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Help translate content from Tikkun into Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, and other languages. We are trying to make our articles more accessible to people around the world. If you can create high-quality translations of Tikkun articles, we’d love to put them up on our website! If you are interested please send a note describing your language skills and translation experience to internships.tikkun@gmail.com, along with a writing sample in English and a writing sample in your other language(s). Return to the full list of jobs and internships to keep learning about other opportunities at Tikkun.
This internship works directly with Cat Zavis, the executive director of our outreach/education arm The Network of Spiritual Progressives (interfaith and secular-humanist-welcoming) to promote our central projects:
1. The Global Marshall Plan to transform the approach of Western countries from seeking homeland security through wars and domination (economic, political, cultural, etc.) to a strategy of generosity and genuine caring for others, manifested in part through an international plan to end (not just ameliorate) global poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education, and inadequate health care). 2. The Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment (ESRA) to the U.S. Constitution which would A. Ban all money from state and national elections (not just corporate money but also money from individuals and political parties) except for public funding from State Legislatures or the US Congress B. Require all corporations with incomes above $50 million/yr to get a new corporate charter once every five years which would only be granted to those which can prove a satisfactory history of environmental and social responsibility to a jury of ordinary citizens (thus empowering those many decent people in corporations who want to make their corporations more ethical and environmentally responsible, because now they would be able to make the case to the corporate leadership that not doing so would endanger the future of their corporation) C, Require environmental education and education in how to develop a recognition of the interconnectedness of all human beings with all life forms on this planet and a recognition that our own wellbeing depends on the wellbeing of everyone else on the planet and the wellbeing of the planet itself) at every grade level from kindergarten through college and graduate or professional schools.
Description of Position:
Tikkun magazine and its consciousness-raising arm, the Network of Spiritual Progressives are looking for an operations and development intern. The skills that this internship will provide are particularly well suited towards someone who is interested in building a career in non-profit management, development, or a related field. You will work closely with our operations and development manager to interface daily with our subscribers, members, and broader community of supporters. Your duties will include database work building and cleaning up lists, researching grants, event planning, and general support for Tikkun’s development work. You will play a key role in building Tikkun magazine’s readership as well as the NSP’s spheres of influence.
For such an internationally well-known magazine, with such high production values, Tikkun has a surprisingly small staff. This means that there are excellent opportunities for interns to get significant experience in print and online magazine production and business. Our highly structured internship program enables interns to specialize in the field of their interest. Please note that all interns may occasionally be pulled away from the jobs outlined below to help with more urgent NSP- or magazine-related special projects initiated by our editor Michael Lerner. Magazine interns work under the supervision of the Managing Editor.
We are in urgent need of volunteers who can offer even a regular couple of hours a week from home, online, to help us improve our web archive. This project is being masterminded by Christina Honde, an amazing volunteer to whom we are deeply indebted and grateful. The work involves some cutting and pasting and the use of our web content management system. It requires the ability to learn how to use a new computer program, a good eye for proofing, and the capacity to follow instructions with great care. We are also seeking people who can write very brief “teaser” summaries of past Tikkun articles to accompany them on the web archive: that requires the ability to explain simply and intelligently to the general reader what’s significant about the article in question.
We are currently seeking a Book Editor; Culture Editor; New Authors Outreach Editor who discovers and recruits the best new young writers and thinkers to write for Tikkun; and Religion Editors for Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Volunteer section editors are expected to work from home. We do not have money to pay for any of these positions. They are intended for those who:
understand and are excited about the worldview of Tikkun magazine and the Network of Spiritual Progressives and who wish to advance that worldview
are intellectually sophisticated and have already achieved a level of success in their own field of cultural creativity or academic work or writing. already understand that holding any of these editorial positions will be a rewarding addition to their lives, potentially lifting their own prominence within their own intellectual or cultural community, and giving them an opportunity to advance the careers of others whose writing s/he may choose to use in Tikkun.
VOLUNTEER AND INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
There are many volunteer and internship opportunities at Tikkun. We are looking for students, recent college graduates, and retirees who would like to work on healing and repairing the world now (tikkun olam). Also welcome: mid-career professionals who want to take a year off to consider their options and may find an internship here of value. Most internships last a minimum of three months (preferably longer), and we prefer applicants who can work fourteen to twenty hours a week. We accept applications on a rolling basis for summer, spring, and fall internships. We are also in need of volunteers who can offer even a regular couple of hours a week from home, online, to help us rebuild our web archive, to update our media contacts, and volunteer section editors to work from home.
A Jewish Renewal (Kabbalistic-Mystical-NeoHasidic) Approach to God
by Rabbi Michael Lerner
The Jewish people came to historical consciousness in a world dominated by great imperial powers, first in Mesopotamia where Abraham grew up, then in Egypt where a family became a nation. Imperial powers stayed in power through imposing force and violence on their own population, enslaving some, forcefully taxing others–and exercising a monopoly on violence and cruelty. No wonder, then, that the first issue confronting the Jewish people was how to understand the nature and meaning of cruelty. One can read the Torah as a first, conflicted, sometimes ambiguous but often enlightening meditation on how to handle the cruelty that the Jewish people were encountering in the world. But the cruelty was not ONLY something imposed upon pure and noble beings by the outside–it was in US, the Jews, as well–and DISTORTED US EVEN AS WE SOUGHT TO TRANSCEND IT.
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About Us
Tikkun is a magazine dedicated to healing and transforming the world. We seek writing that gives us insight on how to make that utopian vision a reality. We build bridges between religious and secular progressives by delivering a forceful critique of all forms of exploitation, oppression, and domination while nurturing an interfaith vision of a caring society — one whose institutions are reconstructed on the basis of love, generosity, nonviolence, social justice, caring for nature, and awe and wonder at the grandeur of the universe. To learn more, read our Core Vision statement. Our founding editor, Rabbi Michael Lerner, also leads Beyt Tikkun, a Jewish Renewal synagogue in the San Francisco Bay Area.
We are in the process of working out a system for submissions to our new audio and video page, which is still under construction. Please check this page later for updates.
Why read this long statement of our Core Vision? Because it is the absence of this vision that is the primary reason why liberals and progressives are failing to remake this society even at the moment six years ago when Obama was President, the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, and the economic meltdown has given overwhelming evidence that the old system wasn’t working so well. Absent a coherent world-view, the liberal and progressive forces fall back onto a non-ideological pragmatism which has nothing in it that is compelling to most Americans. So too many of them revert to the only worldview they’ve ever heard, and one that still seems to command the assent (however grudging) of the elected leadership of both major parties: the notion that the competitive marketplace, perhaps with some added guidelines or supervision from government agencies, is the only way to achieve societal well-being, and that military domination of the world is the only way to achieve “homeland security.” Thus, president Obama selected the champions of Wall Street special interests to run his economic bailout program (which then, not surprisingly, favored the interests of the banks and imagined a trickle down effect for the rest of the economy), escalated the war in Afghanistan and carried it to Pakistan, failed to include Single Payer as one of the options under consideration for Health Care, and backed down on pledges to end military tribunals for “enemy combatants” (leaving it to the military to decide who does or does not fit into that category).
To submit poems for possible inclusion in the print magazine, please use our online submissions site. Click this link to create an account for yourself and submit your work for review by poetry editor Joshua Weiner.
Tikkun is seeking short fiction. All forms and styles are acceptable, though we especially like stories that deal with the spiritual, progressive, regenerative, and transformative elements of life.