... learned that taking responsibility and making amends is possible for me only when I have done enough personal and collective healing to no longer feel like I am moving through the world solely as a victim. As I face my past, grieve my losses, and come to terms with my own power, I am able to face the ways...

... constant need for gratification at the increasing peril of the biosphere. A pain-aversion cycle gets formed: mindless consumption destabilizes the biosphere, which creates painful feelings of loss that we mask with further consumption. In addition to supporting defenses and behaviors like addiction...

... and understood the power of the Mourner’s Kaddish to make her losses visible. Every day during morning prayers, I watched her praise God’s name while we fidgeted on plastic chairs, a twrpi o»i dumbstruck supporting cast. Until I heard...

... at the wrong time.” This statement is a spiritual imperative and the central challenge of the book: How do we love in the face of inevitable loss? How can we convince ourselves that it’s worth the pain to love what we cannot keep? As a chaplain, Reece is helpless to save the newborns, but at the end...

... OF EXISTENCE AS A JEW ISH STATE, I FIND MYSELF STUMBLING. PART OF w hat I find so difficult is th e com plicated and contradictory em otions th a t m ark m y ongoing engagem ent w ith Is­ Arael. A nd right now, w hat I feel m ost profoundly is grief—I m ourn th e loss of a set o f Z ionist...

...Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi Shadows in Winter: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Fishbane Eitan , with a foreword by Leon R. Kass Syracuse University Press , 2011 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2012 As I prepare to take my leave of my mother and Eitan’s “Nanny” in these dark days...

... harrowing experiences and found the courage and strength to begin life again despite enormous losses. Grenimann makes it clear that the Jews had to choose from among a very limited range of options after the war. Eva and Yanosh choose to start a family, and Eva’s pregnancy is a major element...

... too many trees and too many forests it causes loss of habitat, deforestation, drought, climate change, temperatures rise, displacement, gentrification, loss of green space, loss of oxygen, I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe! What is it like to be a Black Man in the United States in the twenty-first...

... votes from Deficit Inattention Disorder. As for the being counted fairly. Chi-ting, it is called. bailout plan, unfortunately most of the Dear Saul: The sad loss I refer to goes far deeper perpetrators have already bailed out Thank you...

... a of the popular songs written by Jewish thing if it ain’t got that swing.” Lehman has songwriters,” celebrating the songs’ result­ that swing.* ing “‘black-and-blue’ edge, their foretaste of loss...

... and It was beautiful. loss are actually something quite different. We think they make us appear weak, helpless, and vulnerable, and most of us don’t want to go there. We think, perhaps, they show a lack of How...

... describes in this book that may offer us one of the key entryways into a livable future. Think Like a Commoner provides a coherent framework that freshly illustrates the enormous losses that have accompanied the transition to capitalism and its continued entrenchment. It does so by making visible...

... to a less expensive education at the nursing school four blocks from home. The loss of her younger brother to cancer made her a fellow sufferer as well as a healer: The year after my brother died I tried to stay in the sphere of the living, but at the cancer hospital, young boys kept lining up in the hall...

...”? Walzer explains that this doctrine “justifies not only whatever is necessary to win the war, but also whatever is necessary to reduce the risk of losing, or simply to reduce losses or the likelihood of losses in the course of the war.” However, the overall number of casualties and losses cannot...

... a solute was the source of more suffering. He congregation, that they were seen, that vanquished kingdom, rarely took a fixed position, often contra­ their loss was witnessed as a real loss. Walk like a tusker in the woods alone. dicting himself and changing his teachings...

.... In the new poem, the loss is of a different kind: the immigrant’s hopeful dream of the future, which “they believed … they taught diligently / onto their children, / who taught it to me.” The speaker reflects to her sons that she “can’t give [them] that.” Loss of chosen-ness, loss of immigrant hope: Bloch...

... man’s decline worsened until he was no longer responsive. He was never returned to the loving community that mourned his loss. Underlying these interventions is the same cultural arrogance that has repeatedly led to the cultural and physical genocide of Native American communities. When a Native...

... privately and publicly for the loss of each species and each habitat. We should grieve for the people whose lives are already being ruined by rising waters and drought and polluted lands. We cry too little given the magnitude of the losses we face. We must not really realize it’s happening. Instead, we...