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Image of Gershom Scholem and his second wife Fania in Gershom Scholem’s library at the home they rented in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem.

Gershom Scholem: When The Mythmaker Becomes The Myth

Martin Kavka argues that our renewed interest in Gershom Scholem is due, in part, to the fact that "Jewish life in the United States has now become utterly perplexing and mysterious."
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Suffer the Little Children

Through the lens of Trump's Zero Tolerance policy, Michael Bader examines how we can channel our pain and empathy that are "fueled by feelings that originate in the deepest recesses of our psyches and find expression in a progressive political campaign."
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The Evolution of Identity Politics

In this interview with Tikkun, Eric Ward reminds us that "[w]e are complicated human beings with multiple identities and interests" and that "[i]t is simply not a true liberation movement unless it is grounded in a universalism seeking to advance all of us."
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Oil well fires rage outside Kuwait City in the aftermath of Operation Desert Storm

Gearing Up for the Third Gulf War

Michael Klare warns that history may repeat itself in yet another "geopolitical struggle for control of the greater Persian Gulf region, with all its riches, between two sets of countries, each determined to prevail."
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Farrakhan & the Women's March: An Unholy Connection

Cat Zavis reflects on what healing and reconciliation can look like when anti-Semitism (or any other -ism) rears its ugly head.
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Shootings are the Symptoms of an American Disease

In light of recent mass shootings, managing editor Simon Mont reminds us that, to transform a violent system, "[w]e need deep causal explanations that can lead toward cures for a systemic disease."
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Image of "Noah’s Family Assembling Animals before the Ark” by Jan Van Kessel II––many animals gathered on a landscape.

Animals Endowed With Rights

Leonardo Boff outlines two different approaches to the relationship between humans and nature, and urges us to remember that "not only is the human being an end in itself, but so are all living beings, which therefore must be respected."
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The Trouble with Brett Kavanaugh by Peter Gabel

The New Economy: Summer 2018 Table of Contents

Israel/Palestine

Uri Avnery, leader of the Israeli peace movement Gush Shalom, 1923-2018
by Michael Lerner

War & Peace

Homage to the Syrian Revolution by Andrew Heintz
by Tikkun Readers

Israel/Palestine

Thousands of Israelis Protest the New “nation state law” in Tel Aviv
by Michael Lerner

US Politics

Dr. Jerome Segal forms Bread and Roses Party
by Jerome Segal

Judaism

Fasting An Act of Mourning & Protest–a note for Tisha B’av and beyond
by Shaul Magid

Israel/Palestine

Israel’s March of Folly by Uri Avnery
by Uri Avnery

Politics & Society

When My Mother Wanted to Die
by Margaret Morganroth Gullette

War & Peace

Middle East Alliances. Old and New.
by Rebecca Gordon

US Politics

Rabbi Lerner interviews Congressman Keith Ellison
by Rabbi Lerner & Keith Ellison

US Politics

Support the NAACP opposition to Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee
by Michael Lerner

Politics & Society

Suffer the Little Children
by Michael Bader

More Editorials and Actions

Political Vision and Spiritual Wisdom Rabbi Michael Lerner

Editorials & Actions
Core Vision
Spiritual Wisdom

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Tikkun/NSP Core Vision for Political and Social Change
The Spiritual Covenant With America
The Politics of Meaning
A Foreign Policy Based on Generosity Not Domination: The Global Marshall Plan
Remove corporate money from elections and ensure corporate responsibility: Pass the ESRA, the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution!
The Spiritual Dimension: Toward a Unifying Progressive Vision
Healing Israel-Palestine
Abiding Perspectives by Tikkun authors and others
Tikkun and NSP Music
ESRA–the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
The Psychopathology of the 2016 Election
The Worldview of Tikkun and nour NSP–Network of Spiritual Progressives
The State of the Spirit, 2011
The Presence of Living Organisms
Forgiveness
Spiritual Awakening, a New Economy, and the End of Empire

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More Spiritual Wisdom