Tikkun Daily Blog Archive (https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/author/guest/page/29/)
An interview with Lauren Szabo on her experimental artwork inspired by her memories of LA fires and earthquakes: “When I started the series I wanted to share an experience on how I see the world, exposing its complicated beauty, issues, and truths. For me, paradise is a place for vacation, and not the place that I live.”
Sam Harris recently published Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion. But is having spirituality without religion even possible, and how can it be done? Sigfried Gold envisions the kind of guide he wishes Harris created, stating that a guide to spirituality without religion should offer, not just a broad account of all the various forms of spirituality, but some discussion of the particular challenges involved in practicing these for people who are unwilling to accept the tenets of any particular religion.
President Obama’s decision to wait until after the November elections to take executive action on immigration reinforces the status quo in Washington politics that undocumented immigrants are expendable.
Have major American Jewish institutions been distracted, or worse, has their commitment to social justice in America been adversely affected by their focus on Israel?
To know what is to be done about ISIS, we must start by recognizing where they came from and what role the US played in their origins. Then we must proceed in a much different manner.
This weekend Rabbi Michael Lerner will be the keynote speaker for the Awards Dinner at the Peace House in Ashland, Oregon. Michael and Cat Zavis, executive director of NSP, will then co-lead two separate workshops on empathy.
Some Muslims use the Quran verse, “O You who have believed! Do not take the Jews and Christians as your allies (Auliya). They are allies of one another. He among you who takes them for allies is one of them. God does not guide the oppressive folks” as a way to justify hatred towards Jews. Ro Waseem uses his knowledge of the Quran to dismantle this myth.
Ella Baker taught us to look deeply to discover the root causes of injustice. We can use her teachings to identify those causes in Ferguson and Gaza, and separate ourselves from our own loyalties to radically effect change.
Blatant religious violence is still ongoing in our world today, where in the name of “God” people fight and kill people who are not like them, launch vitriolic hate-filled speeches against one another, and kidnap young school girls. Beyond lazy hate speech against religion, in a world confronted by extremism, how might we as religious and non-religious people play a thoughtful role in creating the conditions for a healthy God-view in our society?
“But any partnership depends on trust, and my young neighbors have been teaching me how difficult it is to trust police culture in our neighborhood today. Beyond the age of thirteen, any young black man in Walltown knows that he is subject to being stopped on the street, asked for identification, frisked and possibly put in hand-cuffs while officers ‘check things out.'”
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove explains how the struggle against racism is one not just based on policy, but also in learning to love.