Tag: Tikkun Olam

American Jews "are under threat of violence as we walk down a city street or enter our synagogues to pray or shop in a supermarket for kosher groceries.”

“Affordable housing for seniors is ... a true embodiment of the Jewish value of 'tikkun olam'" said Ron Belz of The Belz Foundation.

Yishai is joined by Rabbi Shmuely Yanklowitz to discuss veganism, moral kosher code, and the centrality of Israel for tikkun olam.

“Our goal is not to provide social services,” said Sara Gorfinkel, Director of Tikkun Olam and its only full time employee. “We focus on social change, so that women don’t get to the point where they require social services. We don’t want to fund programs that deal with victims of domestic abuse. We want to prevent domestic abuse before it ever happens.”

No one has a license to lie, manipulate or manufacture falsehoods. Make no mistake, the primary characteristics of Israel Apartheid Week programming are terrible, unjustified charges expressly aimed at demonizing Israel.

I have long had a pet peeve about the vulgar misuse and distortion of the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam (repair of the world) by assimilationist Jewish liberals in the United States and elsewhere.