... Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 The decorative mosaic adorning the ancient synagogue floor is innocent of its future. Good luck , it means to say, or my swastika hands miming perpetual motion wish you everlasting peace and prosperity. And what coincidence sends my son running...

...LB How might the ability to see analogies between others’ traumas and our own make us more able to see ourselves as part of an interconnected community? Downtown Vancouver emerges from foliage in this photo taken by a participant in the WISH Drop-in Center for survival sex workers. ...

... that patriarchal assumptions could be put on the defensive, just as only twenty years ago it was wishful thinking to believe that gays could gain the right to marry in some states. The biggest contribution the rest of the world can make toward achieving peace in the Middle East is to work to transform...

... victims of our past.” It is in this spirit that I wish to address the Pales- on the part of Israel has been the forty-year occupation of the West tinian/Israel situation/tragedy. Bank and Gaza, combined with draconian measures that inflict col­ Jews have historically...

..., the desire might seem. A wish to say the Kad­ Freud a skepticism of the political judg­ twice-divorced defender of abortion and dish might seem to carry inside of it a wish ment of the masses. “There is no fellowship gay rights is staking out the patriarchal po­ for my father to have died. But in truth...

... was It Your October letter to Hindus wishing them a joyous Diwali” as the festival approached gave recognition gave recognition Diwali” festival approached as joyous the a them wishing Hindus to letter Your October...

... paws. His depressed. This moment is not sad. This th at individual’s unique needs and fur already knows the feeling of the first is a day for us to remember that we have wishes. snows and of autumn air turning crisp been given everything we need. We do One...

... hold the dew before nightfall, the cloud before rain; Kiss us as we wish a lover to kiss us, without forethought or purpose. Light into the treetops, tear the resistant leaves away; Measure us, who crush them to mulch, by our own season. Not as entire emptiness, but emptiness dreaming of form...

... a twenty-to- be created to help West Bank settlers move back to Israel if they thirty-year plan for moving toward a Middle Eastern common wish to remain Israeli citizens and to help Palestinians move to market and the eventual establishment of a political union Palestine if they wish...

... plications of Rabbi but powerless to interfere with natural and great discoveries in science require Bradley Arison’s thinking in “G-d is laws, do we wish to pray to such a G-d the great minds of creative human be­ Becoming: Consolation in the Face of for comfort and emotional...

....” Death and life, speech and silence, converge, and it is in this state that one would wish to die, when die one must. The poem ends with an exhortation, addressed perhaps to the poet himself but also to the reader: “Keep dying! Keep writing it down.” This imperative connects the tension between fatal...

... father who can serve as a bulwark against weakness, helplessness, and instability is another version of the wish for a glass that will not break, for a father that will not falter. Submitting to such an authority is a way of paralyzing oneself while still feeling a part of something powerful...

... these people had Leviticus, and they wish to pray together versity. He wrote Holiness in Words: A. J. Hes- no choice but to make the choices that with the congregation. At this point I chel’s Poetics of Piety and co-authored with the they did. Perhaps, in spite of their cross­ wish I could ask every...

.... His depressed. This moment is not sad. This th at individual’s unique needs and fur already knows the feeling of the first is a day for us to remember that we have wishes. snows and of autumn air turning crisp been given everything we need. We do One...

... a reactionary aspect to the mentality of some proponents of a return to basics are correct. Encoded in the conservatives’ call for a new traditionalism in education is a wish for schools to prepare youngsters for jobs and roles of a bygone era, thereby to recapture that time and its cultural norms...

... of the Jewish tradition, and m ust be rejected ceived from great thinkers from across the world. Due to space even as we develop a compassionate attitude toward the Jewish considerations we were unable to include all of the articles in the people of Israel. For those who wish to see Judaism survive...

... Mother in his final days, and now wishes wishes now and days, final in his Mother out Turns lurking fjord. the been across just had nearby, who man picious” cur­ My long. so for me haunting been I Stella, and Mickey little our to father...

... up their Israeli citizenship and abide by decisions of the Palestinian courts. A resettlement fund will be created for the following purposes: a) to help West Bank settlers move back to Israel if they wish to remain Israeli citizens, and b) to help Palestinians move from the lands of their dispersion...

... that will protect you.” I think they have some legitimate concerns, but that in some fundamental way the position is mistaken. The path to security for Jews (or any other identity group) is a path that requires us to be as caring for others as we wish them to be for us and as committed to their liberation as we...