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Vol 3 No 3 Table of Contents

• Publisher's Page by NAN FINK

Editorials

• Exchange on Creationism by PETER GABEL and GARY PELLAR
  Readers and writers exchange responses to a series of articles in the Nov./Dec. 1987 issue on the role of science and spirituality in shaping contemporary views on evolution, creationism, and fascism.  In defending his article “Creationism and the Spirit of Nature,” Peter Gabel argues that “emotional, intuitive, spiritual responses to the world” address an objective dimension of reality beyond the reach of the scientific method, and that their dismissal as merely subjective over three hundred years of liberal scientific thought has opened the way to creationist fundamentalism with all of its evils.  Peller defends his article in the same issue of TIKKUN by emphasizing that, today, the liberal/scientific ethos does not help eliminate social injustice, but tends to promote it by rationalizing disparities of wealth, power and social status.
  

• Editorials by MICHAEL LERNER
  Rabbi Lerner offers editorial comment on four subjects affecting America’s role in the world.   On two foreign policy issues, he argues against international funding of the murderous Iran-Iraq war, and America’s harmful meddling in support of the Contras in the Nicaraguan civil war.  A third commentary urges international support for the Zionist Dream in Israel, but with concomitant creation of a demilitarized Palestinian state. Finally, Rabbi Lerner comments on the results of polling which indicate that, contrary to common belief, many more American Jews favor the “liberal” positions taken by TIKKUN on Jewish-Israeli issues, including full autonomy for Palestinians, than support the policies of Likud or of conservative American Jewish leaders or institutions.

Articles

• Liberation Theology vs. Cardinal Ratzinger by HARVEY COX
  

• Amboy Dukes by JOAN BAUM
  

• The Question of American Jewish Poetry by JOHN HOLLANDER
  

• Liberalism, Community and Tradition by JOEL FEINBERG
  

• A Response to Joel Feinberg by CHRISTOPHER LASCH
  

• Ayin: The Concept of Nothingness in Jewish Mysticism by DANIEL MATT

• Rutgers, DSA, and the Revival of the New Left by MILTON MANKOFF
  

Memo to the Candidate

• Family Lies by PATRICIA SCHROEDER
  

• On Central America by MORRIS BLACHMAN and KENNETH SHARPE
  

• Thawing the Big Chill by HARRY BOYTE
  

• Law and Ethics by MARK GREEN
  

Special Feature: Israel at Forty

• Eyeless in Gaza by SIDRA EZRAHI
  

• Israel: Into the Abyss? by ABRAHAM BRUMBERG
  

• Reflections of a Jewish Zionist by MICHAEL ROSENAK
  

• Interview with MK Dan Meridor by DAN MERIDOR
  

• A Narcissistic Wound by ELEANORA LEV

• The Twenty-First Year: Covenant for the Struggle Against the Occupation
  

• Now is Not the Time to Speak Out by KENNETH JACOBSON
  

• Jewish Umbrellas by ALBERT VORSPAN
  

• On Buber by MICHAEL WALZER
  

Fiction

• Ghirlandaio by FRANCINE PROSE
  

Reviews

• Heroes of their own Lives by CHRISTINE STANSELL
  

• The Democrats' Dilemma by JOHN JUDT
  

• Power and Culture by MELVYN DUBOFSKY

• Choosing Religion by JOSH HENKIN