare Without Fear”: Remembering Martin Buber (1878-1965)
CAROL ASCHER

Communities of Faith Must Join to Demand an Arms Embargo
TIMOTHY R. PRISK

Moving Beyond Despair
DOV WAXMAN

The Problem with Solutions
NOAH HABEEB

On the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Back to Democratic Basics
SAM SUSSMAN

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2015

Letters: Transforming the Legal Arena

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Restoring Mutual Recognition to the Legal System
I was pleased to see two discussions of restorative justice in the Summer 2015 issue of Tikkun, in Peter Gabel’s visionary essay, “The Spiritual Dimension of Social Justice:  Transforming the Legal Arena,” and in Al Hunter’s reviews of two new books on prison abolition. Restorative justice has played a major role in transforming the criminal justice system in countries such as New Zealand, and it is making an impact in jurisdictions throughout the United States, but it is more than just an alternative approach to crime and punishment. Restorative Justice is an international movement for social transformation. Restorative practices (a more inclusive term preferred by some practitioners) call on us to, as Gabel writes, “link our collective moral impulses with a collective coming-into-connection that holds the promise of making those high moral impulses a living social reality.” And when we fail to act on our highest moral impulses, as we all do at times, restorative practices provide a framework for repairing the harm. Sitting in a peacemaking circle, or another restorative process guided by a skilled facilitator, participants experience the fulfillment of the “desire for mutual recognition” that Gabel describes.

How A Post Will Work with Subscription Genius

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When Tikkun Magazine starts using Subscription Genius instead of MemberWing-X to manage who can read articles, things will work like this. Rather than allowing someone to read a few paragraphs and then cut them off, Subscription Genius does an overlay. We can design the overlay however we want and use whatever text we want. I’m just using the default simple templates right now. I’ve created this post just so that you can see what it would look like.

2015

The Spiritual Dimension of Social Justice: Responses to Peter Gabel

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Tikkun received a number of letters and essays in response to Peter Gabel’s Summer 2015 print article, The Spiritual Dimension of Social Justice: Transforming the Legal Arena. We publish them here in full. To join the conversation, write letters@tikkun.org. Essays
A Response from the River Jordan
by John Henry Schlegel

A Reply to Peter Gabel and John Schlegel
by John Farago

Spiritual Evolution and the Law
by Bruce Peterson

The Problem is that Life is Imperfect
by James P. Gray

History and Transcendence
by Gary Peller

Letters from Mika Dashman and Glen T. Martin. If you appreciate these free web-only articles, please help us continue publishing important work by becoming a print subscriber or offering a donation.

2015

Online Exclusives: The Place of Hope in an Age of Climate Disaster

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The online exclusives below are freely accessible articles that are part of an ongoing special series associated with Tikkun’s Spring 2015 print issue, The Place of Hope in an Age of Climate Disaster. Many of our most provocative articles on this topic appeared in that print issue, which is only accessible to subscribers. Subscribe now to read the subscriber-only print articles on the web (explore the table of contents to see what you’re missing!). If you appreciate the free web-only articles below, please do enable us to keep up this important work by becoming a print subscriber or offering a donation. Diversity is the Lifeline for the Future of the Climate Movement
by Mijin Cha

Hinduism and Honoring Creation
by Chris Fici

Social Justice, the Environment, and Sikhs
by Sumeet Kaur

Let’s Establish the New Moon and Full Moon as Holidays of Earth Preservation
by Ron Feldman

Hope in the Age of Climate Consequences
by Kate Davies

What Does Sustainability Feel Like?