... economy can be organized to reduce self-blame and empower workers.] empower and self-blame reduce to can be organized economy for as a Ofer Sharone columnist come wel­ to to delighted We stress. buffer are use ability social to supports better and health, of sense better power...

... that the obligation to do justice is derived relationally, and rests upon a prerequisite obligation to perceive a likeness to self in the other. Taken together, these obligations comprise a fundamental normative principle in Judaism. If this is so, however, why has Judaism consistently estranged and excluded its most...

... local problems can never fully reach. John Ehrenreich tells us “how money, power, and the pursuit of self-interest have imperiled the American dream.” Moving beyond the economistic rhetoric that was both the strength and limitation of Bernie Sanders’s campaign, Ehrenreich challenges the worldview...

... to frame how the work will be read. Three recent debut collections by young poets undertake different ways of representing the self within their poetry and using it as a tool to comment on pressing contemporary issues. In Look , Solmaz Sharif offers a defiant meditation on America’s military actions...

... and perpetuates further cycles of violence. Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 O nly the self liberated from selfishness can bring about the new earth. Selfish selfhood is a prison. Our prejudices and attachments to wealth and power form the walls of this prison. Our activism will never succeed unless...

... and the career counselor. But I have recently come to realize that this work can also be damaging: I see now that for years I unknowingly perpetuated self-blame among those who, despite their best efforts, remain unemployed or underemployed. Ofer Sharone’s book Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching...

... The Self Awakened , Unger Roberto Mangabeira , Harvard U. Press , 2007 Buddha is as Buddhadoes , Das Lama Surya , Harper San Francisco , 2007 Take This Bread , Miles Sara , Ballantine Books 2007 Yiddishe Mamas , Winston-Macauley Mamie , Andrews...

... themselves for everything that has happened. This self-blame permeates all of our perceptions and teaches us to accommodate to a world very different than the one we actually want. People suffering from...

... of individualism, materialism, and selfishness that serves the status quo. Our schools teach us that wars, inequality, domination of the many by the few, competition, and unrestrained self-interest are inevitable realities. Gradually we learn that any ideas that challenge the reigning worldview of competition...

...Bradley Shavit Artson Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 Rethinking Religion Clay in the Potter s Hands Human Evolution in a Self-Creating World by Bradley Shavit Artson N T H E W A N IN G DAYS OF T H E K IN G...

... the West has been social revolution; the mercy o f the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both. —Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold...