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Online Exclusives: Embracing Immigration and Ending Deportation

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The online exclusives below are freely accessible articles that are part of an ongoing special series associated with Tikkun’s Summer 2013 print issue, Away With All Borders: Embracing Immigration and Ending Deportation. 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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Joshua Bernstein

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When he’s not finding fiction for Tikkun, Josh Bernstein is a writer and an assistant professor of English in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of a novel, Rachel’s Tomb, which won the A.W.P. Award Series and Hackney Prizes; a chapbook, Desert Castles, which won the Wilhelmus Prize at Southern Indiana Review; and a forthcoming story collection, Stick-Light. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared widely, including in Shenandoah, Boston Review, Kenyon Review Online, Washington Square, and Chicago Quarterly, and won the Gunyon Prize at Crab Orchard Review.  His website is writingwar.com.

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Lindsay Bernal

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Lindsay Bernal was born and raised in Rochester, New York. She has a BA from the University of Virginia and an MFA from the University of Maryland. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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Spring 2013 Table of Contents

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Justice in the City Table of Contents

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Introduction

Justice in the City
ARYEH COHEN
Rabbinic Judaism holds residents of a city responsible for the well-being of every stranger who passes through it. To meet this obligation today would require radical social transformation. Islamic Law and the Boundaries of Social Responsibility
RUMEE AHMED
Medieval rural Muslim jurists called on citizens to personally accompany strangers in need, but urban jurists assumed a different model: care mediated through a welfare state. Let’s draw wisdom from both. We Are One Body: A Christian Perspective on Justice In the City
ALEXANDRA SALVATIERRA
Paul the apostle taught that the people in a society are like the members of one body.

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Online Exclusives: Justice in the City

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The online exclusives below are freely accessible articles associated with Tikkun’s Winter 2013 special section on “Justice in the City” — Click on the titles below to read these articles. In addition, don’t miss the print issue’s eight subscriber-only articles on this topic, including Aryeh Cohen’s piece, which started this interfaith discussion: subscribe now to read them on the web (explore the table of contents) or order a single copy in the mail. Overcoming the Sexual and Religious Legacies of Slavery
by Bernadette Brooten

A City Where Justice Dwells
by Jill Jacobs