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Category Archives: Poverty

The psychology of tikkun

Tikkun in Hebrew means to mend or heal, and tikkun olam (pronounced tee-koon oh-luhm) means “world repair” or to repair the world. It is the title of one of my … Continue reading

2 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Wars and propaganda machines

By Rodrigue Tremblay “The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements — I had no idea until then that you could not rely … Continue reading

11 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

For the children: Education or mind infection?

Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a Lecturer in Language Education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem specializing in discourse in Israeli education with emphasis on visual and verbal presentation of Palestinian and … Continue reading

30 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lao Tse on peace

If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in … Continue reading

23 September, 2006 · 1 Comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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