I have left it to others to give well-deserved tributes to Tikkun magazine. As for me, I only signed on to be publisher because I knew the editor—my brother, Michael. It turned out to be a very smart choice.
Michael and I are both writers, though 180 degrees different in our approaches. I am a comedy writer—predominantly sitcoms in La La Land; my brother is the intellectual one. And nothing proves that more clearly than Tikkun magazine. Tikkun is a cerebral, logical, scholarly magazine. I am always looking for the accompanying Cliff Notes.
We came from a very political family. Whereas I could usually see the sunny side to locusts and vermin, Michael was tortured by the world’s injustices and his inability to instantly right them. His goals have always outpaced the reality of his society. The class revolution Michael was expecting in the sixties simply didn’t pan out. So...
