A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture & Society

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• Letters to the Editor  ['Various Readers']
  

• The Inauguration  ['Michael Lerner']
  

• Social Security?  ['Michael Lerner']
  Real security comes from the amount of love and trust that pervades society. Erode that trust and sense of mutual commitment, and not too long thereafter the “objective caring” in the form of material support for the needy also begin to erode. Democrats and liberals imagined that material rewards were what was “real” and all the talk of building a sense of solidarity and mutual caring sounded too subjective, too weak, “couldn’t be measured,” was really “not what people cared about.” They thus set the stage for the Republican assault on the twentieth century welfare state.
• Radical Hope: Reform and Conflict Resolution  ['Mohamed Nimer']
  
• Tikkun at its Best  ['Joel Schalit']
  
• An Inaugural Call for Freedom  ['George Vradenburg']
  

• Academic Entrepreneurs: The Corporate Takeover of Higher Education  ['Henry A. Giroux']
  With these two pieces by Henry Giroux and Svi Shapiro, Tikkun begins an intensive look at what it means to work in the United States today. The pieces will be more prescriptive than descriptive, outlining what a New Bottom Line for labor—and especially for the professions—would be. We start this issue with education: while Henry Giroux critiques the corporatization of academia, Svi Shapiro takes a look at how to reform elementary school education. Next issue, look for articles on unionization and outsourcing. To learn more on Tikkun’s New Bottom Line for the Professions initiative, go to www.tikkun.org.
• Education and Moral Values: Seeking a New Bottom Line  ['Svi Shapiro']
  
• Bearing Witness to Prison Brutality  ['Susannah Sheffer']
  

• Interview with Julia Butterfly Hill  ['Brian Awehali']
  
• Hinduism and Ecology  ['Christopher Key Chapple']
  
• Van Gogh, European Purity, and the “Muslim Problem”  ['Naeem Mohaiemen']
  

• The Occupation’s Spillover Effect  ['Norman G. Finkelstein']
  
• On the Psychology of Suicide Bombing  ['Neil Altman']
  
• Divestment and More: A Strategy Exploration  ['Michael Lerner']
  This is thinking in progress—not a final commitment on my part, and definitely not “the official position of the Tikkun Community.” Rather, it is an attempt to share some of my own thinking and provoke an exploration of strategies. I know very well that there are members and leaders among the 100,000 members and supporters of the Tikkun Community who disagree with my analysis. Our more than fifty active local communities will be discussing this and other perspectives—and we welcome readers’ letters, a representative sampling of which we will print along with more articles responding to this one in the May and July issues of Tikkun.
• Divesting From the Occupation  ['Mitchell Plitnick']
  
• No to Targeted Divestment!  ['David Gordis']
  

• Jewish Felons: The Problem of Criminality in Observant Communities  ['Joel Cohen']
  
• Purim Special: When Kosher Isn’t Kosher  ['Aaron Gross']
  
• Towards a Jewish Theology of Nonviolence  ['Aaron J. Tapper']
  
• Ethnic Impersonators, American Identities  ['Laura Browder']
  

• Redefining Jewish Identity  ['Charlie Bertsch']
  
• An Orthodox Iconoclast: Irving Greenberg  ['Or N. Rose']
  • For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter Between Judaism and Christianity, Irving Greenberg. (Jewish Publication Society, 2004)
• Zionism Killed Yiddish  ['Mark Shechner']
  • Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish, by Dovid Katz. New York: Basic Books, 2004
• Capsule Review - The Dark Side of Democracy  ['Sarah Liu']
  
• Capsule Review - Fear: The History of a Political Idea  ['Jane Credland']
  
• Capsule Review - With God on Their Side  ['Cynthia Hoffman']
  
• Capsule Review - Another World is Possible If…  ['Chaim Bertman']
  
• A Shared Exile  ['Shai Ginsburg']
  
• Indie Israel: A Scene in Bloom  ['Ron Nachmann']
  
• Zion Riddims  ['Daniel Siwek']
  
• Capsule Reviews Music  ['Tikkun Staff']