...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...

... called the day down in the language of Abraham and Isaac. At the well my father had only sand to drink, his father drank his own life down, breath by last breath. So when I waken on a pillow of moonlight I take it all, nightmares, daydreams, the stories my children scatter down the...

... just talk with the Grosmaires, I think you’ll want to be involved in this case,” Julie pressed. “Sure,” I said, never expecting to hear from them. Jaded by my past work as a defense lawyer, I dismissed Julie as another wonderful mother holding out an impossible hope. But the very next day, I...

... difference being the times, the clothes, the degree—but the issues don’t change very much. And that is the tradition and purpose of the High Holy Days—to do t’shuvah (returning to our highest self) so we can learn, grow, and transform as individuals and as a society. Othering, scarcity, fear...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...