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...Jamey Hecht Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 T POETRY Grossman’s Tooth One day Grossman’s upper right front tooth fell out...

... solutions to the horrendous problems and threats that we must face in life. W hen he rejected the kind of justice that prescribes an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, and taught instead that we m ust return good for evil and overcome evil with good (Matthew 5:38-42) he wasn’t fitting...

..., tooth for a tooth.” Like so many others, my Judaism was largely found in remembering those who perished in the Holocaust and the felt sense to keep Israel secure. Israel has succeeded at creating a Jewish homeland. We no longer truly debate its right to exist. It exists, not easily, but it’s here...

... by raising outstanding questions such as these: What does it mean to love our enemies? What does it mean to return good for evil? And when Jesus in the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3–12) tells us to be merciful and then goes on to reject the moral principle of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth in favor...

... helped the officer carry her to the sidewalk. She had stagnated in that indefinite agelessness of poverty, where what we perceive and measure is the suffering rather than the years. She had just one tooth in her mouth and it was ugly and gray. But like so many Chileans who have survived Pinochet’s...

... school? I have held ‘last carry” ceremonies with each of our children. Around age five six,or Around they of children. each our with carry” ‘last ceremonies held I have school? day of last the on do special you something Is there child loses a tooth? your when family in your...

... WWW.TIKKUN.ORG MARCH/APRIL 2010 who was murdered when she surprised a heroin addict ransacking her home for syringes. Venessa Valerio had been diabetic. She was agiowing girl with a winning, gap-toothed smile and hair that fell to the back of her knees. She was the second...

... cautious Jewish leaders were correct in keeping their channels open to the administration — but they should not have fought the Bergson group tooth-and-nail, even to the point of attempting to have them deported or drafted. In the end, there probably needed to be both an inside game as pursued...

... was discovered late in her life, and she died at the age of ninety-seven in Warsaw in 2008. One of Jesus’ most famous sayings after the Beatitudes in what is called the “spiritual Torah” of Christiantity in Matthew 5–7: Matthew 5:38–41: “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth...

... entitled Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Our Movement Is Our People . 11 A profound and resonant guide, this work outlines ten principles of disability justice that are widely applicable to all justice-loving, compassionate people. One of the ten core principles espoused in the primer...