Tikkun Community
Tikkun Community is a network organization of people of many faiths aiming "for social justice and political freedom in the context of new structures of work, caring communities, and democratic social and economic arrangements."[1]
The Tikkun Community is listed as affiliated with the United for Peace and Justice.[2]
International coordinators
The following are listed as coordinators for the Tikkun Community, as of March 15, 2010.[3]
- Arizona
- Flagstaff - Northern Arizona University: Arne Hassing, Sandra Lubarsky
- Phoenix: Diane Wootton
- Prescott: Bill Heck
- Tucson: Michael Zaccaria
- California
- Arcata: Cliff Mitchell, Shelley Mitchell, Danny Stalder
- East Bay (Berkeley, Oakland): Heather Merriam, Cindy Rahav, Patricia McBroom
- Irvine – Tikkun/Cousins Club group: Robby Gordon
- Los Angeles: Carrie Vanston
- Los Angeles Eastside (Pasadena, Glendale, Silverlake): Noam Maitless
- Los Angeles Westside: Yael Samuel, Nancy Vimla
- Marin: Dave Levenson
- San Francisco: Jesse Feldman
- Santa Barbara: Lawrence Saltzman
- Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay: Howie Schneider, Fred Mindlin, Sefla Joseph
- Santa Rosa: Phyllis Meshulam
- Silicon Valley: Don Jones, Neil Penn
- Colorado
- Boulder: Jackie Schwartz
- Denver:Larry Leff
- Washington, D.C.: Steve Spector, Annette Spector
- Florida
- Miami: Scott Lewis
- Tallahassee: Dave Levenson
- University of Miami: Ron Newman
- Gainesville: Jonathan Shinn
- Georgia
- Atlanta: Didacus Ramos
- Augusta: Michael Schwartz
- Idaho, Emmett: Nancy Gedney
- Illinois, Chicago: Ina Marks, Micah Rader, Lauren Langman
- Iowa, Cedar Rapids: Joe Aossey
- Maine
- Augusta: Charles Acker
- Coastal: Chris Marshall, Susan Marshall
- Massachusetts, Boston/New England: Nicoli Bailey, Julie Oxenberg, Hayyim Feldman
- Maryland, Baltimore: Sheldon H. Laskin
- Michigan, Detroit: Curt Hamilton, Katie Reiter
- Minnesota, Minneapolis: Bruce Fisher, Catharine Abbot
- Missouri
- Columbia: Amy Damashek, Ted Koditschek
- Kansas City: Jim Kenney, Ginger Kenney, Ahmed El-Sherif
- Springfield: Francie Wolff
- Nevada, Reno: Jim Dakin
- New Jersey, East Hanover: Moin Ansari
- New Mexico, Santa Fe: Bruce Berlin
- New York
- Nassau County: Bruce Hirsch
- New York: Jedd Downhill, Jim Vrettos, Jim Foster
- New School: Yishai Chopko, Melanie Chopko
- Nyack (Rockland County): Alan Levin, Joyce Bressler
- Rochester: Margaret Merriman
- North Carolina, Raleigh-Durham (Triangle Tikkun): Rhoda Silver
- Ohio
- Cincinnati: Father Ben Urmston
- Cleveland: Debra Hirshberg, Alan Federman, Iris Bishop
- Oregon
- Corvallis: Jane Huyer, Robert Smith, Mary Anne, Jim Nusrala
- Eugene: Michael Williams, Sarita Lief
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia: Steve Newman, Gerry Schenkman, Nachson David Mahanymi
- Pittsburgh: Rob Kraftowitz, Janice Gordon
- South Dakota, Rapid City: Ahrar Ahmad, Tom Katus
- Texas
- Austin: Travis Donoho, Anoek Inbar
- Corpus Christie: Ann Smith
- Vermont
- Randolph: Neil Richardson
- Southern: Rupa Cousins
- Virginia, Charlottesville: Lee Willis, Sarah Lanzman
- Washington
- Eastsound: Sharon Abreu
- Seattle: Jerome Chroman
- Sequim: Kassandra Kersting
- Wisconsin, Madison: Ken Pennings
- Canada, Montreal: Angelika Maeser Lemieux
- Canada, Toronto: Harvey Weisfeld
Tikkun Magazine
Tikkun Magazine is a magazine composed of articles on social theory, religion/spirituality, social change, contemporary American and global politics and economics, ecology, culture, psychology, and Israel/Palestine. The publishers wish to advance the pursuit of tikkun olam (social justice and the repair of the world). The magazine supports "a progressive spirituality."[4]
Magazine staff
The following are listed as members of the Tikkun Magazine staff, as of March 23, 2010:[5]
- Editor in Chief: Michael Lerner
- Managing Editor: Dave Belden
- Associate Editor: Peter Gabel
- Assistant Editor: Alana Yu-lan Price
- Poetry Editor: Joshua Weiner
- Assistant Poetry Editor: Lindsay Bernal
- Literary Editor: Julian Levinson
- Graphic Design / Layout: Design Action Collective
- Web Site Design / Management: Reach And Teach
The Early History of Tikkun and Its Founder Michael Lerner
The Tikkun Community did not arise out of thin air, but came from the New Left movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, especially those that involved former SDS organizer/leader Michael Lerner, who was one of the violent Seattle Liberation Front. New Left members who were not happy with the way SDS was heading, splitting into the terrorist action group, the Weather Underground Organization, Weathermen for short, and the equally violent Maoist faction known as RYM II which was controlled by the Progressive Labor Party PLP.
As young radicals left SDS, they gravitated to a new group, the New American Movement [[NAM}, created by former SDSers and members of the Communist Party USA. They would later takeover the older "Democratic Socialists" movement of Norman Thomas and his successor Michael Harrington, the latter the founder of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee DSOC. This organization later became the hardcore marxist Democratic Socialists of America DSA.
Lerner wrote a book in 1973 entitled "The New Socialist Revolution: An Introduction to Its Theory and Strategy" which was reviewed in the March 11, 1973 editon of the New York Review of Books by Michael Harrington, described as "editor of the Newsletter of the Democratic Left, a new publication. Harrington politely but succinctly critiqued and criticized Lerner's book as failing to look at the variety of marxist theories and philosophies available for disillusioned member of the New Left. A few key paragraphs of that review will suffice to explain what a veteran marxist such as Harrington thought of a rising member of the New Left.