This is the Forward’s coverage of tikkun olam, the Jewish concept of repairing the world.
Tikkun Olam
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Fast Forward Young Jewish Innovators To Attend Jerusalem Tikkun Olam Summit
(JTA) — A Swiss activist preventing malaria, a British gay civil servant advancing Brexit and a Greek tool guru are among 150 participants of a Jerusalem conference for Jewish innovators. The participants are slated to convene in the Israeli capital on June 24 for the ROI Summit — a week-long seminar on engagement by Jews…
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Life China Is Facing An Eldercare Crisis. One Man, Inspired By Tikkun Olam, Is Determined To Fix It.
Tikkun olam can be a nebulous term. Caked in abstract notions of “repairing the world,” the phrase is maligned by some as often being in practice nothing more than a motto hippy-dippy Jews recite to make themselves feel good. After all, how is the “world” actually being repaired? Danny Dilulio’s adoring fans in Chinese nursing…
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News In Trump Era, Reform Jews Find Even More Meaning In Politics
This Rosh Hashana, Rabbi Adam Spilker delivered what he said was his strongest sermon ever as a spiritual leader. His congregation, a veteran Reform synagogue of more than 600 families in Minnesota, had recently signed on to a new campaign organized the Reform movement to ramp up political and social activism amidst the culture wars…
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News Does ‘Are You Jewish?’ Hasidic Outreach Build Identity — Or Push Secular Jews Further Away?
It is a sight familiar to anyone who takes public transit between Brooklyn and Manhattan in the early fall: a seasonal crush of ultra-Orthodox Jews flooding the city in order to bring the world one step closer to Messianic redemption. On street corners, on campus, on subway platforms and towing a sukkah on the back…
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Community Is The Retroactive Legalization of Israeli Settlements Just?
In February of this year, the Knesset passed a bill known as the chok ha’hasdarah or the Regulation Law. The purpose of the law is to retroactively legalize housing built in good faith, i.e. at the time it was built the builder did not know that the land they were building on was owned by…
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Community 5 Questions For The Co-founder of Waze
In this series —Why Is This Interview Different From All Other Interviews — we will introduce you to pioneering Jewish leaders across a variety of industries. Uri Levine is a co-founder of Waze, the world’s largest driving traffic and navigation app, which was acquired by Google in June 2013 for more than $1.1 billion. After…
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Food After Delays, Masbia Soup Kitchen in Boro Park Opens Doors
The Boro Park branch of Masbia Soup Kitchen Network finally opened its doors Wednesday night, serving a hearty chicken dinner to a handful of hungry clients, after serious financial constraints resulted in delays over the past several months. So it was all the more satisfying for Masbia’s tireless executive director, Alexander Rapaport, when on Tuesday…
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Community Reflections on Jewish Megatrends
It appears to me that Sid Schwarz’s framing of strategies employed by successful Jewish organizations and programs is useful. Given that Beth Am is a synagogue attempting to establish its relevance in the current marketplace of Jewish ideas and with this current generation of American Jews, I believe we employ each of these strategies. Indeed…
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Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
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