Editorials & Actions
War & Peace
The Gunter Grass controversy
Germany – Aggrieved about Grass Victor Grossman, Berlin (Victor Grossman has written for Tikkun from Germany for many years) It’s rare that poems cause such anger and excitement. The only other case I can recall was Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of …
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US Politics
Two extraordinary articles by Jimmy Carter, former President of the U.S., one on US imperialism, the other on US drug policy
NY TIMES June 24, 2012 A Cruel and Unusual Record By JIMMY CARTER Atlanta THE United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights. Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American …
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War & Peace
Syria: The Complicated Reality of the Struggle
Editor’s note: In posting this interview of Sami Ramadani by Samuel Groves of the New Left Project, I do not mean to be endorsing the analysis presented here, some of which makes sense to me and some of which is …
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Israel/Palestine
Is Israeli Treatment of Africans They are Seeking to Deport “Racism, Pure and Simple?”
Note from Rabbi Michael Lerner: I usually agree with Uri Avnery, but in this case (read his article below), I don’t agree that the (in my mind immoral and disgusting) treatment of African refugees reducible to “racism, pure and simple” …
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War & Peace
Review of this book written by: Lynn Feinerman dvashah@yahoo.com who writes occasionally for Tikkun Magazine OBEYING A HIGHER LAW: Making the Case Against Drone Warfare Review of DRONE WARFARE: Killing by Remote Control by Medea Benjamin I had already determined I …
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Activism
Job Opportunity at Tikkun: NSP Organizer / Assistant to the Editor
We are looking for a full-time personal assistant to Rabbi Michael Lerner, involved in helping to build the community of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue-Without-Walls in Berkeley, who would also be the organizer/outreach person for the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) and …
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Israel/Palestine
Amira Hass: Israel is doing everything to separate Gaza from the West Bank
Crossposted from Haaretz by Amira Hass An elephant will be sitting Wednesday in the courtroom of Supreme Court justices Asher Grunis, Salim Joubran and Noam Sohlberg. The elephant will occupy the places of the five plaintiffs, who will be absent: …
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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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