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... the transcendent, manifested in their interest in Eastern Number I, Winter 1963, pp. 36-56 spirituality, is another; their sympathy and activity on behalf of the Tibetan community, both under occupation and in exile, still another. Many younger Jews have been particularly...

...Everett Gendler Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 Elem ents of a Philosophy for D iaspora Judaism An Introduction to Rabbi Aaron Samuel Tamaret s “The Exile of the Presence and the Presence of the Exile...

..., and colonialism. Ironically and tragically, it is only when we took steps to reclaim our indigeneity that we became colonizers. I want to tell the story of what I — an Israeli Jew in voluntary political exile — see from my particular vantage point. I want to tell the story because in so many self-defined...

... it over. — Bertolt Brecht, translated by Jon Swan The Legend of How the Tao Te Ching Came Into Being on Laotse’s Journey Into Exile When he was seventy and fragile, “Write it down! Dictate it to this boy! the Teacher felt compelled to seek repose, A thing like...

...-exilic and post-textilic. Our late elders wrote Russian as well as Yiddish so we are also post-Cyrillic. By the Babylon turnpike we sad down and wept. By the waters of the Gowanus Canal. Everyone an exile, sits at the edge of the East River, or aches for some lost temple, on a turnpike wall...

..., not only Jews but also Christians and M uslims; brutal­ ly thrown into exile for over two thousand years; often violently persecuted; and then subjected to the inconceivable genocide of the Holocaust. To think that now at last they have returned to their chosen hom e is truly wonderful! Heartfelt...

... of the important reasons he is called upon to lead, for these qualities become a metaphor for a people in exile, the “galut ha-dibbur,” exile of the word, which characterizes the speechlessness, the muteness, of slavery. What transpires over the next 40 years, for both Moses and the people, is emergence from...

..., the weak, and the strangers in our midst. Here we have Isaiah’s and Micah’s vision of the End of Days and world peace. Here is where the cycle of exile and redemption starts and will continue to this day. The final stage of biblical prophecy is represented by prophets like Ezekiel and the Second Isaiah...

.... a descendant of the nation sweetness from the belly of death / —honey Purple, numb brown, mud-red, mauve that was exiled two thousand from the lion’s carcass,” holding on, like —a treasury of bruises. years ago.” Samson after his haircut, to small memo­ At first he can see only black-on-black...

... of the soul of our Sabbath is designed to help us take the things as they are? To do so would be to all people in exile, and its being made recep­ necessary steps to change together. but guarantee you’ve chosen a life of hard­ tive to every inspired idea—through which Once we’ve organized one day...

... development. Israeli irrigation exile is not Zionist mythology. Aerial photographs confirm the mas­ and water management innovations offer hope—and proven tech­ sive desertification and deforestation. Ben Gurion once wrote that in nologies to the hundreds of millions in arid regions whose agricul­...

... March 10,1959- March pril10,2005. A exile in 1959-exile...

... addressed to family and friends? When I am gone who will explain Dante’s politics to my child? Exiled during the war of the Blacks and the Whites, did his writings favor empire...

... a persecuted minority in their own ties as well as the real economic anxieties of white communities. homeland, or perpetually homeless exiles, much as Jews them ­ Obama stressed that we can “address our past without becoming selves had been for centuries before. The other major act of injustice...

... * to anyone who truly wants to understand the Biblical narrative. strategy. Already, in the area of forestry, JN F practices have become The degradation of Palestine during the 2000 years of Jewish a model for international dryland development. Israeli irrigation exile is not Zionist mythology...

... of the letters of the Torah scroll. Moses demanded to The God of the Talmud is also God in Exile—mourning, unable know why, with all of Israel waiting for the Torah, God to end the Exile, living in the brokenness. Gods absence is very was tarrying with this bit of rococo. God replied...