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Special Tikkun web articles from invited authors. (Published date will not be shown for these articles)
In the face of economic instability, we need to consider creative solutions—like jubilee, public banking policies, and currency reform—that take into account the complexity of the environment, the nature of money itself, and the possibility for social innovation.
In our ecological age, our most common narratives of debt, which conflate salvation with independence from debt, fail to capture the counterintuitive dynamics of our indebtedness to nature and to recognize that our real salvation is in an intelligent and deeply felt interdependence with natural systems.
Seeing Earth from outer space and surviving the Holocaust forced us to rethink our relation to the Torah. This paradigm shift is still underway.
Interfaith coalitions have much to offer in the fight against abusive loans.
What would be the Ten Commandments of the pro-Israel Judaism used to justify the summer 2014 attacks on Gaza? Our imagined version of their new idolatry contrasts with the Judaism of Love and Generosity we promote.
The act of mothering shatters the market-based expectation of equal exchange. Building on that model, let’s build a global gift economy.
Most debtors have committed no wrongs, so what is called for is liberation—not forgiveness. The colossal, valid debt that remains is climate debt.
It’s time to create an alternative to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund—a global bank that prioritizes sustainability, not growth.
What resources does Buddhism offer toward Jubilee? To achieve the Buddhist goal of release from karmic debt, we must annul economic debt.
The spirit of the Jubilee laws is clear and relevant: to prevent the emergence of a permanently impoverished underclass.
The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry edited by Deborah Ager and M.E. Silverman. Review by David Danoff.
Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons by David Bollier. Review by Miki Kashtan.
Led by Reb Zalman, the Jewish Renewal movement ushered in a new Aquarian Age of Judaism. To make it stick, we need to talk metaphysics. Plus: a response by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (z”l) written in the last days of his life gives insight into how our great teacher saw his life’s work.
Millions of Americans incur debt to pay for basic needs. To escape this trap, we must “come out” as debtors and start experiencing our debts collectively.