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...Jill Jacobs MUSLIMS AND JEWS IN AMERICA: COMMONA-LITIES, CONTENTIONS, AND COMPLEXITIES by Aslan Reza Hahn Tapper Aaron J. Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2012 A s I write, twenty states are considering laws that would prohibit courts from...

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When American Jews Were Divided and Weak

Ralph Seliger

Tikkun (2012) 27 (3): 45–49.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-1629200

Published: 01 August 2012

...Ralph Seliger Jews Without Power: American Jewry During the Holocaust by Hurwitz Ariel MultiEducator, Inc. , 2011 Millions of Jews to Rescue: A Bergson Group Leader’s Account of the Campaign to Save Jews from the Holocaust by Merlin Samuel , edited by Medoff Rafael...

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To Blacks and Jews: Hab Rachmones

James A. McPherson

Tikkun (2016) 31 (3): 55.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-3628428

Published: 01 August 2016

... it obvious that Blacks and Jews have never been the fast friends we were alleged to be. The best that can be said is that, at least since the earliest decades of this century, certain spiritual elites in the Jewish community and certain spiritual elites in the Black community have found it mutually...

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Sifting Through Assimilation’s Wreckage to Offer Jews Redirection

Raphael Cohen

Tikkun (2014) 29 (1): 47–51.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2394497

Published: 01 January 2014

... most comprehensive engagement with issues of Jewishness to date. In it, he thoroughly explores his own family’s relationship to the evolving status and perception of Jews in U.S. life, the complex legacy of Jewish American artists and entertainers in the twentieth century, the charged terrain of black...

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The Ethical Challenge for Diaspora Jews

Tirzah Firestone

Tikkun (2011) 26 (1): 38.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2011-1024

Published: 01 January 2011

... that dominated my discussions with Israelis were: It is just a chain reaction. You should only know what they have done to us; and Why are you here? Go home and tend to your own country’s problems. Both of these are justifiable comments. But I am a Jew, and even though I have chosen to live in the Diaspora...

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Crusade and Jihad/The Story of the Jews/Jumping at Shadows/On New Terrain

Tikkun (2018) 33 (3): 73.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-7194312

Published: 01 August 2018

... The Story of the Jews , Schama Simon , HarperCollins , 2017 On New Terrain , Moody Kim , Haymarket Books , 2017 Copyright © 2018 Tikkun magazine 2018 William Polk’s Crusade and Jihad attempts to tell the story of what he calls “the thousand year...

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Angry Jews on the Freedom Bus

MARK LeVINE

Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 9–10.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2809954

Published: 01 November 2014

... on the bus. The internal debate within the American Jewish community about the Occupation is becoming increasingly heated. As Al Jazeera senior political commentator Marwan Bishara points out, American Jews rank as both the biggest opponents and the biggest supporters of Palestinian rights...

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The Terms on Which Jews and Muslims Join Western Civilization

Sander L. Gilman

Tikkun (2012) 27 (1): 13–63.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2012-1007

Published: 01 January 2012

...Sander L. Gilman Like Jews in eighteenth-century Germany, some Muslims in Canada have, since September 11, embraced self-deprecating humor, perhaps in a similar bid for acceptance in a society where they face discrimination. The result is a sitcom on the Canadian channel CBC entitled Little...

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Sarah and Hagar: How Reimagining the Torah Story That Jews Around the World Read on the First Day of Rosh Hashanah Can Empower All of Us to Action

CAT J. ZAVIS

Tikkun (2016) 31 (4): 17–21.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-3676830

Published: 01 November 2016

... the generations of Jews who treasured these texts even as they re-read them in light of their own developing understanding. And we can look at it from the perspective of what lessons we can take from it—what we can extract from its meaning for how to live and understand life today—undoubtedly placing our own spin...

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Nobody Home: Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places Human Nature & Jewish Thought Jews and Genes: The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought Balancing on a Planet: The Future of Food and Agriculture the More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible Capitalism: A Ghost Story/Restoring the Soul of the World: Our Living Bond with Nature’s Intelligence

Tikkun (2015) 30 (3): 2.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-3147562

Published: 01 August 2015

... but simultaneously insists on our human limitations: “We are holy — and capable of unimaginable evil.” Holding both, he suggests, is one of the great strengths of the Jewish tradition. Some genetic diseases are more prevalent among Ashkenazic Jews than among the general population, largely because Jews were...

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The Colors of Jews

Melanie Kay/Kantrowitz

Tikkun (2007) 22 (3): 79.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2007-3027

Published: 01 August 2007

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The Planet-Saving Mitzvah: Why Jews Should Consider Vegetarianism

Daniel Brook

Tikkun (2009) 24 (4): 29–32.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2009-4012

Published: 01 November 2009

...Daniel Brook Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 The Planet-Saving Mitzvah: Why Jews Should Consider Vegetarianism by Daniel Brook U D A ISM HAS TO BE A DAILY S P IR IT U A L AND SOCIAL PRA C TICE, NO T SIM PLY A Cleaning cucumbers...

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