https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Tikkun. daily 1 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 21 (2006) through Vol. 33 (2018) (with gaps in vol. 24) Latest Articles: Tikkun TWO Project MUSE® Tikkun 2164-0041 0887-9982 Latest articles in Tikkun. Feed provided by Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710223 <p></p> This has been a difficult period for all of us spiritual progressives (whether secular, militant atheists, or religious progressives) who seek a world of love and justice. The dismantling of environmental protections for the earth, the dramatic reduction in support for the poor while simultaneously reducing taxes on the super-rich, the escalation of the assault on refugees (already dramatically increased in the Obama years, but now including separation of children from their parents in a cruel and irresponsible way), the militaristic rhetoric and attempt to legitimize nuclear weapons as a tool for the U.S. getting its way in the world, the rise of quasi-fascist forces in Europe&#x2014;these are just the tip of the iceberg ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall Don't Let the Light Go Out 2018-11-29 text/html en-US Don't Let the Light Go Out 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 53478 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710224 <p></p> We can express our righteous moral outrage with compassion and empathySeveral months ago, after a dramatic mobilization of outrage by people across normal political boundaries, the Trump administration claimed to have stopped having children being ripped from from the arms of their refuge-seeking parents. Parents do not carry their children across vast, treacherous lands, not knowing what lies ahead, leaving behind their lives, other family members, and community unless they have no other choice. And yet this basic truth seems to be lost on this administration and unfortunately many others in our country. In response to emails I sent out encouraging people to join local actions opposing this inhumane policy, I ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall Prophetic Empathy 2018-11-29 text/html en-US Prophetic Empathy 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 19848 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710225 <p></p> We publish here the first chapter of Tikkun editor-at-large Peter Gabel&#39;s brilliant new book, The Desire for Mutual Recognition: Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self (Routledge Press 2018). Peter&#39;s book proposes a visionary new social theory that places the conflict between the desire for a loving world and the legacy of fear of the other that has conditioned us at the heart of social and historical dynamics. The excerpt here should be read as an introduction to a work that ultimately addresses the foundations of law, the economy, politics, and the nature of social movements, including the tendency of social movements to undermine themselves. The social-spiritual activism that Peter ultimately ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall Desire for Mutual Recognition 2018-11-29 text/html en-US Desire for Mutual Recognition 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 18690 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710226 <p></p> From its inception in 1986, Tikkun has worked to articulate a &#x22;big idea&#x22;&#x2014;a vision grounded in religious traditions and spiritual sensibilities; one that evokes a transformed world based in joy, generosity, and compassion; one that gives meaning to our lives and a common purpose to our work. Such a vision has been the missing ingredient in the movements of the political Left, which have largely seen themselves as secular in their foundation and tactical in their approach.A broader, long-term vision with the power to galvanize diverse movements must be both universal and particular. It must embrace a sweeping hope for a world based in love and, at the same time, it must say something specific about what such a world ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall No Other Gods 2018-11-29 text/html en-US No Other Gods 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 11322 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710227 <p></p> For many decades, I have embarked on a long personal journey to bring African American visual artists out of the shadows of marginality into a level of recognition and visibility, at least at the local and regional levels in Southern California. This emerges from my personal activism in the civil rights movement in SNCC and CORE more than 50 years ago and my desire to infuse my teaching and scholarly work with this spirit of civil rights and political activism.I have written regularly on African American art, including various books, catalogue essays, reviews, and articles, including some in Tikkun. Recently, I have focused on the vibrant community of Los Angeles&#39; Black artists. Throughout my research, these women ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall Creative Souls: The Exhibition 2018-11-29 text/html en-US Creative Souls: The Exhibition 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 26497 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710228 <p></p> The campaign in support of the BDS call has grown dramatically worldwide, yet it has shown little in the way of tangible benefits for the PalestiniansIn 2005, Palestinian civil society&#x2014;suffering under an increasingly repressive occupation, expanding colonization by Israeli settlers, a corrupt and inept Palestinian Authority, a growing challenge by Hamas and other hardline Islamists, and a doomed &#x22;peace process&#x22; facilitated by the principal diplomatic, financial, and military backer of their occupiers&#x2014;coalesced to call for an international campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel.By this point, most Palestinians recognized that in addition to being flagrantly illegal and morally reprehensible ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall Reflections on BDS 2018-11-29 text/html en-US Reflections on BDS 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 34088 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710229 <p></p> DNA does a good job of explaining how genetic information is reproduced, but not how individual organisms constantly respond to their environment.The debate between Darwinism and Creationism usually generates more heat than light because it has evolved into a war between two orthodoxies. Polls regularly find that a large majority of Americans either don&#39;t accept evolution at all or believe in &#x22;intelligent design&#x22; managed by God. On the other side, Darwinists are concerned that creationists import such immaterial (spiritual or vitalist) influences to explain the evolutionary process&#x2014;factors which in their view are not only unnecessary but refuted by modern science. According to Richard Dawkins, &#x22;The universe we ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall A Purposive Evolution? 2018-11-29 text/html en-US A Purposive Evolution? 