Last year, Rabbi Michael Lerner announced his staff was closing Tikkun, a magazine he founded in 1986. He wrote:
These are difficult times for anyone seeking a world of love and justice. Yet I continue to believe that within the next hundred years, those who survive the many hurtful human forces and the massive destruction of the environment will be living in a more loving and just world. May those in your life — your children, grandchildren, friends, coworkers, people you meet along the way — learn from you to reject the cynical belief that money and power is what gives people lives of joy and meaning.
It’s that last sentence that’s challenging: to live in such a way that dissent is clear, firm and unequivocal but not violent. Some of the dissent today strikes me as shrill, near hysterical, and so not credible, much less trustworthy.
We need serious dissenters in this country.
• Sources and notes: Rabbi Michael Lerner, “Tikkun is closing”; Tikkun, April 11, 2024,
https://www.tikkun.org/tikkun-is-closing/. The article has a link to the magazine’s archives, which a dissenter might find helpful.
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