.... His books include The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America. Robert Thurman: Eleven Pieces of Advice LEASE INDULG E M E AT T H IS W ORLD-CRUCIAL T IM E TO SPEAK TO YOU VERY BLUNTLY AND URGENTLY, W ITH fierce compassion...

... CULTURE their Palestinian brethren? piece in the evening, it would have been I have seen precious few dance shows in enough for me. my life that hit me in the way that “Deca...

... an accessible and rich sound world. They have a contemporary feeling, with driving rhythms and colorful percussion. And both works incorporate the strong Jewish themes Warshauer explores in most of her compositions. The first piece in the album, Living Breathing Earth , comes in four movements and follows...

... Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2011 In celebration of our anniversary, we asked some of the authors we’ve published over the last quarter-century to share a short piece (either prose or poetry) about the aspect of their thinking, writing, spiritual practice, work, or social activism...

... to paint humans into the world, people responded and she created seventeen pieces in the span of twenty days. The images were put into an exhibition, but Faya soon realized the focus of the project “was about the experience with the people that were involved in the process.” For Faya, the creation...

... events. In fact, most of the authors in the anthology have spent time in prison. One particularly haunting piece, “Dreaming of Baghdad,” is written by Iraqi Kurdish author Haifa Zangana in memory of a heroic friend who was murdered at Abu Ghraib — the same prison where Zangana was tortured and where...

... myth o f Israel’s “perfect offer” at Camp mored fighting vehicles, many with verely criticize Israel’s policies in the David in 2000, and the alleged Pales­ cannons. They had dozens of tanks and territories, but it is not legitimate to tinian refusal to “take yes for an an­ heavy artillery pieces...

...-indigo end of the spectrum. At 182 pages, All at Once is about three times as long as Writers Writing Dying. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux’s publicity notice describes these pieces as “musings,” situated “somewhere between prose poems, short stories, and personal essays.” All of them are unlineated...

... engage in partisan campaigning. Instead we offer wide-ranging analyses of contemporary politics from a spiritual and progressive perspective. As always, we have put some of our best pieces in the print magazine and some on our web magazine site. Don’t miss lively contributions from Sheila Davaney...

... are fragmented as well: “piece of ass,” “breast man,” “leg man.” Better to think of oneself as enjoying a breast, or a thigh, or a rack than the fragmented body parts of slaughtered animals. We might ask, “Why?” Because of the absent referent, no one is seen as being harmed, so no one has...

... in this context? To situate our project in relation to the academic field of consciousness studies, I asked Christopher Holvenstot to write a piece for this issue of Tikkun . Holvenstot is in the vanguard of those creating a holistic understanding of the interweave of life and consciousness/cognition...

..., an volunteer massage project at a women’s one piece left, and for this the dancers were drop-in center, and enjoys territing fo r a American Far East expert who met and ad­ costumed casually in t-shirts or tank tops variety o f publications. Her website is mired Gandhi, wrote, “What was his...

... intellectual concerns. In my view, quite the opposite is true. Who has ever heard of an outstanding piece of scholarship that was not infused with moral passion? Or of a powerful spiritual quest that did not include intellectual clarity?. . . One friend, an Auschwitz survivor deeply concerned about...

... borders) even before talks begin? Isn’t that what Israel in fact did when it returned the Sinai in exchange for a piece of paper? It is amazing that what is so transparently ridiculous for others to accept is precisely what Israel is expected to rush into with open arms. — David Kronfeld, New York...

... the Mexican garage me­ In the shorter poems, the disjointed cultural forgetting. Gibbons asserts the chanics, the Italian owners, and initially the line breaks correspond to the divisions so value of a carefully made poem, as each garrulous old man too, he sees only differ­ many of these pieces...

... into a moment of has enriched us, not by chopping the world painful and transformative spirit, emotion, and action. into little pieces, but by seeing the way in which those little pieces interweave. And (CHANTING) Wyet, we know that scientific knowledge...

... WWW.TIKKUN.ORG TIKKUN 61 CULTURE of Chabon’s nonfiction put out by imagination and invention, to a fabulous McSweeney’s. It is an oblique and rumina­ kind of life.” tive piece, touching variously...