For the last six months we have been designing and constructing a new website for Tikkun magazine and it went live late on Saturday night. Do check it out here and through the “Tikkun Main Site” link above.

In his Welcome to Our New Website Michael Lerner writes:

Tikkun magazine is a voice for all who seek to build what we call the “Caring Society – caring for each other, caring for the earth.” We are a voice for all who refuse to accept that environmental destruction, wars, poverty, oppression, racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, hatred or fear of Jews, or despair are inevitable. We are the voice of those who refuse to be “realistic” and who instead are engaged in the struggle (a long-term struggle to be sure) to build a world of love and kindness; generosity; compassion; repentance and forgiveness; ethical and ecological sensitivity and responsibility; and awe, wonder, and radical amazement at the grandeur and mystery of the universe.

The print magazine is continuing to exist as a shorter quarterly publication, but the web is where we will now be publishing the majority of our content.

There’s a slideshow at the top of the page that you can click through (before long it will cycle automatically like the one on Tikkun Daily) to see our featured content. This week it includes a new editorial “Lesson from the Arab Uprisings: Don’t Be Realistic!” Below that find four web exclusive articles that we intend to change every week. The Featured Articles on the left will include new exclusives and the articles previously highlighted above. Don’t miss the piece that went up yesterday by internationally known scholar of nonviolence, Michael Nagler, on whether there are any nonviolent options now in Libya.

In the center of the page Michael Lerner’s pages offer a variety of articles that provide commentary by him and others on events (titles only on the home page, but with expanded details here: Editorials and Actions) and that lay out Tikkun’s basic philosophy of politics (Core Vision) and spirituality (Spiritual Wisdom). Michael reads widely on the Web and has a page of Recommended articles on the web that he frequently updates.

I can’t tell you how proud we are of this site and how relieved that it is up and running. I have had very little energy for blogging here this last six months and part of the reason has been the time taken up by creating this site while still putting together the print magazine. I’ll do another post soon with thanks to the amazing people who made this happen.

Now that Tikkun has made this huge transition, we will be able to maintain and build on the quality of this beautiful site if you can help us out. We depend on donations, mainly a lot of small ones these days and we are in great need of growing that number quickly, and we also need volunteer help — for example work that can be done from home for improving our archive, all of which will gradually, painstakingly, by transferred to the new site. So please consider what you can do.

And please take a look around the new site and let us know what you think in the comments here or over there.