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Every week the Truthdig editorial staff selects a Truthdigger of the Week, a group or person worthy of recognition for speaking truth to power, breaking the story or blowing the whistle. Read why this week they chose our own Rabbi Michael Lerner!
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A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations
Edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb and Benjamin Stora
Princeton University Press, 2014
This collection of scholarly yet accessible articles by dozens of Jewish and Muslim experts is the definitive source for understanding a complex relationship between Muslims and Jews from the seventh century to the present day. Its 1,146 pages cover pressing political issues like whether Jews are demeaned in Islam and whether Jews faced real (as opposed to just remembered) anti-Semitism in Islamic societies. It also explores the ways in which contemporary Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are both products and causes of the political struggle between Israelis and Palestinians. Yet the richness of this fantastic and exciting book lies also in its descriptions of how Jews and Muslims have learned from each other in the arenas of philosophy, science, art, literature, and mysticism.
by Jay and Ramaswamy, Scruton, Giroux, Sassen, and Nagler
Have you gotten a chance to check out Tikkun’s Summer 2014 print issue “Thinking Anew About God”? A significant number of Tikkun readers have told us that they don’t believe in God. No worries! Our managing editor and many of our authors identify as agnostics or atheists too. Check out two free articles from this latest issue!
Tikkun is the winner of the prestigious 2014 “Magazine of the Year: Overall Excellence in Religion Coverage” award from the Religion Newswriters Association!
The online exclusives below are freely accessible articles that are part of an ongoing special series associated with Tikkun’s Winter 2015 print issue, Jubilee and Debt Abolition. 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. Fulfilling Our Debt to Humanity: A Hindu Perspective on Jubilee
by Murali Balaji
The Student Debt Crisis
by Alan Collinge
Sharing Empathy, Sharing Power: A Catholic Take on Debt and Jubilee
by Susan Wilcox
The Jubilee and the Global Economy: Lessons from Leviticus
by Norman Solomon
Debtors All: Facing Our Ecological Indebtedness
by Fletcher Harper
Reforming Money and Banking: Keys to Debt and Jubilee
by Hazel Henderson
A Buddhist and Interfaith Response to Debt Capitalism
by Susmita Barua
Our movement operates at several levels, from ideas to action. You can join in at any level, or all of them:
Ideas: Read the web magazine, our NSP website, and our blog. Be open to how different a spiritual progressive worldview is to a secular left or liberal outlook on the one hand, and a conservative spiritual or religious one on the other. Two good places to start are our Core Vision and our Spiritual Covenant With America. The latter spells out the differences succinctly.
On July 25th 2014 Tikkun hosted a teleconference on the situation in Israel/Gaza. Click here if you’d like to download an MP3 of the teleconference or use the player below to play it on your computer or other device now.
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We at Tikkun mourn the many tragic deaths of Palestinians and Israelis that have characterized the struggle between Israelis and Palestinians in the past many years, and the escalation of those killings in recent weeks both before Israel’s invasion of Gaza and now while that invasion continues. We will be adding articles below as the struggle continues, so if you’ve already read the fundamental analysis we give to these struggles, please scroll down to the most recent articles you’ll find here, some written by Tikkun authors, others published by reliable sources such as Ha’aretz newspaper in Tel Aviv. Interview with Rabbi Michael Lerner on CNN
by Tikkun Magazine
Reflections on the War in Gaza
by Shmuel Chesed
Meeting in a Tunnel: The Gaza War, August 1st
by Uri Avnery
From The New York Times: An Israel Without Illusions
by David Grossman
From The Guardian: US condemns shelling of UN school in Gaza but restocks Israeli ammunition
by Paul Lewis and Harriet Sherwood
Conf Call with Sami Awad, plus Rabbi Seidernbeg on Jewish Ethics in GAZA, Noa Israeli singer, and Peter Beinart on the Myths about Gaza
by Tikkun Administration
Poem: Kindness
by Naomi Shihab Nye
“Israel Provoked This War: It’s Up to Obama to Stop It” and Recommended Articles
by Tikkun Administration
Live Interview with Uri Avnery and More
by Tikkun Administration
Israel: Stop the Invasion of Gaza, Stop the Bombing of Gaza, Free the Palestinian Prisoners
by Michael Lerner
Not in My Name, Netanyahu
by David Harris-Gershon
Tragedy in Gaza: Reckoning with Root Causes
by Brant Rosen
Empathizing with Gaza does NOT make me anti-Semitic, nor pro-Hamas or anti-Israel. It makes me human. by David Harris-Gershon
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We at Tikkun are in mourning for the three teens murdered in the West Bank. We find this act painful and outrageous. And we also know that the revenge/retaliation acts of Israel will only bring about more acts of violence. To end this cycle, Israel must end the Occupation.
it’s hard to get the two sides in the Jewish world to sit together and discuss the issues, since anyone who supports even the very limited form of divestment proposed by the Presbyterians is, as J Street’s Jeremy Ben Ami said recently in explaining his opposition to any form of Boycotts, Divestments or Sanctions, crossing “a red line” and hence, in the view of the Jewish establishment, automatically suspect of being anti-Semitic. We believe a public debate is a more healthy way to conduct this discussion,
The online exclusives below are freely accessible articles that are part of an ongoing special series associated with Tikkun’s Spring 2014 print issue, Does America Need a Left? 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. We will continue to update this page as new web articles in this series come out.
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