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We are still seeking volunteer bloggers of all faiths and none to join our team of bloggers on Tikkun Daily, the vibrant multimedia blog site we launched in spring 2009 with the aim of sparking conversations within a dynamic, interfaith community of activists, religious studies scholars, seminary students, theologians, and progressive and spiritual people from all backgrounds. The blog site addresses politics, culture, religion, and private life through an interfaith worldview that is based on the knowledge that most of us share but rarely have the gall to express overtly: that in this appalling and beautiful world, love can be embodied and become the basis for social relations.
Our online gallery has already hosted forty-five exhibits from a remarkable range of artists, from prehistoric to postmodern, photography to drawing, graffiti to fine painting. Every exhibit is accompanied by a feature article inspired by an interview with the artist. Check out this provocative, innovative, moving, and beautiful art!
Art with social, political, and spiritual depth is sometimes hard to come by. Can you help us? Please download our art guidelines. To illustrate our online and print articles we need to find images of peace, hope, and social transformation that are fully grounded in an awareness of the suffering that exists in our world. We are also constantly hunting for art that critiques the pretensions and cruelties of our materialistic and self-centered culture, as well as photo essays that teach us something new about politics or spirituality.
Every feature submitted to Tikkun must be between 800 and 2,400 words in length. We do take longer articles occasionally if they are so tightly argued there is no fluff and no way to make their insightful points more briefly. We do not take articles that have appeared in print elsewhere in the U.S. or on the web. All submissions must be in Microsoft Word format. The system cannot handle PDFs.
We print articles on social theory, religion/spirituality, social change, contemporary American and global politics and economics, ecology, culture, psychology, and Israel/Palestine. What we look for in such pieces are perspectives that interrogate the politics of their subject matter in ways which both advance the pursuit of tikkun olam — social justice and the repair of the world — and break down issues of contemporary concern in completely new and thoughtful ways. We support a progressive spirituality, but we welcome ideas that challenge established orthodoxies in all spheres of thought and all conceptions of politics, including challenging progressive politics. We also challenge “common sense” and every form of “being realistic” and welcome the most utopian ideas and the uncovering and challenging aspects of thought, culture, or social organization that have convinced people that our world cannot be reconstructed on the basis of love, generosity, nonviolence, social justice, caring for nature, and awe and wonder at the grandeur of the universe. While much of our content comes from regular contributors with whom we’ve had longstanding relationships, we welcome unsolicited poetry and article submissions, which we consider for publication either in Tikkun’s print edition or on tikkun.org.
Rabbi Lerner, author of a national bestseller, The Left Hand of God: Taking Our Country Back from the Religious Right (Harper San Francisco, 2006) is not only rabbi of Beyt Tikkun but is also the editor of Tikkun. To contact Rabbi Lerner, send an email to RabbiLerner.tikkun@gmail.com
Tikkun is one of the most respected intellectual/cultural magazines in the Jewish world, but also one of the most controversial because of its stand in favor of the rights of Palestinians, which on the one hand locates Lerner in the minds of many as the leader and most prominent spokesperson in the U.S. of Jewish supporters of the Israeli peace movement, and on the other hand, because of his stand critiquing the anti-religious and anti-spiritual biases of the secular Left, insisting that they need to address the spiritual hunger of Americans as equally important to their material needs (he calls this a hunger for “meaning” and says that for many Americans the desire to transcend the individualism and selfishness of the competitive marketplace and connect their lives to higher meaning is as important as any interest in money or things, and that one reason why people who might on purely economic grounds be supporting the liberal and progressive social change movements actually end up supporting the Right is that the Left doesn’t have a “politics of meaning”). Rabbi Lerner’s book Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation (published by Putnam in 1994 in hardback, and by HarperCollins in paperback in 1995, was described by David Biale, the chair of Jewish Studies at University of California at Davis, as “A major contribution to modern Jewish thought, a contribution that is a challenge to intellectuals even as it is accessible to a broad general audience.” David Kraemer, professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary, said that this book is “a sophisticated and intellectually challenging reinterpretation of Jewish tradition. With a rigor that has rarely been equaled, Lerner shows what a liberal Jewish theology must be in the late 20th century. No one who cares about a committed ethical Judaism can afford to ignore this book.” Michael Paley, chaplain of Columbia University (at the time, and now director of Outreach for the UJA/Federation in New York) wrote that: “Michael Lerner is America’s preeminent liberal Jewish intellectual.
Tikkun is an ideal forum for reaching a media-savvy, intellectually engaged audience. Download our media kit to learn more! Born of the Jewish tradition, but with a political perspective that attracts a far wider readership, Tikkun has for over two decades offered intellectually engaged progressives the substance they crave. The magazine’s ear-to-the-ground tracking of the Middle East conflict, international human rights issues, American domestic and foreign policy, and contemporary spirituality make it the go-to publication for authoritative analysis of religion and politics around the world. With thirty-two full-color pages, Tikkun has a fresh new look that speaks to the next generation.
(Jerusalem, March 9, 2011) – Israel should immediately cease the discriminatory demolition of homes belonging to Palestinian citizens of Israel, Human Rights Watch said today.
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