THE NEW UNIVERSE AND THE HUMAN FUTURE: HOW A SHARED COSMOLOGY COULD TRANSFORM THE WORLD by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack, Yale Press, 2011.
Art
Visionary Art: A Traveler in the Torah
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A review of BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH: AN ILLUMINATED TORAH COMMENTARY by Ilene Winn-Lederer.
Activism
From the Vietnam War to Species Suicide: Thoughts on a 50th High School Reunion
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There may be nothing more devastating than the phenomenon of “generational betrayal.” The clash between what we had grown up believing and what we experienced destroyed our individual internal moral universes and fatally divided our generation.
Articles
Personas, Personalities, and Hybrids on the Screen
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A look at some adventurous films that acknowledge the gap between art and actuality, and try to bridge it by allowing real people with authentic emotions and experiences into their stories. A review of TINY FURNITURE, IFC Films, 2010; PUTTY HILL, Cinema Guild, 2010; and ON THE BOWERY, Milestone Film and Video, 1957.
2011
Tales of Morality and Meaning in an Age of Global Warming
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Some years ago I met a man who, over a single cup of ginger-mint tea, shook my deepest assumptions about the process of moral conversation. His name was Samuel Prana.
2011
Curative Songs
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Like Kafka’s parables and the enigmatic, humane tales of Rabbi Nachman, Rodger Kamenetz’s Burnt Books has an economical generosity that is thoroughly secular, deeply religious, and seriously joking.
Articles
A Refreshing Perspective on the Wives of Muhammad
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UNTOLD: A HISTORY OF THE WIVES OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD by Tamam Kahn, Monkfish, 2010
2011
Overcoming the Trauma of the Holocaust: Will Light Pierce the Darkness?
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THE HOLOCAUST IS OVER, WE MUST RISE FROM ITS ASHES by Avraham Burg, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
2011
Postwar Dystopia or Family Paradise?
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SECOND SUBURB: LEVITTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, edited by Dianne Harris, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010
2011
The Imperial War for Drugs
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AMERICAN WAR MACHINE: DEEP POLITICS, THE CIA, GLOBAL DRUG CONNECTION, AND THE ROAD TO AFGHANISTAN by Peter Dale Scott, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010
2011
The Real Education Reformers: Why Chicago Mothers and Teachers Are Doing More than “Waiting for Superman”
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Don’t race to the top, look to the grassroots for the future health of our schools.
2011
Heaven’s Snake
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“Is the cornsnake Jewish?” This was a tough question to answer. I was visiting with the first-grade class taught by my then-girlfriend, who had introduced me to her students as “Farmer Josh” — and then thrust a large-ish cornsnake into my less-than-willing hands.
About Tikkun
Art Gallery
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Our online gallery has already hosted forty-five exhibits from a remarkable range of artists, from prehistoric to postmodern, photography to drawing, graffiti to fine painting. Every exhibit is accompanied by a feature article inspired by an interview with the artist. Check out this provocative, innovative, moving, and beautiful art!