Tikkun Daily Blog Archive (https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/author/galleryeditor/page/6/)
“It’s extremely difficult to have a serious discussion about the pros and cons of war when the supporters of said war can use the freedom narrative like a cudgel to verbally bludgeon critics.”
Paul Von Blum reflects on his experience teaching a course on racism and the law at universities in the United States and the Czech Republic––a class both necessary and timely because “[a]ny discussion about American racism requires an analysis of its institutional foundations.”
This Valentine’s Day, take a moment to read Mordecai Cohen Ettinger’s article which reminds us that “who we are, what it means to love and be loved, is best left up to us to re-envision from the perspective of our most wise and loving selves, and to our collective communities unified by a shared vision for justice.”
In this article, Dr. Adis Duderija contends that the biggest obstacle to world peace is patriarchy: it “can only create exploitation, suffering and grief to human civilization at large and to our individual selves.”
Marisa Handler, a native Capetonian, reflects on the water crisis in Capetown, which is on the verge of becoming the first major city to exhaust its water supply: “it’s a dire parable about the convergence of climate change, inept governance, and collective denial.”
Giorgio Gomel reflects on the Israeli government’s selective response to racist and anti-Semitic events worldwide, and reminds us that “[t]here is indeed an objective interest of Jews in fighting discrimination even when it does not hurt them directly and immediately.”
Stephen Siemens reflects on the parable of “The Prodigal Son,” and provides us with this important reminder: “If we are promoting restorative justice, then our lives must be equally and irresistibly compelling to those with whom we are in dialogue.”
In this poem, Mandy Fessenden Brauer reimagines the experience of growing up in a boys’ boarding school in light of the #MeToo movement: “I let it go on and on until it became / regular, like a glass of water before / sleeping.”
Still feeling upset about Trump’s comments about Haiti? So is Phoenix Soleil: “What he says hurts me because he’s voicing a shadow in this culture.”
Arguing that salvation is about “at-one-ment” rather than atonement, Fr. Richard Rohr reminds us that “Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity […]! Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God!”