social justice

Legal Role Models (Or, Sometimes You Really Can Put a Face to Community Engagement)

T.A.P. (Talk About the Problems), the ISJL’s peer mediation program, trains students to help their peers resolve conflicts peacefully. The peer-led-model ...

J-Serve: Grants for Good

Does your community want to do something in honor of Jewish Youth Service Day, AKA J-Serve? Repair the World is willing ...

Freezing Norwegians

On November 28, 2012, National Public Radio aired a segment about this film called: Africa For Norway: Viral Video Pokes ...

Social Equality: The Most Jewish Value of All?

Day in and day out, community engagement is my job. Specifically, working here in the South, my mandate is to ...

Justice in the City – A how-to?

I am not really the kind of person who recommends books. I periodically review them, but that’s different. They get ...

Do We Prioritize the Vulnerable in Justice?

This week, the Amazon Kindle version of Jewish Ethics & Social Justice is only $1.99!In Jewish law, we are told ...

A Guest in our own Tent

At this time of Occupy Wall Street and its various offshoots, the question of social justice is certainly prominent. In ...

A Sukkah Occupies Wall Street

This was a post that previous appeared on the MyJewishLearning/Jewish Book Council blog. As I write this blog post, I ...