... abuse, female infanticide, and other brutal practices, many of which take place within families and are still not prosecuted in many regions of the world. Some countries in Southeast Asia do not even have laws against wife beating, though beating a stranger is of course a crime. Even human rights...

...Graeme Taylor Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 SPEC IA L SE C T IO N ON THE EN V IR O N M EN T Humanity at the Crossroads: a Time for Commitment and Action by Graeme Taylor u m a n i t y n o w f a c e s a g l o b a l e m e r g e n c y : i f w e...

... In this luminous passage, we see Zom- midrashic tradition itself—midrash is akey PSYCHOLOGICAL berg setting the table for her book. Her rhetorical component in the rabbinic dis­ DEPTHS OF HUMANITY Bible readings maintain a deft and complex course-some “enlightened...

... and Morocco. But Field Marshall picture is nonsensical, attention must be TUNISIA, 1942: Erwin Rommel successfully withdrew his paid to it, because it’s exactly the kind of HUMANITY AMID Afrika Korps to Tunisia, where the faith-based fantasy that crowds_/acf-based...

... Jesus in Love: at the Cross , Cherry Kittredge , AndroGyne Press , 2008 Defending Humanity , Fletcher George P. Ohlin Jens David , Oxford University Press , 2008 Surprised by God , Ruttenberg Danya , Beacon Press , 2008 The Bridge at the Edge...

... to offer as Judaism with its Ten Commandments. As the German writer Thomas Mann explained after the terrors of National Socialism, these are the “basic instruction and rock of respectable humanity,” indeed the “ABC of human behavior.” And this “ABC of human behavior” must also be applied to global...

... selfishness at the top is also threatening our natural environment. We have reached the point where, by human productivity and ingenuity, a genuinely just and peaceful world is possible, but we can see that the same human capacity can lead to the opposite result. As Terry Eagleton has written: In the long...

.... The willful infliction of pain and murder on other human beings, an act that denies the humanity of the “other,” rightfully evokes outrage and a desire to stop the violence. To the extent that anyone is motivated by this desire, they deserve praise and support. Yet when this motivation leads people...

...Shaiya Rothberg Copyright © 2017 Tikkun magazine 2017 F ew would take issue today with the claim that religious Zionism is the most particularistic and self-centered of contemporary Jewish identities. While many streams of Judaism and Zionism place the well-being of humanity at the center...

...Martha Sonnenberg Copyright © 2017 Tikkun magazine 2017 R eading avivah zornberg’s books requires some effort, and her new book, Moses: A Human Life , is no exception. Zornberg’s books are well worth some effort, because she ultimately speaks to the complexities of the transformative...

... Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World , Moyn Samuel Harvard U. Press , 2018 Copyright © 2018 Tikkun magazine 2018 David Biale, one of the most creative of contemporary historians of the Jewish people and a former contributing editor to Tikkun , has assembled...

... Basic Books , 2013 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2013 In his latest book, Jerome Kagan, an emeritus professor of psychology at Harvard and one of the pioneers of the field of developmental psychology, details the range of factors that shape the human mind, revealing many of the fallacies...

... of the crowning works of his generation of poets. One of the popular ways to dismiss plans for healing and transforming the world is to assert that the distortions we see in the contemporary world are an inevitable outcome of a fixed human nature. In his careful examination of Jewish thought...

... the belligerents seems irrelevant to the parties concerned—the most we can hope for is restoring sanity, especially with regard to mercy and sensitivity toward human life and suffering. However, such a process requires sincere and honest efforts currently unavailable, so it seems the only way to restore...

...DAVID LOY Copyright © 2017 Tikkun magazine 2017 O bviously we are a unique species. Just look around: humans have transformed much of the surface of the earth, remolding it for our own convenience. We have fulfilled God’s injunction in the first chapter of the Bible: “Let us make man...

...Joachim Bauer; Tsvi Blanchard Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 In My Flesh I See God: A Neurobiological Perspective on Being Human by Joachim Bauer and Tsvi Blanchard S THE SEARCH FOR A CARING SOCIETY NAIVE AND MERELY U topian...