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 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," ...

But activism for those and similar causes is never considered tikkun olam, because that’s a brand-new liberal-oriented idiom. In fact, focusing tikkun olam has eased many American Jews’ discomfort ...

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, ...

Friedrich Nietzsche, in his essay On the Genealogy of Morals, argued that oppressed peoples develop what we might today call “defensive moral systems,” which attempt to transform a sense of ...

Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. Last night I watched an interesting ...

Regular readers of these pages are most likely strong supporters in the safety net programs set up in the New Deal, Great Society and now Obamacare legislative eras. They hold these programs to be ...

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I follow synagogue mission statements the way normal people follow the stock market. Its statement of purpose is the synagogue’s prospectus, the reason we should care that it exists. Synagogues often ...