Politics & Society
To the Murdered Innocents—How America can regain Its Moral and Communitarian Soul
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We must feel our loss, our grief in empathy in order to regain our centers.
Politics & Society
The Forest That Overwhelms Trump Tower
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It always starts with the vulnerability of risking arrest. The activism is the purest citizenship. We enter Trump Tower. We walk through the submachine guns and dogs, the body armor and the golden name of the white supremacist president that hovers in space above the door.
Politics & Society
A Call to Our Communities to Stop the Character Assassinations and Attacks on Seekers of Justice
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This is a plea to those of us from within Jewish communities to vigorously and unequivocally repudiate these persistent character assassinations and attacks, to call them out for what they are, to examine our complicity in what is happening, and to join the call for justice.
Politics & Society
How US Policy Helps Al Qaeda in Yemen
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President Trump – like President Obama – is working at cross purposes in supposedly fighting Al Qaeda in Yemen while helping Saudi Arabia kill Al Qaeda’s chief Yemeni enemies.
Politics & Society
Is Trump Attempting To Outwit Congress?
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It’s a bleak situation that portends more war.
Health
Healthcare Equality and Palliative Care Support
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My name is Beverly Alves; I’m an advocate for healthcare reform and the medical specialty of palliative care. I am deeply distressed by the legislative nightmare surrounding healthcare in the US.
Politics & Society
The Invisible Monster of Climate Change
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If you’re looking for fairy tales that are on the grim (not Grimm) side, things that once might only have been in dystopian fiction, look no further than our present planet at our present moment.
Rethinking Religion
The Crown Jewels of the Jewish People
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The question of who can hold a Torah scroll at the Kotel is related to the question of who can open that Torah scroll and learn from it, and who can shape and be shaped by Torah. The answer, as I have come to discover, is that everyone can, and everyone should.
Film
Fifth Dispatch from the Jerusalem Film Festival
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Fourth set of notes from the Jerusalem Film Festival from Tikkun’s correspondent Olga Gershenson!