... with the Tikkun worldview gain sufficient power to have influence on a large scale, I want us to be able to address the pressing issues we are decrying without forcing others, including those who are now in positions of power, to accept our solutions. To bring Gandhi into the modern age (given homage here...

.... These genetic testing want to know about. Are you going to buy it? If so, products permit a patient to choose whether or not he or she will you check the box for Alzheimer’s? Do you wants to know the risk from certain diseases. One can choose want to know your future...

... she was in agony, having taken nothing stronger than Tylenol. No doctor I reached that night would make a house-call. She kept moaning, “I want to die.” The next day her aide and I somehow got her to a doctor, who prescribed something so inadequate that she was screaming the next night. The facts blur...

...Miki Kashtan Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 Wanting Fully Without Attachment by Miki Kashtan The origin o f suffering is attachment. - T h e Buddha The Talmud tells us that in the world to come, everyone w ill be called to ac­...

... beckoning Green to a couch in their living room, sat and listened as my words were translated and read aloud. English becoming Arabic. The unknown becoming known. And as they listened, they learned that I was not coming for revenge; that I simply wanted to understand them, to understand Odeh; that I...

...Sherine Kaufman Ultimately, society will continue to churn out addicts by the millions as long as it churns out false Gods. The corporate-owned media do everything they can to make you want what you don’t have, and the corporate-controlled government is, at this very moment, destroying...

... for a lesbian couple to kiss one another Shabbat Shalom?” “Do you want to have a more diverse community? Do you want the gay people who I’m sure are already in your community to feel safe and welcome being out?” These questions tease out the hidden narratives. A rabbi tells me about the distraught...

..., May I have peace in the rest of my life. lived in Israel, I want Israel to survive, to be strong and to be safe. But I carefully separate my sense of family—which for me is tied I want peace right now while I'm still alive. quite strongly to the people of Israel—from my understanding...

... – the most meager skin made magnificent. Beauty’s neither here nor there but deadly and Señor’s ashes still not scattered but carried twice to new cities, X-rayed and checked through airports. “Organs?” “No, ashes.” The formal feeling works backwards from letting go to stupor to great pain. Señor wants...

... * Mourners and those observing Tahrzeit, please rise. n t p m a V f all t h e PRAYERS IN the Jewish liturgy, only one lives inside my mouth. ' T | • Ever since I was ten years old, I have wanted to rise with the other...

... chosen by the people, and the establishment said no, we want our people to run. And you can see the split voting that happened within Fatah in the elections. In Bethlehem for example, for every two candidates who ran for Hamas there were four candidates for Fatah...

... the freedom impulse straight from the Edict of Torda granting religious freedom in Europe in 1568 to the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the liberal movements of the 1960s to Miley Cyrus’ 2013 song “We Can’t Stop”: It’s our party we can do what we want It’s our party we can say what we want It’s...

... the continuation of forms of violence that could be stopped. These images prevent a specific kind of seeing, a specific kind of representation, the representation of the real lives and deaths of farmed animals. They bolster entitlement to consumption. It is understandable that we might want to keep things...

.... They are to be ostracized, demonized, deported. The pendulum swings: we don’t want them here; we can’t live without them. Sometimes this epic romance plays out on a very human scale. Take the story that involved Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Arizona. Running for Congress in 2012, the sheriff was tough...