Pope Francis has legitimated a powerful critique of global capitalism, drawing attention to its anti-spiritual, anti-God, anti-ethical essence.
2014
Why the Left Needs America: A Response to Eli Zaretsky’s Why America Needs a Left: A Historical Argument
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To be effective the Left must learn to retell the story of America’s founding. In that sense, the Left needs America more than America needs a Left.
2014
The Tikkun Passover Supplement
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The Jewish liberation holiday, Passover, has messages for anyone seeking to heal the world. This supplement expands on the Haggadah (Seder guide).
2014
Readers Respond: Letters from Spring 2014
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A NOTE ON LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
We welcome your responses to our articles. Send your letters to the editor to letters@tikkun.org. Please remember, however, not to attribute to Tikkun views other than those expressed in our editorials. We email, post, and print many articles with which we have strong disagreements, because that is what makes Tikkun a location for a true diversity of ideas. Tikkun reserves the right to edit your letters to fit available space in the magazine.
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The Tikkun Passover Supplement (Spring 2014 Print Version)
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The Jewish liberation holiday, Passover, has messages for anyone seeking to heal the world. This supplement expands on the Haggadah (Seder guide).
2014
Readers Respond: Letters from Winter 2014
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A NOTE ON LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
We welcome your responses to our articles. Send your letters to the editor to letters@tikkun.org. Please remember, however, not to attribute to Tikkun views other than those expressed in our editorials. We email, post, and print many articles with which we have strong disagreements, because that is what makes Tikkun a location for a true diversity of ideas. Tikkun reserves the right to edit your letters to fit available space in the magazine.
2014
Secular Buddhism and the Quest for a Lived Ethics
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Secular Buddhism offers a path that is encompassing, humanistic, and pragmatic, without being sectarian.
2014
To Know Us, Study Our Arguments
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Edmond H. Weiss reviews Judaism’s Great Debates: Timeless Controversies from Abraham to Herzl by Barry L. Schwartz.
2014
What Terms for Middle East Peace Would Actually Work?
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By championing this detailed peace plan, the United States could change the psychodynamics of the struggle between Israel and Palestine and make negotiations fruitful.
2014
Winter Commute
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Dear friend, asleep / upright in a seat / when I boarded the train / goat-stepping over / your legs outstretched / why didn’t I wake you / but instead watched / you sleep. A poem by Joshua Weiner.
2014
Three Books Responding to the Repercussions of Slavery
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by Frederick Douglas, Byron Williams, and Jeannine Bell
2014
Two Books about Grassroots Alternatives for Building a New World
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by Antonio González and George S. Johnson
2014
Earth-Honoring Faith
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As we enter an age of ecological catastrophe, we need new theologies. Political campaigns are not enough—we need to rethink our place in the world.
2014
Beyond Allyship: Multiracial Work to End Racism
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How can we create powerful, cross-race movements for change? A child of the Civil Rights Movement wrestles with the idea of allyship.
2014
Trayvon Martin: Reflections on the Black and Jewish Struggle for Justice
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Since the 1960s, efforts at coalition building and solidarity work between Jewish and Black communities have suffered and never reached the pinnacle that was reached during the early days of the Civil Rights Movement. In 2013, the lack of deep and abiding connections between Black and Jewish activists became apparent in the disparate responses from Jewish communities to the events surrounding the killing of Trayvon Martin and the subsequent acquittal of George Zimmerman. To reinvigorate a coalition among blacks and Jews we need to forge deeper ties across racial lines.