Tikkun Daily Blog Archive (https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2015/12/page/4/)
Eighty years ago, the United States debated whether it would open its doors to Jewish refugees fleeing the terror of the Nazis. It did not. And this historical echo was not lost on me, as I’m sure it was not lost on Jews throughout this country. These have been weeks of significant gravity. Serious things have happened.
All real living is meeting.- Martin Buber
As is so often the case, the events of the last weeks and their questions resonated with the parshayot (torah readings). How should we relate to the other that we fear? Who are our fellow travellers? Where is God in the tortured conflicts of our time? In the Bible portion Vayetze Jacob leaves Be’er Sheva in the Holy Land and goes north to Haran.
As an American Jew who often critiques U.S. policy, particularly when abuses or injustices are systematized, I occasionally see anti-Semitic comments pop up by those who take offense. While such comments are always concerning, they have typically been both veiled and infrequent over the past eight years while writing for various progressive outlets.
Too often the debates over the terms of a peace agreement focus only on political and geographical considerations. The real peace process we do need, however, is a process of transformation in the way that each side views the Other.
It’s #GivingTuesday, can you help us meet our goal? Click here to donate. . The world needs a major transformation of consciousness as the prerequisite to a major change in our global economic and political systems so that we can save the life-support-system of the planet and counter the craziness and violence in our political systems. Our articles in Tikkun, and our activism through the Network of Spiritual Progressives, are getting more and more people to realize that it is not only local change, but this global transformation that is needed–and then providing strategies to help make this happen. . In order to meet our budget for next year we have to raise $15,000 byJanuary 1, 2016.This amount feels so tangible and it’s just within our reach, will you help us reach our goal?