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Jonathan Neumann, To Heal the World? How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel

September 4, 2018 | Edward Alexander

The pseudoreligion of tikkun olam is that is has no basis, textual or historical, in Judaism and was created by Jews who had abandoned their religion.

The Place of Tikkun Olam in American Jewish Life

November 1, 2014 | Jonathan Krasner

INTRODUCTION The symbolic moment when the now ubiquitous phrase “tikkun olam” entered the American Jewish mainstream probably took place during the visit of Pope John Paul II to the United States in September 1987. A crisis in Vatican-Jewish relations was precipitated by the Pope’s meeting in June with President Kurt Waldheim of Austria, whose activities […]

Mending the World

November 1, 2014 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

To understand how the concept of tikkun olam arose, we have to travel back in time to one of the turning-points in Jewish history: the Spanish expulsion and its aftermath.

Tikkun Olam, Israel and a Just World Order

November 1, 2014 | Amb. Dore Gold

Tikkun Olam: A Case of Semantic Displacement

November 1, 2014 | Byron Sherwin

Environmental Activism in the Canadian Jewish Community

August 15, 2010 | Yosef Dov Robinson

Environmental Activism in the Canadian Jewish Community

October 27, 2009 | Prof. Ira Robinson