Tikkun

* Antisemitism in America Today: Outspoken Experts Explode the Myths, Jerome Chanes, Ed. Birch Lane Press, 1995. If we are to believe these essays then the Jewish community in the United States has solved what had been the dominant issue on its agenda...

Two summers ago a relieved airline stewardess handed over a wheelchair containing my motherin-law salvaged from life in a nursing home. Her nightgown peeped from under her skirt. Her wig sat too far back on her bald head. Below her bare knees, two identical...

Yiftah vowed a vow to God saying, "If you deliver the children of Ammon to me, whatever comes from my door shall be yours in a burnt offering."-Judges 11:30-31 if tah, whose namesake is `he will open,' lets his mouth swing open like a door on broken...

When most of us think of multiculturalism, we think of it outside the Jewish community. The closest it may touch us is through issues like Black-Jewish relations or Arab-Jewish dialogue. But how often do we think of Black Jews or Arab Jews? Jewish organizations...

A stunning vote by the Los Angeles City Council this past April has given a major boost to cities around the country which may be contemplating living wage legislation as a way to boost the wages of the working poor. The passage of a Living Wage Ordinance,...

One by one we file into Finkelstein's living room (Finkelstein, the big shot): Goldberg comes with me, Greenblatt and Weissbaum show up together, everyone glum. Abramowitz and Breshman arrive smelling of bagel, then Bernstein in his Hindu get-up with...

Reverend Phillips shows how a politics of meaning perspective can be embodied in the work of a local church. Though some of the approach may be specific to a Christian community, much of what is done in the groups being described could work in synagogues,...

Social Responsibility Amendment to the United States Constitution Every corporation with annual revenues of $20 million or more (in 1998 dollars, to be adjusted for inflation) operating within these United States must receive a new corporate charter...

Brilliance comes in many forms. Linda Hirschhorn is a truly gifted composer, arranger and conductor of Jewish vocal music who defies my attempt to categorize her style. It's hard to say whether her music is folk, classical or liturgical but its not hard...

"Sunrise, Sunset... Swiftly Flow the Years." Shmaltzy self-indulgence, perhaps? But perhaps also something more. My son Akiba, returned from Israel and now about to start graduate school in religious studies at Stanford, was married to Sunny Rosenfeld...

What measuring sticks would a healthy, meaning-oriented society use to gauge the performance of its mid-sized and larger-scaled economic entities? Just what information should an "Ethical Impact Report" for corporations contain? Before offering my own...

Locked in the Cabinet, by Robert B. Reich. Alfred Knopf, 1997. According to a certain Jewish joke, a prominent English Jew, about to be knighted by the Queen, is informed by the protocol officials that he is to recite a few words in Latin just before...

The United Jewish Appeal (UJA) is running scared. A full-page advertisement in the west coast edition of the New York Times shows a picture of an endearing young child with the heading, "He's Not Reform, Conservative or Orthodox. He's Poor and Hungry."...