Deena Metzger reviews the novel “Darwin’s Ghosts” by Ariel Dorfman, not quite a coming of age story or hero’s journey, but a journey where a young boy must learn who he is outside of the superficial life to which he presumed he was entitled
Taking Back Christmas from the Capitalist Marketplace
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Rabbi Lerner calls upon Christians to take back Christmas from the grasp of the capitalist marketplace.
33.4 Fall
Violence, Morality and Religion
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In an attempt to prevent violence, we have created institutions, namely, morality and religion––but, paradoxically enough, the most deadly violence has always been done in the name of these institutions. In this article, James Gilligan and James Vrettos ask why this is and what we can do about it.
Culture
How to be More Effective at a Thanksgiving Gathering This Year
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Tips from Rabbi Lerner on how to make your Thanksgiving more meaningful and effective.
Politics & Society
The Boy Who Taught Me About War and Peace
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Ariel Dorfman reflects on war and peace – “. . . peace is a daily task, that must be carried out not by heroic, exceptional beings, but by every concerned parent and every vulnerable child.”
Fiction
CAMP HAPPINESS
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They were going to separate—she wanted to and he was done fighting her—but before that there was Dylan’s bar mitzvah, and before that was now: this weekend in the rolling hills beyond Oakland with similarly bereaved Jewish strangers.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Roth’s Enduring Commitment
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Summing up the life of Philip Roth is not easy, but Evan Brier tries by beginning at the end.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Thoughts on Philip Roth: America, Jew, Male
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Shaul Magid on Philip Roth, his relationship to his Jewish identity, and his legacy.
Editorials & Actions
Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era
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Sajay Samuel reviews “Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era” by Cara Judea Alhadeff.
Politics & Society
Farrakhan & the Women’s March: An Unholy Connection
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Cat Zavis reflects on what healing and reconciliation can look like when anti-Semitism (or any other -ism) rears its ugly head.
Fiction & Poetry Articles
Coywolf
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Hebrew, Lizavetta claimed, was the holiest and most beautiful language in the world. Alexey trusted her in most things, but he knew for a fact this couldn’t be so, because Lermontov had written his poems in Russian.
Spirituality
Healing Ourselves and the Earth
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Get insight into the spiritual healing that accompanies cover artist Orly Faya’s process of painting people in the world.
Articles
THE SCHOLAR AS POET: Remembering Geoffrey Hartman (1929-2016)
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YOMA a previously unpublished poem by Geoffrey Hartman
Rain in the autumn, rain in the spring let it rain poetry, dear God, midrashic parables, rabbinic cliches, or, better still, the comfort of Psalms.
I kmow those traps, those enemies, Lord, ·help me in my old age, my distress: this day I stand contrite before you, eyes, broken images, ears, dimmed by unceasing sighs. Where is comfort to be found? No longer in the lai-lai-lai of prayersong. In all your holy mountain what survives not stained by cries for blood? Where now the numinous Jordan, the pure Helicon?
Articles
Eduardo Galeano: A Visit to Heaven and Hell
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Tikkun is proud to share with our community excepts from Eduardo Galeano’s last book (Hunter of Stories). Galeano was widely recognized as one of Latin America’s most distinguished writers. A Visit to Heaven and Hell
Mapping Planet Earth
By Eduardo Galeano
[The following passages are excerpted from Hunter of Stories, the last book by Eduardo Galeano, who died in 2015. Thanks for its use go to his literary agent, Susan Bergholz, and Nation Books, which is publishing it next week.]
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By day, the sun guides them. By night, the stars. Paying no fare, they travel without passports and without forms for customs or immigration.