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 17922 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710230 <p></p> Since time immemorial, reports have surfaced suggesting a link between distant individuals who are beyond the reach of sensory-based communication.Silvia and marta landa were four-year-old identical twins who lived in the village of Murillo de R&#xED;o Leza in northern Spain. One day in 1976, their father took Silvia to visit their grandparents, who lived several miles away. Marta, the other twin, insisted on staying home and helping her mother with household chores. Marta burned her hand on a hot clothes iron, causing a large red blister, a second-degree burn, to erupt. At the same time, miles away, an identical blister formed on Silvia&#39;s hand. Silvia was taken to the doctor, unaware of what had happened to her sister ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall The One Mind 2018-11-29 text/html en-US The One Mind 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 41141 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710231 <p></p> We now have the power to destroy all human life, if not all life, on Earth. Let&#39;s try the path of tikkun olam instead.If the theory of evolution has taught us anything, it is that most species become extinct, and that there is no guarantee that this will not be as true of the human species as it has been of the overwhelming majority of other ones&#x2014;from the dinosaurs to our closest cousins in the genus Homo, to Neanderthals and others. That is one reason it is important to ask: what are the main sources of risk in the contemporary world to our continued survival?We believe that the largest and most immediate risk today is the human propensity to engage in acts of violence, such as the wars and genocides by means of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall Violence, Morality, and Religion 2018-11-29 text/html en-US Violence, Morality, and Religion 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 71003 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710232 <p></p> &#x22;They did not know the road to the Land of Israel, nor did anyone they met along the way&#x2026; They only knew that it was in the East; so they turned their faces eastward, and that was the way they went&#x2026;&#x22;In his vast posthumous biography of Buczacz&#x2014;his hometown and, as he depicted it, the symbol of East European Jewry&#x2014;the Hebrew writer and Nobel Prize laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon spins a lengthy tale of the town&#39;s mythical origins: &#x22;When was our city founded, and who was its founder?&#x22; he asks. &#x22;Long have all the chroniclers labored to find this out in vain. But some few facts have been revealed to us,&#x22; continues Agnon, possibly tongue-in-cheek, since he was famous for his fine sense of irony, &#x22;and I am herewith setting ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall From Building a City to Demolishing Homes: Origins and their Outcomes 2018-11-29 text/html en-US From Building a City to Demolishing Homes: Origins and their Outcomes 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 26945 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710233 <p></p> The forces aligned against the individual in our current sociopolitical moment are staggering. Even as our society seems poised to embrace a more expansive concept of inclusion and diversity, the backlash of misogyny, homophobia, racism, and xenophobia has grown in response. It is difficult to look at the events of recent months and not conclude that we live in a culture defined by conflict. One of the most urgent conflicts we face today as a society is between individuals attempting to inhabit a unique sense of their own identity and a significant portion of society that denies, in increasingly violent ways, both that individual&#39;s identity and their right to claim it. This conflict&#x2014;between prejudice and inclusion ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall More Glorious than God: Culture and Identity in an Age of Ignorance 2018-11-29 text/html en-US More Glorious than God: Culture and Identity in an Age of Ignorance 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 20518 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710234 <p></p> A poet in 1997 refuses to accept a National Medal for the Arts and writes an open letter to President Clinton to explain why. She cares, she explains, about &#x22;the relationship of art to justice;&#x22; she names a dozen of the many webs of injustice in her society by a government in which both major political parties &#x22;display a crude affinity for the interests of corporate power, while deserting the majority of the people, especially the most vulnerable&#x22;; she prefers not to accept a gift from a government that is, in fact, hostile to the arts. In 1991 in the extraordinary collage-poem &#x22;Atlas of the Difficult World,&#x22; she had stated, &#x22;A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country / as she wrestles for her own ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall Rich's Essential Essays 2018-11-29 text/html en-US Rich's Essential Essays 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 20485 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710235 <p></p> Poems are, within themselves, entire worlds, made of words.Tikkun: to heal, repair, and transform the world. The magazine&#39;s title, the meaning of that word, announces its mission, its obligation. The world, it&#39;s said, was created by ten utterances. How could they not have been poetry? Poetic utterance, inherently creative, is our common source of origin. Repair and transformation not only take place in poems, but they take place in ourselves when we read them, when we say them. We could put it more accurately: when poetry takes place, it creates place, something like a dwelling place, for mind and heart. Our everyday language is very poor, it barely gets the job done; poetry transforms such language, giving itself ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall Poetry at Tikkun, the Why and the Wherefore 2018-11-29 text/html en-US Poetry at Tikkun, the Why and the Wherefore 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 5667 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710236 <p></p> I&#39;m President, that&#39;s unignorable; in the end, does it mean ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall Seven Types of Ambiguity 2018-11-29 text/html en-US Seven Types of Ambiguity 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 4487 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710237 <p></p> The Devil gossips, &#x22;Be more concerned that men talk of you, than how they talk of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall Motto 2018-11-29 text/html en-US Motto 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 7251 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238 <p></p> Their mouths and gills form a strong sucking system which can suck their prey in from a considerable ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/710238">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/583/image/coversmall The Fish Mistaken for a Man 2018-11-29 text/html en-US The Fish Mistaken for a Man 2018-11-29 2018 TWO Project MUSE® 3166 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2018-11-29