Welcome to the Forward‘s coverage of tikkun olam, the Jewish concept of repairing the world.
Welcome to the Forward‘s coverage of tikkun olam, the Jewish concept of repairing the world.
Welcome to the Forward‘s coverage of tikkun olam, the Jewish concept of repairing the world.
Welcome to the Forward‘s coverage of tikkun olam, the Jewish concept of repairing the world.
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What does tikkun olam look like? On Yom HaTzedek, a new holiday that falls on Pesach Sheni, it looks like a box. For Tobi Kahn, the renowned painter and sculptor, that box looks like a city awash in deep blue, its interior reflecting the heavens, its slot like a mailbox to God. On a Wednesday…
A Jewish teenager who created a graphic design supporting anti-racism protesters that went viral on social media is selling regalia with that logo for charity. Adam Garvey, 16, created a graphic of a Star of David inlaid with the words “Tikkun Olam means Black Lives Matter,” which has been shared hundreds of times on social…
The high holidays are a time of personal and communal reckoning. These are the sins we have committed, we recite. Before the beginning of Yom Kippur, even before Kol Nidrei, the prayer leader or shaliach tzibbur recites “with the consent of God … we allow ourselves to pray with transgressors.” We are in this together….
Troubled greatly these days by the injustices all around us, I sat in synagogue some weeks back and came once again upon the ritual of the Sotah: the bizarre, seemingly barbaric procedure employed in Biblical times to placate a man consumed by suspicion over his wife’s unfaithfulness. Is it curious why he is so jealous?…
דער חזיר וויל לערנען גמרא אָבער דער גבאי פֿון בית־מדרש טרײַבט אים אַרויס.
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