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By Tikkun | November 18, 2021

GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement, unleashing the power of radical generosity to transform communities and the world.

“I hated him then. I hated him with hot rage and cold bitterness. I hated him for being mean to Mom. I hated him for making me share a room with my brother, and for how helpless he was in the face of Mom’s illness. I hated him for not understanding me.” A short story by Jennifer Anne Moses.

Arts & Cultural Critique

Piano Bench

By Cady Vishniac | July 27, 2020

“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.

Tikkun Daily

Apart and Together (part five)

By Miki Kashtan | July 23, 2020

The overwhelming majority of the world’s population is doing work in the form of jobs that are insufficient for sustenance, assault workers’ dignity, and lack meaning. Even when the pay is sufficient, jobs are still lacking in dignity and meaning.

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King’s Two Messages

By Miki Kashtan | June 30, 2020

There is a window now open for far more significant change than the single-issue focus on police brutality; a time when such brutality can be seen as merely a tragic symptom of much deeper causes.

Santa, the Cosmos, and a Leap of Faith

By Valerie Elverton Dixon | December 23, 2019

Valerie Elverton Dixon writes about her leap of faith that tells her that “the Is-ness that existed before the beginning, that exists now, and that will exist after the end is Divine Love “that loves us with “a love that is as infinite and as eternal as the Cosmos itself.”

The Children

By Jennifer Anne Moses | December 15, 2019

“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.

Giving Tuesday 2019

By Tikkun Staff | November 21, 2019

Do you love what we do at Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives? Do you have friends you think might love our work too? Here’s a great way to support us! #GivingTuesday is right around the corner (Tuesday, December 3rd) and we’d really appreciate it if you set up a fundraiser on your own Facebook page and invited your friends to donate—see below for more instructions. We are so grateful for your ongoing support.

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Snarky Comments

By Erica Etelson | November 1, 2019

Erica Etelson argues that if a Democratic candidate is to win in 2020, they must forsake snarky retorts in the service of reclaiming Obama-to-Trump voters and non-voters.

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Can the Social Order Be Transformed through Personal Practice? The Case of Nonviolent Communication — Part 1 of 2

By Miki Kashtan | September 13, 2019

Miki Kashtan looks at how NVC can contribute to our collective ability to face and transform social conditions and systems and at how to align its practice with these intentions.

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The Performance of Privilege and Unmerited Overconfidence

By Arlene Goldbard | May 23, 2019

Arlene Goldbard skips over the Big Baby in the White House to explore even more powerful examples of the impact of privilege and entitlement on our common culture.

Tikkun Archives

By Tikkun | February 27, 2019

Below are links to digital versions of Tikkun Magazine from Spring 2011 through Winter/Spring 2018. Click each to see the full contents of the magazine. Please note that these archives are ONLY available to subscribers and members of the NSP and donors as our way of saying thank you for supporting Tikkun and the NSP. Vol 33, No 4: Fall 2018

Don’t Let the Light Go Out

MICHAEL LERNER

No Other Gods
ANA LEVY-LYONS

Prophetic Empathy
CAT ZAVIS

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Vol 33, No 3: Summer 2018

Vision of A Liberated Economy

RIANE EISLER

Feeding Children, Communities and Souls
PAMELA HAINES

The Years of Dialogue
SIDRA DEKOVEN EZRAHI

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Vol 33, No 1-2: Winter/Spring 2018
The Evolution of Identity Politics

ERIC WARD

Decolonizing Jewishness
BEN CASE

Creating a Spiritual Practice to Heal and Transform the World
THANDEKA

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Vol 32, No 4: Fall 2017

Ecological Civilization

DAVID KORTEN

Anti-Semitism, Uprootedness, and Zionism
MIKI KASHTAN

The Magic of Emergence
NATAN MARGALIT

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Vol 32, No 3: Summer 2017

Listening to Leonard Cohen

DAVID SYLVESTER

Man in God’s Image
ANA LEVY-LYONS

The Richness of Adrienne Rich’s Poetry
MARGE PIERCY

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Vol 32, No 1: Winter 2017

Grounds for Hope

REBECCA SOLNIT

Kaddish for Che
MARTHA SONNENBERG

Are Humans Special? DAVID LOY

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Vol 31, No.2: Spring 2016

Misery and Misogyny on the Menu
CAROL J. ADAMS

The True Cost of a Cheap Meal
KATIE CANTRELL

Physicians and Torture: Medical Teshuvah for a Profession in Need of Healing
MARTHA SONNENBERG

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The Gradual Acceleration of Fascist Violence: “Cloudy Sunday’s” Portrayal of The Extermination of the Jews in Thessaloniki

By Peter Gabel | November 5, 2018

In this review of “Cloudy Sundays,” Peter Gabel highlights the common ground between fascists and the indifferent majority: “a common flight from their true social being as grounded human persons seeking the love and affirmation of fellow humans.”