Tikkun Daily Blog Archive (https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/author/galleryeditor/page/7/)
Heard about NFL players taking a knee in protest during the National Anthem? Ron Seigel would like to suggest an alternative: displaying signs that emphasize “Liberty and Justice for ALL.”
Netanya Perluss writes about the experience of being an anti-occupation Reform Jew: “My Jewish life encouraged me to call out injustices and work to make our world a better place.”
In this poem, Stephanie Van Hook reimagines the story of the Nativity in light of the #metoo movement: “True story, Mary. When I was a child / Your statues were seen weeping blood / At my church. I think I know now why.”
“We take pride in thinking of ourselves as staunch champions for ethics and justice. And so, we should be appalled at the nomination of Kenneth Marcus for Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education.”
Nadia Colburn reminds us that it’s not just Trump: we all need to “re-align our values—to remember that what matters isn’t money but people.”
In this review of Margaret Morganroth Gullette’s of “Ending Ageism or How Not to Shoot Old People,” Ruth Ray Karpen reminds us that many Americans still need to be educated about the aging process.
Dr. Michael J. Koplow finds little encouragement in Sunday’s New York Times article on Trump’s approach to peace in the Middle East.
Olga Gershenson reports on films screened during Zochrot’s “48 mm” Film Festival––and on the “provincial and sad” quality of the festival itself.
The debate about BDS (Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel) became central to a controversial panel on Anti-Semitism earlier this week at The New School in NYC.