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 ...

שמירה על הבריאה is different. It doesn’t begin as a campaign. It begins as a role. In Genesis, the human being is placed in ...

In the wake of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, many in the Jewish community have invoked the language of tikkun olam in their response to this tragedy. These Hebrew ...

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 ...

To emphasize these points, let us state what is not covered under the heading of Tikkun Olam: 1. There is nothing in the Torah concept of Tikkun Olam that can justify government programs that take ...

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," ...

According to the Rambam, the highest form of tzeddakah is enabling someone to find a means of becoming self-sufficient. It is clear that the founders of the Tikkun Olam Women’s Foundation (TOWF) had ...

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 ...

If you want to be popular in the Jewish world today, just say tikkun olam.Everywhere you go it seems that Jews of all stripes are jumping on this universal bandwagon. It’s not just the Reform, ...

In recent years, the rabbinic phrase tikkun olam (“repairing the world”) has come to signify, in the American Jewish community, a general commitment to work for the betterment of society. Thus, in his ...