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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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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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Walking on Eggshells

Walking on Eggshells

Ronald Aronson argues that we must not allow conversations about the Israel/Palestine conflict to be governed by thought and language police because "continuing to walk on eggshells only defers to the mutual hate campaign."
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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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Israel's Refugee Crisis

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi makes an urgent appeal to readers of Tikkun: help stop the deportation of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers from Israel.
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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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2 Tikkun perspectives on Gaza, Israel and Palestine by Mark LeVine & Michael Lerner

Exploring Identity Politics: Winter/ Spring 2018 Table of Contents

Economy/Poverty/Wealth

What It’s Like to Be Poor
by Tom Engelhardt

Act to Help Reunite Refugee Children and Their Parents
by Cat J. Zavis

Books

Roth’s Enduring Commitment
by Evan Brier

Israel/Palestine

Hamas’ bombing of an Israeli kindergarten is also outrageous!
by Michael Lerner

Culture

Thoughts on Philip Roth: America, Jew, Male
by Shaul Magid

Israel/Palestine

Uri Avnery (Israel’s peace movement Gush Shalom) on Israel’s Days of Shame
by Uri Avnery

Economy/Poverty/Wealth

A conversation with Rev. Barber, chair of the Poor People’s Campaign
by Michael Lerner

Walking on Eggshells: Talking about Israel and Palestine
by Ronald Aronson

Judaism

2 articles on Lag b’Omer 1.Rabbi Mike Moskowitz . 2. Kohenet Taya Shere
by Tikkun

Race

Killing White Innocence : A review by Stephen Brookfield of George Yancy’s Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Racism in America
by Stephen Brookfield

Environment

Theologies of Genocide and Earth Day Ethics
by Rev. Dr. Brooks Berndt

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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