A poem in the Fall 2011 issue of Tikkun.
2011
Dr. Seuss’s Progressive Politics
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Dr. Seuss was, and remains two decades after his death, the world’s most popular writer of modern children’s books. He wrote and illustrated forty-four children’s books characterized by memorable rhymes, whimsical characters, and exuberant drawings that encouraged generations of children to love reading and expand their vocabularies. But, equally important, he used his pen to encourage youngsters to challenge bullies and injustice. Generations of progressive activists may not trace their political views to their early exposure to Dr. Seuss, but without doubt this shy, brilliant genius played a role in sensitizing them to abuses of power.
Articles
The False Bride
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Outside of Simon’s office, the hum of angels’ wings moved the air like an evening breeze. The pair, one young and one old — ageless really — but one wise, one unknowing, innocent, rested on the air and waited.
Fiction & Poetry Articles
Tikkun Needs a Fiction Editor — Might It Be You?
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Our readers are largely interfaith, sophisticated, and busy — so we need someone to find us fiction that is compelling or wildly humorous or deeply spiritual or in some other way touches our souls or our funny bone.
2011
Tales of Morality and Meaning in an Age of Global Warming
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Some years ago I met a man who, over a single cup of ginger-mint tea, shook my deepest assumptions about the process of moral conversation. His name was Samuel Prana.
2011
Heaven’s Snake
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“Is the cornsnake Jewish?” This was a tough question to answer. I was visiting with the first-grade class taught by my then-girlfriend, who had introduced me to her students as “Farmer Josh” — and then thrust a large-ish cornsnake into my less-than-willing hands.
Archive Highlights
Poetry & Fiction Highlights from the Tikkun Archive
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Poetry & Fiction Highlights from the Tikkun Archive
The Tikkun print archive goes back twenty-five years. We are hugely grateful to a team of volunteers and interns who have been putting the archive online over the last two years, a task now near to completion. You can explore it here. In the next phase the team will create more pages like this selecting archived articles on particular themes. This one was created by one of our interns and doesn’t necessarily reflect official editorial choices: there will be time for that later, we hope!
2011
Song for Babi Yar
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Babi Yar where are you, no signs that will bring me there,
Hid behind a sickled fist, the savior of the mortified,
Crushing leaves on walking by,
Trees renewed by the black lake of forty-one.