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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

tikkun olam

Yael Schoultz founded a group called L'Chaim, which counsels and supports sex workers. (Courtesy of Schoultz via JTA)
May 27, 2023, 4:32 am
Condoms and tikkun olam: An Orthodox woman strives to aid sex workers in Prague
Yael Schoultz has been dispensing sanitary products and a shoulder to lean on at brothels since 2011; now through L’Chaim, the group she founded, she seeks to help trafficked women
By Dinah Spritzer
Jewish teens in the Bronfman Youth Fellows program were surprised when Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones invoked the Jewish concept of tikkun olam during an encounter with them in Washington, DC. (Screenshot from TN Holler video via JTA)
May 3, 2023, 10:47 pm
How Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones started talking ‘tikkun olam’ with Jewish teens in DC
A video of a group of Bronfman Fellows encountering the young Democratic lawmaker and anti-gun violence activist gets over 2 million views on Twitter
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Sam Bankman-Fried testifies during a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, December 8, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)
December 7, 2022, 5:01 am
Will synagogues shun ‘effective altruism’ movement after Sam Bankman-Fried scandal?
Maximum-impact giving to save lives in the developing world has caught on among Reform Jews in particular, but the scandal involving one high-profile supporter is tainting optics
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
'No one is listening to us,' by Berkeley multidisciplinary artist Tosha Stimage. (Impart Photography/ Courtesy of the Contemporary Jewish Museum/ via JTA)
November 16, 2022, 2:45 am
At a Jewish museum, a non-Jewish artist’s use of the Palestinian flag sparks debate
After seeing Tosha Stimage’s piece in the ‘Tikkun’ exhibit, visitors to the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco are asking questions, including whether it belongs there
By Andrew Esensten
Marjorie Margolies with adopted daughters Lee Heh and Holly in this undated photo. (Courtesy)
February 21, 2022, 3:01 am
Clinton in-law and former House rep talks about small kindness and raising a village
In her new memoir/parenting guide ‘And How are the Children?,’ Marjorie Margolies describes the diverse family she cobbled together while fighting for social equality
By Cathryn J. Prince
Three of 10 freedom riders on trial at Tallahassee, Florida, for unlawful assembly confer during a court recess on June 22, 1961. Talking are (from left) Rabbi Israel Dresner, the Rev. A.L. Hardge and the Rev. Robert Storm. (AP Photo)
January 17, 2022, 12:25 am
Israel ‘Sy’ Dresner, ‘most arrested rabbi,’ who marched with MLK Jr., dies at 92
‘Freedom rider,’ who built a career as a social justice-oriented rabbi, recently said he wanted to be remembered in part for invoking doctrine of ‘tikkun olam,’ repairing the world
By Shira Hanau
Josh and Alissa Ruxin, proprietors of Heaven Retreat as well as Heaven Restaurant & Boutique Hotel in Kigali, February 2020. (Larry Luxner/Times of Israel)
September 29, 2020, 4:37 am
US couple’s swanky ‘hotel Rwanda’ brings jobs, sustainable prosperity to Kigali
Josh and Alissa Ruxin moved to Africa with humanitarian giving and adventure on their minds. Even during the coronavirus crisis, they run a business that employs dozens of locals
By Larry Luxner
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks at a Haaretz conference on May 27, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)
May 27, 2020, 7:49 pm
US envoy to Israel knocks Jews who say Judaism is only about ‘helping others’
Arguing that ‘Jewish illiteracy’ is the greatest threat to Diaspora, Friedman comes out against ‘defining religion in terms of doing things that are morally just’
By ToI Staff
Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin speaking recently with indigenous leaders of the Tumucumaque region in northern Brazil. (Courtesy)
August 2, 2019, 9:57 am
Ethnobotanist says life mission to save indigenous culture is native to Judaism
Harvard-educated Mark Plotkin does a literal take on tikkun olam by fighting deforestation and working to preserve untouched societies in the heart of the Amazon rainforest
By Rich Tenorio
Andrew Mandel, right, founded Yom HaTzedek after seeing how few Jews came to protests and advocacy work, contrasted with the masses that "begrudgingly attend" synagogue for the High Holidays. (Lev Gringauz)
May 11, 2019, 6:59 pm
Is the Jewish world ready for a new holiday? ‘Day of Justice’ backers think so
New festive day in development seeks to merge social justice with religious life, backed by mainstream American Jewish community
By Lev Gringauz
Cantor Laura Stein. (Courtesy)
December 20, 2018, 5:11 am
In tune with tikkun olam, this cantor has a day job helping transgender patients
Laura Stein knew she wanted to take her spirituality outside of the sanctuary, so she went back to school for social work and now helps some of society’s most vulnerable
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Demonstrators at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport protest US President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing a freeze on admitting refugees from certain countries into the United States, January 29, 2017. (Scott Olson/Getty Images via JTA)
July 13, 2018, 1:08 am
An author predicts Diaspora Jewry’s death, at the hands of Tikkun Olam liberals
Lambasting progressive Jewry as inauthentic at best, Jonathan Neumann writes that ‘American Judaism is broken because the Jewish Left broke it’
By Matt Lebovic
Naomi Eisenberger, executive director of The Good People Fund. (Courtesy)
April 23, 2018, 4:24 am
The charity fund exec who helps good people do their best for others
When not helming the #GamAni movement, Good People Fund director Naomi Eisenberger uses micro-philanthropy to leverage average Joes’ social and humanitarian projects
By Cathryn J. Prince
A view of Congregation Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn, New York. (Courtesy of Congregation Kolot Chayeinu/via JTA)
April 22, 2018, 6:00 pm
Brooklyn synagogue pulls its money out of Chase bank to promote climate change
Jewish community leaders hope whole denominations will eventually follow Congregation Kolot Chayeinu’s lead and engage in impact investing
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) David M. Schizer with campers at the Szarvas International Jewish Summer Camp in Hungary, a project of JDC and Ronald Lauder. (courtesy)
February 28, 2018, 3:01 am
New JDC head brings a business approach to aiding needy Jews
After a year at the helm of the 103-year-old American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, David M. Schizer lays out his pragmatic plan to continue its eternal mission
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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