CJ Rosenblatt writes about her interactions with a homeless Seattle woman: “While I was trying to save her, it was Liz who saved me from my growing cynicism and fear.”
US Politics
Kill LGBTQ People, Jews, & Black People to Win Big at These Video “Games”
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A horrifying report by Warren J. Blumenfeld on right wing extremist video game ‘fun’ that endangers Jews, Blacks, and LBGTQ people.
Politics & Society
Trump and the Ghosts of the Past in Fascist America
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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.”
US Politics
The Dream Defenders and False Accusations of Anti-Semitism
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Donna Nevel explains that when claims of anti-semitism are falsely hurled against politicians and activists, they both have destructive consequences and also make a mockery of, and trivialize, real acts of anti-Semitism.
US Politics
This Country
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Judy Kronenfeld examines the loss that stays with us through generations in her poignant poem, “This Country.”
Other Voices
Rev. Buford presents an African American perspective on the massacre of Jews in Pittsburgh
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In the aftermath of the Pittsburg Synongogue shooting, Rev. Daniel A. Buford reminds us that we have to depend on each other and practice empathy.
US Politics
Activism is the Rent I Pay For Living on This Planet
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Dana L. Sinopoli argues that it is time we pay our rent for living on this planet by engaging in activism.
US_Politics
White “Christian” Supremacist Theology and Fascist Politics & Tree of Life Murders
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Dr. Gary G. Kohls does a deep dive on the corrupted theology which led to the Pittsburgh Synagogue shootings.
Articles
Palestinian Authority (PA) Tortures Dissenters
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It’s sad but true that people who have been brutalized often end up being brutalizers of others. It happens in the U.S., it has happened to many Israelis, and it happens throughout the world, including the Arab and Muslim worlds. While we support the right of the Palestinians to their own national self-determination and the right of Jews to their own national self-determination, we’ve never romanticized the Palestinian people or the Israeli people (or for that matter, any other national entity including the U.S., U.K. etc.). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/23/palestinian-authority-hamas-torture-peaceful-critics-rights-group-says?fbclid=IwAR3beQ2rb6udS-EyZxMhooZsh0Sy-qOFbwWmVujj3eSkayR9HaptWlUXHew
https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-details-torture-by-pa-and-hamas-in-their-parallel-police-states/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2018-10-23&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwAR2fxubZZ_yX4NLpur7_yyBUAJ4lbbaG-cqe9W1VIHjOd-k8-axy240rVrg
Rabbi Michael Lerner rabbilerner.tikkun@gmail.com
Justice for All
The New Islamophobia Looks Like the Old McCarthyism
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In this piece, Juan Cole argues that Islamophobia today looks a lot like McCarthyism of the past. This is not a road we particularly want to go down.
Editorials & Actions
Cynthia Travis reviews Deena Metzger’s latest novel A Rain of Night Birds
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Book Review for Tikkun
by Cynthia Travis
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A RAIN OF NIGHT BIRDS
by Deena Metzger
Natural Law was here before and will be here after we’re gone. Western law was not here then and will not last. ~ Marie Gladue, Navajo elder
Sometimes a story poses a question that is inescapable, compelling us to yield to its mandate, demanding its rightful place at the magnetic center of our lives. This is because, in the words of a wise friend, it is a story that reminds us who we are. Such is the question at the heart of Deena Metzger’s A Rain of Night Birds (Hand to Hand Publishing, 2017): What are the ways of being that will ensure a viable future for all life?
Uncategorized
Help #StopKavanaugh
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Help #StopKavanaugh––attend vigils tonight, march tomorrow, and call your Senators!
Articles
Benjamin Netanyahu Enabled Congressional Criticism of Israel’s Occupation of Palestine
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Yossi Khen and Jeff Warner take a closer look at the tipping point that prompted Democrats to start examining Israel’s actions with respect to their principles, and what’s being done today to drive change.
US_Politics
A Year After Harvey in Houston
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In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Avital Ingber and Sacha Bodner share the incredible outpouring of tikkun olam in Houston.
Editorials & Actions
The American War in Yemen by Rajan Menon
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[Thanks to our media ally TomDispatch.com for sharing this article with Tikkun readers on yet another sin of the U.S. government–our participation in the mass killing of Yemenites. –Rabbi Michael Lerner rabbilerner.tikkun@gmail.com ]
The American War in Yemen
by Rajan Menon
Introduction by Tom Engelhardt: It was the rarest of graphics in the American news media: a CNN map in which recent Saudi air strikes in Yemen were represented by little yellow explosions. Below them were the number of civilians killed (“97,” “155,” “unknown casualties”) and, below those, the names of the makers of the weapons that had done the killing (Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics). In fact, in the nearly three decades since the Soviet Union imploded, U.S. weapons makers have had a remarkable grip on the global arms trade (latest figure: 34% of all arms sales) and regularly sold their weaponry into places that were hell storms of conflict, particularly the Middle East. Nonetheless, remarkably little thought is given here to how snugly death and destruction in distant lands fit with these glory days of U.S. weapons makers, their soaring profits and rising stock prices.