Tikkun (https://www.tikkun.org/category/arts-cultural-critique/page/11/)
In an attempt to prevent violence, we have created institutions, namely, morality and religion––but, paradoxically enough, the most deadly violence has always been done in the name of these institutions. In this article, James Gilligan and James Vrettos ask why this is and what we can do about it.
Tips from Rabbi Lerner on how to make your Thanksgiving more meaningful and effective.
Ariel Dorfman reflects on war and peace – “. . . peace is a daily task, that must be carried out not by heroic, exceptional beings, but by every concerned parent and every vulnerable child.”
In this powerful poem, Hilton Obenzinger uses dark humor to address our gun crisis. “So much to shoot and so little time/ Let’s shoot the small quiet wind . . .”
In this poem, Liz Marlow speaks to the fear of bullets killing our loved ones. “I know the unlikeliness / of a bullet / shot into the air / killing / my children . . . ”
Lisa Martinovic explores the frightening long-term neurological consequences of digital devices on our bodies.
Martin Winiecki explores how to address the rising fascism in Brazil and around the world.
Richard Michelson reflects on the Pittsburgh massacre: “An anguish of mothers / A coward of congressmen / A plague of Martyrs / A martyr of angels.”
In reexamining the history of fascism in the U.S. and elsewhere, Henry Giroux writes that “Trump is the endpoint of a malady that has been growing for decades.”
J. David Cummings’s poem calls for solidarity in grief: “he taught me that the grieving heart / speaks everywhere a single prayer.”
In this poem, Jay Eddy responds to the massacre of Jews at a Pittsburgh Temple: “
Thomas Klikauer reviews Franziska Schreiber’s Inside the AFD, shedding light on the rise of Neo-Nazism in Germany.
They were going to separate—she wanted to and he was done fighting her—but before that there was Dylan’s bar mitzvah, and before that was now: this weekend in the rolling hills beyond Oakland with similarly bereaved Jewish strangers.
Martin Kavka argues that our renewed interest in the life and work of Gershom Scholem is due, in part, to the fact that “what constitutes a properly Jewish life in the United States has now become utterly perplexing and mysterious.”
In his review of Ryan Lugalia-Hollon and Daniel Cooper’s The War on Neighborhoods, Theodore Richards breaks down the false dichotomy between individual and community.