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Opinion Help Us Find The Do-ers
Tikkun Olam. Repair the world. If you’re anything like me, the mere mention of the phrase is enough to make you cringe. Not because we don’t want to do our part for a better world. But for many in my generation, brought up with the idea that you wouldn’t get into college or get a…
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Opinion Anne Heyman Gave Rwanda Orphans a Family
Students at Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village play basketball on a village court in May 2009. Photo: Ben Gittleson It started with a simple question. Anne Heyman and her husband, Seth Merrin, were attending a 2005 talk at Tufts University Hillel by the real-life hero of “Hotel Rwanda,” Paul Rusesabagina, when they asked him to share the…
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Fast Forward Anne Heyman Mourned by Friends and Jewish Leaders as Tikkun Olam Leader
Tributes are pouring in for Anne Heyman, who was remembered as a pioneering Jewish philanthropist who devoted her life to tikkun olam. Heyman, 52, who founded a youth village for Rwanda genocide victims, died Friday afternoon after falling from a horse at a Palm Beach equestrian competition. “She wanted to world to know that we…
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News The 92-Year-Old Jewish Skydiver
There won’t be any skydiving for 92-year-old Aaron Rosloff this year. He spent his past two birthdays jumping out of planes as part of a fundraising mission for the South Brunswick Food Pantry in New Jersey. He planned to celebrate his 92nd birthday, July 3, with a third jump, but after he broke his ankle…
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Fast Forward 10 Teens Win $36K Diller Tikkun Olam Award
Ten U.S. teens were recognized for their volunteerism with Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards. Each will receive an honorarium of $36,000 “in recognition of their leadership, innovation and commitment to making the world a better place,” the Helen Diller Family Foundation said in its announcement. It is the seventh year for the Diller Teen Tikkun…
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Opinion Mr. Tikkun Olam? That’s Rich.
Of all of the tough sells in this election year, you have to hand it to former George Bush speechwriter Noam Neusner for coming up with one of the toughest. In an op-ed timed to coincide with the Republican National Convention, Neusner exhorts the largely Democratic, largely Jewish readership of the Forward : “Vote Mitt…
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Opinion Mitt Romney Is Real Tikkun Olam Candidate
Regular readers of these pages are most likely strong supporters in the safety net programs set up in the New Deal, Great Society and now Obamacare legislative eras. They hold these programs to be good examples of America’s capacity to care for the ill, the poor, the destitute and the aged. And they find in…
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Opinion Abusing Tikkun Olam
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 groups or Jews in two ways that disconnect it from its true meaning. First, the original and entire phrase is “tikkun olam b’malchut…
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