This past spring, Rabbi David Wolpe dared to banish politics from his pulpit. The denunciations in these pages of his principled stand again revealed American Jewry’s massive political bias. Headlines ...

SHARING THE LIGHT: Lay leader Peri Gordon, second from left, leads the annual women’s Shabbat service at the Mountain Synagogue in Franklin, flanked at far left by Karen Katz, lighting the temple ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The notion that the world is in need of being “fixed” is often regarded as a central teaching of Jewish religious tradition. But ...

If you asked a Jew in 19th-century Poland, Iraq, or even New York about tikkun olam, they might have shrugged their shoulders and said they didn't know much about it. "It was a pretty obscure term," ...

Compared to feeding the hungry or saving the planet, how important can it be to light Shabbat candles? That question and similar ones have been on my mind lately, as I’ve thought about tikkun olam, ...

There is a joke about a high school student on an Israeli study program asking his teacher what tikkun olam means in Hebrew. So pervasive is the term tikkun olam, repairing the world, it has become ...

My rabbis would always tell me that as Jews we have a duty to Israel. “Am Yisrael Chai,” or in Hebrew, spelled out עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי, meaning “Let the people of Israel live,” is what I would often ...

In a 270-page manifesto published last month by All Points Books, Jonathan Neumann, a Tikvah Fellow at Commentary magazine, declares war on tikkun olam. A graduate of Cambridge University and the ...

Google “tikkun olam” together with “same-sex marriage,” “global warming” or “abortion,” and you’ll get tens of thousands of hits. Yet in these many, many instances, “tikkun olam” is being invoked by ...

Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County’s Jewish Volunteer Center launched Tikkun Olam Toddler Service, a new social action program that was implemented at Temple Torat Emet’s Wiston Family Torah Tots ...

Carmel Valley teens Beatriz De Oliveira and John Finkelman were recently named recipients of the 2019 Diller Tikkun Olam Award, receiving $36,000 each for their efforts to build a better world by ...