...Abby Caplin Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 Homelessness, the Blue Angels, and the Nightly News Remembering a 1997 Rally at the Presidio on the Day After Yom Kippur (Jewish Day of Atonement...

... children scatter down the arteries of my care. The mind runs on, even under a stone, the mind runs on and on. A new day’s here, with or without the moon. his sighs, all the volumes of his loss – my tiny brother, the peddler, the magician whose hands transformed old shirts to new. Don’t...

... another wonderful mother holding out an impossible hope. But the very next day, I was listening to Kate and Andy Grosmaire tell the story of how they lost their daughter, Ann. It brought tears to my eyes to hear that when Conor’s father walked into the hospital, Andy embraced him. Then Kate shared how...

... trust in the abundance that YHVH promises, they end up distrusting one another and pitting themselves and their sons against one another (an offense for which both peoples’ descendents, Arabs and Jews, are still paying dearly for to this day). Instead of re-grouping, of seeing that they are trying to...

...ANA LEVY-LYONS Over the past year, I preached a sermon series on the Torah’s seven days of creation at First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn, NY. In this series I lifted up the images of natural beauty and ecological abundance in this passionate text—a text that is too often claimed by...

... justifies in a manner that only increases its corrosive nature. It is common to describe this situation as foisted on Israel through the events of the Six Day War in 1967, and in one sense this is correct. The war was not initiated by Israel. And the Occupation was a consequence of that war. Yet this...

...Ana Levy-Lyons over the past year , I preached a sermon series on the Torah’s seven days of creation at First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn, NY. In this series I lifted up the images of natural beauty and ecological abundance in this passionate text—a text that is too often claimed...

... Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 Politics & Society Inter- D ependence Day Celebration How to turn July 4 or other national holidays into a meaningful celebration of what is good in America while...

...Tom Cornell Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 Rethinking Religion Labor Day Sermon by Tom Cornell t ’s L a b o r D...

...C. K. Williams Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 P O E T R Y THE DAY CONTINUES LOVELY With Fear and trembling I studied my Kierkegaard, withSickness unto Death I contem plated with him my...