...Ashley Bates “Fiction just has this extraordinary power to transport people and to make them able to understand other worlds because of the emotional connection that it provides,” says Dabbagh. Fahmida Riaz, a Pakistani writer of feminist poetry featured in Tablet & Pen, agrees...

... they marched with babies and men of good heart they rallied they returned to their homes but the king was still there—the king still sat on his throne of money —with a nod to “Paradise Lost,” Book II A stroke of the pen what good what harm a stroke of the pen like a twist of the arm...

...Richard Silverstein With an Iron Pen: Twenty Years of Hebrew Protest Poetry , Edited by Nitzan Tal Back Rachel Tzvia , Excelsior Editions , 2009 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 CULTURE compares to the voyage of Lewis...

..., as if in sacrificial supplication. Ranchers skillfully sliced and sawed their way through this animal. Their charge was to excise a perfectly intact hide. Sending Barbed Wire into an alien pen to procure her meals under Jacob-esque guise was not easy. Sue had to be left alone to sniff the skinned carcass of her...

...Mark LeVine Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli Palestinian Conflict , by Dunsky Marda , Columbia University Press , 2008 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 CULTURE The question...

..., and calligraphic pen strokes that recall the hooks and dashes in Dickinson’s fascicles. Readers new to Hillman or used to poetry that’s prone to fewer lane changes in case, tense, and attention will need to patiently let Hillman’s hunger unfold over the course of the collection. She does not proffer easy...

..., and diligently in­ pression apprehend pure evil—human be­ find yourself an Amalek, tones his alphabetical spells, know­ havior that is devoid of humanity? What call Amalek whomever you want ing full well the history of golems: feeble words from a poet’s pen do justice to to do to him what Amalek did...

... called “the most important movement in the world.” Standing tall at five feet one inch, Paley expressed determination and purpose through her bearing as well as her speech. Called a “Jewish prophet” by one of her fellow members of PEN, she insisted on incorporating the death-sound of “Chernobyl...

...Admiel Kosman Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2012 I and my imaginary lover hover above the roofs of the Jewish village. Above the courtyards, dairy barns, animal pens. Above the awnings of the chicken coops. Amid smells and clucking, cold air and wind muss her imaginary hair, soft...

... of surviving captivity. The SERE program’s chief psychologist, Col. Morgan Banks (who later served on the APA’s PENS Ethics Task Force), was involved in training BSCT (or “Biscuit”) teams in Guantanamo...

... magazine. After graduating in 1925, he found some success submitting humorous articles and illustrations to different magazines, including Judge, The Saturday Evening Post, Life, Vanity Fair, and Liberty, using his pen name, Dr. Seuss. During the Depression, Geisel made his living drawing ads...

..., suggests a character in the toward the conflict, and toward the Middle PENS AND SWORDS: HOW THE AMERICAN East more broadly. It should be required book...

.... The stillness and safety of the psych ward gave me the space to write the pain out of me, to put down the razor and pick up a pen. I put down the razor. I picked up a pen. I inked my way toward repairing the ruins my life had become. It was a process of discovering. Each time I wrote, I found...

... of choice was often the vilification of the Prophet and the Qur’an. As Minou Reeves has shown in Muhammad In Europe: A Thousand Years of Western Myth Making , from the medieval period through the Enlightenment and beyond, there has been no shortage of pens ready to dishonor, denigrate, and (from the Muslim...

... pen y o u r w in e c u p w id e h ig h as th e ro o f o f y o u r h ouse a n d w e lco m e th e ra in . — R o d g e r K am enetz JULY/AUGUST 2008...

... they buried Torahs in rusty milk cans erator in Washington, D.C. These are discrete items; with keepsake diamonds, eyeglasses, fountain pens. whereas how the passage of time felt as the soldiers strangled him is a continuum of infinite pain...

..., so I’m at it again with a pad and a pen and it’s time we started acting like it seize the levers of power some things deserve to dissolve and and the last shall be first and vice-versa globalize liberation, be the change...

... gather in Marx’s hands, and shift along his body. A time when skull-lumps were measured, when hot bottles pressed to the skin sucked out disease. The mind, its offices and strong-rooms, littered with stories. The tongue, restless in the mouth; the fingers grip the pen like a spike...

...? the champ freestyle the my own lyrics.By I Chisholm. penning age was Shirley nine, X, and why hip-hop? and sometimes battle too. I met a local DJ who had access to some abandoned buildings in buildings access a Itoo. had local...

.... And where I live on the 48th parallel in France (about the same latitude as Duluth), thick river valley clouds turn the days still shorter and darker. What could be more appropriate than that with the scrawl of a photo-op pen these presidential hands would soon after make it legal for certified madmen...