... the answer to that question was, “No, I’m not,” I started to get a glimmer of what I meant . My transition story is similar to Ladin’s in many ways — both of us are Jewish and transitioned in our forties while raising young children and in a committed relationship. However, the sociological...

... is a switch from fossil fuels to an economy fueled by solar and wind energy. Lester R. Brown, one of the great pioneers in the science of climate change and its economic consequences, presents a hopeful picture: the energy transition is already beginning. And David C. Korten’s message has always been core...

...Joy Ladin Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 QUEER SPIRITUALITY AND POLITICS A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stern College: Gender Transition and Jewish Ethics by Joy Ladin N 2003, AS A BEARDED, KIPPAH...

... The Hidden Spirituality of Men , Fox Matthew , New World Library , 2008 A Life at Work , Moore Thomas , Broadway Books , 2008 The Transition Handbook , Hopkins Rob , Chelsea Green Publishing , 2008 Israels Vicious Circle , by Avnery Uri , edited...

...Larry Rasmussen Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2014 T he crisis we face is not environmental, it’s civilizational. There are far too many people consuming far too many resources for the planet to bear. As the climate changes, how do we undertake the hard transition from an industrial...

.... In mo­ ments of transition and in places neither inside nor out, Judaism blossoms into ritual, nudges us forward through word, song, and deed. Scholars call these occasions “liminal,” a term from the Latin for “threshold.” To be lim- inal is to be aware of standing on the threshold of two...

... of income inequality that would make a robber baron blush. In a sense, transitioning away from the limitless extraction and profit creation is actually a logical necessity. Our current macro-economy is predicated on the notion that GDP will rise exponentially, that more money will be created to pay...

...: the Institute for Career Transitions ( instituteforcareertransitions.org ). In addition to gathering qualitative data on the plight of the long-term unemployed, the institute invites career-management professionals to provide free career coaching, career counseling, and group meetings for people facing long...

... percent of them say they prefer to live in places with walkable neighborhoods, transit, biking facilities, and a lively urban pulse. Combined with other efforts to cut carbon, will this new urbanist movement shift our energy use quickly enough to avert cataclysmic climate change? Even with the help...

... automotive industry? What if the SUV symbolized the inefficient energy practices of our auto culture that need changing? What if a different hybrid vehicle or mass transit symbol was placed on the altar? What is the relation of this American car tradition to my own Canadian nation, which recently surpassed...

... of communities of queer people comfort­ tone of impatience,” he said. “I’m thinking ‘we want this now’ able with adapting to friends’ transitions from one gender to would be the new catchphrase, if there is something new.” He ob­ another, social circles in which babies are growing up using...

... • Transition all public subsidies for telephone networks to fund infrastructure to bring the benefits of of benefits the bring to infrastructure fund to networks telephone for subsidies all public Transition cable-tele- of the hold the •break to access internet high-speed in market...

... armed struggle. A recent Freedom House study demonstrated that, of the nearly seventy countries that had made the transition from dictatorship to varying degrees of democracy in the previous thirty-five years, only a small minority did so through armed struggle from below or reform instigated from above...

... and factories, and finding new ways to relate to food, forests and, most im­ portantly, each other. It consists of nothing less than weaning ourselves off of fossil liiels and transitioning to a clean energy economy...

... predominate, our bodies respond by expressing traits associated with female bodies; when male sex hormones predominate, our bodies respond by expressing male characteristics. For many, that’s what seems most unnatural about gender transition — our insistence on altering apparently healthy bodies...

... article “Discus­ I felt I was. Once I began to transition, I legislation that protects only against sions on Dharma.” He went on to point out wanted desperately to do the opposite, to discrimination on the basis of sexual orien­ that Hinduism has “a hundred million insist that after all my years...

... followed me through a land unsown.” Time and again, the Torah zeroes in on a character at a moment of norm-defying transition — and time and again, it turns away in boredom when that character has settled into a stable identity, even when that character is as central as Abraham. What did Abraham do...

... i TRANSITION TRIGGERS: higher education; cognitive because it describes well the antithetical relationship between much of this worldview dissonance caused by scriptural contradictions; the power and modernist and traditionalist culture. of science; poverty; allures of modernism...