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tikkun olam

Rabbi Michael Lerner in the Interfaith Coalition tent at Occupy Oakland in 2011. (Photo/B Hartford J Strong via Flickr CC BY 2.0)
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What losing Tikkun means to me — and to the rest of the Jewish world

Jo Ellen Green Kaiser by Jo Ellen Green Kaiser April 16, 2024April 16, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Among the people mourning the closing of Tikkun magazine, I think I am […]

"Para Humber" by Miguel Arzabe is currently on display at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
Posted inCulture

Woven artwork at CJM speaks to our broken world

Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell by Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell October 26, 2022January 3, 2023
Camp Swig counselors and CITs, summer 1975. (Photo/Rabbi Jason Gwasdoff).
Posted inLocal Voice

The lasting impact of a 1975 Camp Swig visit to San Quentin prison

Rabbi Jason Gwasdoff by Rabbi Jason Gwasdoff July 21, 2021
(Photo/Pxhere)
Posted inLocal Voice

Mental health during Covid: Be of service and get a ‘helper’s high’

Zoe Stricker by Zoe Stricker May 21, 2021
Jay Rosenblatt, program director at the Jewish Film Institute, discusses films with the youth jury for the 2019 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. (Photo/Courtesy JFI)
Posted inFilm

New JFI fellowship for teens into films and changing the world

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 18, 2021
The Cortez family at Family House. (Photo/Susan Mall)
Posted inKids & Family

Childhood illness and tikkun olam at Family House

Susan Mall by Susan Mall March 11, 2021
image of capitol building
Posted inOpinion

Equity, justice and fairness — state propositions that address all three

David Newman by David Newman October 6, 2020October 7, 2020
At a gathering earlier this year in New York, attendees brainstormed for a new Jewish holiday: Yom HaTzedek — Day of Justice. (Photo/Courtesy Andrew Mandel)
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He’s on a quest to create a new Jewish holiday — Yom HaTzedek, a Day of Justice

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky July 9, 2019July 9, 2019
Aerial view of the Agahozo-Shalom Village in Rwanda.
Posted inWorld, News

Son of local rabbi helps genocide orphans in Rwandan Jewish-sponsored ‘youth village’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 28, 2018January 7, 2019
This week's Torah portion introduces the commandment to leave fallen harvest in the field to be "gleaned" by the poor, as illustrated here in "The Gleaners" by Gustave Doré from the 1865 La Sainte Bible.
Posted inColumns

What does tikkun olam have to do with divorce?

Rabbi Susan Leider by Rabbi Susan Leider September 1, 2017August 31, 2017

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