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Does Tikkun Olam Mean Anything Anymore?

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The term Tikkun Olam may be overused and devoid of meaning, but the theory of social justice that it represents is not. By Aryeh Cohen.

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It is so very difficult, indeed utterly unbearable, to sit silently by while Jews, and now the general religious and secular communities, completely misuse and distort the term tikkun olam—certainly not intentionally or out of any malice, but rather out of ignorance in the pursuit of virtuous goals and principles...

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