Tikkun Daily Blog Archive (https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/author/galleryeditor/page/5/)
Reminding us that Passover is “quintessentially a union story,” Jonathan Rosenblum recounts his experience at the Justice for Mele / Northwest Detention Center Resistance Solidarity Seder in Tacoma, WA on April 1.
Gregory Wallance presents a curative to Hollywood’s one-dimensional sex-driven woman spy: Sarah Aaronsohn, born in Palestine in 1890, was vital to the British victory over the Ottoman empire.
Jeremy Lent argues that addressing the symptoms of larger social problems is like a software engineer trying to fix multiple bugs: “Ultimately, it becomes clear that the problem isn’t just the software: an entirely new operating system is required to get where we need to go.”
Matthias Beier debunks the harmful worship of guns by exposing the NRA’s real idol: “The NRA does not, of course, worship ‘God.’ The NRA worships fear as god.”
Barbara Artson writes about the plight of the Rohingya people, “a Muslim minority forced to leave their homes in the predominantly Buddhist Myanmar (Burma), whose government claims they are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, and therefore they deprive them of their rights as citizens.”
In this article Ronald Aronson reports that, contrary to what many may have expected, there has been an increase in social hope––what he defines as “the disposition to act collectively to improve our situation”––since Trump took office.
“And isn’t that the problem and lesson of Purim as crafted by the rabbis? The evil and the good in our real world, (…) aren’t they bewilderingly transactional and sometimes interchangeable?”
Stan Charnofsky proposes a new category of parenting in which we all, parents and non-parents alike, take responsibility for providing harmony, love, and honesty for the next generation.
Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot argues that, although shooting galleries have been misrepresented in public imagination as spaces that facilitate syringe sharing and drug trafficking, in reality they function as underground supervised injection facilities and help keep people safe.
Henry Giroux tries to make sense of a world in which guns in schools have been normalized: “Instead of confronting the roots of violence in America, [Trump] followed the NRA line of addressing the issue […] with a call to arm more people, putting more guns into play.”