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..., Bewilderments: Reflections on the Book of Numbers , she reminds us that the Hebrew name for this book of Torah is “Bamidbar,” “in the desert,” and that the word “midbar” contains within its Hebrew letters the word for speech, “dibbur.” She develops the theme that it is in the desert, during their wanderings...

...No More Deaths/Hannah Hafter Volunteers provide basic medical aid to migrants injured while crossing the desert. ...

...ORAN B. HESTERMAN Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2016 Library of Congress T he term “food desert” captured the public imagination from the moment it entered the conversation. From Main Street to the White House, it provided an evocative shorthand for the messy realities of poverty...

... p lan ted circles of pow erful d esert herbs. These guests to the official opening of the Tel Sheva Desert Medicine Site kneel, rub leaves...

...—there was no movement, no support for their alternative lifestyle—and so drawing on the hierarchical power afforded her as Abraham’s first wife and the cultural mores of the time, Sarah tells Abraham to send Hagar and Ishmael out into the desert—into a dry morass. Out in that land, there seems to be no care, just...

..., newly liberated but still fearful Hebrews who were wandering in the desert. For us churchgoers, the manna story was a lovely and quaint Sunday School tale of God’s miraculous provision, as well as a prototype for Jesus’s institution of the Eucharist. But we would do well to take a deeper look at its...

... constructed city. First is the sunshine. There is lots of it on “the playa,” an ancient Black Rock Desert lakebed that is a flat and lifeless alkali expanse prone to severe dust storms. This is the site to which over 50,000 people bring all they need to temporarily construct Black Rock City, which...

... trusting without cactus spines coming from inside our skins. No more sand blowing between kisses. In a promised land we are not made in the desert’s image. We do not think...

... ramping up the economic growth machine again but moving toward a different kind of economy, an economy that Unjust Deserts: How The Rich Are places human needs, respect for community, and ecological sustainability ahead of GDP Taking OurCommon...

... apparition that finds its double in our memory Is it worth it, just so I can write: and lets us know when something is our own— M y bee-eaters, M y date-palms, M y dazzling mirage o f desert...

..., Dov and Shula Karlinsky, who were among the eight people killed August 18, 2011, when Arab gunmen crossed into southern Israel from the Egyptian desert and launched a series of attacks against Israelis. Viki Jan mourns the death of her parents, Dov and Shula Karlinsky, who were among the eight...

... the desert thousands of years ago. Jews later camped in them outside the Temple in Jerusalem, offering the first fruits of their harvest to God. “roll like a m ighty river to carry our desire to transform vacant army housing to help homeless people, many of whom are veterans of past wars. Activist...

...Anna Rubin Living Breathing Earth Navona Records, 2011 Album by Meira Warshauer Streams in the Desert Albany Records, 2007 Album by Meira Warshauer Copyright © 2012 Tikkun magazine 2012 W ho knew that by 2012 the world of classical music would be so wonderfully eclectic...

...Vertumnus ( 4sightfoto.com ) Art installations like this “Dust City Diner” — a 1950s-style eatery flawlessly recreated amid the dust devils of the Black Rock Desert — add to the festival’s surreal atmosphere. Installations range from a giant vagina through which one can be “reborn...

... r a i s e d , h a s a s p e c i a l r e l a t i o n s h i p w i t h t h e S t a t e o f Israel. Despite the thousands of miles between us, we share so m uch—connections of cul­ Lture and commerce, and ties o f blood and family. We are people who have made our deserts...

... on the Armenian genocide; its showpiece was a visit to Syria’s Der Zor Desert, the site of one of the largest mass killings of the past century—400,000 Armenians are said to have perished there. (In The Burning Tigris , Balakian calls Der Zor “the epicenter of death.”) The sections that detail Balakian’s journey...