Publication: Tikkun Magazine

First Reported May 26 2012 - Updated May 26 2012 - 1 Documents

How students are painting Montreal red

On Wednesday night in Montreal, we shared a long dinner with student organizers, discussing everything from police tactics in Montreal and New York to the necessity of an anti-racist and anti-colonial framework for our movements. Our hosts noticed that, ... [ Published May 26 2012 by Tikkun Magazine ]

Entities: Quebec, Montreal, protest, Mobilization, Repression

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Racist Mob, Incited by Israeli Leaders, Attacks African Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Tel Aviv

Southern Tel Aviv is home to a number of blighted and struggling neighborhoods – areas where Israel’s income inequalities and economic disparities are acutely on display in the shadow of the city’s high rises. And it is here – in the neighborhood of Shapira ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Tikkun Magazine ]

Entities: Refugees, Consolidation (IL), Israel

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Torah Commentary: Perashat Bamidbar

Bamidbar 1:1- And Gd spoke to Moshe in the Sinai Desert within the Ohel Moed (the Appointed Tent) on the First of the Second Month in the Second year from the Exodus from Egypt saying…This week we begin the fourth of the books which comprise the Torah. ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Tikkun Magazine ]

Entities: Torah, Midrash, Census, Tribe

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Afghans Search for Realistic Alternatives

Those who know the Reach And Teach story know that a significant reason we do what we do today is because of the experience we had in Afghanistan in 2002. Having witnessed the horrible destruction from 30 years of civil war coupled with the massive bombing ... [ Published May 23 2012 by Tikkun Magazine ]

Entities: nonviolent, Afghanistan, nonviolent resistance, Mobilization

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Amnesty International

Tom Block: An Activist Artist Who Infiltrates and Inspires

While artists do not change the world by merely raising awareness of a social issue, their activist art can mobilize people and resources around a cause.Tom Block, a witty and eloquent artist and writer based in Silver Spring, Maryland, revealed this ... [ Published May 23 2012 by Tikkun Magazine ]

Entities: Judaism, Amnesty International, Silver Spring (United States)

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated May 22 2012 - 1 Documents

Unitarian Universalism and the Story of Forrest Church

BEING ALIVE AND HAVING TO DIE: THE SPIRITUAL ODYSSEY OF FORREST CHURCHSt. Martin’s Press, 2011What do you get when you cross a Jehovah’s Witness with a Unitarian Universalist? Someone who knocks on your door and asks what you believe.How do you drive ... [ Published May 22 2012 by Tikkun Magazine ]

Entities: Forrest Church, Unitarian Universalism, Religion, Humanism, Ronald Reagan

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated May 22 2012 - 1 Documents

Prisoner of the Deep

A book that contains a single short story carries a particular promise, and a risk—the story, we think on picking it up, had better be good. These expectations are only heightened when the title of the lone story seems to comment on the slenderness of ... [ Published May 22 2012 by Tikkun Magazine ]

Entities: Joseph Roth, Fake, Brutality, Thomas Hobbes

First Reported May 19 2012 - Updated May 19 2012 - 1 Documents

Why Republicans Are Loaded for Medi-Bear

Crossposted from the Rio Arriba Community Health Council Blog.To the average American working outside of health administration, the anti-Medicare crusade waged during the primary by the always entertaining but rarely sensible crop of Republican presidential ... [ Published May 19 2012 by Tikkun Magazine ]

Entities: Medicare, Charles Grassley, Medicaid, Obamacare, Paul Clement

First Reported May 18 2012 - Updated May 18 2012 - 1 Documents

Why the Occupy Movement Should Address the Need for Educational Reforms

A major step in healing the injustices being challenged by the Occupy Movement is to understand that the conceptual roots of today’s injustices can be traced to the long tradition of mis-education that has dominated the West since the rise of the Industrial ... [ Published May 18 2012 by Tikkun Magazine ]

Entities: Occupy Movement, Mutual Support, Reformism

First Reported May 17 2012 - Updated May 17 2012 - 1 Documents

Weekly Torah Commentary: Perashat Behukotai- Walk This Way

Here we are, at the close of the book of Vayikra, “Leviticus”, the Book of Holiness, concerned primarily with what was intended to be the highest service, that of the Temple, the sacrifices, and the priesthood. However, as the Bet Yaakov points out, this ... [ Published May 17 2012 by Tikkun Magazine ]

Entities: Torah, Baal Shem Tov, Shema, mitsvah, Juneau (Alaska, United States)

First Reported May 17 2012 - Updated May 17 2012 - 1 Documents

Compassion: Annals of Online Dating

When packing for online dating world, be sure to bring along plenty of compassion.Having chronicled my adventures in online dating in my blog series, I’ve become an object of curiosity to certain readers. They are waiting for my positive orientation toward ... [ Published May 17 2012 by Tikkun Magazine ]

Entities: Vulnerability, Coffee, Jascha Heifetz

First Reported May 16 2012 - Updated May 16 2012 - 1 Documents

We Are Not Here For Ourselves: Alan Blueford, Protocol, and Black Life

On May 6, three young black men were waiting for a ride when Oakland police officers, out responding to another incident, approached the teens with guns drawn alleging that they “believed the young men had a concealed weapon.” When Alan ran for safety, ... [ Published May 16 2012 by Tikkun Magazine ]

Entities: Oakland (California, United States), Audre Lorde Project, protest

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"This season, while we count the omer, we should re-educate ourselves about the hazards of meat production" the authors write. Credit: Creative Commons/Farm Sanctuary

Lag B’Omer & Vegetarianism: Making Every Day Count [Tikkun Magazine - May 09 2012]

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