.... In short, I was already considered a “hippie” by most of my friends. I simply did not realize that all of these ideals are incorporated in the principles of permaculture. Taking a course on permaculture helped to organize my values...

... and Clark. Occupation. What I especially like about Remember Whatever his subject, Chabon the collection is that it features the lions of That which Amalek did to you advances with care, compassion, and Israeli poetry such as Yehudah Amichai, of course, hunger for a truth that goes beyond...

...Or N. Rose Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2011 I t was the final meeting of our course on “ T he Binding of Isaac in Jewish and Christian Traditions.” It was time to descend from the mountaintop after an intensive exploration of this dramatic biblical text and a variety of post-biblical...

... upset by the piece read it as nonfic­ blink, believing, or at least wanting to be­ tion, while Chabon’s defenders framed the lieve, that the worlds he created are real. right to the heart of the matter, dissecting lecture as a meditation on the nature of Of course, the raw materials of nonfic­...

... or as scholar or rabbi in residence at synagogues and churches for a weekend or a week. He has also spoken at many universities, city clubs, community organizations, and religious institutions. Now that he has recovered from cancer, he is available again. Of course, we can’t afford to send him unless he raises...

... on contains a splendid series of elegies and by Jam es Baraz and Shoshana Alexander mindfulness and joy. homages to W illiams’s literary masters, Awakening Joy is based on a course Bantam Books, 2010 among them...

... in furtherance of Zionist goals ever since, we have to understand it as the story, one that is still occurring. The Nakba is history and it’s present for each of us. It’s all of ours. Of course we work to end the Occupation, as swiftly as we are able, but we can’t uproot the policies of Occupation if we...

... as powered and directed by yearning for greater consciousness, love, generosity, complexity, this spiritual aspect of all being. cooperation, playfulness, gratitude, and forgiveness. Of course this I hope you’ll carefully read these essays and allow yourself to is a faith statement in the same way...

... and round without relinquishing. And we learn, many times over, that there are no new gifts given in such resistance. We of course may know this, because the same truth is given in the great insight of Freud that has led to contemporary psychotherapy. The process to health is the acknowledgement...

... them, to talk instead about equality or the separation of Of course, that is exactly my point. church and state. This has been a tragic mistake. God, family, and societal stability all matter more to more Americans than do 2. God Loves Us and Does equality or constitutional norms. Dr. King...

...David Loy Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 JO N KRAUSE JULY/AUGUST 2007 ly, of course, this tends to become: you can never have never can you ly,become: to tends of this course, we get to get even more...

..., the cultural wars that are tearing at the fabric of our society and around the world give pause. Do we need another Bible course? Yes, I can claim, if the course comes to challenge our complacent sureties and pious convic­...

.... The point, of course, is not that we should really forget it, but rather that we need to remember that remembering can be abused—that it is possible to lose all sense of other groups and to create a universal claim for your own particular group. Women have a good case for focusing on their suffering...

... that as of Saturday night, November 4, 1995, Israel became a different place. Of course it is different. Yitzhak Rabin is dead. But evidently most of the people in this country needed a major symbolic event to teach them what had been staring us in the face for a long time: that the poison was just waiting...

... to produce them. The ’90s worsened a situation that had been going on since the late ’70s. As Robert Reich’s fascinating documentary Inequality for All shows, while the costs of living went up, the jobs went overseas; technology eliminated humans. Since at least 1980, the future of the life course...

... of their complicity in contributing to the global ecological crisis, and the current state of denial that is so widespread on the part of most faculty. Freedom is the context-free metaphor used to justify the professor’s right to determine course content and other scholarly interests. Personal...

... politics and global economics in a time of globalization. Of course, global politics must recognize national interests—the real divisions of power. But that does not mean that the political end hallows all means, that the political end also hallows political murder, treachery, even war...