Incest and rape are words that never fully capture the horrifying and lasting imprint that these experiences leave on minds, bodies, psyches, and spirits both of those who have survived and the many others who have not. I fully credit the work of many unknown and known courageous racially/ethnically diverse women who began the second wave of this movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s for their tireless organizing and activist efforts in placing ending violence against women and children at the forefront of local, state, and national agendas. Even with the tremendous progress and inroads made, the racist and sexist stereotype that Black women and girls are incapable of being raped or otherwise physically or sexually assaulted still prevails.
Special Web Articles
Intersectionality and Intimate Partner Violence: Barriers Women Face
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is likely to involve physical, sexual, emotional, and financial abuse and is still treated somewhat as a private issue. Until the 1980s, the American Bar Association advised police to avoid arrest and engage in conflict resolution. This was common practice until the Domestic Violence Movement aided in changing social constructs and encouraging pro-arrest and mandatory arrest policies. However, Lockwood and Prohaska (2015) found that police are still less likely to respond with the same vigor to IPV as they are to the violence against men. The 1994 Violence Against Women Act encouraged prosecutors to charge IPV offenders with their crimes. This led to “no-drop” policies.
Special Web Articles
Intimate Partner Violence & Intimate Partner Justice: How Spiritual Teachings Impact Both
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These alleged spiritual ‘truths’ make it far more difficult for victimized women, old and young, to seek freedom from intimate partner bondage. Subscribing to these beliefs also increases greatly the risk of female victims-survivors facing more abuse or even death.
Special Web Articles
An Invitation to Community: Restorative Justice Circles for Intimate Partner Violence
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Restorative justice is a community-based approach to justice that emphasizes repairing the harm caused by crime. It departs from the contemporary criminal justice system in several ways.
Special Web Articles
Intimate Violence, Societal Violence: Online Exclusives
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These online exclusives are freely accessible articles that are part of an ongoing special series associated with Tikkun’s Winter 2016 print issue, Intimate Violence, Societal Violence. An Invitation to Community: Restorative Justice Circles for Intimate Partner Violence
EMILY GAARDNER
Intimate Partner Violence and Intimate Partner Justice: How Spiritual Teachings Impact Both
REV. AL MILES
AfroLezfemcentric Perspectives on Coloring Gender and Queering Race
AISHAH SHAHIDAH SIMMONS
Intersectionality and Intimate Partner Violence: Barriers Women Face
VENESSA GARCIA AND PATRICK McMANIMON
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Fiction & Poetry Articles
The Problem of Evil: Campus, 1968
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A Short Story
Elena was saying something about how exploited the TA’s were. Maureen, who was also a TA, leaned her head closer, trying to hear her above the din of the students’ chatter in the cavernous auditorium. Then Elena suddenly sat up and pointed toward the front. A short man with long, wavy white hair was rapping a ruler against the podium, attempting to get the students’ attention. He began clearing his throat authoritatively.
Special Web Articles
Through Amichai’s Window
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Editor’s note: We deeply appreciate the way that Yehuda Amichai was available to Tikkun magazine. He not only allowed many of his poems to be printed in Tikkun, but also participated in the Tikkun Conference in Jerusalem, where we brought together all the various factions of the Israeli peace movement to reflect on why they had been less successful than they could have been. Amichai's presence there, and his reading of his poetry as part of the conference program, was a powerful statement of his commitment to peace and reconciliation with the Palestinian people.
A widely acclaimed poet of the 20th century, Yehuda Amichai was a voice of sanity in a world that often denies it. Born in Germany, Amichai immigrated to Palestine in the mid-1930s and spent the rest of his life trying to make sense of the calamitous events that his generation endured. He won numerous awards, both in Israel and abroad, and was a frequent contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
30.4 Fall
Fall 2015 Table of Contents
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About Tikkun
What’s Next for Israel/Palestine
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Non-subscribers: This forum is available as featured open-access content on our publisher's website. What's Next for Israel/Palestine? An Introduction
MICHAEL LERNER
Until Two States Exist, Palestinians Deserve Voting Rights in Israel
DAVID BIALE
The Logic of Abandoning the Two-States Campaign
REBECCA SUBAR
Nonviolence, BDS, and the Dream of Beloved Community in Palestine/Israel
LYNN GOTTLIEB
We Need to Make Peace More Lucrative Than Occupation
RAJA SHEHADEH
Israel Can't Have It Both Ways: Recognize Palestine or Grant Equal Rights
SAM BAHOUR AND TONY KLUG
The Only Road to Sustainable Peace: Pluralistic Democracy
MAZIN QUMSIYEH
If You Want Justice, Support All Forms of Nonviolent Pressure on Israel
REBECCA VILKOMERSON
Escaping the Two-State Snare
IAN S. LUSTICK
Moving Beyond the One-State/Two-State Debate
ANDREW ARATO
Israel's Human Shields Defense: Shielding Israeli War Crimes
OVADIA EZRA
A New Horizon for Peace: An Israel-Palestine Union
OREN YIFTACHEL
State-Building Can Pave the Way to Statehood: Lessons from Kurdistan
REUVEN KIMELMAN
Israeli Elections Won't End Oppression in Palestine/Israel
AMER SHURRAB
Closing Thoughts on “What's Next for Israel/Palestine?”
MICHAEL LERNER
Online Exclusives
These online exclusives are freely accessible articles that are part of an ongoing special series associated with Tikkun’s Fall 2015 print issue, What's Next For Israel/Palestine. A Two-State Solution is the Only Option
ALON BEN-MEIR
The Legacy of Jewish Trauma
TIRZAH FIRESTONE
"The Ploughshare Without Fear": Remembering Martin Buber (1878-1965)
CAROL ASCHER
Communities of Faith Must Join to Demand an Arms Embargo
TIMOTHY R. PRISK
Moving Beyond Despair
DOV WAXMAN
The Problem with Solutions
NOAH HABEEB
On the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Back to Democratic Basics
SAM SUSSMAN
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Special Web Articles
Dante’s Politics
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The decorative mosaic adorning the ancient synagogue floor
is innocent of its future. Good luck, it means to say, or
my swastika hands miming perpetual motion wish you
everlasting peace and prosperity. And what coincidence
sends my son running across the plaza, blowing again
and again on his precious pinwheel toy? Say what you mean,
I want to shout. I am listening to the politicians
in the courtyard, excavating for small truths buried
beneath thick stratum of tedious lies.
Special Web Articles
The Problem is that Life is Imperfect
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The best way to achieve Mr. Gabel’s noble goals is, first, to recognize what can and cannot be accomplished by the various decision-making institutions in our society, and then to try to equip them to perform optimally in their areas of influence.
Reviews
The Tale-less Hoffmann
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Moods is time well spent, all the more so for not letting you forget that you were going to spend it anyway.
Spirituality
A Response to Gary Peller
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The desire for mutual recognition is not an abstract universal, but a concrete universal manifested in all human situations as an expression of the very meaning of what it means to be a social human being.
Race
History and Transcendence
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The imposition of the “desire for mutual recognition” as the universal that ties us all together in common humanity onto the description of every social phenomena is ahistorical and undialectical—it fails to account for the concrete particulars of time and space that give exercises of social power a particular spin and story.
Special Web Articles
Net Neutrality and the Fight for Social Justice
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Net neutrality is not just for techies. The digital roots of the Black Lives Matter movement show why we must fight to keep the internet open to all.