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...David Gewanter Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 POETRY Body Text “CLOSE COVER BEFORE STRIKING” -Acme Matches Toe speckled with blood...

...Ana Levy-Lyons over the past year , I preached a sermon series on the Torah’s seven days of creation at First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn, NY. In this series I lifted up the images of natural beauty and ecological abundance in this passionate text—a text that is too often claimed...

...ANA LEVY-LYONS Over the past year, I preached a sermon series on the Torah’s seven days of creation at First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn, NY. In this series I lifted up the images of natural beauty and ecological abundance in this passionate text—a text that is too often claimed...

...DARLA SCHUMM As religious communities struggle with oppressive and exclusive texts and metaphors, utilizing both a hermeneutic of suspicion and a hermeneutic of liberation can generate more awareness of the power and effects of metaphors and challenge the attitudes and language that create...

... gious Humanism: a liberal reading of our Finding midrashic texts irrational and by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg moral condition that cracks open the an­ bordering on the unbelievable and the Schocken Books, 2009 cient texts by using the midrash as a heuris­ mythical...

... which comes about when things are put into relationship with one another, is not limited in Jewish tradition. In my own experience of studying classic Jewish texts, I’ve found that they come alive when I look for the relationships and patterns in and between texts, rather than trying, in reductionist...

... the chronicler or that informed and shaped the text. This verse sets forth a pattern recapitulated again and again in Jewish sources. Women’s invisibility at the moment of entry into the covenant is reflected in the content of the covenant which, in both grammar and substance, addresses the community as male...

..., if we apply Cohen’s method to the texts of citied Muslim jurists, we find that they assumed a state infrastructure vastly different from that assumed by rabbinic scholars. Muslim citied scholars assumed a welfare state, wherein citizens gave regular, mandatory taxes that would be used for the purpose...

... a Jewish identity or to say that one is a Jewish poet? What is secular Judaism? And is it, in some circumstances, paradoxically religious? When is the intense scrutiny of texts a secular rather than a religious activity? The proffered answers are worth listening to because this particular group...

... of of ur­ sense a found We well. prepared had We gathering. one in just results concrete such to­ accomplish to hoping we were of what importance the all sensed We before. conference my pleased This peacemaking. of practices specific to point that texts Eisen...

... justice projects, plus ideas about what else should be going on in our communities. This book also discusses how social justice work fits into the larger framework of Judaism. Jacobs encourages readers to study social justice texts deeply rather than merely citing them. She cautions us not to use texts...

.... For example, the most flagrantly anti-Semitic texts— Mein Kampf or Protocols of the Elders of Zion— are available only with great difficulty at some libraries. Libraries keep those books under lock and key in what’s called a “poison closet.” But the task of rooting out the distortions and canards about Jews...

...Laurie Zoloth Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2016 H ere is the picture of the seeker on the spiritual path. A person walks alone, the way is difficult, the terrain dramatic. Without knowing the gender of the person depicted by the text, do we have any doubt that the seeker is male...

... knew I was asking about about asking was I knew he that sure make would I which in text, struck by a curious thought: what...

... of the story of Mary Magdalene. Gospel references and ancient tradition make it clear that she was an important leader in the early church, no less than an apostle. But a 591 ce sermon by Pope Gregory the Great portrayed her as a prostitute by conflating the Lukan text of the woman who anointed Jesus (7:36...

... this sacrilegious thing, and is this passage truly a parting of the ways between Judaism and Christianity? Reading the text backward from later Christian practices and beliefs about the written Torah and its abrogations, interpreters and scholars have found a point of origin, even a legend of origin...