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The Story of My Socks
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“I hated him then. I hated him with hot rage and cold bitterness. I hated him for being mean to Mom. I hated him for making me share a room with my brother, and for how helpless he was in the face of Mom’s illness. I hated him for not understanding me.” A short story by Jennifer Anne Moses.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Piano Bench
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“Right there at one of the long brown tables in the middle of a class I don’t care about, I realize I’m in love with someone from the university, which is funny because being in love with someone from the university is what my husband accuses me of all the time.” A short story by Cady Vishniac.
Tikkun Daily
Apart and Together (part five)
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The overwhelming majority of the world’s population is doing work in the form of jobs that are insufficient for sustenance, assault workers’ dignity, and lack meaning. Even when the pay is sufficient, jobs are still lacking in dignity and meaning.
Tikkun Daily
King’s Two Messages
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There is a window now open for far more significant change than the single-issue focus on police brutality; a time when such brutality can be seen as merely a tragic symptom of much deeper causes.
Santa, the Cosmos, and a Leap of Faith
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Valerie Elverton Dixon writes about her leap of faith that tells her that “the Is-ness that existed before the beginning, that exists now, and that will exist after the end is Divine Love “that loves us with “a love that is as infinite and as eternal as the Cosmos itself.”
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The Children
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“The truth is, even now he doesn’t know how or why he’d so abruptly turned his back on his wife and children, forsaken his wedding vows, and broken with Jewish law. It was almost as if he’d been under the influence of a drug.” A story by Jennifer Anne Moses.
Giving Tuesday 2019
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Do you love what we do at Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives? Do you have friends you think might love our work too? Here’s a great way to support us! #GivingTuesday is right around the corner (Tuesday, December 3rd) and we’d really appreciate it if you set up a fundraiser on your own Facebook page and invited your friends to donate—see below for more instructions. We are so grateful for your ongoing support.
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Snarky Comments
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Erica Etelson argues that if a Democratic candidate is to win in 2020, they must forsake snarky retorts in the service of reclaiming Obama-to-Trump voters and non-voters.
Tikkun Daily
Can the Social Order Be Transformed through Personal Practice? The Case of Nonviolent Communication — Part 1 of 2
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Miki Kashtan looks at how NVC can contribute to our collective ability to face and transform social conditions and systems and at how to align its practice with these intentions.
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The Performance of Privilege and Unmerited Overconfidence
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Arlene Goldbard skips over the Big Baby in the White House to explore even more powerful examples of the impact of privilege and entitlement on our common culture.
Tikkun Archives
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Below are links to digital versions of Tikkun Magazine from Spring 2011 through Winter/Spring 2018. Click each to see the full contents of the magazine. Please note that these archives are ONLY available to subscribers and members of the NSP and donors as our way of saying thank you for supporting Tikkun and the NSP. Vol 33, No 4: Fall 2018
Don’t Let the Light Go Out
MICHAEL LERNER
No Other Gods
ANA LEVY-LYONS
Prophetic Empathy
CAT ZAVIS
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Vol 33, No 3: Summer 2018
Vision of A Liberated Economy
RIANE EISLER
Feeding Children, Communities and Souls
PAMELA HAINES
The Years of Dialogue
SIDRA DEKOVEN EZRAHI
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Vol 33, No 1-2: Winter/Spring 2018
The Evolution of Identity Politics
ERIC WARD
Decolonizing Jewishness
BEN CASE
Creating a Spiritual Practice to Heal and Transform the World
THANDEKA
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Vol 32, No 4: Fall 2017
Ecological Civilization
DAVID KORTEN
Anti-Semitism, Uprootedness, and Zionism
MIKI KASHTAN
The Magic of Emergence
NATAN MARGALIT
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Vol 32, No 3: Summer 2017
Listening to Leonard Cohen
DAVID SYLVESTER
Man in God’s Image
ANA LEVY-LYONS
The Richness of Adrienne Rich’s Poetry
MARGE PIERCY
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Vol 32, No 1: Winter 2017
Grounds for Hope
REBECCA SOLNIT
Kaddish for Che
MARTHA SONNENBERG
Are Humans Special? DAVID LOY
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Vol 31, No.2: Spring 2016
Misery and Misogyny on the Menu
CAROL J. ADAMS
The True Cost of a Cheap Meal
KATIE CANTRELL
Physicians and Torture: Medical Teshuvah for a Profession in Need of Healing
MARTHA SONNENBERG
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The Gradual Acceleration of Fascist Violence: “Cloudy Sunday’s” Portrayal of The Extermination of the Jews in Thessaloniki
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In this review of “Cloudy Sundays,” Peter Gabel highlights the common ground between fascists and the indifferent majority: “a common flight from their true social being as grounded human persons seeking the love and affirmation of fellow humans.”
Fighting to Make One Job Enough at Marriott
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“I’m on strike because my job at Marriott isn’t enough for my wife and I to even consider having kids.”
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Help #StopKavanaugh
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Help #StopKavanaugh––attend vigils tonight, march tomorrow, and call your Senators!