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Bernie Sanders’ Socialism
Bernie Sanders’ socialist vision is alive and well in European countries. It could flourish in the United States as well.
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Some Ancient Prayer in Aramaic
“Amen to the words…”
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The Torah of the Broken Banana
My Preschooler’s Big Feelings Teach Me How to Face a Heartbreaking World
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Sexual Harassment in the Synagogue
A Case Study and Recommendations
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The March on Washington
A powerful milestone in the struggle for justice and dignity.
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75 Years of Continuing Injustice
The need to dismantle the purposefully dysfunctional system that enables injustice
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When Discussing Zionism
Avoid…Don’t belabor…don’t reference…don’t even imagine…
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Beyt Tikkun’s Spiritually Rich and Politically Relevant High Holy Days Celebration (on Zoom)
All are welcome! Join us for spiritually rich and politically meaningful High Holy Day services from anywhere in the world. (To learn more, click image below.)
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SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES
A proposal to transfer 1% of countries’ military budgets to peacebuilding efforts. You can learn more at the Parliament of the World’s Religions.
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Malach Means Messenger
“A messenger might say, leave this place. / Don’t look back…”
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My American Violence
One Potential Path to Heal Racism and All Forms of Othering
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Presenting Rabbi Cat Zavis
We, the Board of Beyt Tikkun, are excited to announce that Rabbi Cat Zavis will become a Rabbi of Beyt Tikkun, effective July 1st, 2023
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March
“…Before/the disease raced up the spinal thoroughfare…”
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The Fiddler And The Self-Hating Jew
Can the dream and vision of Fiddler on the Roof live alongside the reality of present-day Israel?
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The Construction of Empathy in the Work of Jamil Jan Kochai
Kochai’s writing, rather than apologizing to outsiders, favors a proud, inward-looking independence that arouses a response of universal human empathy.
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The Bastard Son of King Levinsky
A poem by Martín Espada, winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, for his book, Floaters.
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Interview with Matthew Fox: Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality
A conversation with Matthew Fox and Andrew Harvey
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My Sister Who Kept Her Abortion a Secret
“Come, help me reclaim her –”
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Repealing The Second Amendment
Widening Public Debate About Gun Rights
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The Spirit is in the Streets
Israeli protesters need a bigger, better story.
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The Hands of G-d
A First-Person Account of a Young Student on a “Fact-Finding Mission” to Israel.
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Hiding in Plain Sight
A Feminist Understanding of the Wilderness as an Egalitarian Endeavor.
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grace
Memorial by Hungarian sculptor, Gyula Pauer, in Budapest, to Jews shot into the Danube, 1944-1945. Photo by Erik Klein.
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All Earth to Love
We are each personally responsible, believed my father, for our world’s survival. Global suicide is not inevitable.
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Whitman Among the Hasidics
The essay reads Whitman as simpatico with the Baal Shem Tov in their celebratory alternatives to their respective traditions.
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The Golden Medinah
Ask good questions, challenge authority: A woman finds her Jewish voice
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The Economics of Exodus
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Ph.D.
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Old Man Ties the String While I Breathe
At a border-crossing between Eastern and Western Europe, a Russian officer yells, “Bystryy! Faster!”
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Will this Moment be Wasted?
The occupation must be front and center in the current protests in Israel and the US
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A Revised Jewish Understanding of the State of Israel
A compassionate yet intense critic of the State of Israel
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