Tikkun (https://www.tikkun.org/category/arts-cultural-critique/page/7/)
“Right there at one of the long brown tables in the middle of a class I don’t care about, I realize I’m in love with someone from the university, which is funny because being in love with someone from the university is what my husband accuses me of all the time.” A short story by Cady Vishniac.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founder of Ms. Magazine and author of Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America, reviews Funny, You Don’t Look Like a Rabbi, Lynnda Targan’s intimate new memoir about her arduous yet intrepid journey to fulfill her mid-life calling.
“He was afraid of girls. It didn’t matter how shy or friendly or fat or pretty or plain or desperate the girl was. He was afraid of them all. Then he grew up and his father died and he was still afraid of girls . . .” A short story by Jennifer Anne Moses.
“Having procured the grape leaves, the Whole Foods shopper sat back down next to me on the bed in our married couple pose, lifted the comforter up over himself again, and started munching. . . I was entranced.” A short story by Cady Vishniac.
“Tales From the Loop” is a new series that provides a timely meditation on how we, in the midst of surrealistic circumstances, find meaning in our lives.
Bob Dylan’s song “Murder Most Foul” draws on religious symbolism to highlight the downfall of the American dream.
Albert Camus’s La Peste (The Plague), originally published in 1947, can help us better understand our own pestilence as much by its contrasts as by its similarities.
Richard Zimler discovers the importance during this pandemic of making our homes into our own small and quiet version of paradise.
“Fury: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Trump Era” brings together a diverse community of women who reveal the impact of Donald Trump’s behavior, words, and presidency and how each is confronting the problem and fighting back.
Raymond Barglow argues that “the pathway from visual experience to belief is commonly an erroneous one: we are deceived, waylaid, captured by what we see.”
Aubrey Glazer maintains that Leonard Cohen’s songbook provides hope that “within the very brokenness there emerges a new openness within the world and inside ourselves to find the path to its redemption”.
“The truth is, even now he doesn’t know how or why he’d so abruptly turned his back on his wife and children, forsaken his wedding vows, and broken with Jewish law. It was almost as if he’d been under the influence of a drug.” A story by Jennifer Anne Moses.
Phillip Barcio reviews Maria Elena González’s Magic Carpet/Home (1999), a landmark Social Practice Artwork that is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
Rabbi Chaim Gruber delves into the psychological and sociological aspects of sports, video games, and mass shootings.
