Category
tikkun
Calendar: July 1-7, 2016
World War II is over and Mathilde is treating the last of the French survivors at the German camps in Warsaw.
Reeling in the summer
This summer brings an eclectic group of films to local screens, many featuring specifically Jewish protagonists and covering such disparate subjects as a fundamentalist revolution, a revolutionary TV programmer, the hunt for Adolf Eichmann, religiosity and coming of age in the 1950s.
High Holy Days: Chanting Torah for mom
“But what are you chanting for?” the woman cutting my hair wanted to know. She didn’t mean the glory of God or even my own spiritual well-being. It turned out she had once belonged to a 1970s church that chanted for things like shoes and better jobs.
Home of Tikkun’s Rabbi Lerner vandalized
The northern California home of Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of the progressive Tikkun magazine, was vandalized.
Gay Orthodox Rabbi Peels Back His Life
\”Like peeling an onion,\” Rabbi Steven Greenberg said, about the process of coming out.