Editorials & Actions
Israel/Palestine
Amira Hass: Israel is doing everything to separate Gaza from the West Bank
Israel is doing everything to separate Gaza, West Bank By Amira Hass Inbox x Paul paulfa@gmail.com 1:04 PM (20 minutes ago) to JVP, MEW Images are not displayed. Display images below - Always display images from paulfa@gmail.com Haaretz – Wed, May 23, 2012 Israel is doing …
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US Politics
Slouching Toward Nuremberg
Morris Berman has always been an acute reader of American culture and society, so his warnings here need to be taken quite seriously.–Rabbi Michael Lerner Slouching Towards Nuremberg Strange things are happening in the United States these days, and …
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US Politics
How They Voted on Ending the War in Afghanistan
A note from the Network of Spiritual Progressives: The Lee Amendment would have limited spending on the Afghanistan War (currently $2 billion PER DAY) to bringing U.S. troops home. Please read the list of who voted for and who against. …
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Global Capitalism
European Intellectuals Speak Out AGAINST AUSTERITY–and provide an alternative
Editor’s Note: Tikkun author Ulrich Duchrow, a professor of systematic theology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and cofounder and moderator of Kairos Euope, an ecumenical network striving for economic justice (see his article A European Revival of Liberation Theology …
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US Politics
Obama: a Civil Libertarian’s Nightmare
Editor’s Note: Criticism of Obama does not imply support for his political opponents. However one decides to vote in November, one must do so with as full a picture as possible of what policies one is endorsing. How Obama Became …
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Israel/Palestine
Günter Grass “the Terrible”
Note from Tikkun Editor Rabbi Michael Lerner: While Avnery is certainly right that there is nothing automatically anti-Semitic about a German today criticizing the policies of the State of Israel, he is, I believe, underestimating the way his statement, and …
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Christianity
Easter Sacrifice of the Lambs
Rabbi Lerner’s Note: The argument presented below as a critique of Christian practice is equally applicable to Jewish and Muslim practice as well as to the tens of millions of secularists who do the exact same thing but without giving …
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Israel/Palestine
Uri Avnery on the New Mandela : Marwan Barghouti
Uri Avnery March 31, 2012 The New Mandela MARWAN BARGHOUTI has spoken up. After a long silence, he has sent a message from prison. In Israeli ears, this message …
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War & Peace
Tikkun’s NY Times full page ad against first strike on Iran appeared on March 7, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Today, our ad saying “No” to a first strike (preemptive attack) by either Israel or the U.S. on Iran, appeared in the New York Times (in the National Edition it is on page A19). The media …
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War & Peace
Help Tikkun Place a NYT Ad Against Striking Iran
Would you please help us put an ad in the New York Times, Washington Post (or maybe also Ha’aretz and Yediot in Israel, and other media, depending on how much money we can raise) to put public pressure on President Obama to NOT agree to overtly or …
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Christianity
A different way to think about Jesus–evolutionary thoughts about incarnation
Incarnation: Some evolutionary thoughts Author: Diarmuid O’Murchu Is Incarnation 2,000 years old? It seems God has been working since the beginning of time According to Christian theology Incarnation refers to God’s entry into human life in the person of Jesus of …
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Each one Reach one; Each one Teach one
Each One Reach One - Each One Teach One “On the surface of the world right now there is War and violence and things seem dark. But calmly and quietly, at the same time, Something else is happening underground. An inner …
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Israel/Palestine
Uri Avnery on Israeli National Suicide
Uri Avnery February 18, 2012 Thou Shalt Not Kill (Thyself) AFTER THE founding of Israel, God appeared to David Ben-Gurion and told him: “You have created a state for my chosen people in my holy land. This merits a great …
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Judaism
Honoring “the Other” or “the Stranger” by Rabbi Zalman Kastel
Racism, Insult, “Other”-ing, Religion & the “rich Jews” comment Late at night, a Jewish couple, Dr. Jeffrey and Mrs Cheryl Bogan, asked about getting a train home. A State Rail customer service manager, Roman Arnusch commented repeatedly and laughingly, “They’re …
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War & Peace
End the Syrian Genocide of its Own People
News Release February 10, 2012 from TIKKUN Magazine More info: Contact Ashley Bates 510 644 1200 Progressive Jews Demand an End to Syrian Genocide and a Boycott of Russian and Chinese Products as Long as Those Countries Refuse to Join …
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