...Robert Thurman Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 YEARS LATE i Happy Birthday Israel by Robert Thurman a i l...

... . “Fereshtini #8” by Siona Benjamin. Poem for Myself for My Birthday It’s coming at me again, damn, like that elephant with its schoonering ears charging in Uganda. We were okay, we thought, in our Rover, so it was a nice mix of scary and thrilling, plus a story to tell— that behemoth, Wow...

... cides w ith G andhi’s birthday, prophets, and in a dramatic trial, Jeremiah was threatened with death (see Jeremiah 26 for now designated the Interna­ the vivid account). In this situation, a member...

.... We can also develop rituals for secular events. How do you mark birthdays, report cards, the the cards, report birthdays, mark you do How events. secular for rituals develop also We can...

... This year on the sixtieth birthday of Israel we do have much much have do we of Israel birthday sixtieth the on year This TIKKUN 81 ...

...”: they hire wedding planners, maids to clean their homes, nannies to nurture their children, party coordinators and caterers for their children’s birthdays. Some prospective parents hire professionals to name their children or go to baby farms in India to hire baby bearers who carry U.S. parents’ fertilized...

... reliable presence of friends, a community bound by the mores of Jewish compassion, as well as their own personal wisdom and generosity — endless offerings of soup and Shabbat dinners, but also the unexpected: a party next door to the house of mourning for Aderet, whose fourth birthday fell three days...

... is not just for Jews—it is interfaith as well as Jewish. This High Holiday workbook is an invitation to all people to join with the Jewish people in using the period from September 28, the evening of Rosh Hashanah (the day of both celebrating the birthday of the Universe and of remembering who we have been...

... Botstein N THE OCCASION OF ISRAEL’S SIX TIETH BIRTHDAY, ALL OF US SHOULD REFLECT ON THE future of Israel by comparing the realities of today with the aspirations that guided the Zionist Omovement for generations in its various forms before 1948. From my point of view, I hope...

... pin on—in his birthday suit, so to speak—he is appealing to all of us to trust that we can come out from behind our wall of coercive images and take the risk of being there for one another as who we really are. And when Stephanopolous and Gibson draw a threatening attention to the fact...

....” And I look forward to walking those old walls stoke some ghastly Armageddon. again, to be in “old Jerusalem” not in a dream but for real. ■ For my fortieth birthday I treated myself to my first visit to Is­ rael. In Jerusalem I walked around the entire wall...

... told me. “We have a board meeting every month where we go over our finances, discuss and solve our problems, as well as celebrate our birthdays.” Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2013 I t’s sad to think that “let the buyer beware” should apply to credit unions, which so many progressives...

... Palestinians continues. As Israel celebrates its sixty-ninth birthday, it has been an occupying power for fifty of those years. And the count continues. At least two generations of Palestinians have grown up in the reality of occupation. I think of my friend Mohammed who was twenty when he taught me Arabic...

... stoke some ghastly Armageddon. again, to be in “old Jerusalem” not in a dream but for real. ■ For my fortieth birthday I treated myself to my first visit to Is­ rael. In Jerusalem I walked around the entire wall of the city. Later Harvey Cox is Hollis Professor o f D...

... would transfer more money into his or her account, plus an additional amount upon the child’s graduation from high school. Upon either graduation from high school or the account holder’s twenty-first birthday, whichever came first, the account holder would have access to the funds to use for college...

... Whose — Birthday Joy to the world need not be an empty promise. Whose B irth ­ will be transmitted through the gift to them; Is It, Anywa^r • An offer to assist with the local festivities in some day Is It, Anyway?\s...

... as an editor, publisher, and literary man-about-town. As Moss approaches his 92nd birthday, the wittily titled Almost Complete Poems brings his poetry to the forefront. The book chronicles a seven-decade career writing poems that are erudite and whimsical, parabolic and plainspoken, obsessed with God...

... slices of birthday cake, a box of powdered milk, some extra cans of com—to share. It takes so little to see God in this world. You just have to open the door.” As Dukes applied...

... of the book, who boiled down the problem of Israel’s trauma in one simple conversation. As Avraham and Rivka drove through the streets of Jerusalem after celebrating what would be her last birthday, she said simply, “Avraham, God probably loves me very much … all my life I was surrounded by love.” Remembering...

... of nonviolence for social change, implying that we should follow we should that implying social for change, of nonviolence have would eighti­ what Capitol the been event at the an honoring eth birthday of Robert F. Kennedy, he spoke eloquently...