This phrase with kabbalistic roots has come to connote social justice.

In contemporary Jewish thought.

In contemporary parlance, tikkun olam refers to repairing the earthly world in which we live but in Luria's teachings, complete tikkun would undo the world we know.

This week's parashah offers guidance to remember the individual responsibility that each of us have to help the other.

From our friends at Jspot.org: Just in time for Shavuot, Jewish Funds for Justice has released a study guide on ...

Despite the fact that it’s a celebration, I have bittersweet feelings about Juneteenth.Its origins are traced to Union troops arriving ...

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I’ll start with a confession. After writing these monthly blogs about summer camp for almost two years now, I still ...

Recently, in a four-part series published in the Charlotte Observer, my old college roommate Binyamin Appelbaum, broke a huge story ...