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Response to Trump and West Bank Settlements
Wednesday, 20 November 2019, 2:21 pm | Tikkun
On Monday, Nov. 18, the Trump Administration announced that the US would no longer consider Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank illegal, despite decades of US statements insisting that it was in fact illegal. More >>
Germany's Politics: The Latest Developments
Wednesday, 10 July 2019, 12:21 pm | Tikkun
Tikkun magazine's Berlin correspondent Victor Grossman presents the latest developments in Germany's politics More >>
Coopting the Beatles
Thursday, 23 May 2019, 12:34 pm | Tikkun
The music of the 1960s had unique expressive power because it both expressed and helped to constitute the deepened sense of meaning and purpose that broke through the surface of the world during that historic upsurge of social being. When the Doors ... More >>
Mourning the Murder of Muslims in NZ, and what to do
Saturday, 16 March 2019, 2:19 pm | Tikkun
We at Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives are in deep mourning for the 49 Muslims killed and at least 20 seriously injured, in a hate-filled terror attack targeting two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch. The murderer, a few ... More >>
Solidarity After the Massacre of Jews in Pittsburgh
Monday, 29 October 2018, 4:19 pm | Tikkun
Solidarity After the Massacre of Jews in Pittsburgh….and How Best to Defend Ourselves by Rabbi Michael Lerner On Saturday, October 27th, shortly after the largest massacre of Jews in U.S. history took place in Pittsburgh, I received a message from the leadership ... More >>
Uri Avnery passes from this world 1923-2018
Tuesday, 21 August 2018, 1:24 pm | Tikkun
Tikkun grieves and mourns the passing of the founder and leader of Israel's peace movement, Gush Shalom, Uri Avnery. More >>
Martin Luther King Marches On
Tuesday, 16 January 2018, 11:17 am | Tikkun
Faraway, I was faraway from Washington D.C. that hot day in August of 1963 when Martin Luther King delivered his famous words from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, I was faraway in Chile. Twenty-one years old at the time and entangled, like so many ... More >>
Noam Chomsky on the Trump Presidency
Wednesday, 4 October 2017, 9:22 am | Tikkun
[This interview has been excerpted from Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy , the new book by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian to be published this December.] More >>
The Staying Power of Racism After Charlottesville
Wednesday, 16 August 2017, 11:02 am | Tikkun
Many of us spiritual progressives have been in deep grief for the loss of life of Heather Heyer, the woman killed by a Nazi fanatic who also wounded 19 other anti-racist activists. We are also in grief about the ways racism continues to flourish on so ... More >>
Pence at Dachau: Not Merely Hypocritical
Wednesday, 22 February 2017, 12:45 pm | Tikkun
I don’t usually begin a commentary this way, but – as a queer person and as a Jew who lost multiple family members to murder during the German Holocaust, I feel so furious that I am having difficulty finding the words. More >>
Peter Beinart’s Take Down of Jared Kushner
Tuesday, 21 February 2017, 11:42 am | Tikkun
It is heartening to see the wide reading being received by Peter Beinart’s January 31 j’accuse in The Forward against Jared Kushner and the Orthodox Jewish religious and educational establishment that produced him. More >>
Why Security Council Resolution 2334 Matters a Lot More
Wednesday, 28 December 2016, 12:08 pm | Tikkun
Those who long ago succumbed to cynicism and hopelessness when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can find many reasons to discount the importance of Security Council Resolution 2334, passed unanimously (14-0 with the U.S. as the only abstention) on December ... More >>
Church Boycott of Israeli Banks Funding Occupation
Friday, 15 January 2016, 3:59 pm | Tikkun
The five banks being boycotted – Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, First International Bank of Israel, Israel Discount Bank and Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot – are each involved in financing settlement construction in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. More >>
Nuclear Deal With Iran
Saturday, 18 July 2015, 11:29 am | Tikkun
American Jews and Our non-Jewish Allies Should Rally in Support of the Nuclear Deal With Iran(Don’t let past traumas contribute to our inability to see the looming possibility of a more peaceful world) More >>
The Path to Defeat Racism
Thursday, 25 June 2015, 8:02 am | Tikkun
Racism is the demeaning of an entire group of people and refusing to see them as fully human in the way we see ourselves and those we deem to be "like" us. When we fail to see the "other's" humanity, we ascribe to all of them ... More >>
Put the Blame for Brooklyn Police Murders Where It Belongs
Monday, 22 December 2014, 1:09 pm | Tikkun
The grand juries and district attorneys that failed to indict the cops who killed African Americans or failed to convict those who murdered innocent and unarmed African Americans are a central part of the causal chain in having led a demented man to ... More >>
True Wisdom From West Bank Palestinians
Wednesday, 3 September 2014, 10:08 am | Tikkun
Entrapped in a Cycle of Hatred and the Way Out By Sami Awad 3 September 2014 More >>
Jewish survivors condemn massacre of Palestinians in Gaza
Tuesday, 26 August 2014, 9:34 am | Tikkun
Editor's Note: The ad below appeared in the New York Times. While I do not agree that the appropriate response to Israel's actions in Gaza is a blanket boycott of Israel (though I do support boycotting firms providing support for Israel's Occupation ... More >>
Israeli Vengeance Violating Torah law and International Law
Monday, 7 July 2014, 4:09 pm | Tikkun
We at Tikkun (who condemned the kidnapping of three Israeli teens several weeks ago, and rejected the suggestion by some on the Left and some in the Palestinian world that this act had to be contextualized to the Occupation–and insisted that acts ... More >>
Presbyterian Divestment - A Jewish Perspective
Monday, 16 June 2014, 5:36 pm | Tikkun
The first time I wore a kippa and talit outside of a synagogue setting was four year ago outside a hotel in downtown Chicago overlooking the Chicago river. I was singing with a group of my colleagues, local Reform cantors, to protest the mistreatment ... More >>
