Tikkun Daily Blog Archive (https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/author/guest/page/44/)
An interview brought to you by Micah’s Paradigm Shift of Mark Braverman. Braverman, who has deep family roots in Israel, has developed what he describes as a ‘calling’ to speak to the Church in a spirit of Christian teaching that sees Jesus as a radical Jew rebelling against the Jewish establishment and the Roman occupation of first century Palestine.
Are the artist and their art so inextricably connected that support of one means support of the other? Many would say yes, and find Orson Scott Card’s blatant homophobia as grounds to boycott Ender’s Game.
Sigried Gold offers a response to Rabbi Rami Shapiro’s recent vision of “Judaism Next”, embracing skepticism and pluralism of our secular age.
“Profit is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.” American capitalism may not be in crisis, but capitalism can only breed crisis as long as the financial wealth it creates is owned by fewer and fewer capitalists. With the current income gap, predatory nature of our economy, and misunderstanding of ‘entrepreneurship’, there is a great need to spread community wealth and not allow social values to erode under financial value.
Are Jews in existential free-fall? According to the latest Pew Research Center report, 22 percent of Jews have abandoned Judaism and only 15 percent identify Judaism as essential to being Jewish. Rabbi Arthur Waskow offers an insightful response.
Though suicide may be seen as a highly individualized problem, the reality is that many social factors are at play and it isn’t a case of individual fault. In order to others better understand the issue, Dan Brook highlights nine realities we are often unaware of and twenty-four techniques for help and survival.
With so many behind bars for drug charges at a time when the legalization of marijuana spreads across the country, Americans are paying more attention to the question, “Why do we have so many prisoners?” With 25 percent of the world’s prisoners being Americans in U.S. prisons, this question deserves the attention. John Kelle has created an infographic that explores and contextualizes the ins and outs of mass incarceration in the United States.
Donna Swarthout decided to take advantage of the German law that allows families persecuted by the Nazis to have their citizenship restored. In the wake of the government shutdown she feels that she has made the right choice, and finds relief in the German healthcare, educational, transportation, and political systems.
Intern Kelsey Waxman gives a final synopsis of her weekend spent representing Tikkun at the Fourth Annual J Street Conference. She found reassurance in the strength of those fighting for peace, yet was left conflicted about J street’s claims of supporting a progressive, two-state initiative in the Israel/Palestine conflict.
Youth Spirit Artworks is an interfaith job-training arts program co-founded by Sally Hindman. Hindman – who’s also responsible for the Telegraph Avenue drop-in center for homeless youth and Street Spirit, the Bay Area’s homeless newspaper – created the organization in 2007 in order to provide training for young people in need.