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Justice in the City: Geographical Borders and the Ethical and Political Boundaries of Responsibility
- A special issue of: Tikkun
- Volume: 28
- Issue: 1
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LETTERS
Readers Respond
EDITORIALS
Get Money Out of Politics - Rabbi Michael Lerner
How Do We Get Money Out of Politics?
POLITICS & SOCIETY
Co-ops: A Good Alternative? - Lita Kurth
SPECIAL SECTION: JUSTICE IN THE CITY
Geographical Borders and the Ethical and Political Boundaries of Responsibility
Justice in the City - Aryeh Cohen
Islamic Law and the Boundaries of Social Responsibility - Rumee Ahmed
We Are One Body: A Christian Perspective on Justice in the City - Alexia Salvatierra
Beyond the Limits of Love: Building the Religious Counterculture - Ana Levy-Lyons
Healing the Miser Within: The Kabbalah of Giving and Receiving - Estelle Frankel
Community Reparations to Transform Community Desolation - Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia
Trauma as a Potential Source of Solidarity - Jill Goldberg
Searching for Solidarity in an Atomized Society - Peter Laarman
RETHINKING RELIGION
A Spirituality of the Commons: Where Religion and Marxism Meet - Jan Rehmann and Brigitte Kahl
The Path of the Parent: How Children Can Enrich Your Spiritual Life - Steve Taylor
CULTURE
The Sudden Angel Affrighted Me: God Wrestling in Denise Levertov’s Life and Art - David Shaddock
Books
A Poet’s Meditation on Force - David Wojahn
Army Cats, by Tom Sleigh, Graywolf Press, 2011
New Poems in an Ancient Language - David Danoff
Approaching You In English, by Admiel Kosman Zephyr Press, 2011
The Magic of Organizing? - David Belden
The Inquisitor’s Apprentice, by Chris Moriarty, Harcourt Children’s Books, 2011
Poetry
Morning Blessings - David Shaddock
An Alphabet - Paul Breslin
TIKKUN RECOMMENDS
Nicaragua: Surviving the Legacy of U.S. Policy / Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories 2000–2010 / Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi’s Path to Palestinian Solidarity / Moses: A Stranger Among Us / From Plagues to Miracles / Red Letter Revolution
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Description
The contributors to this special issue of Tikkun seek to redefine the boundaries of political and ethical responsibility by crediting a worldview in which we are held to account for the well-being of everyone who has “passed through our city,” if only momentarily. Their conclusions challenge the ethos of materialism that Tikkun believes is at the root of globalized capitalism and, alternatively, articulate a social justice ethos derived from the Jewish tradition of “accompaniment,” the call to take care of those who enter our common space. Contributors from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish traditions bring an interfaith perspective to the foundations of social responsibility, laying the groundwork for a new global notion of justice.
Drawing on a model from Rabbinic Judaism, one contributor discusses homelessness in Los Angeles, calling us to adopt a new, radical sense of obligation in relation to our neighbors. Another offers challenging insights from the point of view of one who grew up homeless. An essay from the Christian tradition expands this model by comparing our mutual relationships to body parts that all belong to the same whole. Another essay extracts from medieval Islamic texts a vision of the state as a caregiver and then compares this vision to life in Vancouver, where citizens’ taxes underwrite robust social services for those in need.
Contributors: Rumee Ahmed, Aryeh Cohen, Estelle Frankel, Jill Goldberg, Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia, Peter Laarman, Ana Levy-Lyons, Alexia Salvatierra
Michael Lerner is editor of Tikkun and rabbi of Beyt Tikkun; his writings have appeared in many national publications. Alana Yu-lan Price is managing editor of Tikkun. Aryeh Cohen is a contributing editor to Tikkun.